· Private foundation
People Helping People U S A
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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k33 grants · $110k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $68k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SALVATION ARMY | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN LEGION | $20,000 |
| ST JUDES CHILDREN HOSPIAL | $18,000 |
| LOMA LINDA CHILDREN HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| SHRINERS CHILDREN HOSPITAL | $7,000 |
| PALM SPRINGS ANIMAL SHELTER | $6,500 |
| ANIMAL SAMARITANS | $5,000 |
| INDIO SENIOR CENTER | $5,000 |
| ELEANOR SENIOR CENTER | $5,000 |
| FOUNDATION AT PSUSD | $5,000 |
| F I N D | $5,000 |
| SHELTER FROM THE STORM | $5,000 |
| WALMART | $4,368 |
| C C BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $4,000 |
| GRASS ROOTS JR TENNIS | $4,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
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.
17 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $128k 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
SHELTER FROM THE STORM INC2× · 2023–2024 · $7k · revenue +16%- PSPALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM2× · 2023–2024 · $5k · revenue +32%
- MVMARTHA'S VILLAGE AND KITCHEN INC2× · 2023–2024 · $4k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $2k
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.
Humane treatment of animals
A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.
Animal shelter for the protection and care of abused and neglected animals.
Dedicated to saving philadelphias homeless and at-risk pets through rescue, adoption, and provision of veterinary care and other pet owner support services.
To support the short and long term welfare of domestic animals in need across the las vegas valley.
To provide shelter and counseling for victims of domestic violence in the Barstow area.
To provide housing and care for companion animals until adoption or other placement is secured.
The organization is interested in the promotion of animal health and the well being of animals, public health, the enactment of laws regulating the practice of veterinary medicine, and the control of diseases of animals.
Society for the prevention of cruelty to animals.
To make shelter dogs with medical needs more adoptable by providing the necessary medical funds.
Veterans serving veterans.
Giving refuge to non-releasable, rescued wildlife while providing conservation through exhibition and public education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Martha's Village and Kitchen Inc and the most unlike its peers is Palm Springs Art Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 38 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 OWEN COFFMAN AMERICAN LEGION POST 519 ↗
- Who funds SHELTER FROM THE STORM INC ↗
- Who funds PALM SPRINGS AIR MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Animal Samaritans ↗
- Who funds THE WELL IN THE DESERT INC ↗
- Who funds PALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VILLAGE AND KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds LOVING ALL ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds PALM SPRINGS POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCI ↗
- Who funds Cove Communities Senior Association DBA The Joslyn Center ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOGS OF THE DESERT ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA WOMEN FOR AGRICULTURE ↗
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: Charity Works · The Auen Foundation · The Coeta and Donald Barker Foundation · Bighorn Golf Club Charities Inc · Inland Empire Community Foundation · The Champions Volunteer Foundation · Houston Family Foundation · HN and Frances C Berger Foundation · Coachella Valley Wellness Foundation · The Galen Family Foundation · Desert Community Foundation · Anderson Childrens 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 People Helping People U S A 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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