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TeamUP 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GVNGORG | $5,500 |
| GARRETT HICKS MEMORIAL FUND | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL SOCIETY OF BLACK ENGINEERS | $3,000 |
| NOMI NETWORK | $3,000 |
| DEPARTMENT OF JOY | $2,500 |
| HOUSTON FOOD BANK | $1,900 |
| JOEYS PAW INC | $1,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL FLORIDA | $1,000 |
| SAN MARCOS YOUTH BASEBALL | $500 |
| SOLES4SOULS | $500 |
| MIDNIGHT MISSION | $500 |
| PERFECT HARMONY BOOSTER CLUB CO JOHN F KENNEDY HI | $150 |
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 (FY22–25, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 12% of TeamUP Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +61% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- GGVNGorg2× · 2022–2025 · $12k · revenue +53%
- TWTOGETHER WE RISE2× · 2022–2023 · $11k · revenue +61%
- YMYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LONG BEACH3× · 2022–2024 · $5k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- MIMILESTONES IN LEADERSHIP SUMMITone grant, 2022 · $25k
- CCCHRYSALIS CENTERone grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +4%
- BBBEAR BE A RESOURCE FOR CPS KIDSgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue +66%
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.
With love and respect, we partner with opportunity youth to build the skillsets and mindsets that lead to lifelong learning, livelihood, and leadership. youthbuild strives to create a world where all young people are seen for their…
Disrupt the cycle of poverty for single mothers and their children two generations at a time.
The mission of the Los Angeles Black Worker Center is to increase access to quality jobs, reduce employment discrimination, and improve industries that employ black workers through action and unionization.
Hack the Hood provides youth and communities of color with tech skill-building programs and career navigation support that are grounded in justice and ensure economic mobility.
Rod's house builds authentic connections with young people, supports them in feeling respected and secure in who they are, empowers them to reach their full potential, and positively connects them to the community. rod's house envisions an…
NextOp helps place talented enlisted service members and veterans into civilian careers through highly individualized preparation and an array of programming.
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…
Transition House is dedicated to the solution of family homelessness in the Santa Barbara community. Capable and motivated families with children are offered life tools and respectful, non-sectarian residential services designed to…
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
When adults have a second chance and are able to make a successful transition to employment and have ongoing access to further education to increase their economic opportunities, they improve not only their own lives but those of their…
To deliver innovative leadership development programs and creative solutions that identify, accelerate, and elevate underrepresented talent throughout their careers.
The organization collaborates to bring about systemic and community change to prevent the sexual exploitation of children and youth through raising awareness, education and policy development.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dress for Success Worldwide and the most unlike its peers is Eat and Read At Melbas Literacy Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 20 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 36 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 MILESTONES IN LEADERSHIP SUMMIT ↗
- Who funds INVESTORS PHILANTHROPIC ↗
- Who funds GVNGorg ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER WE RISE ↗
- Who funds CHRYSALIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds BEAR BE A RESOURCE FOR CPS KIDS ↗
- Who funds WALDORF IN NORTH COASTAL INC ↗
- Who funds Harbor Area Gang Alternatives Program ↗
- Who funds BLACK GIRLS CODE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LONG BEACH ↗
- Who funds GIVEDIRECTLY INC ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds National Society of Black Engineers ↗
- Who funds Project Row Houses ↗
- Who funds POINT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NOMI NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds DILLARD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Department of Joy ↗
- Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds EAT AND READ AT MELBAS LITERACY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds Constructing Hope Pre-Apprenticeship Program ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS WOMEN & CHILDREN'S SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds TIYYA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Joeys Paw Inc ↗
- Who funds SPONSOR INC ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds Brazoria County Dream Center Inc ↗
- Who funds SOLES4SOULS INC ↗
- Who funds SAN MARCOS YOUTH BASEBALL ↗
- Who funds THE BEACON OF DOWNTOWN HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds THE MIDNIGHT MISSION ↗
- Who funds PERFECT HARMONY BOOSTER CLUB ↗
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: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Shell USA Company Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 TeamUP Charitable 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.
- Constructing Hope Pre-Apprenticeship Program — 2% of income from government
- Sponsor Inc — 2% of income from government
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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