· Private foundation
Bobs Discount Furniture Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 42% of Bobs Discount Furniture Charitable Foundation Inc’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 77 grants below total $101,250 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $812,059 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $710,809 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 $10k76 grants · $91k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central MA & MetroWest | $10,000 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of CT | $5,000 |
| Camp Rising Sun Inc. | $5,000 |
| Brightpoint | $2,500 |
| Child & Family Resources | $2,500 |
| 180 Turning Lives Around | $2,500 |
| Adaptive Sports Foundation | $2,500 |
| Bethesda Project | $2,500 |
| American Cancer Society | $2,000 |
| Center for Adoption Support & Education | $2,000 |
| Camp Opportunity, Inc. | $1,500 |
| Birch Family Services | $1,500 |
| A Kid Again | $1,250 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Toledo | $1,000 |
| Angel Heart Pajama Project | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–23, $488k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +22% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
408 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2024, 367 since wound down; 36 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, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k 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
- CRCamp Rising Sun Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $65k · revenue +89%
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CONNECTICUT INC4× · 2021–2024 · $35k · revenue +69%
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MASS /METROWEST INC3× · 2020–2022 · $30k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- ALALMADA LODGE TIMES FARM CAMP CORPORATIONone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -56%
- RTREBUILDING TOGETHER INCone grant, 2021 · $28k · revenue -7%
- CHCOVENANT HOUSEone grant, 2023 · $16k · revenue +7%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Together We Cope and the most unlike its peers is P31Girls Incorporated. 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 38 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% 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.
521 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. 521 of the 682 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Camp Rising Sun Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S AID INC ↗
- Who funds ALMADA LODGE TIMES FARM CAMP CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MASS /METROWEST INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds CARDINAL CUSHING CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds HOMEFRONT INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH SHORE SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds HUDSON RIVER HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL ↗
- Who funds Families in Transition ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL CHILDREN'S CANCER SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds URBAN PATHWAYS INC ↗
- Who funds ALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of Maine Inc ↗
- Who funds NASHUA SOUP KITCHEN & SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds NOURISH NOW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Thames River Community Service Inc ↗
- Who funds THREE SQUARE ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH MICHIGAN FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc ↗
- Who funds Jewish Family & Childrens Services of Greater Mercer County Inc ↗
- Who funds ST MARYS FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN 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.
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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 Bobs Discount Furniture Charitable 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.
- Reliance Health Inc — 100% of income from government
- Thames River Community Service Inc — 76% of income from government
- Martin House Inc — 53% of income from government
- New London Homeless Hospitality Center — 47% of income from government
- Womanspace Inc — 47% of income from government
- Community Action Council of Howard County Maryland Inc — 44% of income from government
- Women Aware Inc — 43% of income from government
- Cardinal Cushing Centers Inc — 40% of income from government
- Family and Children's Aid Inc — 36% of income from government
- Food Bank of South Jersey Inc — 30% of income from government
- Nourishnj Inc — 27% of income from government
- Food Bank of Delaware Inc — 26% of income from government
- Cumacecho Inc — 25% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- South Shore Community Action Council Inc — 20% of income from government
- Madonna Place Inc — 20% of income from government
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Connecticut Inc — 15% of income from government
- Harford Family House Inc — 14% of income from government
- Lynn Shelter Association Inc — 12% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Associated Catholic Charities Inc — 10% of income from government
- Harford Community Action Agency Inc — 9% of income from government
- Homefront Inc — 9% of income from government
- Community Assistance Network Inc — 7% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Connecticut Children's Medical Center — 5% of income from government
- Lunch Break Inc — 4% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Interfaith Works — 4% of income from government
- Children's Aid and Family Services Inc — 1% of income from government
- New London Area Food Pantry — 1% of income from government
- Worcester County Food Bank Inc — 1% 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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