· Public charity
Friends of Recovery Cafe
Supporting Organization for the support and benefit of Recovery Cafe
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 49 grants below total $2,216,660 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,159,809 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,943,149 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
- $10k–50k22 grants · $779k
- $50k–250k27 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Recovery Cafe Skagit | $80,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $80,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $77,463 |
| Network Connect RC Dover | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| Recovery Cafe Columbus | $50,000 |
| Recovery Cafe Clark County | $50,000 |
| Recovery Cafe Madison | $50,000 |
| Recovery Cafe Las Vegas | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| Cerenity Recovery Cafe Anders | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| Torchlight Recovery Cafe | $50,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $299k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 60% 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 +130% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
50 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 26 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, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M 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
- WBWE BLOOM INC4× · 2021–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +461%
- RCRECOVERY CAFE3× · 2017–2019 · $807k · revenue +254%
- EREVERETT RECOVERY CAFE8× · 2018–2025 · $275k · revenue +402%
Funded once
- RLReclaiming Livesgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $60k · revenue +165%
- LHLowell HouseRC Lowellone grant, 2020 · $55k
- EHEMMA HOUSE INCone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -54% · 58% 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.
Recovery Career Services exists to support individuals in recovery from substance use and those impacted by the criminal justice system in obtaining and maintaining employment. The organization provides career coaching, job readiness…
None
Supporting Organization for the support and benefit of Recovery Cafe
We exist to help facilitate a transformation that empowers men, women, and youth struggling with homelessness, addiction and mental health recovery to restore their lives and to serve as a recovery resource for our community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Recovery Cafe Skagit and the most unlike its peers is Project Trey. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 7 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 37% of your grantees by number, and just 19% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 97 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 WE BLOOM INC ↗
- Who funds RECOVERY CAFE ↗
- Who funds EVERETT RECOVERY CAFE ↗
- Who funds RECOVERY CAFE OF CLARK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds DOVE HOUSE ADVOCACY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds RECOVERY CAFE ORTING VALLEY ↗
- Who funds RECOVERY CAFE LEXINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds RECOVERY CAFE LONGMONT ↗
- Who funds HIP OF SPOKANE COUNTY DBA COMMUNITY MINDED ENTERPRISES ↗
- Who funds Kings and Priests Ministry ↗
- Who funds Recovery Cafe Skagit ↗
- Who funds THE SOBER PLACE ↗
- Who funds Recovery Cafe San Jose ↗
- Who funds RECOVERY CAFE DC ↗
- Who funds RECOVERY CAFE SANTA CRUZ ↗
- Who funds RECOVERY CAFE MADISON INC ↗
- Who funds Cup of Purpose Recovery Cafe ↗
- Who funds TORCHLIGHT RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds ReNew Recovery Cafe Inc ↗
- Who funds LIFE ENRICHMENT CENTER ↗
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: Recovery Cafe · Seattle Foundation · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable 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 Friends of Recovery Cafe 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.
- Reclaiming Lives — 47% of income from government
- Torchlight Recovery Inc — 38% of income from government
- ReNew Recovery Cafe Inc — 0% 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.