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Fred Says
FRED SAYS RAISES CONTRIBUTIONS THROUGH E-CARDS AND SPONSORSHIPS TO SUPPORT HIV+ YOUTH THROUGH DONATIONS TO PHYSICIANS EVALUATED HIV INITIATIVES.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAGIC CITY ACCEPTANCE ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| CENTER ON HALSTED | $20,000 |
| GENDERCOOL | $16,600 |
| ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH | $10,000 |
| TEST POSITIVE AWARE NETWORK | $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 (FY23–25, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 80% 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.
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 +28% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- MCMagic City Acceptance Academy Charter Sc3× · 2023–2025 · $70k · revenue +75%
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2023 · $43k · revenue +70%
- HRHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC2× · 2023–2024 · $41k · revenue +0%
Funded once
- TNTPA NETWORK INCORPORATEDone grant, 2023 · $70k · revenue -32%
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicagoone grant, 2023 · $60k · revenue +4%- HBHoward Brown Health Centerone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +7%
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.
EMPOWERING LGBT PEOPLE, BUILDING STRONG COMMUNITY. NEW YORK CITY'S LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, & TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER EMPOWERS PEOPLE TO LEAD HEALTHY, SUCCESSFUL LIVES. The Center celebrates our community and advocates for justice and…
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,…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
The center for comprehensive health practice, inc. provides accessible, community-based treatment that integrates primary healthcare with substance use and behavioral health services for all children, adolescents, adults, and families…
Provides housing and support services to individuals and families impacted by hiv/aids
The mission of legacy community health services is, "driving healthy change in our communities." our vision is, "connecting our communities to health every day, in every way."
The mission of mazzoni center is to "provide quality comprehensive health and wellness services in an lgbtq-focused environment, while preserving the dignity and improving the quality of life of the individuals we serve."
Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…
Apla health restores dignity and trust within underserved communities by providing world-class lgbtq+ empowering healthcare, hiv specialty care, food, housing and other essential support services.
To work for equitable health care access and outcomes for people who experience injustice at the intersection of health status and identity.
Legal Council for Health Justice uses the power of law to secure dignity, opportunity, and well-being for people living with illness or disability. All programs combine direct service, public policy, and education/outreach.
Health center with comprehensive community-based medical, behavioral, dental and various navigation, outreach, engagement and education supports for underserved communities and specific expertise in lgbtq and hiv care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center on Halsted and the most unlike its peers is One Roof Inc. 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 19 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 TPA NETWORK INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Magic City Acceptance Academy Charter Sc ↗
- Who funds Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds Howard Brown Health Center ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC ↗
- Who funds Center on Halsted ↗
- Who funds Birmingham AIDS Outreach Inc ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER ↗
- Who funds YOUTH OUTLOOK ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds ONE ROOF 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: Broadway Caresequity Fights AIDS Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Fred Says 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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