· Public charity
Kids Charities
To promote activities to generate monies for distribution to charitites for kids located primarily in the antelope valley.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VARIOUS CHILDRENS CHARITIES | $70,012 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% of your 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.
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.
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.
To promote healing of the whole person and a healthier community by providing care and services to empower children, individuals, and families to overcome life's difficulties.
To improve the health, social, educational, vocational and character development of boys and girls presiding in the West San Fernando Valley; to offer guidance to them for their continued development as productive members of society.
The Foundation is organized to encourage and administer gifts in support of the operation, growth, development and perpetuity of the Boys and Girls Club of Coachella Valley, its programs, facilities and activities
To increase access to medical care for children with serious illnesses and support their families.
To deliver life-changing programs that give Coachella Valley children a better future.
To operate a boys and girls club facility and after-school and summer camp programs for all area children regardless of ability to pay in the Five Cities area of San Luis Obispo County.
To provide HOPE to vulnerable children, youth, and families through life changing relationships and experiences.
A community youth center located in Palm Springs - with mission to enable and inspire young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.
To support Antelope Valley Medical Center and their health care programs.
We build relationships that enhance the development of skills, foster a sense of worth and enhance a belief in each child's individual potential.
To introduce abused children to the life changing and healing reality of Jesus Christ and equip them to lead meaningful and productive lives.
To engage in creative and innovate ways to raise funds, advocate for children and promote goodwill for Valley Children's Hospital.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is For the Children and the most unlike its peers is Grace Resource Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 15 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 FRIENDS OF THE ANTELOPE VALLEY FAIR ↗
- Who funds SADDLE UP THERAPEUTIC RIDING STABLE ↗
- Who funds Grace Resource Center Inc ↗
- Who funds FOR THE CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE JACOB HEFTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Care Net Pregnancy Center of Paradise Dayspring Crisis Pregnancy Center ↗
- Who funds ANTELOPE VALLEY GUILD OF CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES ↗
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.
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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 Kids Charities 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.
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