· Private foundation
Glen and Vicki Hess 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHICAGO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BROOKFIELD ZOO | $5,000 |
| CAPE MAY COUNTY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| ST CLETUS FOOD PANTRY | $1,000 |
| RED RIVER OES RESCUE | $1,000 |
| NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGBORS | $1,000 |
| A MEANINGFUL PURPOSE | $1,000 |
| BLUE MAN DOG | $1,000 |
| IMMUNE DEFICIENCY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| HINSDALE HUMANE SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| GREENE COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $1,000 |
| PASADENA PLAYHOUSE | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–20, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
4 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
Chicago Zoological Society8× · 2017–2025 · $70k · revenue +43%- CFCATNAP FROM THE HEART4× · 2019–2023 · $2k · revenue +35%
- HHHINSDALE HUMANE SOCIETY2× · 2020–2025 · $2k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- HHHELPING HAND CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +81%
- LCLUTHERAN CHURCH CHARITIES FUNDone grant, 2020 · $250 · revenue +23%
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.
The humane society takes in approximately 6000 dogs and cats each year. they accept animals picked up by local animal control and any animals brought in by individuals. the primary goal of the humane society is to end animal suffering.…
To find a safe, loving and appropriate home for every homeless pet, including those with special needs or challenges. PAHS strives to treat, heal, and provide optimal well-being for the animals in their care.
Helping hounds dog rescue provides a compassionate approach to dog rescue by matching homeless dogs from overcrowded shelter systems with loving homes.
The Humane Society is dedicated to saving and improving the lives of pets through adoptions, community spay/neuter services and humane eduon programs.
The mission of HSMC is to provide shelter, medical care, and comfort to stray and surrendered dogs and cats while working to secure their forever homes.
Chicago canine rescue foundation finds permanent homes for homeless dogs in our community with a specific emphasis on assisting the most vulnerable animals, who without our help, would have no other options. while in our care, they are…
Happy Paws Haven Co. is a foster based animal rescue agency that helps animals in need.
To save, socialize and secure loving homes for unwanted or abandoned dogs.
People for pets is a non-profit organization devoted to finding homes for abandoned pets as well as caring for lost pets. people for pets also promotes spaying and neutering.
Rescue and adoptions of cats and dogs. find home for companion animals
Pet Network rescues adoptable animals from euthanasia, connects abandoned animals with loving families, instills respect for animals through humane education, and enhances lives through animal companionship.
Adopt-a-pets misson is to continue to find loving families for homeless dogs and cats as well as assist people in the community with their personal animals. the organization provides medical and emotional care to each animal that enters…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Helping Hand Center and the most unlike its peers is A Meaningful Purpose Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 16 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 Chicago Zoological Society ↗
- Who funds CATNAP FROM THE HEART ↗
- Who funds HINSDALE HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS INC ↗
- Who funds GREENE COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING HAND CENTER ↗
- Who funds Cape May County Zoological Society Inc ↗
- Who funds A MEANINGFUL PURPOSE INC ↗
- Who funds Blue Man Dog ↗
- Who funds Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest ↗
- Who funds IMMUNE DEFICIENCY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE PASADENA PLAYHOUSE STATE THEATRE OF CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN CHURCH CHARITIES FUND ↗
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 Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Glen and Vicki Hess Foundation 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.
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