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Fueling the Climb Foundation

FUELING THE CLIMB FOUNDATION will make grants to established section501(c)(3)organizations who are working towards the betterment of ourcommunity and country

$195k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$65k
Largest
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01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Human Services$310kHealth$250kInternational$65kAnimals$65kYouth Development$60k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$65,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$17k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OPERATION WARM INC$65,000
RAGS 2 RICHES ANIMAL RESCUE INC$65,000
VETERANS MULTI-SERVICES CENTER INC$65,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PATHWAYS PA: $60k → 10%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.
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 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.

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Packages From Home

To send care and comfort packages to deployed american military heroes who are stationed in active duty theaters around the world, as well as to facilitate activities that elevate morale of all veterans

Philanthropy
2
Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Greater Washongton Dc Inc

Ronald mcdonald house charities of greater washington, dc (rmhcdc) provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.

Health
3
Troops First Foundation Incorporated

To develop, operate, and support a synergistic group of wellness, quality of life, and event-based initiatives in support of today's combat-wounded military personnel and their families, while facilitating a greater recognition and…

Public Benefit
4
It's About the Warriors Foundation

To assist and empower all post 9/11 veterans and their families from the tri-state area, regardless if they have been wounded or have been deployed, with our various programs thus, leading them to a successful and enriched life.

Public Benefit
5
The Heroes Project

To rehabilitate veterans of the u.s. military who were wounded in the line of duty, to advocate veteran rehabilitation and to educate the public on veteran rehabilitation.

Public Benefit
6
Warrior for Children

Engage in charitable and educational activitiesadvocating for at-risk and traumatized infants and children

Human Services
7
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Charlotte Inc

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Charlotte (RMHC of GC) provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare. Charlotte is recognized as a leading destination…

Human Services
8
Wayside House Inc

Our mission is to break the cycle of addiction and trauma for women, children, and families.

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9
Health Care Without Harm

The mission of health care without harm (hcwh) is to transform health care worldwide so that it reduces its environmental footprint, becomes a community anchor for sustainability and a leader in the global movement for environmental health…

Environment
10
Mary's Shelter

Believing in the value of every life, mary's path empowers vulnerable teen mothers in foster care and their babies to create lives of dignity, hope and self-sufficiency.

Human Services
11
Shield of Faith Missions

Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.

Religion
12
Wisconsin Hero Outdoors Inc

Wisconsin hero outdoors connects veterans, first responders and their families to integrated "nature based outdoor therapies". 2024 who expanded its program offerings to include beekeeping and apiary management.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pathways Pa Inc; the most unlike its peers is Operation Warm 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

12 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.

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

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

22KILL: $65,000 · Philanthropy22KILLTravis Manion Foundation: $60,000 · PhilanthropyTravis Manion Foun…Operation Warm Inc: $65,000 · Human ServicesOperation Warm IncPATHWAYS PA INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesPATHWAYS PA INCVeterans Multi-Service Center Inc: $65,000 · Public BenefitVeterans Multi-Ser…PENNSYLVANIA WOUNDED WARRIORS INC: $60,000 · Public BenefitPENNSYLVANIA WOUND…SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $65,000 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS…HEADSTRONG FOUNDATION: $60,000 · HealthHEADSTRONG FOUNDAT…RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER DELAWARE INC: $60,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HO…BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB OF CHESTER: $60,000 · OtherBOYS' & GIRLS' CLU…RAGS 2 RICHES ANIMAL RESCUE: $65,000 · AnimalsRAGS 2 RI…FAIR GIRLS INC: $65,000 · InternationalFAIR GIRL…
Philanthropy$125,000Human Services$125,000Public Benefit$125,000Health$125,000Other$120,000Animals$65,000International$65,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRAGS 2 RICHES ANIMAL RESCUE: $65,000 over 1y, 18% of budget22KILL: $65,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetOperation Warm Inc: $65,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVeterans Multi-Service Center Inc: $65,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $65,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAIR GIRLS INC: $65,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetPATHWAYS PA INC: $60,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetHEADSTRONG FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA WOUNDED WARRIORS INC: $60,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER DELAWARE INC: $60,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTravis Manion Foundation: $60,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB OF CHESTER: $60,000 over 1y, 8.3% 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.

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.

United Way of Greater…Wsfs Cares FoundationThe Philadelphia Foun…The Pfizer Foundation…Charities Aid Foundat…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Blackbaud Giving …Network for GoodThe Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New JerseyPA15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Wsfs Cares Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Fueling the Climb Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fueling the Climb Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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How do I get to Fueling the Climb Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Fueling the Climb Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 12 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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