· Private foundation
Cooking Autism Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RISING STAR CENTER | $3,150 |
| JACQUELINE HATCHER | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON | $1,500 |
| MARY WILLIAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $1,500 |
| MATTEWS CENTER FOR VISUAL LEARNING | $1,500 |
| ANNE E MONCURE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $1,300 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,200 |
| ALTERNATIVE PATHS | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| MASSAPONAX HIGH SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| PARKRIDGE ELEMENTARY | $1,000 |
| CHARLES COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $1,000 |
| NEABSCO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $900 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 28% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +112% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
54 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- GAGATEWAY ACADEMY SERVICES5× · 2019–2025 · $6k · revenue +434%
- CEConway Elementary School PTA2× · 2018–2020 · $5k · revenue +141%
- PRPARK RIDGE ELEMENTARY PTO4× · 2019–2025 · $4k · revenue +41% · 100% of their budget
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $2k
- FRFREDERICKSBURG REGIONAL FOOD BANKgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +68%
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.
The PTO seeks to help build community among students and families through spirit days and special events throughout the year. The PTO also organizes events to help care for Stony Point teachers and staff in tangible ways. The Stony Point…
School support provided by parents and teachers.
To promote a partnership between home and school, serving as a forum for caregivers and educators to collaborate as we advocate for the needs of the children, families, faculty, and staff at CSPES.
To support and enhance the educational experience of students by fostering cooperation between parents, teachers and school staff. The PTA provides volunteer and financial support for educational programs, classroom resources, school evens…
Supports Reynolds Elementary school, students, and teachers
Supporting classroom activities
To enhance connections between school and home by encouraging parental involvement; enhance the educational experience by supporting academic and enrichment activities; improve the environment at the school with volunteers and financial…
Clark School PTO's purpose is to help provide a creative school environment for the children and staff that encourages academic excellence and fosters school pride so that staff and parents may cooperate to a greater extent in the…
Supporting the teachers, staff and students of Carrie Martin Elementary School
Support lakeview school parents
Parent Teacher Organization which provides support to students, teachers, and staff.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hampton Oaks Elementary School Pto and the most unlike its peers is Dixon Smith Middle School Pto. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 31% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 153 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 GATEWAY ACADEMY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Conway Elementary School PTA ↗
- Who funds PARK RIDGE ELEMENTARY PTO ↗
- Who funds WILDERNESS ELEMENTARY PTA ↗
- Who funds MATTHEWS CENTER FOR VISUAL LEARNING ↗
- Who funds Rosa Parks Elementary School PTO ↗
- Who funds FREDERICKSBURG REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds QUIET WATERS MINISTRIES 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: William M Cage Library Trust · Community Foundation of the Rappahannock River Region Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Cooking Autism 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.
- Reconnections Education Center Inc — 0% 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.
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