· Public charity
Core Foundation Inc
We help others be the change they want to see in the world.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $61,470 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $135,580 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $74,110 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 $10k2 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA | $20,000 |
| INOVA HEALTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CHILDREN'S NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| COOK CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| WASHINGTON CARES INC | $6,320 |
| REDFORD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $5,150 |
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 (FY17–21, $132k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those 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.
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 +30% since the first grant, against -28% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 3 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, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- CICORNERSTONES INC5× · 2017–2021 · $132k · revenue +53%
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2025 · $40k · revenue +30%
- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION2× · 2024–2025 · $20k · revenue +77%
Funded once
- SSSAGAMORE STUDENT LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE INCone grant, 2022 · $99k · revenue -39% · 95% of their budget
- CHChildren's Hospital Corporationone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
- TETHE ELIZABETH DOLE CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $18k · revenue -100% · 51% of their budget
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 children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
To operate exclusively for the benefit of The Children's Hospital Corporation and its affiliated organizations in the conduct of their charitable, educational and scientific functions.
Children's health foundation (chf) supports children's health system (chs) and children's hospital of the king's daughters (chkd). chf is organized and operated to carry out the charitable, educational and scientific purposes of chs and…
Children's physicians delivers the highest quality pediatric primary care while supporting education and research.
The Organization operates exclusively for the benefit of the charitable purposes of Boston Children's Hospital (the Hospital) and the affiliated Foundations. It works jointly with the Hospital and the Foundations in developing and…
To improve health outcomes for children by fostering a strong culture of quality improvement within pediatric care through meaningful change and actionable measures.
Children's nebraska foundation (the foundation) was created in 1981 to raise awareness and manage and distribute funds to support children's hospital & medical center's (the hospital) premier pediatric services and programs. as an advocate…
Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.
The Foundation provides medical and health care services primarily to patients at Boston Children's Hospital, and at satellite locations. The Foundation carries on and promotes basic and applied medical research and education in the field…
To improve the life of every child - through exceptional care, advocacy, research and education.
Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease, and injury.
The corporation is organized and is operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes. all children's research institute supports, encourages, and engages in and conducts medical research and other research in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Elizabeth Dole Charitable Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 18 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 CORNERSTONES INC ↗
- Who funds SAGAMORE STUDENT LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds INOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ELIZABETH DOLE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDHOOD BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TROOPS FIRST FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds WI Cook Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital and Healthcare Services Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds RADFORD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION 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: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% 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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