· Private foundation
Twila Sampson Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLORECTAL CANCER ALLIANCE | $30,000 |
| SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY | $16,500 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $11,000 |
| CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK | $11,000 |
| DC CENTRAL KITCHEN | $11,000 |
| FROSTED FACES FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SAN DIEGO CENTER FOR CHILDREN | $3,250 |
| ORCA CONSERVANCY | $3,250 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CCCOLORECTAL CANCER ALLIANCE6× · 2020–2025 · $183k · revenue +69%
- SDSAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA6× · 2020–2025 · $76k · revenue +48%
- CACAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC6× · 2020–2025 · $67k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- GPGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANKone grant, 2020 · $18k · revenue +13%
- AAADOPT A SATOone grant, 2021 · $5k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…
The maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.
To realize our vision of a hunger free community we will provide more food, healthy food and better access to food. we will leverage our own resources and also work with partners in the community.
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
To end hunger and transform the health of our community by providing nourishment to those in need by acquiring and distributing safe nutritious food via local agencies and by providing education to solve hunger and nutritional problems in…
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
To end hunger in communities throughout new york city. (see schedule o)to end hunger in communities throughout new york city. we do this through food rescue and distribution, education, and other practical, innovative solutions.
To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.
The food bank of contra costa and solano (food bank) was incorporated on july 28, 1975. the food bank was established in order to efficiently gather, warehouse, and distribute food products to contra costa county charities meeting…
We mobilize and educate our community to ensure equitable access to nutritious and familiar food. we do this by raising, and soliciting funds for the acquisition, storage, growing, collection and distribution of food to low income citizens…
How this is measured
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 12 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds COLORECTAL CANCER ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds WESTMORELAND COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO CENTER FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds FROSTED FACES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds ORCA CONSERVANCY ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Twila Sampson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Twila Sampson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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