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Connecting a Caring Community

To provide resources and funding to support those in need through local based projects; to develop leadership and empower others to provide relief in our community to support the ones in need, through fundraising events, teen ambassador programs and direct donations.

$46k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20222025.

Philanthropy$62kHuman Services$56kHealth$22kAnimals$10kEducation$9k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 3 grants below total $29,640 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $46,140 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $16,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $10k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$447k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOPE THE MISSION$10,000
THE HLEP GROUP$10,000
BEIT TSHUVAH$9,640
02The need
03

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 (FY22–24, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%GUIDE DOGS OF AMERICA: $10k → 14%GOLDEN HEART RANCH: $26k → 14%RANCHO SAN ANTONIO BOYS HOME: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — 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.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$62k · 3 repeat orgs$64k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
5

Total granted

$62k
$64k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
+66%

Still filing today

100%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’22’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’24’25
Human ServicesEducationPhilanthropyOther

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

  • BT
    Beit T'Shuvah
    2× · 2024–2025 · $22k · revenue +16%
  • HT
    HOPE THE MISSION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $20k · revenue 0%
  • CANDID
    2× · 2024–2025 · $20k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • GH
    GOLDEN HEART RANCHgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $26k · revenue +133%
  • IG
    International Guiding Eyes Inc DBA Guide Dogs of America
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -9%
  • RS
    Rancho San Antonio Boys Home Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +66%

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.

1
New Vista Ranch Inc

New vista is committed to providing people of all ages with intellectual and developmental disabilities, equitable opportunities, and supported living arrangements so that they may experience life to the fullest.

Human Services
2
Wayfinder Family Services

The mission of Wayfinder Family Services is to ensure that children, youth and adults facing challenges always have a place to turn. Founded in 1953 as the Foundation for the Junior Blind, the organization initially enabled visually…

Human Services
3
Contra Costa Interfaith Transitional Housing Inc

Hope Solutions provides permanent affordable housing coupled with well-executed support services to people who are homeless or at risk to become homeless in Contra Costa County. Support services are individualized for each person or family…

Housing & Shelter
4
Vista Del Mar Child and Family Services

To provide comprehensive, family-centered social, educational and behavioral health services that encourage children, adolescents and their families to lead self reliant, stable and productive lives.

Human Services
5
Social Science Services Inc

Recovery services for drug and alcohol addiction

Crime & Legal
6
Tarzana Treatment Centers Inc

Tarzana treatment centers' (ttc) mission is to provide high quality, integrated health care that improves the quality of life and health of patients regardless of financial resources, and contributes to a reduction in the total cost of…

Health
7
Didi Hirsch Psychiatric Service

The roots of the los angeles didi hirsch psychiatric service dba didi hirsch mental health services ("dhmhs") extend back to the 1930s, when a group of women funded psychiatric care for people whose lives were devastated by the depression.…

Health
8
The Anti-Recidivism Coalition

The anti-recidivism coalition (arc) works to end mass incarceration in california. to ensure our communities are safe, healthy, and whole, arc empowers formerly and currently incarcerated people to thrive by providing a support network,…

Crime & Legal
9
Ranch Hands Rescue

To provide a sanctuary for people and animals, founded on hope and healing for the long-term recovery of trauma victims, special needs animals, and male survivors of sex trafficking.

Animals
10
San Gabriel Valley Training Center Residential Facility

To provide residential and supportive services for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. To achieve this mission the organization has constructed three residential homes and a recreation building.

11
The Cedars of Marin

realize each persons full potential. In pursuit of that we maintain twelve group homes in eight locations, a main campus, and we run four innovative and creative day program sites, all in Marin County, California.

Unclassified
12
Tikvah-Etta and Lazear Israel Center for the Developmentally Disabled

The mission of the etta israel center is to provide programs and services which enable people with special needs to live fully enriched and active lives as members of the los angeles jewish community.

Unclassified

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is International Guiding Eyes Inc Dba Guide Dogs of America and the most unlike its peers is Candid. 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

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 9 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GOLDEN HEART RANCH — $25,900 · Human ServicesGOLDEN HEART RANCHHOPE THE MISSION — $20,000 · Human ServicesHOPE THE MISSIONInternational Guiding Eyes Inc DBA Guide Dogs of America — $10,125 · Human ServicesInternational Guiding Eyes Inc DBA Guide Dogs o…Rancho San Antonio Boys Home Inc — $10,000 · Human ServicesRancho San Antonio Boys Home IncDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $32,709 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INCCANDID — $20,000 · PhilanthropyCANDIDBeit T'Shuvah — $22,140 · OtherBeit T'ShuvahDCFS — $9,000 · OtherDCFSTHE HELP GROUP WEST — $8,500 · Education
Human Services$66,025Philanthropy$52,709Other$31,140Education$8,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $32,709 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOLDEN HEART RANCH — $25,900 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetBeit T'Shuvah — $22,140 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE THE MISSION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANDID — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Guiding Eyes Inc DBA Guide Dogs of America — $10,125 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRancho San Antonio Boys Home Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HELP GROUP WEST — $8,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA6.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 organization Connecting a Caring Community 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Connecting a Caring Community?

    Find your warmest path to Connecting a Caring Community 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 9 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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