· Private foundation
Cares Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $1.0M
- $250k+1 grant · $302k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HARM REDUCTION SERVICES (HRS) | $302,163 |
| COMMUNITY AGAINST SEXUAL HARM (CASH) | $191,591 |
| SACRAMENTO LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER | $168,565 |
| ONE COMMUNITY HEALTH | $150,000 |
| SIERRA FOOTHILLS AIDS FOUNDATION | $149,303 |
| SUNBURST PROJECTS | $110,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE | $80,000 |
| SAFER ALTERNATIVES THRU NETWORKING AND EXCHANGE (SANE) | $67,171 |
| COMMUNICARE HEALTH CENTERS | $65,655 |
| GOLDEN RULE SERVICES | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $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 (FY17–24, $847k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
17 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $149k 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
- HRHARM REDUCTION SERVICES INC6× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +171% · 26% of their budget
- SLSacramento LGBT Community Center5× · 2020–2024 · $813k · revenue +90%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC5× · 2017–2024 · $402k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- CCCARES Community Healthgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $649k · revenue +193%
- SCSAC COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTHone grant, 2023 · $200k
- GHGENDER HEALTH CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $125k · revenue +50%
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.
Northern Nevada Hopes provides affordable, high-quality, medical, behavioral health, and support services for all. We are dedicated to building a healthier community by providing coordinated care and support for individuals and family…
To define, promote, and improve access to healthcare services and supports for people living with HIV/AIDS and/or viral hepatitis through advocacy, education, and networking. These services must be affordable to the people who need them…
The mission of Westside Community Services is to provide high quality, family-centered, culturally competent behavioral health and human services for the residents of the city and county of San Francisco.
We provide healthcare and health management services in the Oakland, California Bay Area. We seek to recognize, empathize, and correctly respond to clients individual needs both medically and psychosocially. Everyone in our care is treated…
Hiv/aids counseling/assistance
The Spahr Center provides cultural, community, and health programs and direct services that celebrate and support Marin County, California's LGBTQ+ and HIV communities.
Harm Reduction Therapy Center is dedicated to providing treatment to people with co-occurring substance misuse and mental illness, and training mental health, drug treatment, and social service providers who work with complex…
Northern Valley Harm Reduction Coalition is a 501c3 Non-Profit and Physician Lead Harm Reduction Program. Our program provides life saving Naloxone, Overdose Reversal Training, Safe Use Supplies, Syringe Disposal, HIV/HCV Testing, Drug…
The Oakland LGBTQ Community Center is dedicated to enhancing and sustaining the well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) individuals, our families and allies, by providing educational, social, and health related…
Provide education, support services, and prevention services for persons living with and at risk for hiv/aids.
Calpep is dedicated to providing coordinated hiv, substance abuse, mental health, employment support, and violence prevention services to the highest need communities of color in the san francisco bay area.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gender Health Center and the most unlike its peers is Life Enriching Communication. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 25 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 HARM REDUCTION SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Sacramento LGBT Community Center ↗
- Who funds CARES Community Health ↗
- Who funds WIND YOUTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC ↗
- Who funds Sunburst Projects ↗
- Who funds SAFER ALTERNATIVES THROUGH NETWORKING AND EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Golden Rule Services ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY AGAINST SEXUAL HARM ↗
- Who funds SIERRA FOOTHILLS AIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNICARE HEALTH CENTERS ↗
- Who funds GENDER HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds LIFE ENRICHING COMMUNICATION ↗
- Who funds FREED Center for Independent Living Inc ↗
- Who funds Norcal AIDS Challenge ↗
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: Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Sierra Health Foundation · Sacramento Region Community Foundation · Dignity Health · Norcal AIDS Challenge · Essential Access Health · The California Endowment · Sierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program Management · Public Health Institute · Direct Relief · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Cares 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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