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· Public charity

Friends of Recovery Cafe

Supporting Organization for the support and benefit of Recovery Cafe

$4.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
49
Grants FY2025still arriving
19
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$7.2MCommunity Improvement$1.3MHuman Services$295kCrime & Legal$207kPhilanthropy$158kEducation$150kReligion$50kHousing & Shelter$50kOther$0
02FY2025 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 49 grants below total $2,216,660, the rows itemized in this filing. The $4,159,809 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,943,149 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k22 grants · $779k
  • $50k–250k27 grants · $1.4M
$50,000
Median grant
19
States reached
$49M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$80,000
Recovery Cafe Skagit$80,000
Individual grant recipient$77,463
Individual grant recipient$50,000
Network Connect RC Dover$50,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
Cup of Purpose Recovery Cafe$50,000
Love From Afar RC$50,000
Project Trey RC$50,000
Recovery Cafe Clark County$50,000
Ray of Light RCLowell House$50,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
Recovery Cafe Las Vegas$50,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Minnesota Recovery Connection: $50k → 14%Recovery Cafe Columbus: $50k → 13%The Moore Wright Group: $35k → 18%Minnesota Recovery Connection: $44k → 14%Recovery Cafe San Jose: $50k → 8%Recovery Cafe San Jose: $50k → 8%Recovery Cafe San Jose: $10k → 8%Recovery Cafe San Jose: $10k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
OH
NJ
CA
CO
KY
WV
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
NC
DC
LA
AL
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.5M · 50 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +130% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
21

Total granted

$7.5M
$850k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+130%
0%

Still filing today

46%
19%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterEducationCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • WB
    WE BLOOM INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +461%
  • RC
    RECOVERY CAFE
    3× · 2017–2019 · $807k · revenue +254%
  • ER
    EVERETT RECOVERY CAFE
    8× · 2018–2025 · $275k · revenue +402%

Funded once

  • RL
    Reclaiming Livesgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $60k · revenue +165%
  • LH
    Lowell HouseRC Lowell
    one grant, 2020 · $55k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Recovery Communities of North Carolina Inc
Human Services
2
New Life Recovery Services
Health
3
Recovery Career Services

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…

Human Services
4
Mikes Place a non-profit recovery house
Health
5
Soul Solutions Recovery Center Inc

None

Health
6
Recovery St Louis
Health
7
Crossroads Recovery House
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8
Friends of Recovery Cafe

Supporting Organization for the support and benefit of Recovery Cafe

Health
9
Recovery Avenue
Health
10
XChange Recovery

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.

Housing & Shelter
11
Kansas Recovery Network
Health
12
The Olive Tree Sober Living
—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Recovery Cafe Skagit; 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.
04the grantee network

29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

8
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
19/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DOVE HOUSE ADVOCACY SERVICES: $207,175 · Other+72 more: $4,806,455 · Other+72 moreWE BLOOM INC: $1,055,000 · HealthWE BLOOM INCRECOVERY CAFE: $806,701 · HealthRECOVERY CAFEEVERETT RECOVERY CAFE: $275,086 · HealthEVERETT RECOVERY CAFERECOVERY CAFE ORTING VALLEY: $176,200 · HealthRECOVERY CAFE LEXINGTON INC: $172,500 · HealthRECOVERY CAFE LONGMONT: $170,000 · HealthHIP OF SPOKANE COUNTY DBA COMMUNITY MINDED ENTERPRISES: $162,222 · HealthRECOVERY CAFE DC: $120,000 · Health+5 more: $407,506 · Health+5 moreRecovery Cafe San Jose: $120,000 · Human ServicesRECOVERY CAFE SANTA CRUZ: $110,000 · Human ServicesReNew Recovery Cafe Inc: $100,000 · Human ServicesMinnesota Recovery Connection: $94,062 · Human ServicesRecovery Cafe Columbus Inc: $50,000 · Human ServicesMOORE WRIGHT GROUP: $35,000 · Human ServicesRECOVERY CAFE OF CLARK COUNTY: $275,000 · PhilanthropyKings and Priests Ministry: $157,894 · PhilanthropyRecovery Cafe Skagit: $150,000 · EducationBrighter Behavior Choices Inc: $67,500 · Housing & ShelterEMMA HOUSE INC: $50,000 · Community Improvement
Other$5,013,630Health$3,345,215Human Services$509,062Philanthropy$432,894Education$150,000Housing & Shelter$67,500Community Improvement$50,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWE BLOOM INC: $1,055,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetRECOVERY CAFE: $806,701 over 3y, 16% of budgetEVERETT RECOVERY CAFE: $275,086 over 8y, 13% of budgetRECOVERY CAFE OF CLARK COUNTY: $275,000 over 6y, 7.3% of budgetDOVE HOUSE ADVOCACY SERVICES: $207,175 over 7y, 5.5% of budgetRECOVERY CAFE ORTING VALLEY: $176,200 over 5y, 14% of budgetRECOVERY CAFE LEXINGTON INC: $172,500 over 4y, 58% of budgetRECOVERY CAFE LONGMONT: $170,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetHIP OF SPOKANE COUNTY DBA COMMUNITY MINDED ENTERPRISES: $162,222 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetKings and Priests Ministry: $157,894 over 3y, 30% of budgetTHE SOBER PLACE: $150,000 over 4y, 26% of budgetRecovery Cafe Skagit: $150,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetRECOVERY CAFE DC: $120,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetRecovery Cafe San Jose: $120,000 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetRECOVERY CAFE SANTA CRUZ: $110,000 over 3y, 39% of budgetTORCHLIGHT RECOVERY INC: $100,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetReNew Recovery Cafe Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetCup of Purpose Recovery Cafe: $100,000 over 2y, 87% of budgetRECOVERY CAFE MADISON INC: $100,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetLIFE ENRICHMENT CENTER: $96,231 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetMinnesota Recovery Connection: $94,062 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetBrighter Behavior Choices Inc: $67,500 over 2y, 13% of budgetReclaiming Lives: $60,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetLOWELL HOUSE INC: $59,976 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetEMMA HOUSE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 58% of budgetRECOVERY CAFE CAPE COD: $47,530 over 1y, 77% of budgetMOORE WRIGHT GROUP: $35,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 THE SOBER PLACE ↗
  • Who funds Recovery Cafe Skagit ↗
  • Who funds RECOVERY CAFE DC ↗
  • Who funds Recovery Cafe San Jose ↗
  • Who funds RECOVERY CAFE SANTA CRUZ ↗
  • Who funds TORCHLIGHT RECOVERY INC ↗
  • Who funds ReNew Recovery Cafe Inc ↗
  • Who funds Cup of Purpose Recovery Cafe ↗
  • Who funds RECOVERY CAFE MADISON INC ↗
  • Who funds LIFE ENRICHMENT CENTER ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Recovery CafeSeattle FoundationNetwork for GoodThe Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Recovery CafeWA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Friends of Recovery Cafe funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Friends of Recovery Cafe. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 38%
  • Reclaiming Lives: 47% of income from government
  • Torchlight Recovery Inc: 38% of income from government
  • ReNew Recovery Cafe Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 97 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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