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Sinden Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Sinden Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$8k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$100kHousing & Shelter$98kHuman Services$20kEducation$9kCommunity Improvement$8kFood & Nutrition$8kAnimals$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,175
Median grant
1
States reached
$467k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ILLUMINATION FOUNDATION$2,900
Individual grant recipient$2,175
PATH SAN DIEGO$1,595
OC RESCUE MISSION$1,450
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 57% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $3k → 14%NEVADA HOMELESS ALLIANCE: $12k → 13%NEVADA HOMELESS ALLIANCE: $6k → 13%ILLUMINATION FOUNDATION: $13k → 10%ILLUMINATION FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $940 → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$120k · 7 repeat orgs$126k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +0% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
8

Total granted

$120k
$124k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+0%
0%

Still filing today

86%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyInternationalFood & NutritionAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AP
    ALPHA PROJECT FOR THE HOMELESS
    3× · 2022–2024 · $54k · revenue +49%
  • NH
    NEVADA HOMELESS ALLIANCE INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $18k · revenue +293%
  • IH
    Illumination Health Home formerly The Illumination Foundation
    2× · 2024–2025 · $16k · revenue +0%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FUND
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • PENCILS OF PROMISE INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2017 · $9k · revenue -75%
  • TS
    THREE SQUARE
    one grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue -60%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Interval House

The mission of the organization is to ensure safety and stability for people who are battered, abused, homeless or at risk; to create public awareness about the epidemic of violence; and to mobilize the community to prevent violence and…

Human Services
2
Shelter House Community Shelter and Transition Services

Through shelter and housing, advocacy and supportive services, our mission is to prevent and end homelessness in our community.

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3
Temporary Shelter Inc

The mission of Temporary Shelter, Inc. is to operate an emergency homeless shelter within the City of Tustin, California.

Housing & Shelter
4
Home for Homeless Women
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5
Christian Outreach Appeal dba Christian Outreach in Action

Christian Outreach in Action (COA) is a non-denominational non-profit organization whose mission is to transform the lives of homeless and impoverished individuals in Long Beach and surrounding areas so they may reach and sustain…

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6
Mercy House Living Centers

Mercy house's most significant exempt activities focus on ending homelessness and providing comprehensive housing and support services. the organization offers homeless prevention, rapid rehousing, permanent supportive housing, and…

Housing & Shelter
7
Oxnard Homeless Prevntion
Human Services
8
The San Francisco Particular Council of the Society of St Vincent De Paul

The mission of the st. vincent de paul society of san francisco (svdp-sf) is to offer hope and service on a direct person-to-person basis, working to break the cycles of homelessness and domestic violence.

Human Services
9
Las Vegas Rescue Mission

Through feeding the hungry, support, and care, we provide redemption, recovery, and re-entry to the homeless, addicted, and those in need.

Human Services
10
Abode Services

Abode services offers housing programs linked to supportive services for homeless families, single adults and youth. housing options include permanent supportive housing rental subsidy assistance, rapid rehousing and emergency shelter.…

Housing & Shelter
11
Hopeworks

To provide a place where homeless people could come and gain protection from the elements and provide for many other basic needs, such as meals, showers, clothing and health care. Also, to provide various services to homeless people such…

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12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Assistance Ministries; the most unlike its peers is A Pawsitive Approach. 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 grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 16 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FUND: $100,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FUNDALPHA PROJECT FOR THE HOMELESS: $54,082 · OtherALPHA PROJECT FOR THE HOMELESSPATH SAN DIEGO: $8,304 · Other+3 more: $4,575 · OtherNEVADA HOMELESS ALLIANCE INC: $18,144 · Human ServicesNEVADA HOMELESS A…Illumination Health Home formerly The Illumination Foundation: $16,319 · Human ServicesIllumination Heal…DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $2,700 · Human ServicesDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S …+1 more: $940 · Human ServicesFAMILY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $16,990 · PhilanthropyPENCILS OF PROMISE INCORPORATED: $9,000 · InternationalTHREE SQUARE: $7,500 · Food & NutritionFRIENDSHIP SHELTER INC: $3,360 · Housing & ShelterOrange County Rescue Mission Inc: $2,792 · Housing & ShelterA Pawsitive Approach: $1,000 · Animals
Other$166,961Human Services$38,103Philanthropy$16,990International$9,000Food & Nutrition$7,500Housing & Shelter$6,152Animals$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetALPHA PROJECT FOR THE HOMELESS: $54,082 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEVADA HOMELESS ALLIANCE INC: $18,144 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetFAMILY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $16,990 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIllumination Health Home formerly The Illumination Foundation: $16,319 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPENCILS OF PROMISE INCORPORATED: $9,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHREE SQUARE: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDSHIP SHELTER INC: $3,360 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOrange County Rescue Mission Inc: $2,792 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $2,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $940 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBread of Life Rescue Mission: $105 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Sempra FoundationAmerican Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…Natl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Sempra FoundationCA13× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sempra Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Sinden Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sinden Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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