· Private foundation
Walter N & Alberta H Drake 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 47% of WALTER N & ALBERTA H DRAKE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k3 grants · $100k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PIKES PEAK HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE INC | $100,000 |
| CROSSLINES CHURCHES OF THE JOPLIN AREA INC | $50,000 |
| OZARKS FOOD HARVEST INC | $50,000 |
| GUIDESTONE FIN RESOURCES OF THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION | $33,333 |
| WATERED GARDENS | $33,333 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $33,333 |
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 (FY17–25, $542k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
15 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- WGWATERED GARDENS RESCUE MISSION6× · 2019–2025 · $275k · revenue +299%
- PPPIKES PEAK HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE INC5× · 2017–2025 · $242k · revenue +53%
- PHProject Helping4× · 2018–2021 · $133k · revenue +885%
Funded once
- EOENERGY OUTREACH COLORADOgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $96k · revenue +258%
- FHFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $96k
- POPETERSON OUTDOORS MINISTRIESone grant, 2019 · $75k · revenue +0%
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.
To encircle those facing advanced illness with unprecedented levels of comfort, compassion, and expertise.
Honoring every moment of life, pathways hospice provides compassionate, excellent, comprehensive care for those who have an advanced medical condition and those who are grieving.
Provide exceptional, integrated, patient-centered health care services designed to meet the needs of all patients, particularly those who experience barriers to accessing care, regardless of their ability to pay.
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
To improve, maintain and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
As the parent entity of a blended health organization, highmark health seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.
To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
Partnering for healing and a healthy future through philanthropy.
To enhance the health and well-being of the communities we serve.
To engage and inspire our community to support caromont health in providing compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
24 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. 24 of the 34 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 WATERED GARDENS RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds PIKES PEAK HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE INC ↗
- Who funds Project Helping ↗
- Who funds FREEMAN HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds ENERGY OUTREACH COLORADO ↗
- Who funds MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CROSSLINES CHURCHES OF THE JOPLIN AREA ↗
- Who funds PETERSON OUTDOORS MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CLINIC OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds PIKES PEAK HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds THE SPRINGS RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds OZARKS FOOD HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds SILVER KEY SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds GBSCIDP FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Goodwill of Colorado Foundation ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Colorado ↗
- Who funds PEAK VISTA COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
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: Arvest Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc · Jean Jack and Mildred Lemons Charitable Trust · Colorado Springs Health Foundation · The Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation · Pikes Peak Community Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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 Walter N & Alberta H Drake 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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