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Random Acts Inc

To fund and inspire acts of kindness around the world, both big and small.

$255k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$51k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Health$567kInternational$313kPublic Safety & Disaster$308kHousing & Shelter$266kEducation$163kCommunity Improvement$150kFood & Nutrition$126kAnimals$50kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 6 grants below total $158,145 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $255,437 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $97,292 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 · FY2025

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $107k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
$20,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$989k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEWTON SAN JUAN DEL SUR SISTER CITY PROJECT INC$51,000
WHITE HORSE STEPSTONE$48,000
4THEVILLE$20,000
BLINKNOW FOUNDATION$19,145
COMICBOOKS FOR KIDS$10,000
WALLOWA RESOURCES$10,000
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 (FY17–25, $96k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 17% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CAMELOT COMMUNITY CARE INC: $6k → 12%BLINKNOW FOUNDATION: $19k → 4%BASTROP COUNTY WOMEN'S SHELTER: $10k → 12%BLINK NOW: $16k → 4%BLINK NOW: $15k → 4%BLINKNOW FOUNDATION: $10k → 4%BLINKNOW FOUNDATION: $10k → 4%BLINK NOW: $10k → 4%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.

Which US states your grants reach

AK
WA
IL
NY
MA
OR
NV
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
NC
DC
HI
OK
LA
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region — $50k on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 5 regions, $36k to organizations and $14k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Central America and the Caribbean$20k · 40% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: SUPPORT FOR CHILDREN'S CENTER

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$18k · 36% · 1 grant · 20 people

Stated purpose: COMIC BOOKS FOR CHILDREN IN UK HOSPITALS · ACTS OF KINDNESS

North America (Canada and Mexico)$10k · 21% · 1 grant · 4 people

Stated purpose: PROVIDED ESSENTIAL EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES TO 200 LOW-INCOME ELEMENTARY STUDENTS IN THE WOREDAS OF MAY-KINETAL AND HAWUZEN · ACTS OF KINDNESS

South America$1k · 2% · 2 people

Stated purpose: ACTS OF KINDNESS

Sub-Saharan Africa$465 · 1% · 1 person

Stated purpose: ACTS OF KINDNESS

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

53%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 6 repeat orgs$987k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +89% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
32

Total granted

$1.1M
$858k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+89%
+8%

Still filing today

100%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $129k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalArts & CultureEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesOther

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

  • LP
    LYDIA PLACE
    5× · 2018–2022 · $225k · revenue +89%
  • BF
    BLINKNOW FOUNDATION A NJ NONPROFIT
    6× · 2018–2025 · $80k · revenue +145%
  • CF
    COMICBOOKS FOR KIDS
    3× · 2023–2025 · $30k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • HISPANIC FEDERATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $150k · revenue +291%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $120k
  • RI
    READING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC
    one grant, 2022 · $76k · revenue +16%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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
Transition House

Transition House is dedicated to the solution of family homelessness in the Santa Barbara community. Capable and motivated families with children are offered life tools and respectful, non-sectarian residential services designed to…

Housing & Shelter
2
Homeless Prenatal Program Inc

Founded in 1989 to provide prenatal care for lowincome and homeless women, HPP has evolved into a dynamic family resource center with a holistic model that integrates a wide array of services to address the specific needs of each client…

Health
3
Neighborhood Place of Puna

Neighborhood place of puna (npp) is a child abuse and neglect prevention program. npp provides services to help families build a safe and nurturing home through outreach, home visits, informal counseling, information, referral, advocacy,…

Crime & Legal
4
Target Hunger Inc

The mission of Target Hunger is to alleviate hunger and its root causes in the Houston neighborhoods we serve. Target Hunger is on the front lines of hunger every day through its food distribution system that includes multiple food…

Human Services
5
Foundation for the Homeless Inc

Empowering families and individuals experiencing homelessness to build a future filled with dignity, opportunity, and lasting solutions.

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6
Diaspora Community Services Inc

diaspora community services is a social support service agency that empowers low income families and individuals to maximize their abilities to overcome obstacles to their well-being and self-sufficiency.

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7
Transition House Inc

Transition house is a human services agency dedicated to preventing and ending domestic violence. the agency provides a continuum of housing resources and holistic support for survivors of violence and their children, as well as prevention…

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8
Welcome Home Coalition

Welcome Home is a diverse coalition in the Portland metropolitan region that uses its collective resources to create healthy communities by ensuring everyone has an affordable and stable home. We use community education and collaboration…

Community Improvement
9
Crisis House

The mission of crisis house is to respond immediately to stop the cycle of domestic violence and homelessness and to connect families and individuals to crucial resources that empower them to renew their lives.

Human Services
10
Family Housing Network of Fort Collins Inc

Faith Family Hospitality's mission is to support families experiencing homelessness to achieve sustainable self-sufficiency in a timely and dignified manner. This interfaith volunteer effort coordinates the work of 30 diverse Fort Collins…

Human Services
11
Hamilton Families

Hamilton families' mission is to end family homelessness in the san francisco bay area.

Housing & Shelter
12
Horizons for Homeless Children

Hhc's mission is to improve the lives of homeless children and their families. hhc provides homeless children in massachusetts with the nurturing, stimulation and opportunities for early education and play that all children need to learn…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Greater Cleveland and the most unlike its peers is Reading Is Fundamental Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyElementary Literacy TutoringSouth Asian Cultural and Sp…Native Hawaiian Community D…Urban Agriculture & Food Ac…Lgbtq+ Community CentersEnvironmental Advocacy Orga…Legal Aid & Immigration Ser…Community FoundationsHomeless Services & ShelterAnimal Rescue and AdoptionDomestic Violence Crisis Se…Christian Missionary Organi…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr16%42%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr16%3%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%3%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr16%47%20–35yr13%37%35–55yr16%3%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/36
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,529

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.

04the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 43 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/36
Grantees still filing
21/36
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LYDIA PLACE — $225,000 · OtherLYDIA PLACEIndividual grant recipient — $119,830 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBASTROP COUNTY LONG TERM RECOVERY — $50,000 · OtherBASTROP COUNTY LONG TERM RECOVERYCity Slicker Farms — $35,000 · OtherWHITE HORSE STEPSTONE — $48,000 · OtherWHITE HORSE STEPSTONESPCA of Texas — $50,000 · OtherSPCA of TexasLYDIA'S PLACE INC — $25,000 · Other+17 more — $195,734 · Other+17 moreKRISTIN BROOKS HOPE CENTER — $407,600 · PhilanthropyKRISTIN BROOKS HOPE CEN…WHATCOM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $15,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $10,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $343,000 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATION …NEWTON SAN JUAN DEL SUR SISTER CITY PROJECT INC — $51,000 · InternationalNEWTON SAN JUAN DEL SU…HELIO FOUNDATION — $20,000 · International+1 more — $10,000 · InternationalHISPANIC FEDERATION INC — $150,000 · Community ImprovementHISPANIC …FOUNDATION FOR PUERTO RICO INC — $17,500 · Community ImprovementFOUNDATIO…READING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC — $76,265 · EducationCOUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT — $42,745 · EducationKnow Agenda Foundation — $15,000 · EducationThe Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute — $15,000 · EducationBLINKNOW FOUNDATION A NJ NONPROFIT — $79,645 · Human ServicesBASTROP COUNTY WOMEN'S SHELTER — $10,000 · Human ServicesCAMELOT COMMUNITY CARE INC — $5,900 · Human ServicesTEXAS DIAPER BANK — $50,000 · HealthCOMICBOOKS FOR KIDS — $30,000 · HealthFACE FORWARD INC DBA FACE FORWARD INTERNATIONAL — $10,000 · Health
Other$748,564Philanthropy$432,600International$424,000Community Improvement$167,500Education$149,010Human Services$95,545Health$90,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $343,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLYDIA PLACE — $225,000 over 5y, 7.0% of budgetHISPANIC FEDERATION INC — $150,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBLINKNOW FOUNDATION A NJ NONPROFIT — $79,645 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetREADING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC — $76,265 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNEWTON SAN JUAN DEL SUR SISTER CITY PROJECT INC — $51,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetSPCA of Texas — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTEXAS DIAPER BANK — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT — $42,745 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCity Slicker Farms — $35,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetCOMICBOOKS FOR KIDS — $30,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetLYDIA'S PLACE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetHORIZON HOUSE INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHELIO FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR PUERTO RICO INC — $17,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGARDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetKnow Agenda Foundation — $15,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetWHATCOM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute — $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES — $13,848 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHEROKEE ELDERS COUNCIL INC — $10,900 over 1y, 13% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER CLEVELAND — $10,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFACE FORWARD INC DBA FACE FORWARD INTERNATIONAL — $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetPOP CULTURE HERO COALITION — $10,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVOICES FOR FLORIDA KEYS CHILDREN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetPEMBA FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetHOME ENERGY EFFICIENCY TEAM INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetOut Youth Inc — $9,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCAMELOT COMMUNITY CARE INC — $5,900 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Enterprise Holdings F…Silicon Valley Commun…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…Paypal Charitable Giv…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Natl Christian Charit…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Enterprise Holdings FoundationMO10.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Random Acts 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wallowa Resources Inc — 100% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Camelot Community Care Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

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 43 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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