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Elks Park Scholarship & Charity Fund
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 69% of ELKS PARK SCHOLARSHIP & CHARITY FUND’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $5,700 |
| MERCED SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF NORTHERN CA | $5,000 |
| CHALLENGED FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER | $4,502 |
| LANCER 4-H | $2,800 |
| LOVE INC | $2,500 |
| BOXING ACADEMY CORPORATION | $2,000 |
| TENAYA MIDDLE SCHOOL | $1,500 |
| GREATER YOSEMITE COUNCIL | $1,500 |
| MCSWAIN SOCCER LEAGUE | $1,350 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $1,100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| ALISHA ANN RUCH BURN FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| BOY SCOUT TROOP 88 | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| EL CAPITAN GAUCHOS FFA | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 93% of your 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.
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 +65% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 17 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, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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
- VCVALLEY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL2× · 2021–2022 · $26k · revenue +25%
- MSMC SWAIN SOCCER LEAGUE4× · 2021–2024 · $5k · revenue +87%
- ALATWATER LITTLE LEAGUE2× · 2021–2023 · $5k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF THE MERCED COUNTY LIBRARYone grant, 2022 · $5k
- MUMERCED UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2021 · $3k
- MEMERCED ELKS BPO 1240one grant, 2020 · $3k
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 financial support to mhs football
Youth sports
Monterey County Soccer Club is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the positive development of our youth through their participation in a safe health and affordable soccer program that is fun and rewarding for who participate
Organized youth soccer
Provide sports and supervised activities that encourage sportsmanship, goodwill and friendship.
Soccer activities soccer club/soccer games/soccer practices/soccer tournaments.
It is the mission of MCFC to provide the highest level of soccer to the youth of Monterey County while maintaining good sportsmanship values with quality coaching. Our goal is help young soccer players develop not only into better soccer…
To promote hard work, integrity, and trust to the youth of central california through our sports and fitness programs.
California Magic SC is a community-based club whose mission is to educate, inspire,and empower youth in a positive way through the beautiful game of soccer.While this small and select club is committed to high achievement in soccer,the…
Provides youth soccer development and amateur athletic competition through coaching, training and competition.
It is the mission of srcysc to provide the youth of riverside county with equal opportunities for those of all genders and ages to engage and take active part in personal fitness, teamwork, athletic competition and self esteem building…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mc Swain Soccer League and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 64 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 VALLEY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of Merced County ↗
- Who funds MC SWAIN SOCCER LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds ATWATER LITTLE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGED FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ALISA ANN RUCH BURN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MERCED COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE MERCED COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Weaver Music Boosters Inc ↗
- Who funds Turlock Youth Sports Foundation ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL 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: United Way of Merced County · Stewart Family Foundation · The California Endowment · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · 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 Elks Park Scholarship & Charity Fund 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.
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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