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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 FY2021
1
States reached
$16k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Youth Development$22kEducation$18kHuman Services$16kEmployment$14kHealth$13kHousing & Shelter$13kInternational$11kArts & Culture$11kOther$0
02FY2021 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $57,603, the rows itemized in this filing. The $113,245 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $55,642 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k3 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $37k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 89% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Plant It Forward: $10k → 16%Beta International: $7k → 12%New Horizons Foundation Inc: $6k → 9%Pro Salud Inc: $7k → 16%Books Between Kids: $6k → 16%Shearn Elementary Schl HISD: $6k → 16%Houston Global Health Colla: $7k → 16%PAIR: $16k → 16%Spirit Key Inc: $7k → 16%Spirit Key Inc: $6k → 16%Jesus Alpha Omega Ministries: $14k → 16%Malachi Destiny and Purpose: $9k → 16%Impact Church of Christ: $10k → 16%PAIR: $6k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

34%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$47k · 3 repeat orgs$90k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +243% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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
7

Total granted

$47k
$61k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+243%
+12%

Still filing today

67%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’21
EducationInternationalHealthFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • PF
    Partnership For The Advancement And Immersion Of Refugees
    2× · 2017–2021 · $22k · revenue +243%
  • SK
    Spirit Key Inc
    2× · 2017–2021 · $13k
  • BB
    BOOKS BETWEEN KIDS INC
    2× · 2017–2021 · $12k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • JI
    JESUS IS ALPHA and OMEGA CHURCH
    one grant, 2017 · $14k
  • MB
    Medical Bridges Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $11k · revenue +39%
  • IC
    IMPACT CHURCH OF CHRIST
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Bridging Cultural Gaps

Successfully supported the underrepresented East African Community with BSK Grant. Supported included student well- being and success by improving school climate and advocating for alternative discipline in the school system.

Arts & Culture
2
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
3
Pueblo Unido Pdx

Connect immigrants to legal, social, and interpretation services.

Human Services
4
Partnership for Resource Development Inc

Serving the displaced in the middle east.

Religion
5
Us-Mexico Border Philanthropy Partnership

The US-Mexico Border Philanthropy Partnership strengthens and grows community philianthropy in the US-Mexico border region.

International
6
Partner 135 Advance Inc

World Missions

Religion
7
Bio Ventures for Global Health

BVGH drives sustainable, market-informed solutions to improve access to quality healthcare in low- and middle-income countries. BVGH builds cross-sector partnerships that align industry, government, and local health-system priorities to…

Health
8
Refugee Artisan Initative

RAI partners with refugee and immigrant women to foster an inclusive, prosperous transition to the US through artisan skills training and micro business development.

Community Improvement
9
Asylee Women Enterprise Inc

Asylee Women Enterprise (AWE), journeys with asylum seekers and other forced migrants as they navigate the immigration legal process, begin to heal from past trauma, and rebuild their lives in Baltimore.

International
10
Restoration Bridge International Inc

Restoration Bridge International endeavors to help supply people in need with food until they no longer need assistance.

Human Services
11
Tyndale Bible Translators

Bible Translation and acts of Christian Services

Religion
12
Lifting Hands International

We provide aid to refugees, both at home and abroad. Simply humanitarian.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New Horizons Foundation Inc; 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 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. 9 of the 14 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Partnership For The Advancement And Immersion Of Refugees: $22,103 · OtherPartnership For The Advancement And Immersion Of RefugeesJESUS IS ALPHA and OMEGA CHURCH: $13,500 · OtherJESUS IS ALPHA and OMEGA CHURCHSpirit Key Inc: $12,750 · OtherSpirit Key IncIMPACT CHURCH OF CHRIST: $10,000 · OtherIMPACT CHURCH OF CHRISTMalachi Destiny & Purpose: $8,500 · OtherMalachi Destiny & PurposeHOUSTON GLOBAL HEALTH COLLABORATIVE: $7,000 · OtherHOUSTON GLOBAL HEALTH COLLABORATIVEBIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY AID INTERNATIONAL: $6,500 · OtherBIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY AID INTERNATIONALHouston Independent Sch Dist: $6,000 · OtherHouston Independent Sch DistBOOKS BETWEEN KIDS INC: $12,300 · EducationBOOKS BETWEEN KIDS…Rutherford B H Yates Museum Inc: $11,000 · EducationRutherford B H Yat…Medical Bridges Inc: $11,000 · InternationalPLANT IT FORWARD: $10,000 · Food & NutritionPROSALUD INC: $6,500 · HealthThe New Horizons Foundation Inc: $6,000 · Philanthropy
Other$86,353Education$23,300International$11,000Food & Nutrition$10,000Health$6,500Philanthropy$6,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPartnership For The Advancement And Immersion Of Refugees: $22,103 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetJESUS IS ALPHA and OMEGA CHURCH: $13,500 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetBOOKS BETWEEN KIDS INC: $12,300 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRutherford B H Yates Museum Inc: $11,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMedical Bridges Inc: $11,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLANT IT FORWARD: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetMalachi Destiny & Purpose: $8,500 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetPROSALUD INC: $6,500 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetThe New Horizons Foundation Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Shell USA Company Fou…Greater Houston Commu…American Endowment Fo…Natl Christian Charit…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Shell USA Company FoundationTX16.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Shell USA Company Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Caring Friends Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Caring Friends Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Caring Friends Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Caring Friends Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $61k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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