California · Private foundation
Cares Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2024
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $110,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $302,163
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 11
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $34M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 36% of the organizations Cares Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 34% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $532k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 11 | $1.3M | 9% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $1.6M | 36% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $1.4M | 9% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $1.3M | 27% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $1.3M | 55% |
| FY2017 | 10 | $1.4M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harm Reduction Services Inc | $1,511,332 | 6 | 26% |
| Sacramento LGBT Community Center | $812,918 | 5 | 3% |
| CARES Community Health | $649,430 | 1 | 2% |
| Wind Youth Services Inc | $437,726 | 4 | 4% |
| Planned Parenthood Mar Monte Inc | $402,165 | 5 | 0% |
| Sunburst Projects | $341,706 | 3 | 6% |
| Safer Alternatives Through Networking and Education | $321,965 | 3 | 6% |
| Golden Rule Services | $224,400 | 4 | 15% |
| Community Against Sexual Harm | $160,000 | 4 | 10% |
| Sierra Foothills AIDS Foundation | $149,303 | 1 | 11% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harm Reduction Services Inc | $1,511,332 | 6 | 26% |
| Sacramento LGBT Community Center | $812,918 | 5 | 3% |
| CARES Community Health | $649,430 | 1 | 2% |
| Wind Youth Services Inc | $437,726 | 4 | 4% |
| Planned Parenthood Mar Monte Inc | $402,165 | 5 | 0% |
| Sunburst Projects | $341,706 | 3 | 6% |
| Safer Alternatives Through Networking and Education | $321,965 | 3 | 6% |
| Golden Rule Services | $224,400 | 4 | 15% |
| Community Against Sexual Harm | $160,000 | 4 | 10% |
| Sierra Foothills AIDS Foundation | $149,303 | 1 | 11% |
| Communicare Health Centers | $140,655 | 2 | 1% |
| Gender Health Center | $125,000 | 1 | 16% |
| Life Enriching Communication | $35,000 | 1 | 77% |
| FREED Center for Independent Living Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Norcal AIDS Challenge | $20,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Parents Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Cares Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 15 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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 tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
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About Cares Foundation
- How much does Cares Foundation give?
- Cares Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $1,344,448 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Cares Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (79%), Human Services (15%), Housing & Shelter (5%).
- Who are Cares Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Harm Reduction Services Inc ($1.5M), Sacramento LGBT Community Center ($813k), CARES Community Health ($649k).
- Does Cares Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cares Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Cares Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, Sierra Health Foundation, Sacramento Region Community Foundation.
- Where is Cares Foundation based?
- Cares Foundation is based in CA.
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