· Private foundation
Thunder Bay Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k5 grants · $620k
- $250k+4 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE KINDEZI SCHOOLS | $300,000 |
| LAAMISTAD INC | $300,000 |
| CITY OF REFUGE | $300,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN | $250,000 |
| YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES AUSTRALIA | $200,000 |
| ANDREW P STEWART CENTER | $150,000 |
| CAMP LIGHTHOUSE | $100,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE PLATEAU | $100,000 |
| GOODWILL OF NORTH GEORGIA | $70,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
11 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $470k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- APANDREW P STEWART CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +50% · 25% of their budget
- TKThe Kindezi School Inc6× · 2018–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +30%
- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN INC3× · 2022–2024 · $750k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- GCGEORGIA COMMUNITY FOOD BANKone grant, 2022 · $350k
- CCCrawford County Board of Educationone grant, 2022 · $350k
- SCSCHWAB CHARITABLE DAFone grant, 2017 · $250k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Provide post-secondary education of excellence.
To provide healthcare marked by compassion and sustainable excellence in a progressive environment, guided by physicians, delivered by exceptional professionals, and inspired by the communities we serve.
The UGA Real Estate Foundation manages and improves various real estate assets for the benefit of the University of Georgia, governed by the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia. The UGA Real Estate Foundation may also…
To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.
The mission of the grady health foundation is to grow both philanthropic support and broad-based understanding of the critical role that grady health system plays in the metro atlanta region. our focus is to ensure grady health system has…
The mission of Toccoa Falls College is to glorify God through seeking and developing Christian servant leaders who will impact their world with the love and message of Jesus Christ.
Boys & girls clubs of metro atlanta's (bgcma) mission is to ignite the unlimited potential of kids and teens by creating safe, inclusive, and engaging environments. our vision is thousands of young leaders thriving in life and…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively as a supporting organization to and for the benefit of the georgia institute of technology to foster and support education and scientific research and economic development…
To promote exclusively the social welfare of boys and girls in georgia; to provide guidance and to promote the health, social, educational, vocational, character, and cultural development of boys(continued on schedule o) and girls in…
The georgia tech foundation real estate holding corporation was formed to hold title to real estate and similar property on behalf of the georgia tech foundation, inc., and for other purposes permitted under section 501(c)(2) of the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ymca of Greater Rochester (4368) and the most unlike its peers is Ian Burkhart Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 30 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ANDREW P STEWART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds The Kindezi School Inc ↗
- Who funds LITERACY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds LaAmistad Inc ↗
- Who funds Montford Hall ↗
- Who funds CITY OF REFUGE ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of The Plateau Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds POINT UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Bobby Jones Golf Course Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION NORTHERN SONOMA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL OF NORTH GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IAN BURKHART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PELOTONIA ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER (4368) ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Abreu M & F Ctr Tr Ua · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Thunder Bay Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.