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Cauze Charitable Fund
Facilitate giving to charitable causes focusing on creating individual accounts whereby employers and others can contribute to the selected causes of an individual.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 56 grants below total $762,623 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,346,453 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $583,830 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k30 grants · $186k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $310k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $267k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| REALIZE IMPACT | $75,500 |
| INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY ASSOCIATI | $68,313 |
| CATS IN THE CRADLE 50TH ANNIVERSAR | $65,218 |
| CLAREMONT MCKENNA COLLEGE | $58,126 |
| GLOBAL IMPACT | $29,554 |
| HOUSTON FOOD BANK | $21,504 |
| HOUSTON AREA URBAN LEAGUE INC | $20,103 |
| BROOKLINE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH | $17,375 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $16,580 |
| SANDY HOOK PROMISE | $15,720 |
| FERNANDO PULLUM COMMUNITY ARTS CNTR | $15,517 |
| KANDELIA | $15,488 |
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITA | $14,227 |
| SFMARIN FOOD BANK | $13,912 |
| FOUNDATION OF GOODNESS | $12,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $261k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 31% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +6% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 45 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, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $616k 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
SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2024 · $47k · revenue +20%
DIRECT RELIEF2× · 2022–2024 · $38k · revenue +8%- ELEDUCATE LANKA FOUNDATION INC2× · 2022–2024 · $24k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- JLJOHN LENNON EDUCATIONAL TOURone grant, 2022 · $51k
- RSRAINIER SCHOLARSgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +168%
- NUNOVA UKRAINEone grant, 2022 · $42k · revenue -45%
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.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.
The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…
For over 60 years, counterpart international has partnered with communities worldwide to turn local ideas into lasting solutions, connecting local vision with global opportunity. (continued on schedule o)we believe people closest to the…
See schedule o for a more detailed description of ide's mission statement and achievements.
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
Nuru is a global collective that enables inclusive and sustainable prosperity by identifying communities at the stability tipping point, strengthening rural livelihoods and market systems, and fostering stabilizing connections that repair…
To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.
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.
Our mission is to create a fair and inclusive economy where underserved people have quality financial choices and opportunities to improve their economic well-being. we find and help build innovative companies with the potential to reach…
The ONE Campaign ("ONE") continued its work to educate and raise awareness among the public, media and policymakers around the world about the importance of official development assistance and international programs that (Continued on…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of the Orphans D/B/a Nph-Usa and the most unlike its peers is Young Investors 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 26 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
74 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. 74 of the 106 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 IMPACTASSETSINC ↗
- Who funds Realize Impact ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Claremont McKenna College ↗
- Who funds RAINIER SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NOVA UKRAINE ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds Women's and Children's Alliance ↗
- Who funds KANDELIA ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Global Impact ↗
- Who funds FENCING IN THE PARK INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds EMPOWER SERENDIB ↗
- Who funds EDUCATE LANKA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMI TSUNAMI CHILDRENS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds United Help Ukraine Inc ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds Young Investors Society ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON AREA URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds RAZOM INC ↗
- Who funds BE GOOD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLINE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC DBA THE BROOKLINE CENTER ↗
- Who funds FERNANDO PULLUM COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds TECHNOLOGY ACCESS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds WATERORG ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA ↗
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: Gqg Partners Community Empowerment Foundation · Seattle Foundation · United Way of King County · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Medina Foundation · Credit Unions in the State of Washington · School's Out Washington · American Endowment Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Columbus Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gates 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 Cauze Charitable Fund 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.
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 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.
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