· Private foundation
A Child Waits Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
The 7 grants below total $24,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $665,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $641,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Lifeline | $4,500 |
| Madison Adoption Associates | $4,000 |
| Austin K Vincent | $3,500 |
| LUND | $3,500 |
| Thompson Dove Law Group | $3,500 |
| Lifeline | $3,000 |
| Law Office of Jean Cavalierie | $2,500 |
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.
3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
- BCBethany Christian Services4× · 2020–2023 · $37k
- LLifeline3× · 2021–2024 · $20k
- JOJFCS of Greater Philadelphia/ Open Arms2× · 2020–2021 · $6k
Funded once
- LCLIFELINE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +82%
- UEUAS Eastern European Adoptionsone grant, 2023 · $6k
- NNightlightone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
Carolina adoption services provides international and domestic adoption services, foster care, home studies, and post adoption support for children, youth and adoptive families.
We minister to orphans and widows in their distress by transitioning children from orphanages into loving families. We do this through Christ- centered care, training and social work.
Providing compassion, respect, and loving care to each individual on their unique adoption journey. We commit to honoring and nurturing expectant mothers through pregnancy, birth, and life after placement.
Adoption placements
Adoption Counseling/International Adoption: To unite orphaned children from around the world with loving adoptive families to provide educational programs and continuing services to these families and to provide humanitarian aid to the…
Finding forever homes for children
The Organization is a full-service adoption agency whose services include adoptive placements, counseling, consultation and adoptive home assessments.
Support organization for adopted children from China and other nations through Cherish Children Adoption International and their families.
Adoption of children
Agape Adoptions believes that every child deserves their own supportive family to provide permanency, unconditional love, and acceptance.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lifeline Children's Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Promise Kids a Future Incorporated. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 28 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 LIFELINE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON ADOPTION ASSOCIATES LTD ↗
- Who funds CCAI ↗
- Who funds HOPE 4 KIDS ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC DIOCESE OF MADISON ↗
- Who funds COVENANT CARE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PROMISE KIDS A FUTURE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL ADOPTION SERVICES INC ↗
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: Pure Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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.
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