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Core Cares Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k184 grants · $277k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $220k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES | $200,000 |
| GROWING UP GREENE (FORMERLY CASA) | $35,000 |
| FRANK CALANDRA JR FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $18,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $15,000 |
| ADVANCED LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE | $15,000 |
| GIRLS SCOUTS OF WESTERN PA | $15,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENE CTY | $15,000 |
| LAUREN'S WISH ADDICTION CENTER | $12,550 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES | $12,455 |
| WEST VIRGINIA STATE PARKS FDN | $12,000 |
| MORRIS TOWNSHIP VOL FIRE DEPT | $10,000 |
| CORNER CUPBOARD FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| HELPING HOUSE | $10,000 |
| BLUEFIELD STATE UNIV FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $168k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% 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 +17% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
106 repeat relationships — 71 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 118 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $218k 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
- GUGrowing Up Greene2× · 2022–2023 · $45k · revenue +44%
- CCCORNER CUPBOARD FOOD BANK INC6× · 2019–2024 · $43k · revenue +73%
- BSBLUEFIELD STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC3× · 2022–2024 · $22k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF MORGANTOWNone grant, 2022 · $1.2M
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $50k
- RVRICHILL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPTone grant, 2019 · $25k
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.
Provide fire protection for over 100 members
The protection, preservation of life and property during emergencies as may occur in the Borough of Clearfield and surrounding communities.
All volunteer fire department provides fire and rescue services to the surrounding communities.
Fire protection for the City of Lewisburg, WV and surrounding areas
To provide volunteer fire fighting services in the flemington, wv region.
To provide protection and emergency medical services to residents of north wales borough, lower gwynedd township, upper gwynedd township and surrounding communities.
Providing a Youth Baseball League for North Central WV expanding across 3 counties
Operation of a volunteer fire company for the local communities in pike county, pa.
Volunteer fire company providing fire protection and emergency rescue services to hardy county, wv
Provided Fire & Rescue Services to Alum Bank, PA and surrounding area.
Volunteer fire department
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Virginia University Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Preston Mat Club 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 15 years old; the field is 21. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
101 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. 101 of the 468 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARTIES OF NORTHEASTERN PENSYLVANIA INC ↗
- Who funds Growing Up Greene ↗
- Who funds CORNER CUPBOARD FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENE COUN ↗
- Who funds BLUEFIELD STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CLAYSVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds WYOMING COUNTY TOY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH HILLS INTERFAITH MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds The Advanced Leadership Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF COAL LADIES AUXILIARY ↗
- Who funds Colbys Stars Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Horses With Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds 4MyCity Inc ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LEMOYNE COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds WVMA EDUCATIONAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Patterson Park 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: Eqt Foundation · Washington County Community Foundation · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Equitrans Midstream Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · Cnx Foundation · Edward B Dunlap Jr Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Community Foundation of Greene Coun · Centimark Foundation · Snee-Reinhardt Charitable Foundation · The Pittsburgh 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 organization Core Cares 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.
- 4MyCity Inc — 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.
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