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Rubber Ducky Foundation

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.

$25k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$12k
Largest
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 FY20182024.

Health$43kArts & Culture$43kPhilanthropy$32kAnimals$7kHuman Services$7kFood & Nutrition$4kPublic Benefit$2kEducation$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
$2,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$16k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PACIFIC WRECKS$12,000
Operation Second Chance Inc$2,000
Cure Alzheimer's Fund$2,000
MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION$2,000
Children's Hospital of Los Angeles$2,000
National Headache Foundation$2,000
St Jude Children's Research Hospita$2,000
Friends of Seal Beach Animal Care C$1,000
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 (FY18–18, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%INTERVAL HOUSE: $1k → 10%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

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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.

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$121k · 9 repeat orgs$19k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
13

Total granted

$121k
$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+72%

Still filing today

44%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureReligionAnimalsPublic BenefitOther

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

  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    5× · 2019–2024 · $13k · revenue +85%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Los Angeles
    5× · 2018–2024 · $13k · revenue +27%
  • WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
    3× · 2019–2023 · $4k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • AL
    AMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $4k · revenue +72%
  • BC
    Ballard County Historical Society
    one grant, 2018 · $2k
  • KV
    Kentucky Veteran Patriot Museum
    one grant, 2018 · $2k

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.

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Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
2
Curesearch for Children's Cancer

Curesearch's mission is to fund & support targeted & innovative cancer research with measurable results, & to be the authoritative source of information & resources for all those affected by children's cancer. see schedule o for…

Health
3
Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation

The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…

4
Targeting Resistance in Cancer Cooperative
Health
5
Children's Hospital & Research Center At Oakland

The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.

Health
6
Brightfocus Foundation

Brightfocus foundation funds exceptional research worldwide to defeat alzheimer's disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma and provides expert information on these heartbreaking diseases. please refer to schedule o for a complete…

Health
7
Cancer Research and Biostatistics

To help conquer cancer and other diseases through the application of biostatistical principles and innovative data management methods.

Health
8
Lung Cancer Research Foundation

The mission of the lung cancer research foundation is to improve lung cancer outcomes by funding research for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure of lung cancer.

Health
9
Wipe Out Kids' Cancer Inc

Wipe out kids cancer offers comfort and hope to kids with cancer through support programs serving the entire family and funds innovative research leading to new discoveries and treatments in the fight against pediatric cancer. "support and…

10
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
11
Aerial Recovery

Aerial recovery's mission is to save lives and stop evil. through the creation and deployment of humanitarian special operators, aerial recovery brings together selected veterans, first responders, and mission-qualified civilians who,…

12
American Institute for Cancer Research

Aicr champions the latest and most authoritative scientific research from around the world on cancer prevention and survival through diet, weight and physical activity, so that we can help people make informed lifestyle choices to reduce…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pacific Wrecks Incorporated. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 25 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION — $16,000 · OtherMAKE A WISH FOUNDATIONCITY OF HOPE — $16,000 · OtherCITY OF HOPESt Jude Children's Research Hospita — $11,000 · OtherSt Jude Children's Research HospitaSHARE OUR STRENGTH — $4,000 · OtherSHARE OUR STRENGTHSEAL BEACH ANIMAL CARE — $3,500 · OtherSEAL BEACH ANIMAL CARE+12 more — $11,850 · Other+12 morePacific Wrecks Incorporated — $41,000 · Arts & CulturePacific Wrecks IncorporatedALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $13,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE R…Children's Hospital Los Angeles — $13,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital L…WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $3,500 · Human ServicesINTERVAL HOUSE — $1,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC — $3,500 · ReligionOperation Second Chance Inc — $2,000 · Public BenefitWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC — $500 · Animals
Other$62,350Arts & Culture$41,000Health$26,000Human Services$4,500Religion$3,500Public Benefit$2,000Animals$500

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 budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $13,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $13,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL HEADACHE FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOperation Second Chance Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TREVOR FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC — $500 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.

  • Who funds Pacific Wrecks Incorporated
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles
  • Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
  • Who funds AMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC
  • Who funds NATIONAL HEADACHE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Operation Second Chance Inc
  • Who funds INTERVAL HOUSE
  • Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS
  • Who funds THE TREVOR FOUNDATION
  • Who funds WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA3.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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 Rubber Ducky Foundation 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
202122232425
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 25 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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