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Grace Initiative Foundation Tree

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$500
Granted FY2020
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Grants FY2020
1
States reached
$500
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.

Philanthropy$4kEducation$3kHealth$2kEnvironment$296Human Services$229Animals$180International$113Arts & Culture$84Other$0
02FY2020 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$500
Median grant
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States reached
$3k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$500
02The need
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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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $180) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%KNOTS OF LOVE: $12 → 10%JONATHAN'S PLACE: $12 → 14%PROJECT LINUS: $12 → 8%TEAM COLE: $12 → 8%CHICK TECH: $12 → 12%PROJECT COMPASSION: $12 → 16%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $12 → 7%LEARNING ALLY: $12 → 11%END RAPE ON CAMPUS: $12 → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $12 → 14%ARM IN ARM: $12 → 11%GIRLS WITH SOLE: $12 → 17%SHOES THAT FIT: $12 → 14%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $12 → 17%MAG AMERICA: $12 → 14%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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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 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
Allosource

Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.

Health
2
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
3
Worldwide Vets Incorporated

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,…

Animals
4
Keralink International Inc

Keralink international works to end avoidable blindness by developing, delivering, and scaling affordable solutions for all, powered by innovative technology and partnerships.

Health
5
Animal Outlook Inc

Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.

Animals
6
Marin Humane Society

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.

Animals
7
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
8
Common Impact Inc

Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…

Unclassified
9
Animal Care Sanctuary

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…

Animals
10
Donor Alliance Inc

Donor Alliance saves and heals lives through organ and tissue donation. Donor Alliance is one of 55 Federally designated, non-profit organ procurement organizations serving Colorado and most of Wyoming. Additionally, it is a member of the…

Health
11
National Committee for Quality Assurance

Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.

Health
12
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Clean the World Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wilderwood Service Dogs 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyVeteran Support ServicesWildlife Rehabilitation Cen…Hospice Care ServicesAffordable Housing Developm…Lgbtq+ Community CentersLegal Aid & Immigration Ser…Government Accountability R…Senior Support ServicesDevelopmental Disabilities …Food Pantries & AssistanceIndependent K-8 SchoolsElementary Literacy TutoringChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Fallen First Responder Supp…Environmental Advocacy Orga…Classical Music EnsemblesCommunity Arts OrganizationsUrban Agriculture & Food Ac…Education Equity LeadershipDomestic Violence Crisis Se…Christian Missionary Organi…Cancer Support OrganizationsAnimal Rescue and AdoptionLand Conservation Organizat…Community Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%24%10–20yr16%44%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr16%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%3%10–20yr16%59%20–35yr13%34%35–55yr16%4%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/104
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,461

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.

04the grantee network

101 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. 101 of the 123 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)
29
Early backer (in before they grew)
93/101
Grantees still filing
73/101
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TAMPA BAY INC — $2,500 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TAMPA BAY INCMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION — $1,000 · PhilanthropyMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION+1 more — $12 · PhilanthropyMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $3,200 · EducationMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION IN…+6 more — $84 · EducationAKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $1,400 · OtherAKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL+66 more — $822 · Other+66 moreCLEVELAND BOTANICAL GARDEN — $200 · EnvironmentTHE WETLANDS INITIATIVE — $12 · EnvironmentNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $12 · EnvironmentBRING Recycling — $12 · EnvironmentAMERICAN FOREST FOUNDATION — $12 · EnvironmentThe Ocean Foundation — $12 · EnvironmentCANCER WELLNESS CENTER — $25 · HealthRape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) — $12 · HealthCONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION INC — $12 · HealthHEADSTRONG FOUNDATION — $12 · HealthActive Minds Inc — $12 · HealthTHE DREAM FACTORY INC — $12 · HealthCaringBridge — $12 · HealthAmerican Diabetes Association — $12 · HealthLEMONS OF LOVE INC — $12 · HealthRandom Acts of Flowers — $12 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $12 · HealthAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN — $12 · HealthANGELMAN SYNDROME FOUNDATION INC — $12 · HealthANXIETY AND DEPRESSION ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA — $12 · HealthCharity Navigator — $12 · Human ServicesPROJECT COMPASSION PROJECT COMPASSION NFP — $12 · Human ServicesARM IN ARM INC — $12 · Human ServicesChickTech — $12 · Human ServicesPROJECT LINUS — $12 · Human ServicesKnots of Love Inc — $12 · Human ServicesMAG AMERICA INC — $12 · Human ServicesPUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC — $12 · Human ServicesEND RAPE ON CAMPUS — $12 · Human ServicesSHOES THAT FIT — $12 · Human ServicesLearning Ally Inc — $12 · Human ServicesKID NET FOUNDATION JONATHANS PLACE — $12 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $12 · Human ServicesTEAM COLE — $12 · Human ServicesGirls With Sole — $12 · Human ServicesINTERNATIONAL WOLF CENTER — $12 · AnimalsCLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $12 · AnimalsAnimal Friends Inc — $12 · AnimalsTOLEDO HUMANE SOCIETY — $12 · AnimalsSANCTUARY FOR SENIOR DOGS — $12 · AnimalsNEW SPIRIT 4 AUSSIE RESCUE INC — $12 · AnimalsSpay-Neuter Assistance Program Inc — $12 · AnimalsAJS SEARCH & RESCUE — $12 · AnimalsOPERATION KINDNESS — $12 · AnimalsFARM SANCTUARY INC — $12 · AnimalsHARLEQUIN HAVEN GREAT DANE RESCUE — $12 · Animals
Philanthropy$3,512Education$3,284Other$2,222Environment$260Health$181Human Services$180Animals$132

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $3,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TAMPA BAY INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLEVELAND BOTANICAL GARDEN — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIVA MICROFUNDS — $29 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER WELLNESS CENTER — $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG — $24 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEACEPLAYERS INTERNATIONAL — $12 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAUGHTER SAVES LIVES FOUNDATION INC — $12 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWIND SOLAR ALLIANCE — $12 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILDERWOOD SERVICE DOGS INC — $12 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOLARIS PROJECT — $12 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) — $12 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL WOLF CENTER — $12 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WETLANDS INITIATIVE — $12 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $12 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCharity Navigator — $12 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAREERS THROUGH CULINARY ARTS PROGRAM DBA CULINARY CAREERS PROGRAM — $12 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION INC — $12 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASA OF ST LOUIS — $12 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED ANIMAL NATIONS DBA REDROVER — $12 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal Friends Inc — $12 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEADSTRONG FOUNDATION — $12 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOY OF MUSIC YOUTH MUSIC SCHOOL CORPORATION — $12 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetP2 HOLDING — $12 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $12 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT COMPASSION PROJECT COMPASSION NFP — $12 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChickTech — $12 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTOLEDO HUMANE SOCIETY — $12 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER — $12 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMID-ATLANTIC INNOCENCE PROJECT — $12 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpeak Your Silence Inc — $12 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD — $12 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRING Recycling — $12 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MALALA FUND — $12 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT LINUS — $12 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetActive Minds Inc — $12 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKnots of Love Inc — $12 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASCENCIA — $12 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DREAM FACTORY INC — $12 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INTERNATIONAL DARK-SKY ASSOCIATION INC — $12 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKHAN ACADEMY INC — $12 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetI KNOW I CAN — $12 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRESH FUTURE FARM INC — $12 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACUMEN FUND INC — $12 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY INC — $12 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFirehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation Inc — $12 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCaringBridge — $12 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.

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.

Jpmorgan Chase Founda…AbbVie FoundationCarmax FoundationThe Annenberg Foundat…The Robert Wood Johns…Shell USA Company Fou…Dominion Energy Chari…Baxter International …Silicon Valley Commun…Baker Hughes Foundati…The Pfizer Foundation…Gannett Foundation Inc
Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY17.2× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Carmax Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Baxter International Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Baker Hughes Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Gannett 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 Grace Initiative Foundation Tree 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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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Bring Recycling — 7% of income from government
  • Arm in Arm Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Learning Ally Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Clean the World Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
22report 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

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.

04Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Grace Initiative Foundation Tree?

Find your warmest path to Grace Initiative Foundation Tree 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 123 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines