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Medea Charitable Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$164k
Granted FY2023
8
Grants FY2023
4
States reached
$85k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20222023.

Youth Development$125kEducation$86kRecreation & Sports$25kPhilanthropy$5kCrime & Legal$4k
02FY2023 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k3 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $85k
$15,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$89k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NHL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION$85,000
GIRLS ON THE RUN OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE$20,000
GREATER LAS VEGAS INNER-CITY GAMES$15,000
MIRACLE LEAGUE OF LAS VEGAS$15,000
GREATER YOUTH SPORTS ASSOCIATION$10,000
CONTRA COSTA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION$9,878
BAYVIEW ASSOCIATION FOR YOUTH$5,142
ALIVE & FREE$4,402
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MIRACLE LEAGUE OF LAS VEGAS: $15k → 13%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.

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
So Cal Aces Baseball Club

Youth sports

Religion
2
Granada Little League #4055713

The objective of the local league shall be to implant firmly in the children of the community the ideals of good sportsmanship, honesty, loyalty, courage and respect for authority, so that they may be well adjusted, stronger and happier…

3
Albany Berkeley Girls Softball League

The Albany Berkeley Girls Softball League offers recreational and competitive fastpitch softball for players in kindergarten through 9th grade. We are a nonprofit, all-volunteer league focused on providing a positive athletic experience…

4
Norcal Mavericks Athletic Development

Norcal mavericks athletic development is a youth travel baseball and softball organization, designed to provide developmental and competitive baseball and softball experience for young athletes. nmad is dedicating to facilitating…

5
Gambrills Athletic Club Incorporated

To develop, direct and promote youth baseball and softball and to ensure optimal performance, safe competition and educational excellence.

Recreation & Sports
6
Nor Cal Batbusters

Nor Cal Batbusters promoted and provided the student athlete the opportunity to learn and play the game of softball. Resources were dedicated to developing and maintaining basic fundimental skills in players while emphasizing the value of…

Recreation & Sports
7
Novato Youth Soccer Association

Nysa is a non-profit volunteer-based youth sports organization dedicated to fostering a learning and love of the game of soccer.

Recreation & Sports
8
Alameda Girls Softball Association
Recreation & Sports
9
Ball Charter Schools (Val Vista)

Arizona ball charter schools provides a personalized education to all students emphasizing comprehensive academic excellence in a safe, nurturing environment through partnering parents, students and staff.

Education
10
Little League Baseball Inc 2322316 Gvll Greenwich Village Little League

To assist youth in developing the qualities of citizenship, discipline, teamwork and physical well-being.

11
Elite Sandlot Baseball
12
Girls on the Run of the Bay Area Inc

Girls on the Run of the Bay Area inspires youth to be joyful, healthy and confident using a fun, hands-on curriculum which creatively integrates outdoor exercises and running. We aim to ensure that every participant, no matter their…

Recreation & Sports

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Giants Community Fund and the most unlike its peers is Nhl Alumni Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
2/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NHL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION — $85,000 · Youth DevelopmentNHL ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONTHE BAYVIEW ASSOCIATION FOR YOUTH — $5,142 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BAYVIEW ASSOCIATION FOR YOUTHRANCHO ROMERO EDUCATION FUND SAN RAMON VALLEY EDUCATION FDTN — $75,810 · OtherRANCHO ROMERO EDUCATION FUND SAN RAMON …Greater Youth Sports Association — $10,000 · OtherGreater Youth Sports AssociationGIRLS ON THE RUN OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE — $20,000 · Recreation & SportsGIRLS ON THE RUN…GREATER LAS VEGAS INNER CITY GAMES — $15,000 · Recreation & SportsGREATER LAS VEGA…MIRACLE LEAGUE OF LAS VEGAS — $15,000 · Human ServicesCONTRA COSTA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION — $9,878 · EducationGIANTS COMMUNITY FUND — $5,000 · PhilanthropyAlive and Free — $4,402 · Crime & Legal
Youth Development$90,142Other$85,810Recreation & Sports$35,000Human Services$15,000Education$9,878Philanthropy$5,000Crime & Legal$4,402

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetRANCHO ROMERO EDUCATION FUND SAN RAMON VALLEY EDUCATION FDTN — $75,810 over 1y, 12% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE — $20,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetMIRACLE LEAGUE OF LAS VEGAS — $15,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetGREATER LAS VEGAS INNER CITY GAMES — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGreater Youth Sports Association — $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCONTRA COSTA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION — $9,878 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BAYVIEW ASSOCIATION FOR YOUTH — $5,142 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetGIANTS COMMUNITY FUND — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAlive and Free — $4,402 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC9.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Medea Charitable 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.

2023
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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

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    How do I get to Medea Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Medea Charitable Foundation 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 10 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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