· Private foundation
Cares Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Cares Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cares Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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