· Private foundation
Hometown America Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Myerstown First Aid Unit | $10,000 |
| Habitat for Humanity of Central NJ | $5,000 |
| Community Initiatives | $2,500 |
| IREM Sacramento Valley Foundation-RENEW | $2,500 |
| LovExtension | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| Make a Wish Foundation of America | $2,500 |
| Sacred Heart Community Service | $500 |
| Funny Farm Rescue & Sanctuary | $500 |
| Sierra Service Project | $500 |
| Making a Difference Foundation | $500 |
| Warrior Ranch Foundation | $500 |
| Spectracare Foundation | $500 |
| The Womens Center | $500 |
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 (FY18–24, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 83% 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 +73% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
- ISIREM Sacramento Valley Foundation-RENEW3× · 2022–2024 · $23k
- IIGNITE2× · 2018–2020 · $20k · revenue +73%
- LILOVEXTENSION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $5k · revenue -22%
Funded once
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INCone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -5%- SHSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INCone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +3%
- CFCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +26%
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.
For over 40 years food share has been feeding the hungry in ventura county. it all began when eight friends banded together to provide food to those in need under a bridge in ventura, ca. the early philanthropic movement started in a…
To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
To end hunger and transform the health of our community by providing nourishment to those in need by acquiring and distributing safe nutritious food via local agencies and by providing education to solve hunger and nutritional problems in…
Our mission is to alleviate hunger in the inland empire of southern california.
To feed people by soliciting and distributing food and other products through partner agencies and educating the community about the nature of and solutions to problems of hunger.
To provide comprehensive support services for individuals and families that are in need of everyday necessities due to insufficient financial resources or family instabilty. c.a.r.e.s. will offer food, clothing, job education and training…
Project angel food (the organization) improves health and fights food insecurity for critically ill individuals in los angeles county through its medically tailored meal program and nutrition counseling. for over 35 years, they have served…
Family supportive housing, inc. is committed to the entire family and encourages families to stay intact while addressing their needs for food, shelter, education, and employment. the organization provides shelter, housing opportunities…
A.farm share, inc. (the "organization") is a non-profit organization and was incorporated under the laws of the state of florida on july 8, 1992 as a 501c3 corporation that is tax-exempt under the provision of the internal revenue code.…
To distribute food to alleviate hunger, provide emergency food services during a natural disaster, and conduct educational awareness programs relating to hunger issues in monterey county.
The mission is to lead our community in the fight against hunger. the vision is that no one has to go hungry in our community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hands for Homeless Inc and the most unlike its peers is Spectracare Foundation. 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 21 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 63 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
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 IGNITE ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds MYERSTOWN FIRST AID UNIT ↗
- Who funds LOVEXTENSION INC ↗
- Who funds Long Island Cares Inc ↗
- Who funds Frank J Evans Charitable Foundation CO Gregory M Evans ↗
- Who funds IREM Sacramento Valley Foundation ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF LEWES & REHOBOTH INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT INC ↗
- Who funds MY WARRIOR'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds Lake Cares Inc ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY INITIATIVES ↗
- Who funds MANO A MANO FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds HANDS FOR HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds COALITION AGAINST RAPE & ABUSE 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: Aetna Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Hometown America 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.
- Redlands Christian Migrant Association Inc — 51% of income from government
- Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida 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.