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Give Back Foundation
To encourage more giving.
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 639 grants below total $40,120,283 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $43,707,348 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $3,587,065 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
- Under $10k357 grants · $2.5M
- $10k–50k228 grants · $4.3M
- $50k–250k30 grants · $3.5M
- $250k+24 grants · $30M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHC CREATING HEALTHIER COMMUNITIES | $6,384,949 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA | $3,873,964 |
| AMERICA'S BEST CHARITIES | $2,945,281 |
| AMERICA'S CHARITIES | $1,967,403 |
| GLOBAL IMPACT | $1,597,852 |
| HEALTH AND MEDICAL RESEARCH CHARITIES OF AMERICA | $1,563,859 |
| ANIMAL CHARITIES OF AMERICA | $1,320,206 |
| EARTHSHARE | $1,118,051 |
| CHC CREATING HEALTHIER COMMUNITIES LOCAL | $1,087,114 |
| MILITARY FAMILY AND VETERANS SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS OF AMERICA | $987,973 |
| CHRISTIAN CHARITIES USA | $911,907 |
| COMMUNITY FIRST - AMERICA'S CHARITIES | $896,993 |
| AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS | $881,957 |
| AMERICA'S BEST LOCAL CHARITIES | $703,600 |
| CONSERVE NOW(CONSERVATION AND PRESERVATION CHARITIES OF AMERICA) | $569,330 |
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 (FY17–25, $14.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% 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 +31% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
1084 repeat relationships — 568 still active in FY2025, 516 since wound down; 60 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $407k 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
- ACAMERICA'S CHARITIES8× · 2018–2025 · $18M · revenue +116%
- CCCHRISTIAN CHARITIES USA8× · 2018–2025 · $9.0M · revenue +18% · 95% of their budget
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches9× · 2017–2025 · $7.6M · revenue +46%
Funded once
- FHFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $295k · revenue +30%
SPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTH CAROLINA INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $81k · revenue +101%- ZCZION CHURCHone grant, 2018 · $81k
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.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
Founded in 2023, humane animal partners is a nonprofit no-kill animal care and adoption center. we are committed to providing for the needs of homeless and owned dogs and cats in our community. we make "friends for life" by connecting…
The washington humane society protects animals, supports families, and advocates for positive change to create a world where all animals can thrive. we enrich the humanity of our communities by promoting compassion and encouraging people…
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
Reduce the euthanasia rate of healthy and adoptable animals and improve the lives of companion animals by finding permanent homes for animals in need, providing support to communities who do not have access to humane organizations,…
The friends are dedicated to the rescue, protection, and adoption of companion animals in need while inspiring the human-animal bond. we meet our mission by:-saving 100% of healthy and treatable animals.-providing high-quality animal care…
Many seniors and veterans share their only meal of the day with their companion animals. we deliver pet food for these precious animals so they can remain at home or with their person and not have to be surrendered to shelters.
The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.
Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…
Empowering families and individuals experiencing homelessness to build a future filled with dignity, opportunity, and lasting solutions.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc and the most unlike its peers is Leashes End Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
1330 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. 1330 of the 1,436 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 CHC CREATING HEALTHIER COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAS BEST CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds Global Impact ↗
- Who funds AMERICA'S CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds HEALTH & MEDICAL RESEARCH CHARITIES OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL CHARITIES OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds MILITARY FAMILY AND VETERANS SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds EARTHSHARE ↗
- Who funds CHC CREATING HEALTHIER COMMUNITIES LOCAL ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FIRST - AMERICA'S CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN CHARITIES USA ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN SERVICE CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAS BEST LOCAL CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION & PRESERVATION CHARITIES OF AMERICA DBA CONSERVE NOW ↗
- Who funds MILITARY SUPPORT GROUPS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL RESEARCH CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds ALOHA UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds LOCAL ANIMAL CHARITIES OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN FIRST - AMERICA'S CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds HUMAN & CIVIL RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds LOCAL INDEPENDENT CHARITIES OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds CANCERCURE OF AMERICA- CARE UNDERSTAND RESEARCH & END ↗
- Who funds FONDOS UNIDOS DE PUERTO RICO INC & UNITED WAY PUERTO RICO ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS CHARITIES OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SHARES OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTH FIRST - AMERICA'S CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS MED RES CHARITIES OF AMER DBA CHILDRENS MED & RES CHAR OF AMER ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL WELFARE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAS MOST COST EFFECTIVE CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds EARTHSHARE CHAPTERS INC ↗
- Who funds RAPPAHANNOCK UNITED WAY 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: Federal Employees Support for Cfc Charitable Giving Incorporated · Campaigning for Charities · The United Way of the Greater Dayton Area · Global Impact · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · United Way of Kitsap County · United Way of South Hampton Roads · Rappahannock United Way Inc · United Way California Capital Region · America's Charities · United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc · The 3000 Club
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 Give Back 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Associated Catholic Charities Inc — 10% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Helping Up Mission Inc — 6% of income from government
- Habitat for Humanity of the Chesapeake Inc — 4% of income from government
- The United Way of Central Maryland Inc — 2% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor 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.
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