· Public charity
Avalon Lion Charities Foundation Inc
Fundraising to support Cape May County charities that assist the blind and the needy
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 17 grants below total $397,645 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $418,845 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $21,200 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
- Under $10k2 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $384k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Holy Redeemer Food Pantry | $41,645 |
| CARA | $37,000 |
| Cape Assist | $32,000 |
| Habitat for Humanity of CMC | $32,000 |
| Volunteers in Medicine | $31,000 |
| Branches Outreach | $28,000 |
| Concerned Citizens of Whitesboro | $27,000 |
| Family Promise of CMC | $27,000 |
| CASA | $27,000 |
| Diller Home for Blind Children | $24,000 |
| Cape Hope | $23,000 |
| Caring for Kids | $18,000 |
| Lazarus House | $16,000 |
| No Limits Academy | $10,000 |
| CVAC | $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 (FY23–25, $143k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 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.
13 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 5 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $93k 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
- CACOALITION AGAINST RAPE & ABUSE INC3× · 2023–2025 · $83k · revenue +20%
- HLHELEN L DILLER VACATION HOME FOR BLIND CHILDREN INC3× · 2023–2025 · $72k · revenue +53%
- CACOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF ATLANTIC CAPE MAY & CAMDEN COUNTIESINC3× · 2023–2025 · $64k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- VIVolunteers in Medicineone grant, 2025 · $31k
- FPFamily Promise of CMCone grant, 2025 · $27k
- CFCARING FOR KIDS INCgraduatedone grant, 2025 · $18k · revenue +103%
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.
Advocate in the judicial system for the best interest of victims of abuse and neglect in foster care, giving the child a voice in court and moving the child to a safe and permanent home.
To protect and prevent cruelty to children
Helps to save the lives of area cats and kittens through rescue, foster, trap-neuter return and by placing them in caring lifelong homes.
To support and promote court appointed volunteer advocacy for abused and neglected children.
The organization was created, built and run by parents of emotionally and/or behaviorally challenged children to provide support, education and advocacy for such families.
Creating housing for adults on the autism spectrum
The purpose of casa is to advocate for the best interest of the vulnerable children in foster care. these children have been removed from their homes due to a substantiated case of abuse and neglect. the casa volunteer serves as the…
The organization's mission is to provide households experiencing homelessness or are at risk of homelessness, an opportunity to achieve stability by providing comprehensive shelter diversion/homeless prevention, or transitional housing…
My Fathers House, Inc. provides assessment, evaluation, intensive outpatient treatment, outpatient treatment, individual counseling, family counseling and aftercare group services. MFHs operation are located in Gloucester City, New Jersey.
To provide care and find homes for stray and abandoned animals, educate public on pet ownership, raise awareness for the need of spay and neuter programs
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cape Assist Inc and the most unlike its peers is Holy Redeemer Health System. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 19 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 COALITION AGAINST RAPE & ABUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HELEN L DILLER VACATION HOME FOR BLIND CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds CONCERNED CITIZENS OF WHITESBORO INC ↗
- Who funds HOLY REDEEMER HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF ATLANTIC CAPE MAY & CAMDEN COUNTIESINC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY CAPE MAY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF CAPE MAY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE BRANCHES OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds CAPE ASSIST INC ↗
- Who funds LAZARUS HOUSE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS VETERANS ADVISORY COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds CARING FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds NO LIMITS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds The International Association of Lions Clubs ↗
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: Oceanfirst Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Chatlos Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 organization Avalon Lion Charities 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Cape Assist Inc — 80% of income from government
- Caring for Kids Inc — 60% 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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