· Public charity
Roosters Foundation of Orange County
The organization consists of professional individuals of diverse backgrounds in the orange county area of southern california, whose mission is to assist disadvantaged children within the community while creating fellowship.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $113k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP | $48,375 |
| STAND UP FOR KIDS | $11,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE | $11,000 |
| HOPE HARBOR | $11,000 |
| HOPE | $11,000 |
| SUMMER HARVEST | $11,000 |
| FRISTERS | $10,000 |
| FRIENDLY CENTER INC | $9,500 |
| ADVANCE ON TO COLLEGE | $8,500 |
| DEVIL PUPS | $8,500 |
| FISH FOR LIFE | $8,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $242k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 39% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 1 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k 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
- SHSUMMER HARVEST-FOOD FOR KIDS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $71k · revenue +127%
- FFristers8× · 2017–2024 · $66k · revenue +95%
- TPTHE PRIORITY CENTER ENDING THE GENERATIONAL CYCLE7× · 2017–2023 · $54k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- OUOC UNITED TOGETHERgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +72%
- LFLAGUNA FOOD PANTRYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +28%
- GIGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF ORANGE COUNTY CALIFORNIAone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +24%
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.
All children need a childhood. Allies for Every Child brings together and strengthens families, cultivating conditions for children to succeed in life. (Continues on Schedule O)
The mission of Cornerstone Connections is to connect and provide individuals and families with quality resources, services, trainings, and support that will foster them into leading viable lives.
We help children and families in southern california who are housing unstable and looking to build a community to sustain support in areas of food, essentials, and a pathway out of poverty.
The mission of Wayfinder Family Services is to ensure that children, youth and adults facing challenges always have a place to turn. Founded in 1953 as the Foundation for the Junior Blind, the organization initially enabled visually…
To provide emergency shelter, hospitality, and services to homeless families, helping to eliminate their homelessness and place each family in a home of their own in about two months.
Taking care of juvenile and counseling
To provide housing placement services, crisis intervention, parenting education, counseling, independent living skills, referral resources for health and social services, after school and homework assistance for youth in riverside county.
California parenting institute (cpi dba child parent institute) is a family resource center, serving families throughout sonoma county since 1978. our mission is to end child abuse and strengthen the health of children, parents, and…
We are a premier provider dedicated to healing children and young adults, strengthening families, and transforming communities through quality comprehensive services and advocacy. we envision a world in which children and young adults,…
To provide temporary shelter and assistance to homeless families, and also to provide rental assistance in an effort to prevent families from becoming homeless. Program goal is to assist the families in their efforts to become…
Friends of the children commits to standing alongside our community's youth as they work to overcome barriers to their success. each child receives 1:1 support and guidance from a salaried, professional mentor (called a friend), from…
Bayfront Youth & Family Services is a quality provider of behavioral and mental health treatment services for children, adolescents, and their caregivers. Our mission is to provide a comprehensive support system that promotes safe and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Priority Center Ending the Generational Cycle and the most unlike its peers is Pure Game. 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 29 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 33 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 FRIENDLY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SUMMER HARVEST-FOOD FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds Fristers ↗
- Who funds Laurel House Inc dba Hope Harbor ↗
- Who funds THE PRIORITY CENTER ENDING THE GENERATIONAL CYCLE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF KERN ↗
- Who funds FISH FOR LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT CUDDLE INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE IGNITES SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds Brackens Kitchen Inc ↗
- Who funds JOYA SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds CRIME SURVIVORS INC DBA CRIME SURVIVORS RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ADVANCE ↗
- Who funds StandUp for Kids ↗
- Who funds PARENTIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ROSIES GARAGE ↗
- Who funds HELPING OTHERS PREPARE FOR ETERNITY ↗
- Who funds THE FLOCK SOCCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DEVIL PUPS INC ↗
- Who funds California Youth Services ↗
- Who funds PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds PROJECT TOMORROW ↗
- Who funds OC UNITED TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds LAGUNA FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds Pasadena Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF ORANGE COUNTY CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds BEYOND BLINDNESS ↗
- Who funds THE JONATHAN FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES ↗
- Who funds Pure Game ↗
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 · O L Halsell Foundation · The Crean Foundation · The Devto Support Foundation · Sisters of St Joseph Healthcare Foundation · Decorative Arts Society · Carl E Wynn Foundation · Croul Family Foundation · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The Joe MacPherson Foundation Inc
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 Roosters Foundation of Orange County 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.
- Family Promise Inc — 2% 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.