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· Public charity
Caring Friends Inc
Caring Friends learns from the underserved, targets hand-up responses to human needs, serves without regard to race, gender, or religious affiliation, and derives its ethos from the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
$113k
Granted FY2021
6
Grants
1
Communities
$16k
Largest
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 60% of Caring Friends Inc’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.
02FY2021 · 6 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k3 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $37k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$299k
Total assets
Largest grants
- PAIR$16,103
- Rutherford BH Yates Museum$11,000
- Plant It Forward$10,000
- Malachi Destiny and Purpose$8,500
- Books Between Kids$6,500
- Spirit Key Inc$5,500
02The need
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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:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 12%. 89% of your 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.
33%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$47k · 3 repeat orgs$96k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +192% since the first grant, against +64% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
3
8
Total granted
$47k
$67k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+192%
+64%
Still filing today
67%
38%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationInternationalHealthPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
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
- PPAIR2× · 2017–2021 · $22k · revenue +192%
- SKSpirit Key Inc2× · 2017–2021 · $13k
- BBBooks Between Kids2× · 2017–2021 · $12k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- JAJesus Alpha Omega Ministriesone grant, 2017 · $14k
- MBMedical Bridgesgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $11k · revenue +64%
- ICImpact Church of Christone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
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Refugee & Immigrant Transitions
Our mission is to welcome and partner with those who have sought refuge, employing strengths-based educational approaches and community supports so they may thrive in our shared communities.
Youth Development
2
Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation
Partners In Health (PIH) is a non-profit, global health organization that fights social injustice by bringing the benefits of modern medical science first and foremost to the most vulnerable communities worldwide. In Haiti, Malawi, Rwanda,…
Health
3
New Bridges for Haitian Success Inc
To empower and serve the Haitian and Afro-Caribbean community by providing culturally attuned direct programs, legal services, basic needs, and partnerships.
Public Benefit
4
RefugeeConnect
RefugeeConnect's mission is to connect people forced to flee their country to escape persecution or war with resources to rebuild their lives as United States citizens.
Human Services
5
Bridging Cultural Gaps
Empowring immigrant and refugee families through the strenght of their own cultures.
Arts & Culture
6
Us-Mexico Border Philanthropy Partnership
To support a network of border region organizations to build prosperity through philanthropy, knowledge sharing, programs and services.
International
7
Harvest Bridge
Harvest Bridge equips South Asian Christians to serve their communities more effectively. With our assistance, people and communities in South Asia are transformed by the love of Christ.
Religion
8
Books From Birth
Books from Birth provides free books to impoverished children in Texas's Brazos Valley in order to boost early literacy skills and narrow the opportunity gap for underprivileged children before they enter school.
Education
9
Pueblo Unido Pdx
Connect immigrants to legal, social, and interpretation services.
Human Services
10
Rene Moawad Foundation
Provide Humanitarian Aid
International
11
Seeds of Hope
Plant seeds of hope in the people of the Middle East through various services.
International
12
Xpansion Ministries
Church planting and leadership training.
Religion
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New Horizons Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Prosalud Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network
9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$86,353Education$23,300International$11,000Food & Nutrition$10,000Health$6,500Philanthropy$6,000
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.
Greater Houston Community FoundationTX16.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Caring Friends Inc 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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: Pro Salud Inc.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 201989658 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 Pro Salud Inc, 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
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 10% 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 Caring Friends Inc?
Find your warmest path to Caring Friends Inc 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.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines