How much did CARES FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 67% of CARES FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

testing educationeducation outreachhiv prevention

2021

hiv prevention

2022

harm reduction

2023

risksex workerson-sitehiv testingtesting care

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 11 grants

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

$110,000

Median grant

States reached

$34M

Total assets

Largest grants

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
NORCAL AIDS CYCLE$10,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $847k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$6.6M · 18 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

18 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$6.6M

$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+130%

+193%

Still filing today

50%

36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $149k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

HealthHuman ServicesCivil RightsOther

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

SL
SACRAMENTO LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER
5× · 2020–2024 · $813k · revenue +473%
HR
HARM REDUCTION SERVICES
3× · 2020–2022 · $720k · revenue +130%
SP
SUNBURST PROJECTS
3× · 2022–2024 · $342k · revenue +174%

Funded once

CC
CARES COMMUNITY HEALTHgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $649k · revenue +193%
SA
SAFER ALTERNATIVES THRU NETWORKING & EDUCATION
one grant, 2017 · $210k
SC
SAC COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH
one grant, 2023 · $200k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Central Valley Gender Health & Wellness

Civil Rights

Northern Nevada Hiv Outpatient Program

We provide affordable, high-quality medical, behavioral health & support services for all.

Health

Healthy Community Forum for Sacramento

Healthy Community Forum for the Greater Sacramento Region operates under the name Community HealthWorks (formally Sacramento Covered), a not-for-profit philanthropic organization, is an innovative leader in developing and implementing a…

Health

Ambulatory Surgery Access Coalition

We connect people facing barriers to care with surgical and specialty services donated by local providers to advance health equity.

Health

Northern Valley Harm Reduction Coalition

Northern Valley Harm Reduction Coalition (NVHRC) began as a community led effort committed to reducing harm and providing evidence-based education, advocacy, and direct services to all community members within Butte Couty, CA and the…

Education

Sacramento Neighborhood Housing

To improve and restore district-wide neighborhoods for the benefit of the residents.

Housing & Shelter

Street Level Health Project

Health Care for All is the heart of the Oakland-based grassroots organization Street Level Health Project Street Level. Incorporated in 2001, Street Level is a critical entry point into the healthcare and social service system for those…

Health

Harm Reduction Therapy Center

Harm Reduction Therapy Center is dedicated to providing treatment to low- and no-income people with co-occurring substance misuse and mental illness, and training mental health, drug treatment, and social service providers who work with…

Health

Primary Care at Home Inc

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…

Health

The Spahr Center

The Spahr Center provides cultural, community, and health programs and direct services that celebrate and support Marin County, California's LGBTQ+ and HIV communities.

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Northern California Center for

To improve the health and well-being of our community through evidence-based health practices and innovative programs that advance health equity for all.

Health

Shasta Supportive Housing and Services

To provide affordable housing and supportive services to people experiencing homelessness, the frail elderly, and other vulnerable populations.

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gender Health Center and the most unlike its peers is Cares Community Health. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

14/14

Grantees still filing

12/14

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$5,539,567Health$1,222,898Human Services$847,126Civil Rights$720,000

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.

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.

Kaiser Foundation HospitalsCA18.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Sierra Health Foundation · Sacramento Region Community Foundation · Norcal AIDS Challenge · Essential Access Health · Sierra Health Foundation · Dignity Health · Public Health Institute · Direct Relief · 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 organisation 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: HARM REDUCTION SERVICES.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~4 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.3× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 680300656 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on HARM REDUCTION SERVICES, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 4 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 22% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Cares Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Cares Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

CARES FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Cares Foundation?

More from the funding graph

CARES FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Cares Foundation?

More from the funding graph