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· Private foundation
ADOPTION IS AN OPTION
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$25k
Granted FY2024
2
Grants
2
Communities
$15k
Largest
01What you fund
0187% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2024.
Human Services$165kHousing & Shelter$50kReligion$45kOther$38k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2021
foster carechildren fosterpregnancy
2022
bravelove
2023
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2024
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 2 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$8.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
- NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR ADOPTION$15,000
- UNPLANNED GOOD INC$10,000
02The need
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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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $160k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 10%. 41% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
64%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$190k · 4 repeat orgs$108k to everyone else
4 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
4
6
Total granted
$190k
$98k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+74%
+159%
Still filing today
100%
83%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesReligionHousing & ShelterOther
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
- NCNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR ADOPTION3× · 2021–2024 · $55k · revenue +10%
- PAPREGNANCY ASSISTANCE CENTER NORTH3× · 2021–2023 · $50k · revenue +57%
- BBRAVELOVE2× · 2022–2023 · $45k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- NLNEW LIFE ADOPTIONSgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +77%
- TRTHE RELEVATE GROUPgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +110%
- LCLIFELINE CHILDRENS SERVICESgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +159%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
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Covenant Care Services Inc
Covenant Care Services, Inc. is a non-profit faith-based adoption agency serving birthmothers and adoptive families in the state of Georgia.
Human Services
2
Adoption Choices Inc
The Organization is a full-service adoption agency whose services include adoptive placements, counseling, consultation and adoptive home assessments.
Human Services
3
Alternatives Pregnancy Center
We believe women and men have a right to get accurate information and support from a resource that will not profit from the choices they make.
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4
Center for Excellence in Adoption
Enhances the experience and outcomes of individuals and communities impacted by adoption.
Human Services
5
Alternatives Pregnancy Center Inc
Alternatives Pregnancy Center exists to care for Denver-area women and men in pregnancy-related crisis and offer them meaningful alternatives to abortion. We seek to meet emotional, physical, and spriritual needs, enabling and encouraging…
Health
6
Pregnancy Care Center
The Pregnancy Care Center is a Christian organization to promote the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and to boldly endorse the sacredness of all human life, by providing comprehensive, practical services as enduring alternatives to abortion.
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7
Life Choice Crisis Pregnancy Center Inc
Pregnancy resource center exists to prevent abortions and present eternal truth.
Health
8
Open Door Adoption Agency Inc
The mission of Open Door Adoption Agency is to preserve and enhance human life through the placement of domestic and international children into loving Christian adoptive families. The counseling and placement services of the ministry…
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9
Holy Family Services Adoption and Foster
Adoption, Foster care and birth parent counseling.
Human Services
10
Advice and Aid Pregnancy Centers Inc
Pregnancy education and counseling
Health
11
Life Choices Crisis Pregnancy Supp
Non-profit medical clinic educating and equipping individuals to make empowered decisions, providing pregnancy confirmation, and offering programs of prevention, intervention, and restoration.
Health
12
Christian Homes of Abilene Inc
To change lives and build Christian families through maternity, foster, and adoption services.
Human Services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Life Adoptions and the most unlike its peers is The Relevate Group Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
9/9
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Human Services$165,000Housing & Shelter$50,000Religion$45,000Other$37,500
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 NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR ADOPTION ↗
- Who funds PREGNANCY ASSISTANCE CENTER NORTH ↗
- Who funds BRAVELOVE ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN ALLIANCE FOR ORPHANS ↗
- Who funds NEW LIFE ADOPTIONS ↗
- Who funds THE RELEVATE GROUP ↗
- Who funds LIFELINE CHILDRENS SERVICES ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON PREGNANCY HELP CENTER ↗
- Who funds BOTH HANDS 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.
Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA12.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Servant Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation ADOPTION IS AN OPTION 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: BRAVELOVE.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~13 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +74% since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 454696512 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on BRAVELOVE, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 13 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 6% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Adoption Is an Option?
Find your warmest path to Adoption Is an Option through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines