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Cacajones Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k6 grants · $154k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $204k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RESTORATION ACADEMY | $89,000 |
| MARYLAND REENTRY RESOURCE CENTER | $65,000 |
| VIRGINIA'S KIDS BELONG | $50,000 |
| MARANATHAN ACADEMY | $30,000 |
| ROOTED MINISTRY | $30,000 |
| UWF FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| SIMS CEMETERY CARE | $25,000 |
| LUCIA CHARITABLE | $22,500 |
| CHAPELGATE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $21,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $258k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 19% of Cacajones Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 58% of the giving stays in AL; read by stated purpose it is 52% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +118% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 6 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, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $218k 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
- GHGRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES INC2× · 2022–2024 · $150k · revenue +124%
- BBBROTHER BRYAN MISSION2× · 2021–2022 · $100k · revenue +18%
- TRTHE RESTORATION ACADEMY2× · 2020–2025 · $99k · revenue +118%
Funded once
- NSNEW SONG COMMUNITY CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $65k
- HUHELPING UP MISSION INCone grant, 2021 · $52k · revenue +12%
- R1REFUGE 1212 INCone grant, 2024 · $50k · 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.
The remnant house, located in lee county, mississippi provides men and women with a faith-based christian transitional living home and recovery program. our christ-centered one year transitional living recovery program allows an individual…
Redemption road provides housing, re-entry and transition services for men and women coming out of the criminal justice system. the mission is to provide to provide christ centered, bible based recovery from drug and alcohol abuse, damaged…
To provide or connect low -income or ex-offenders affordable houses who wouldn't otherwise have the opportunity to have a bighter future
Thrive Academy is a private Christian school using education as a platform to reach, disciple, and empower students facing systemic injustice, childhood trauma, and poverty. With student housing, engaging curriculum, and intentional…
The rescue missions purpose is to provide food, housing , and transportation in emergency situations to local residents and transients, Those served are spiritually ministered.
A residential home of discipleship ministry and personal development for young women ages 18-40.To bring single women who are struggling into fulfillment and purpose in Jesus Christ.To help them deal with and work through life dominating…
Boys Hope Girls Hope nurtures and guides motivated young people in need to become well-educated, career-ready men and women for others through its holistic, long-term residential and academy programming. The organization provides direct…
The mission of teen challenge of baltimore is to provide individuals and their families with an effective and comprehensive faith-based solution to substanceabuse and life-controlling issues in order for them to become productivemembers of…
To help those struggling in a personal crisis find relief and disciple them into a christ-centered lifestyle through a ministry of reconciliation, applying the truth of scripture, working with others and sharing in fellowship with those…
Restore inmates and those addicted back in to society
Restoring Purpose Ministries is committed to seeing the hurting, especially those battling in addiction or in recovery, restored to a place of purpose. RPM offers assistance to find the right rehab or program to assist in sobriety; RPM has…
We housed men that have either completed drug rehab programs or was reeleased from prison. we provided utilities, transportation, housing, and job training.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brother Bryan Mission and the most unlike its peers is Sims Cemetery Care. 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 21 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 44 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 GRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds BROTHER BRYAN MISSION ↗
- Who funds THE RESTORATION ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND REENTRY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds HELPING UP MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds REFUGE 1212 INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIAS KIDS BELONG ↗
- Who funds BUILD UP ↗
- Who funds RISING HOPE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA POLICY INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE SPORTS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds ROOTED MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND PUBLIC POLICY INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds DECISIONS CHOICES AND OPTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds PRICHARD PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds The True Vine A Christian Foundation ↗
- Who funds Sims Cemetery Care ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WEST FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HEART OF ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Chill Station ↗
- Who funds SAV-A-LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FURNITURE BANK INC ↗
- Who funds DESERT ISLAND SUPPLY CO ↗
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: The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Orlean & Ralph W Beeson Fund · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Robert R Meyer Foundation · Protective Life Foundation · Campbell Estelle S Char Foundation · Rjjb Family Foundation · C Eugene Ireland Foundation Inc · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Altecstyslinger 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 Cacajones Family Foundation 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.
- Maryland Reentry Resource Center — 77% of income from government
- Helping Up Mission Inc — 6% 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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