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Small Angels Foundation and Endowment

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.

$19k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$119kEducation$47kHealth$36kInternational$27kPhilanthropy$17kReligion$14kYouth Development$6kHousing & Shelter$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$281k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$3,445
Individual grant recipient$2,865
Individual grant recipient$2,417
HIGHER GROUNDS YOUTH FAMILY SERVICE$2,291
IPA FUTURE FUND$2,000
THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY$1,000
San Juan Capistrano Rotary$1,000
HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$1,000
FAMILY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES$1,000
ALL WE HAVE IS NOW FOUNDATION$1,000
THE MOVEMENT CHURCH$500
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 (FY20–22, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%OPERATION HELPING HANDS: $1k → 10%LAURA'S HOUSE: $2k → 10%ILLUMINATION FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%Human Options: $2k → 10%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
IA
CA
CO
NE
TN
OK
GA
TX
FL
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.

36%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$114k · 11 repeat orgs$203k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
71

Total granted

$114k
$187k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+49%

Still filing today

36%
21%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthAnimalsPhilanthropyPublic BenefitHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2022–2023 · $35k
  • PC
    PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND
    4× · 2017–2021 · $27k · revenue ×14
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2017–2018 · $20k

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • FJ
    FRANCISCO JAVIER TINOCO LOPEZ
    one grant, 2022 · $8k
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
Hospital De La Familia Foundation

Delivering life changing care in rural Guatemala through a regional eye center, general medical and surgical care, maternal health and child nutrition programs.

International
2
Health Care Without Harm

The mission of health care without harm (hcwh) is to transform health care worldwide so that it reduces its environmental footprint, becomes a community anchor for sustainability and a leader in the global movement for environmental health…

Environment
3
Ukrainian Refugee Foundation

URF is a 501(c)(30 nonprofit based in California. We receive funds through private donations and spend them on several programs, providing aid, rescue, and relief for Ukrainian war victims in the form of cash donations for food, shelter,…

Public Safety & Disaster
4
Futuro Infantil Hispano

Futuro Infantil Hispano is a non-profit Foster Family Agency devoted to providing quality care and we strongly believe in and support family reunification.

Unclassified
5
Habitat for Humanity of Orange County Inc

Habitat for humanity's mission is to give witness to the christian gospel by working with god's people to build decent habitats for those who are inadequately sheltered in orange county.

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6
A Family for Every Orphan

A FAMILY FOR EVERY ORPHAN'S mission is to create paths to help orphans and vulnerable children find care in safe and loving families in their home country.

International
7
Childrens House International

Children's house international provides ethical adoption services, child focused recruitment, and family support. we support disadvantaged children with humanitarian aid in countries worldwide.

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8
Afe Foundation

We are committed to identifying the cause, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of amniotic fluid embolism and bring our information and resources to healthcare providers and impacted families through our education and support programs.We…

Health
9
Shield of Faith Missions

Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.

Religion
10
International Federation for Family Health
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11
Abrazo Foster Family Agency

Our Mission is to take the lead in protecting children entrusted to our care or protection from further abuse and neglect by carefully selecting the most qualified and dedicated foster parents available to operate foster homes for the…

Human Services
12
Global Partners in Care

The organization's mission is to build partnerships to enhance compassionate care globally. we are dedicated to improving access to hospice and palliative care worldwide.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Project Hope Alliance; the most unlike its peers is Brutocao Family Foundation. 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

24 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. 24 of the 91 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
15/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $35,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · Other+71 more: $179,188 · Other+71 morePALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $27,000 · InternationalPALESTINE…SOCCER FOR HOPE: $7,000 · HealthNEW DIRECTIONS FOR WOMEN INC: $6,270 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 · HealthHOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1,000 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $1,000 · HealthTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $6,000 · PhilanthropyFAMILY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $4,126 · PhilanthropyIPA Future Fund: $2,000 · PhilanthropyIllumination Health Home formerly The Illumination Foundation: $2,500 · Human ServicesLAURA'S HOUSE: $2,163 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,070 · Human ServicesHuman Options Inc: $1,500 · Human ServicesOPERATION HELPING HANDS: $1,000 · Human ServicesHIGHER GROUND YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $2,291 · Youth DevelopmentProject Hope Alliance: $2,000 · Education
Other$254,188International$27,000Health$16,270Philanthropy$12,126Human Services$9,233Youth Development$2,291Education$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $27,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSOCCER FOR HOPE: $7,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetNEW DIRECTIONS FOR WOMEN INC: $6,270 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $4,126 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIllumination Health Home formerly The Illumination Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIGHER GROUND YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $2,291 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLAURA'S HOUSE: $2,163 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,070 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIPA Future Fund: $2,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetProject Hope Alliance: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHuman Options Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRUTOCAO FAMILY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION HELPING HANDS: $1,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetAngel Force USA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ELEPHANT FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY HOUSE LIVING CENTERS: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ORANGE COUNTY AND THE INLAND EMPIRE INC: $100 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.

  • Who funds PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND ↗
  • Who funds SOCCER FOR HOPE ↗
  • Who funds NEW DIRECTIONS FOR WOMEN INC ↗
  • Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds Illumination Health Home formerly The Illumination Foundation ↗
  • Who funds HIGHER GROUND YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗

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.

Orange County Community FoundationCA18.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · The Devto Support Foundation · O L Halsell Foundation · Orange County's United Way · Sisters of St Joseph Healthcare Foundation · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · Frome Family Foundation · Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc

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 Small Angels Foundation and Endowment funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Small Angels Foundation and Endowment. 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%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Small Angels Foundation and Endowment through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 91 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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