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Ascend Cares Foundation

ASCEND CARES FOUNDATION (the "corporation") is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable, scientific and educational purposes within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code of 1986 in furtherance of such purposes, the corporation shall provide aid to victims of natural or civil disasters or…

$832k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$682kHuman Services$429kHealth$345kHousing & Shelter$247kPhilanthropy$207kCrime & Legal$184kRecreation & Sports$142kReligion$96kOther$0
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 17 grants below total $223,081, the rows itemized in this filing. The $832,288 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $609,207 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $53k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $170k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$702k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Yellowstone Academy Inc$39,600
DePelchin Childrens Center$25,000
Make a Wish Texas Gulf Coast & Lousiana$21,319
Alvin Independent School District$18,290
Escambia County Public Schools$12,356
Wreaths Across America$11,509
Marine Toys for Tots Foundation$11,100
Cantonment Improvement Committee$10,852
Habitat for Humanity International$10,000
Parents and Children Together$10,000
Trees for Houston$9,901
The Women's Home$7,885
Council on Aging Chill Out Event for Seniors$7,500
Dan's House of Hope$7,500
United Way Worldwide$7,200
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $430k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 74% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Kidz Harbor: $28k → 10%West Galveston County Interfaith Caring Ministries: $23k → 14%Healthy Learners: $5k → 16%The Circle Ranch: $39k → 16%Kidz Harbor: $21k → 10%West Galveston County Interfaith Caring Ministries: $8k → 14%Kidz Harbor: $6k → 10%Community Initiatives Inc: $19k → 18%The Women's Home: $32k → 16%Community Initiatives Inc: $6k → 18%The Women's Home: $25k → 16%The Women's Home: $14k → 16%The Women's Home: $8k → 16%Brazoria County Alliance For Children Inc: $33k → 10%Arms Wide: $14k → 16%Bach Rehabilitation Center: $14k → 10%Arms Wide: $12k → 16%Todays Harbor For Children: $23k → 16%Action Inc of Brazoria County: $10k → 10%Spaulding for Children DBA Arms Wide Adoption Services: $7k → 16%Fire Outreach of Houston: $12k → 16%Fire Outreach of Houston: $10k → 16%Fire Outreach of Houston: $6k → 16%DePelchin Childrens Center: $25k → 16%DePelchin Childrens Center: $11k → 16%DePelchin Childrens Center: $8k → 16%Kids' Meals Inc: $6k → 16%Kids' Meals Inc: $5k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
ID
PA
CA
CO
KY
VA
SC
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 41 repeat orgs$586k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

41 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
46

Total granted

$2.0M
$586k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+13%

Still filing today

80%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentEducationHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • PA
    PARENTS AND CHILDREN TOGETHER
    5× · 2020–2024 · $85k · revenue +67%
  • MT
    MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $79k · revenue +14%
  • TW
    THE WOMEN'S HOME
    4× · 2021–2024 · $79k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • CC
    Cullman Child Development Center
    one grant, 2022 · $71k
  • TC
    THE CIRCLE RANCH INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $39k · revenue +246%
  • BC
    BRAZORIA COUNTY ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC
    one grant, 2021 · $33k · revenue -10%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Florida Community Health Centers Inc

Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.

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2
Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc

The Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston's mission is to inspire and enable all youth, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.

Youth Development
3
Children At Heart Ministries Inc

Children at heart ministries is a family of christian ministries that exists to honor god and build a better world by serving children and strengthening families.

Human Services
4
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc

To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.

Health
5
Boys and Girls Clubs of Central Carolina

To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.

Youth Development
6
Collaborative for Children

The mission of Collaborative for Children is to meaningfully improve the quality of early childhood education and care for Greater Houston's children through those most influential in their lives.

Human Services
7
Houston Area Community Services

Our mission is to provide high quality and caring services to promote healthy people and communities.

Health
8
South Carolina Network of Children's Advocacy Centers

Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse

Youth Development
9
Jackson County Casa

Casa is a unique non-profit helping abused and neglected children in the jackson county family court system. our team of trained volunteers,staff case supervisors, and staff attorneys allow each child to be represented in a court of law…

Civil Rights
10
Coastal Carolinas Health Alliance

Facilitate networking among hospitals

Health
11
Alabama Partnership for Children

To work in partnership with families and organizations to ensure that all alabama children (birth to five) get everything they need to develop to their fullest potential.

Education
12
United Way of Brazoria County

To educate, unite and focus our community's resources in order to efficiently address the most critical needs of Brazoria County

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of the Texas Gulf Coast & Louisiana Inc; the most unlike its peers is Kingsfield Elementary School Pta. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

66 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 66 of the 88 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/66
Grantees still filing
48/66
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Escambia Westgate School: $123,790 · OtherEscambia Westgate SchoolALVIN HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC DEPT: $93,155 · OtherALVIN HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC DEPTCOUNCIL ON AGING OF WEST FLORIDA INC: $74,194 · OtherCOUNCIL ON AGING OF WEST FLORIDA INCCANTONMENT IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE INC: $71,750 · OtherCANTONMENT IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE INCCullman Child Development Center: $71,451 · OtherCullman Child Development CenterGreenwood School District 50: $60,895 · OtherCity of Santa Fe: $60,482 · OtherCandlelighters Childhood Cancer Family Alliance: $45,803 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC: $52,000 · Other+43 more: $604,552 · Other+43 moreTHE WOMEN'S HOME: $78,536 · Human ServicesTHE WOMEN'S HOMEKIDS HARBOR INC: $54,822 · Human ServicesKIDS HARBOR INCDEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER: $44,009 · Human ServicesDEPELCHIN CHILDREN'…THE CIRCLE RANCH INC: $39,261 · Human ServicesTHE CIRCLE RANCH IN…BRAZORIA COUNTY ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC: $33,321 · Human ServicesBRAZORIA COUNTY ALL…SPAULDING FOR CHILDREN: $33,024 · Human ServicesSPAULDING FOR CHILD…WEST GALVESTON INTERFAITH MINISTRIES: $30,287 · Human ServicesWEST GALVESTON INTE…Fire Outreach of Houston: $27,900 · Human ServicesFire Outreach of Ho…COMMUNITY INITIATIVES INC: $25,309 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY INITIATIV…TODAYS HARBOR FOR CHILDREN: $22,500 · Human Services+5 more: $53,556 · Human Services+5 moreDECATUR MORGAN HOSPITAL: $91,884 · HealthDECATUR MORG…MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST & LOUISIANA INC: $68,175 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH …BENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $39,000 · HealthBENEVOLENT H…DAN'S HOUSE OF HOPE INC: $32,713 · HealthDAN'S HOUSE …THE BEACON OF DOWNTOWN HOUSTON: $25,673 · HealthTHE BEACON O…Magnificat Houses Inc: $19,000 · HealthMagnificat H…GULF COAST REGIONAL BLOOD CENTER: $10,000 · Health+1 more: $5,933 · HealthYELLOWSTONE ACADEMY INC DBA YELLOWSTONE SCHOOLS: $167,177 · EducationYELLOWSTON…ESCAMBIA COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE INC: $65,309 · EducationESCAMBIA C…BALDWIN COUNTY EDUCATION COALITION: $15,000 · EducationBALDWIN CO…MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $79,074 · PhilanthropyKIWANIS CLUB OF BIG LAGOON FOUNDATION INC: $22,500 · PhilanthropyALVIN ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropyDECATUR CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $15,560 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE: $7,200 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF WEST FLORIDA INC: $6,698 · PhilanthropySLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $48,715 · Housing & ShelterCastle Care Community Ministries: $36,150 · Housing & ShelterDOWNTOWN RESCUE MISSION INC: $5,600 · Housing & ShelterPARENTS AND CHILDREN TOGETHER: $84,566 · Crime & Legal
Other$1,258,072Human Services$442,525Health$292,378Education$247,486Philanthropy$151,032Housing & Shelter$90,465Crime & Legal$84,566

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYELLOWSTONE ACADEMY INC DBA YELLOWSTONE SCHOOLS: $167,177 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetDECATUR MORGAN HOSPITAL: $91,884 over 2y, 14% of budgetPARENTS AND CHILDREN TOGETHER: $84,566 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $79,074 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S HOME: $78,536 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCOUNCIL ON AGING OF WEST FLORIDA INC: $74,194 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST & LOUISIANA INC: $68,175 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetESCAMBIA COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE INC: $65,309 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetKIDS HARBOR INC: $54,822 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC: $52,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $48,715 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCandlelighters Childhood Cancer Family Alliance: $45,803 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetDEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER: $44,009 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $39,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWreaths Across America: $37,659 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCastle Care Community Ministries: $36,150 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetBRAZORIA COUNTY ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC: $33,321 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSPAULDING FOR CHILDREN: $33,024 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetDAN'S HOUSE OF HOPE INC: $32,713 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetDOERS OF THE WORD MINISTRIES INC: $32,500 over 4y, 8.4% of budgetWEST GALVESTON INTERFAITH MINISTRIES: $30,287 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCommunities in Schools of Brazoria County Inc: $29,865 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFire Outreach of Houston: $27,900 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetTrees For Houston: $26,297 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BEACON OF DOWNTOWN HOUSTON: $25,673 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES INC: $25,309 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetBEYOND ABUSE: $25,137 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTODAYS HARBOR FOR CHILDREN: $22,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetKIWANIS CLUB OF BIG LAGOON FOUNDATION INC: $22,500 over 3y, 13% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER: $20,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetALVIN ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of the Crescent Region: $19,935 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMagnificat Houses Inc: $19,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGREENWOOD SHRINE CLUB: $17,824 over 1y, 15% of budgetPENSACOLA COUNTRY CLUB ASSOCIATION: $15,935 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDECATUR CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $15,560 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetBALDWIN COUNTY EDUCATION COALITION: $15,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetBRAZORIA COUNTY ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN'S HABILITATION: $14,276 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFeeding the Gulf Coast: $14,245 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPTSD FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $13,008 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMEG'S HOUSE: $12,909 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSAE INTERNATIONAL: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS' MEALS INC: $11,211 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCamp For All Foundation: $10,084 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSTON AREA URBAN LEAGUE INC: $10,041 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGULF COAST REGIONAL BLOOD CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGULF COAST COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

The Self FoundationDavis Family Foundati…Harry S & Isabel C Ca…Strake FoundationShell USA Company Fou…Greater Houston Commu…Haskins Curl Foundati…United Way of Brazori…Countybank FoundationCelanese FoundationGulf Power Foundation…Albert & Ethel Herzst…
The Self FoundationSC19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 5 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Self Foundation · Davis Family Foundation Inc · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · Strake Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Haskins Curl Foundation · United Way of Brazoria County · Countybank Foundation · Celanese Foundation · Gulf Power Foundationinc · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ascend Cares Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ascend Cares Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Favorhouse of Northwest Florida Inc: 25% of income from government
  • Escambia Community Clinics Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Council On Aging of West Florida Inc: 7% of income from government
  • United Way of West Florida Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 88 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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