· Public charity
Stars and Stripes Children's Foundation
To improve the quality of life for children, youth and families in need through fundraising and educational efforts.
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 11 grants below total $2,533,128 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,608,200 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $75,072 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 $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $38k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $571k
- $250k+4 grants · $1.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $573,250 |
| MIRACLES FOR KIDS | $550,000 |
| ORANGEWOOD | $530,000 |
| SOUTH BAY COMMUNITY SERVICES | $263,238 |
| TILLY'S LIFE CENTER | $201,040 |
| MERGE OPPORTUNITIES | $106,000 |
| CHILENO BAY PROGRAM | $100,000 |
| YOUNG LIVES REDEEMED | $89,200 |
| CASA YOUTH SHELTER | $75,000 |
| CASA DE AMPARO | $38,148 |
| BIKES FOR KIDS | $7,252 |
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, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% 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.
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.
15 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 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; $181k 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
- OFORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2024 · $5.5M · revenue +83%
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ORANGE COUNTY AND THE INLAND EMPIRE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $5.5M · revenue +61%
MIRACLES FOR KIDS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $5.0M · revenue +200% · 28% of their budget
Funded once
- CECABO ENGLISH CHURCH INCone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -5%
- CBCHILENO BAY PROGRAMone grant, 2022 · $100k
CURE DUCHENNEone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -46%
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.
Help transform the lives of abandoned special needs and medically fragile children in baja california, mexico
We transform the lives of orphaned and migrant children in Baja California, Mexico by resourcing and strengthening exceptional programs that serve these young people.
Casa de esperanza strives to break the cycle of child abuse and neglect for at-risk infants, children and their families by providing comprehensive residential and family support programs that transform people and communities.
The Orphaned Starfish Foundation creates lasting change in the lives of orphans throughout Latin America and the world by helping them develop vocational skills. We believe enabling them with these skills allows them to permanently…
Care for orphaned, abandoned, malnourished and developmentally disabled children in guatemala, c.a.
Spread the gospel of jesus christ. mi casa was founded for the benefit of guatemalan children ensuring their development through education while providing a healthy and wholesome family environment.
Our mission is to provide our children and families with love, education and family based concurrent services. We feel honored to have served more than 20,176 children and youth during our 31 years of service.
To form leaders by providing emotional security; breaking cycles of violence, poverty, and abandonment; and developing gifts and talents to transform future generations.
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…
Promote, strengthen and advance programs that have a focus on health and wellness for children and youth in Baja California Sur.
Providing no-cost childcare to needy families in La Mision and Baja California, Mexico Allowing parents to leave their children in a safe place while they are at work Reducing the need for orphanages.
To support and invest in the communities of Mexico by providing bilingual education, nutrition, and extra-curricular activities for children in kindergarten through high school; jobs for local individuals; and community activities for…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chileno Bay Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cure Duchenne. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 24 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 ORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ORANGE COUNTY AND THE INLAND EMPIRE INC ↗
- Who funds MIRACLES FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds TILLY'S LIFE CENTER ↗
- Who funds SBCS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BUILDING BAJA'S FUTURE ↗
- Who funds SHELTER PROVIDERS OF ORANGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILENO BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIVES REDEEMED ↗
- Who funds Casa De Amparo ↗
- Who funds ABRIENDO CORAZONES-OPENING HEARTS ↗
- Who funds MERGE OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds CABO ENGLISH CHURCH INC ↗
- Who funds CURE DUCHENNE ↗
- Who funds INSPIRE MEXICO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CASA YOUTH SHELTER ↗
- Who funds HALO FOR FREEDOM WARRIOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Mission Plasticos ↗
- Who funds BIKES FOR KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EL DORADO FOUNDATION 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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · The Devto Support Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Stars and Stripes Children's 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 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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