· Public charity
Orange County Chapter Charities Inc
To provide charitable support for other nonprofit organizations
Read this first · the figures below need context
71% of Orange County Chapter Charities Inc’s FY2022 grant dollars went to Knights Of Columbus Charitable Fund Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year Orange County Chapter Charities Inc named its own grantees at scale: 10 organizations, $275k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $274,540 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $292,790 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $18,250 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 · FY2019
- Under $10k4 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $84k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $161k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OC-CAMP RECREATION | $160,670 |
| HOPE CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $39,200 |
| BACK BAY RIDING CLUB | $15,000 |
| MY DAY COUNTS | $10,000 |
| GOODWILL ATEC | $10,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS | $10,000 |
| L'ARCHE WAVECREST | $8,970 |
| WALK INTUIT | $8,200 |
| FISH FOR LIFE | $6,500 |
| LIFE COLLEGE | $6,000 |
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 (FY17–19, $481k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 1% 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.
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.
3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2019, 0 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call). Read against FY2019, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2022, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF ORANGE COUNTY INC3× · 2017–2019 · $466k · revenue +118%
- OCORANGE COUNTY ADULT ACHIEVEMENT CENTER DBA MY DAY COUNTS3× · 2019–2021 · $30k · revenue -16%
- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC2× · 2019–2022 · $28k · revenue -28%
Funded once
- HCHOPE CENTER FOR THE ARTSone grant, 2019 · $39k · revenue -13%
- DSDOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF ORANGE COUNTYgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $16k · revenue +81%
- TCTARAS CHANCEgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +172%
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.
To help people with developmental disabilities reach their highest potential and guide them through their special needs journey.
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We empower central texans with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families through compassionate case management and innovative programs.
The organization provides residential and vocation support to persons with developmental disabilities.
At l'arche portland people with and without developmental disabilities create home and build community together. we nurture long-term mutual relationships that reveal the gifts of people with developmental disabilities. in doing so we…
Maximizing the quality of life for adults with developmental disabilities in their home communities.
Independent living services for persons with disabilities.
Witco is a comprehensive rehabilitation program serving a broad spectrum of disability groups and offering vast array of services.
Advocates for the rights and participation of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. together with our network of members and affiliated chapters, we improve systems of support, connect families, inspire communication,…
The arc promotes and protects the human rights of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and actively supports their full inclusion and participation in the community throughout their lifetimes.
Improve disabled persons quality of life.
Empowering people with disabilities by providing services that promote independence, equality and intergration, enhancing their quality of life.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope Center for the Arts and the most unlike its peers is Back Bay Therapeutic Riding Club Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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.
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 CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF ORANGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITABLE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY ADULT ACHIEVEMENT CENTER DBA MY DAY COUNTS ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds TARAS CHANCE ↗
- Who funds BACK BAY THERAPEUTIC RIDING CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF ORANGE COUNTY CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds L-ARCHE WAVECREST ↗
- Who funds Walk Intuit Inc ↗
- Who funds FISH FOR LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE COLLEGE ↗
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: Orange County Community Foundation · Knights of Columbus Charitable Fund Inc · Frank Nigro Columbian Foundation Supporting People With Intellectual Disabi · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Orange County Chapter Charities 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.
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