· Public charity
Angels and Causes Inc
To provide assistance, fundraising support, and fiscal sponsorship of charitable activities to athletes, artists, angels, which include high net worth individuals, philanthropists, corporations and others wishing to support charitable programs and organizations through funding or influence.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 15 grants below total $556,002 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $751,527 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $195,525 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 · FY2025
- $10k–50k10 grants · $177k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $379k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION | $117,150 |
| SUNSHINE KIDS FOUNDATION | $80,600 |
| RESCUE PETS MOVEMENT INC | $75,000 |
| HOUSTON PETSET INC | $56,000 |
| REDEFINING REFUGE | $50,300 |
| BIG DOG RANCH RESCUE | $45,000 |
| K9S FOR WARRIORS INC | $30,000 |
| BEAR HOUSTON | $20,000 |
| COVENANT HOUSE | $20,000 |
| HILLSB COUNTY PET RESOURCE | $11,952 |
| CITIZENS FOR ANIMAL PROT | $10,000 |
| HOUSTON BARC FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CAITIES FOSTER FARM | $10,000 |
| RADY CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| TEXAS CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $167k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 10 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, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $302k 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
- TSTHE SUNSHINE KIDS FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2025 · $386k · revenue +18%
- RPRESCUED PETS MOVEMENT INC6× · 2018–2025 · $237k · revenue +15%
- HPHOUSTON PETSET7× · 2018–2025 · $156k · revenue +166%
Funded once
The Houston Food Bankone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -4%- SFSPRING FERTILITY OF SAN FRANCISCOone grant, 2023 · $45k
- HHHOUSTON HUMANE SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $36k · revenue +33%
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.
Pippys Pals Rescue is dedicated to saving the lives of dogs facing euthanasia in Houston. Our mission is to provide a second chance to these beloved companions by rescuing them from shelters, providing them with necessary medical care, and…
Houston Pets Alive!s (HPA!) mission is to save the lives of at-risk companion cats and dogs and find them loving homes.
Animal Rescue
Houston Cares Rescue is a volunteer organization rescuing animals from the streets, and occasionally from shelters, in Houston, TX, and caring for them primarily with foster families until a loving home can be found. We operate a…
The Humane Society of Tampa Bay is dedicated to ending animal homelessness and providing care and comfort for companion animals in need. Our vision is "Leading the way because every life counts". In 2025, we saved 10,631 animals.
RED COLLAR RESCUE is an all-volunteer 501 (c) (3) animal welfare charity dedicated to rescuing and providing extensive medical care, foster care, training, rehabilitation, and adoptive placement to stray, abandoned, and abused dogs in…
Furever Home Pet Rescue is an all-breed all-volunteer 501c3 non-profit organization based in the DallasFt Worth area We receive no government funding and are not funded nor assisted by any outside agency such as United Way Our life-saving…
Rescue dogs and other small domestic animals, care for them until they are healthy and adopt them to loving families.
Barrio Dogs is a 501 (c)(3) animal welfare organization based in Houston, Texas dedicated to creating a better future for animals and the community.
Mission: To save homeless pets from the streets and shelters of Houston by utilizing temporary foster homes to get the animals ready for local adoptions or transport to other rescue organizations. We are an animal rescue service that works…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Johnny Damon Foundation Inc. 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 22 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 85 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 THE SUNSHINE KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RESCUED PETS MOVEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON PETSET ↗
- Who funds EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Hillsborough County Pet Resources Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds REDEFINING REFUGE INC ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds BIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Houston Hospice ↗
- Who funds Lowry Park Zoological Society of Tampa Inc ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS ↗
- Who funds BEAR BE A RESOURCE FOR CPS KIDS ↗
- Who funds DERRICK BROOKS CHARITIES 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: Debartolo Family Foundation Inc · Don a Sanders Family Foundation · Houston Petset · Vinik Family Foundation · Leslie L Alexander Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · Baker Hughes Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Enterprise Holdings 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 organization Angels and Causes 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of America — 21% of income from government
- Grow Into You Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Lowry Park Zoological Society of Tampa Inc — 0% of income from government
- Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc — 0% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% of income from government
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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