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Advocates For Kids
Advocates for Kids is committed to providing service and/or supporting organizations that serve children by providing experiences that empower them to realize their full potential.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $49,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $142,975 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $93,475 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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Deaf Services Center | $11,500 |
| Claymont Highschool | $10,000 |
| Willow Ridge | $8,000 |
| Yougstown Easter Seals | $7,000 |
| Celveland Hearing and Speech | $7,000 |
| Share Your Story LLC | $6,000 |
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 (FY22–23, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 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.
3 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- DSDeaf Services Center Inc3× · 2019–2024 · $84k · revenue -38%
- WRWILLOW RIDGE THERAPEUTIC RIDING FACILITY INC4× · 2019–2024 · $35k · revenue +5%
- NONORTHEAST OHIO ADOPTION SERVICES2× · 2022–2023 · $15k · revenue -6%
Funded once
- OHOHIO HANDS & VOICESone grant, 2020 · $20k
- CFCLEAR FORK VALLEY SCHOOLSone grant, 2023 · $14k
- HSHEARING SPEECH AND DEAF CENTER OF GREAone grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue +12%
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.
Provide a diverse and affordable program of quality diagnostic, rehabilitative, and supportive services designed to meet the unique challenges of children and adults who are deaf and hard of hearing, or have other communication needs and…
To advocate, seek equality, and promote self-determination through empowerment for those who seek our assistance; and to enhance the awareness and understanding of the deaf culture and the unique communication needs of the deaf and hard of…
To unlock potential for individuals with communication challenges.
To assist individuals with developmental disabilities, including autism, how to learn, live, work, and participate in the community.
To improve and provide sign language skills that make English visual to deaf children, their paeents, educators, and the general public at both local and distant loations throughout the United States and Canada..
Organization promotes equal communication accessibility, educational service, cultural awareness and econcomic to the deaf, deaf blind, hard of hearing, and hearing populations by providing communication services, education and advocacy.
Listen and Talk teaches deaf and hard of hearing children to communicate and learn through listening and spoken language.
Hsdc is a western washington service hub for clients who are deaf, hard of hearing, or who face communication barriers. we envision an inclusive, accessible world, where everyone is understood and respected.
Hlaa opens the world of communication to people with hearing loss through information, education, support and advocacy. hlaa is the leading voice of the growing number of people with hearing loss in the u.s. hlaa advocates for…
Our mission is to empower children and adults with disabilities and (continued on schedule o) their families to achieve their greatest potential through holistic and family-focused services.
Our mission is to strengthen families and communities through counseling and education. Family Services has designed programs that help meet those needs since 1896.
The mission of the Communication Advocacy Network is to empower Deaf, Hard of Hearing, DeafBlind, and Hard of Hearing blind individuals in Connecticut by providing advocacy and culturally sensitive living services. These services are…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hearing Speech and Deaf Center of Grea and the most unlike its peers is Share Your Story. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 12 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 Deaf Services Center Inc ↗
- Who funds WILLOW RIDGE THERAPEUTIC RIDING FACILITY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST OHIO ADOPTION SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS INC ↗
- Who funds HEARING SPEECH AND DEAF CENTER OF GREA ↗
- Who funds SHARE YOUR STORY ↗
- Who funds DEAF WORLD AGAINST VIOLENCE EVERYWHERE ↗
- Who funds ADOPTION NETWORK CLEVELAND ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 Advocates For Kids 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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