· Private foundation
Abs Foundation Inc
Its FY2018 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 FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k43 grants · $123k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PHILANTHROPIC FUND | $500,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC ADVANCED SERVICES | $500,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC FINANCE CENTER PAYROLL DEPARTMENT | $100,000 |
| WELLSPACE HEALTH | $6,500 |
| ARIZONA HELPING HANDS | $6,000 |
| GUIDE DOGS OF THE DESERT | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| FURNITURE BANK ATLANTA | $4,000 |
| ACQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC | $4,000 |
| NOVATO COMMUNITY THEATER INC | $3,500 |
| OPERATION APPRECIATION INC | $3,500 |
| STUDIO EAST TRAINING FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $3,500 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER OF THE ARTS | $3,500 |
| PALAMA SETTLEMENT | $3,500 |
| CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF DENVER | $3,500 |
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 (FY17–18, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
39 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (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 FY2018, 9% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
- GDGUIDE DOGS OF THE DESERT2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +12%
- TFTHE FOSTER ALLIANCE2× · 2017–2018 · $9k · revenue +66%
- AOAQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC CORPORATION2× · 2017–2018 · $8k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- CTCAMP TAYLOR INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +228%
- CMCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF STOCKTONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +122%
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSEone grant, 2017 · $3k
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.
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
The Museum of Children's Art (MOCHA) in Oakland aims to ensure the arts are a fundamental part of the community by providing quality, hands-on art experiences, particularly for children at risk academically or in underserved areas. Their…
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Cartoon Art Museum is committed to fostering a greater appreciation of cartoon art. This it achieves through collecting, cataloging, preserving and displaying the finest representations of original cartoon art as well as providing…
The New Childrens Museum (the Museum) in San Diego is an arts-based childrens museum whose mission is to stimulate imagination, creativity, and critical thinking in children and families through inventive, engaging experiences with…
San carlos children's theater is a non-profit organization committed to educating youth on all aspects of theater production while nurturing creative expression, teamwork and appreciation for the arts
To enliven and expand the understanding of craft and the museum experience for all.
Cca is committed to preparing young children to be global citizens who are developmentally well-rounded, emotionally literate, and environmentally conscious.
The foundation's mission is to benefit, support, and enhance the missions of the california community college system.
Csma inspires excellence through art and music education for people of all ages and abilities.
The child educational center's mission is to ignite joy, curiosity and compassion through innovative children's programs for all.
To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Childrens Museum of Denver Inc and the most unlike its peers is Saturday Night Bath Concert Fund. 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 33 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% 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 14% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 54 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 GUIDE DOGS OF THE DESERT ↗
- Who funds THE FOSTER ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds AQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER OF THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds PALAMA SETTLEMENT ↗
- Who funds STUDIO EAST TRAINING FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds WELLSPACE HEALTH ↗
- Who funds Chicks in Crisis Inc ↗
- Who funds HAWAII FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds FUTURE FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds SATURDAY NIGHT BATH CONCERT FUND ↗
- Who funds ArtHatch ↗
- Who funds FINE ARTS CHAMBER PLAYERS ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ANGEL HEART ↗
- Who funds OREGON TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MY STUFF BAGS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BUTTE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMP TAYLOR INC ↗
- Who funds Sierra College Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHP 11-99 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: Foundation for California Community Colleges · Teichert Foundation · Sacramento Region Community Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Abs 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.
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