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Fudge Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$173k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$119k
Largest
01What you fund
0186% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Health$1.0MEducation$493kInternational$71kHuman Services$37kPhilanthropy$33kEnvironment$29kHousing & Shelter$13kYouth Development$11kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $31k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $119k
$5,400
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$119,422
TIAS ARMS$11,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$10,000
SHERMAN LIBRARY$10,000
UCI FOUNDATION$5,400
HOPE HARBOR$5,000
CAL STATE FULLERTON$5,000
SADDLEBACK MEDICAL CENTER$5,000
PALADIN CONSERVANCY$2,000
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:

Your human-services grants (FY18–22, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SHARE OUR SELVES: $5k → 10%SHARE OURSELVES: $4k → 10%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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NH
WA
MT
IL
NY
NV
CA
UT

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.7M · 17 repeat orgs$59k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
19

Total granted

$1.7M
$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+88%

Still filing today

59%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
EducationHealthPhilanthropyEnvironmentRecreation & SportsArts & CultureOther

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

  • HH
    HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $989k · revenue +300%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $334k · revenue +51%
  • TA
    Tias Arms
    9× · 2017–2025 · $33k · revenue +284%

Funded once

  • BC
    Bowdoin Collegegraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +94%
  • HD
    Harbor Day Endowment Corporation
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -43%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $4k

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
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
2
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
3
Palo Alto University Inc

Advancing human understanding through education, research, and practice in behavioral science

Education
4
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
5
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
6
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

The mission of the institute has remained constant since its founding in 1953. as its restated articles of incorporation state the primary purpose and objective of the howard hughes medical institute shall be the promotion of human…

Health
7
Western University of Health Sciences

To produce, in a humanistic tradition, health care professionals and biomedical knowledge that will enhance and extend the quality of life in our communities.

8
Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd

Huntington Health stands for community. We stand for compassion. But more than anything, Huntington stands for health. Providing world-class health care is our specialty, and it's what we've been doing for the San Gabriel Valley since…

Health
9
The Seven Hills School

The institution provides educational instruction and activities to students ranging from preschool through 8th grade.

10
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

11
Edgewood Center for Children and Families

To be the place to begin for all bay area children, youth and families who need mental health, social services and academic support. edgewood is the premier provider of a full continuum of behavioral health services that transform the…

Health
12
Occidental College

See schedule othe mission of occidental college is to provide a gifted and diverse group of students with a total educational experience of the highest quality - one that prepares them for leadership in an increasingly complex,…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hoag Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The James Beard Foundation Inc. 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

18 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. 18 of the 38 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
14/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $988,539 · HealthHOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION+1 more — $2,000 · HealthUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION — $333,811 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNI…+3 more — $21,025 · Education+3 moreCAL STATE FULLERTON — $116,000 · OtherCAL STATE FULLERTONOPERATION OF HOPE — $71,000 · OtherOPERATION OF HOPEHOPE HARBOR — $27,000 · OtherHOPE HARBORSADDLEBACK MEDICAL CENTER — $16,500 · OtherSOMEONE CARES — $16,000 · OtherLaurel House Inc dba Hope Harbor — $12,000 · Other+22 more — $54,400 · Other+22 moreTias Arms — $33,350 · PhilanthropyENVIRONMENTAL NATURE CENTER — $29,000 · EnvironmentPALADIN CONSERVANCY INC — $11,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE SEA LIONS INC DBA PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER — $9,000 · Animals
Health$990,539Education$354,836Other$312,900Philanthropy$33,350Environment$29,000Arts & Culture$11,000Animals$9,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $988,539 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION — $333,811 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTias Arms — $33,350 over 9y, 4.5% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL NATURE CENTER — $29,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetHOPE HARBOR — $27,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetLaurel House Inc dba Hope Harbor — $12,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetPALADIN CONSERVANCY INC — $11,000 over 5y, 9.7% of budgetBowdoin College — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHarbor Day Endowment Corporation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE SEA LIONS INC DBA PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER — $9,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetShare Our Selves Corporation — $8,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN HELPING WOMEN — $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProject Hope Alliance — $1,025 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE ASSOCIATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSENECA FAMILY OF AGENCIES — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University — $150 over 1y, 0.0% 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 HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Tias Arms
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL NATURE CENTER
  • Who funds HOPE HARBOR
  • Who funds Laurel House Inc dba Hope Harbor
  • Who funds PALADIN CONSERVANCY INC
  • Who funds Bowdoin College
  • Who funds Harbor Day Endowment Corporation
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE SEA LIONS INC DBA PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER
  • Who funds Share Our Selves Corporation
  • Who funds WOMEN HELPING WOMEN
  • Who funds THE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION
  • Who funds Project Hope Alliance
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds SENECA FAMILY OF AGENCIES
  • Who funds Northwestern University

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.

Orange County Community FoundationCA19.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · Decorative Arts Society · Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian · O L Halsell Foundation · In-N-Out Burgers Foundation · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 Fudge Family Foundation 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.

    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 38 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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