· Public charity
Somebody Cares America Inc
We at somebody cares believe in unity with a purpose to faciliate this, somebody cares america/international (sca/I) leads, equips, empowers and encourages the church to become a unified and tangible expression of christ to the world for lasting impact.
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.
The 7 grants below total $96,520 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $284,028 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $187,508 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $72k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CRISIS RESPONSE INTERNATIONAL | $28,200 |
| JASPER NEWTON LONG TERM RECOVERY | $18,000 |
| SOMEBODY CARES BALTIMORE | $15,000 |
| ALLY FORCE | $10,500 |
| MID WEST FOOD BANK | $9,100 |
| BLOOD AND FIRE MINISTRIES | $8,500 |
| INTERNATIONAL CHURCH OF THE FOUR | $7,220 |
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, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 66% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +33% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 11 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- CRCrisis Response International3× · 2018–2024 · $46k · revenue +506%
- SCSOMEBODY CARES BALTIMORE INC2× · 2017–2024 · $22k · revenue +171%
- MFMIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP2× · 2022–2024 · $17k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- RCROCK CITY CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $18k
- BSBAPTIST STATE CENVENTION OF NORTH CAROLINAone grant, 2018 · $15k
- HIHOPE INITIATIVE INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +222%
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.
We are a church, food bank, outreach that ministers the love of Jesus to our city and the surrounding cities by preaching and teaching the word of God every Sunday. We also minister to anyone with a food need weekly through our food bank.…
Helping Survivors of disasters. We provide assistance to return to the new normality.
Hope And Help Center. Hope by teaching the Bible, focusing on Jesus Christ. Help by working with community partners to provide services to our members and community residents.
National nbsp;disaster nbsp;assistance nbsp;serve nbsp;meals nbsp;provide nbsp;water nbsp;clean nbsp;up nbsp;assistance nbsp;furniture nbsp;clothing nbsp;and nbsp;bible nbsp;studies nbsp;repair nbsp;and nbsp;rebuild nbsp;churches nbsp;and…
Cody Hamm Ministries is an evangelistic ministry traveling the United States spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ. CHM also focuses on helping real-world needs by providing assistance in natural disasters feeding the poor and building…
mobile food pantry
Our mission is to provide help, healing and hope in the name of jesus christ.
volunteer religious
The rescue missions purpose is to provide food, housing , and transportation in emergency situations to local residents and transients, Those served are spiritually ministered.
Humanitarian donations food service ministry,building and repair ministry, and gas and fuel outreach
To come alongside our neighbors, meeting them wherever they are, by extending a helping hand and sharing the love of christ.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Mountain On Masters Road and the most unlike its peers is Somebody Cares Baltimore Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 24% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
14 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. 14 of the 45 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 Crisis Response International ↗
- Who funds SOMEBODY CARES BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds CHURCH ON FIRE CHRISTIAN CENTER ↗
- Who funds JASPER-NEWTON LONG TERM RECOVERY GROUP ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP ↗
- Who funds BAPTIST STATE CENVENTION OF NORTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds HOPE INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE DISASTER RECOVERY LLC ↗
- Who funds BETHEL MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY CHEFS INC ↗
- Who funds THE MOUNTAIN ON MASTERS ROAD ↗
- Who funds BUDDY HICKS MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN SHIPPING MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Free Indeed Community Works CDC ↗
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: Good360 · Operation Blessing International Relief and Development Corporation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Somebody Cares America 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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