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Foundation of Caring Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$650k
Largest
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192025.

Health$11MEducation$8.9MHuman Services$800kArts & Culture$50kReligion$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.6M
$650,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$360k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WENATCHEE VALLEY YMCA$650,000
WENATCHEE VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$650,000
SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$250,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$200,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CHOC CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $7.8M → 10%RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $950k → 11%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $200k → 17%STUDENT ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION (SAFE) FOUNDATION: $6.5M → 9%UPPER COLUMBIA ACADEMY: $125k → 12%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF ORANGE COUNTY: $750k → 10%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SAN DIEGO: $50k → 11%ST JUDE CHILDREN: $50k → 17%CASCADE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $666k → 9%UPPER COLUMBIA ACADEMY: $125k → 12%CHOC CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $250k → 10%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $50k → 17%WENATCHEE VALLEY YMCA: $650k → 9%CHOC CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $250k → 10%WENATCHEE VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $650k → 9%CASCADE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $277k → 9%CASCADE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $257k → 9%CASCADE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $233k → 9%ALATHEIA THERAPEUTIC: $200k → 9%ALATHEIA THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $150k → 9%WENATCHEE VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $100k → 9%WENATCHEE VALLEY YMCA: $100k → 9%WVC FOUNDATION: $50k → 9%LIGHTHOUSE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $20k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$13M · 7 repeat orgs$9.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against +46% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
9

Total granted

$13M
$8.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+46%

Still filing today

43%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthPhilanthropyEducationFood & NutritionOther

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

  • CF
    CHOC FOUNDATION
    3× · 2019–2021 · $8.3M · revenue +60%
  • CC
    CASCADE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
    4× · 2019–2022 · $1.4M
  • SC
    SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
    4× · 2019–2024 · $850k

Funded once

  • SA
    STUDENT ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION (SAFE) FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $6.5M
  • RC
    RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO
    one grant, 2022 · $950k · revenue -82%
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF ORANGE COUNTYgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $750k · revenue +52%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Children's Healthcare of California

The primary exempt purpose of children's healthcare of california includes without limitation the receipt of distributions and grants for the making of distributions and grants to children's hospital of orange county (choc) and to…

Health
2
Rady Children's Health

Rady children's health (formerly rady children's hospital and health center (rchhc)) was formed to acquire, establish, maintain, conduct, operate, raise funds for, and otherwise support, directly or indirectly through its affiliates,…

Health
3
Rady Children's Hospital San Diego

To restore, sustain and enhance the health and developmental potential of children through excellence in care, education, research and advocacy.

Health
4
Rady Children's Hospital Research Center

The institute seeks to: translate research findings into new clinical tests and treatments to improve patient outcomes, enhance the knowledge in this field among current and future healthcare providers, and generate and share data and…

Health
5
Children's Hospital At Mission

To nurture, advance, & protect the health and well-being of children.

Health
6
Children's Physicians

Children's physicians delivers the highest quality pediatric primary care while supporting education and research.

Health
7
Rady Children's Health Services San Diego

Rady children's health services san diego was formed to aid and assist rady children's hospital san diego in carrying out the hospital's exempt purpose.

8
The Association of Chrmc and University Physicians

Children's university medical group (cumg) is the non-profit pediatric group practice established to support the academic, research and clinical missions of its corporate members, university of washington school of medicine (uwsom) and…

Health
9
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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,…

Health
10
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
11
Rush Copley Medical Center

To improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.

Health
12
Valley Children's Healthcare

To support health care activities and programs for the benefit of, and to provide health care services to, children and adults in central california with diseases, disorders and other health problems of pediatric origin, and to enhance the…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Choc Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Lighthouse Christian Ministries. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 17 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

STUDENT ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION (SAFE) FOUNDATION — $6,500,000 · OtherSTUDENT ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION (SAFE) FOUN…CASCADE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY — $1,432,129 · OtherCASCADE CHRISTIAN ACADEMYSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $850,000 · OtherSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITALWENATCHEE VALLEY YMCA — $750,000 · OtherWENATCHEE VALLEY YMCA+7 more — $1,000,000 · Other+7 moreCHOC FOUNDATION — $8,250,000 · HealthCHOC FOUNDATIONCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF ORANGE COUNTY — $750,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF ORANGE COUNTY+1 more — $250,000 · HealthRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO — $950,000 · PhilanthropyWENATCHEE VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $750,000 · EducationLIGHTHOUSE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES — $20,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$10,532,129Health$9,250,000Philanthropy$950,000Education$750,000Food & Nutrition$20,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHOC FOUNDATION — $8,250,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO — $950,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF ORANGE COUNTY — $750,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWENATCHEE VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $750,000 over 2y, 36% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $250,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSeattle Children's Foundation — $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SAN DIEGO INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES — $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budget
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 CHOC FOUNDATION
  • Who funds RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF ORANGE COUNTY
  • Who funds WENATCHEE VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
  • Who funds Seattle Children's Foundation
  • Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SAN DIEGO INC
  • Who funds LIGHTHOUSE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES

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.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA9.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Foundation of Caring 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Foundation of Caring Fund?

    Find your warmest path to Foundation of Caring Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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