· Private foundation
It Takes a Family Foundation Inc
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 76% of IT TAKES A FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k23 grants · $77k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $197k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $484k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TURNING POINT USA | $200,000 |
| PRAGER UNIVERSITY | $133,750 |
| PRAEGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| JF SHEA THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER | $40,900 |
| PACIFIC JUSTICE INSTITUTE | $35,000 |
| VINEYARD OUTREACH AMERICA | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| CALVARY SOUTH OC | $25,000 |
| CALIFORNIA FAMILY COUNCIL | $20,000 |
| COUNCIL FOR NATIONAL POLICY | $16,500 |
| INTERCESSORS FOR AMERICA | $10,000 |
| PRESTONWOOD CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $8,000 |
| COMMUNITY CHURCH BIG BEAR | $5,000 |
| THE CENTER FOR MEDICAL PROGRESS | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $639k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% 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 +63% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
52 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 11 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $190k 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
- TPTURNING POINT USA INC6× · 2019–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +304%
- FRFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL7× · 2017–2023 · $574k · revenue +63%
- LALIVE ACTION7× · 2018–2024 · $487k · revenue +429%
Funded once
- SFSEAN FEUCHTS MINISTRIESone grant, 2023 · $250k
- MVMILLION VOICES INCone grant, 2020 · $105k
- GMGive Me Libertyone grant, 2021 · $100k · 85% of their budget
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Olive Crest and the most unlike its peers is Unreported Story Society. 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 20 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
53 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. 53 of the 116 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 TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds LIVE ACTION ↗
- Who funds JF SHEA THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC FKA FRAN JOSWICK THERAP RIDING CTR INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA FAMILY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Give Me Liberty ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL FOR NATIONAL POLICY ↗
- Who funds Pacific Justice Institute ↗
- Who funds Unreported Story Society ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY SHERIFFS ADVISORY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds PROJECT VERITAS ↗
- Who funds CAMERON FAMILY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Cruisin For a Cure ↗
- Who funds CHILDHELP 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: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · Donors Trust Inc · Lindholm Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · California Community Foundation · Greater Horizons · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust
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 It Takes a Family Foundation Inc 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.
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.