· Public charity
Consumer Technology Association Foundation
The foundation is focused on strategic support of programs to impact these communities and has launched its first series of grants in 2012.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $552k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $225k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MyndVR Inc | $225,000 |
| St John's Community Services | $30,000 |
| American Printing House for the Blind | $30,000 |
| Adler Aphasia Center | $30,000 |
| MOKA | $30,000 |
| Easterseals Arkansas | $30,000 |
| Able Gmrs Fdn Inc | $25,000 |
| Lighthouse Guild | $25,000 |
| Cerebral Palsy Alliance Rsrch Fdn | $25,000 |
| ITNAmerica | $25,000 |
| Mary's Center | $25,000 |
| Lutheran Services in America Incorporated | $25,000 |
| Oak Hill | $25,000 |
| Easter Seals of Gtr Houston Inc | $25,000 |
| Encore Employment Enterprise Inc | $21,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 65% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 19 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, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $507k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- FPFront Porch Communities and Services7× · 2017–2024 · $312k · revenue +164%
- OAOlder Adults Technology Services6× · 2017–2023 · $227k · revenue +370%
- ESEASTER SEALS OF GREATER HOUSTON INC7× · 2017–2024 · $190k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- EENVISIONone grant, 2019 · $60k
- GOGENERATIONS ON LINEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $51k · revenue +27%
- SCSELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +67%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Abilitypath housing advances affordable, accessible housing projects that promote independence and inclusive communities for adults with developmental disabilities. through partnerships and innovative program designs, abilitypath housing…
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To enhance the independence and enrich the lives of individuals with physical and age related disabilities through a direct care services organization that provides in-home care to seniors and individuals with disabilities, as well as an…
Our mission is to empower people with disabilities and their families to grow, develop, and thrive by providing essential skill-building, therapeutic, and recreational programs.
ConnectAbility's mission is to empower those with life altering disabilities and their caregivers to reach their fullest potential.
Mission: together we advance the quality of life for people with disabilities. vision: people of all abilities thrive in the world. values: impact- generate solutions that make a difference. choice - create opportunities for people to lead…
The mission of leadingage is to be the trusted voice for aging. our 6,000+ members and partners include nonprofit organizations representing the entire field of aging services, 38 state associations, hundreds of businesses, consumer…
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
Empower people with special needs to achieve their full potential through innovative, inclusive programs and community partnerships.
Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.
Setting a new standard of employment for people who have disabilities and chronic medical conditions.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Meals On Wheels America and the most unlike its peers is Encore Employment Enterprise Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
78 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 78 of the 85 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds Front Porch Communities and Services ↗
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- Who funds THE OAK HILL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH FLORIDA INSTITUTE ON AGING INC ↗
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- Who funds THE ARC OF THE UNITED STATES ↗
- Who funds ITNAMERICA ↗
- Who funds AARP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ABLEGAMERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Community Tech Network ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds MAB COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
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- Who funds Mary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Inc ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN CENTERED DESIGN INC ↗
- Who funds HEARING LOSS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds UNITED SPINAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds GENERATIONS ON LINE ↗
- Who funds SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds RESEARCH TO PREVENT BLINDNESS INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA ↗
- Who funds PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Council on Aging of Southwestern Ohio ↗
- Who funds ENGAGE INC ↗
- Who funds A LITTLE HELP ↗
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- Who funds ST JOHN'S COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds GRANTMAKERS IN AGING INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Reader's Digest Partners for Sight Foundation · AARP · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Lavelle Fund for the Blind Inc · Nextfifty Initiative · Sarah Decoizart Perpetual Charitable Tr · Archstone Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Christopher Reeve Foundation · Allene Reuss Memorial Trust · Delta Gamma Foundation · Retirement Research Foundation Dba Rrf Foundation for Aging
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 Consumer Technology Association 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.
- Melwood Horticultural Training Center Inc — 73% of income from government
- Mab Community Services Inc — 69% of income from government
- South Florida Institute On Aging Inc — 69% of income from government
- Institute for Human Centered Design Inc — 42% of income from government
- Adler Aphasia Center — 12% of income from government
- Perkins School for the Blind — 7% of income from government
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.