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The Azek Cares Foundation at a glance

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The Azek Cares 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.

$972k
Granted FY2025still arriving
91
Grants FY2025still arriving
19
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$144kEnvironment$53kHuman Services$42kHealth$39kFood & Nutrition$36kCommunity Improvement$24kEducation$16kHousing & Shelter$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 91 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k62 grants · $159k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $404k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $410k
$5,000
Median grant
19
States reached
$535k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CRISTO REY$125,000
MAIN STREET WILMINGTON$125,000
ASHLAND SCHINE'S THEATRE$60,000
UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS OF NE PA$50,000
SCRANTON NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING$50,000
Individual grant recipient$35,000
ANNAPOLIS SUMMER GARDEN THEATRE$20,500
FRIENDS OF SKINNER WEST$20,000
ONE GOAL$20,000
A SENSE OF HOME$20,000
PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER$20,000
AMERICAS VETDOGS$20,000
REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL$20,000
PAWS FOR PATRICK$20,000
KEN DUKE & FRIENDS INC$20,000
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, $237k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CONTRACTORS FOR A CAUSE FOUNDATION: $200 → 10%ALEXANDRIA AREA YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $500 → 9%A SENSE OF HOME: $20k → 14%THE ARC OF THE ST JOHNS INC: $5k → 6%CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRY: $100 → 10%FAMILY PROMISE OF FORSYTH: $6k → 4%CONNECTABILITY: $5k → 12%ATLANTA MISSION - MY SISTERS HOUSE: $1k → 13%ASHLAND SCHINE'S THEATRE: $60k → 11%HONOR FLIGHT INC: $15k → 7%REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL: $20k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $5k → 10%ASHLAND SCHINES THEATER: $60k → 11%NOAS ARK INC: $1k → 12%ASHLAND SCHINES THEATRE INC: $30k → 11%ADOPT A SINGLE MOM PROJECT: $3k → 15%LIFTUP COMMUNITIES: $1k → 14%CHICAGO FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY FOUNDATION: $150 → 14%CONNECTIONS FR ABUSED WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN: $1k → 14%SHARE OUR SPARE: $500 → 14%CHICAGO FURNITURE BANK: $3k → 14%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

VT
ID
MT
MN
IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
RI
CA
MO
VA
MD
DE
TN
NC
SC
DC
MS
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.

40%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$561k · 27 repeat orgs$838k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +7% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

27 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 69 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
66

Total granted

$561k
$162k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
0%

Still filing today

85%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $676k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionInternationalPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther
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

  • MS
    MAIN STREET WILMINGTON
    2× · 2024–2025 · $142k · revenue +175% · 63% of their budget
  • UR
    URBAN RIVERS INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $13k · revenue +44%
  • 3C
    360 Communities
    2× · 2024–2025 · $12k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • WA
    WALKER ART CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +57%
  • HF
    HONOR FLIGHT INC
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue 0%
  • VO
    VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA OF ILLINOIS
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +17%
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
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
2
Allosource

Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.

Health
3
Aids Foundation of Chicago

The aids foundation of chicago mobilizes communities to create equity and justice for people living with and vulnerable to hiv and related chronic disease.

Health
4
Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis

Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.

Human Services
5
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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6
Robert a Toigo Foundation

Our mission is to shape the future of finance by developing leaders whose innovation, investment excellence, and human-centered leadership advance the industry and its adjacent sectors.

Education
7
Nourishing Hope

Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.

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8
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
9
Opportunity Partners

Mission: together we advance the quality of life for people with disabilities. vision: people of all abilities thrive in the world. values: impact- generate solutions that make a difference. choice - create opportunities for people to lead…

Employment
10
Behavior Analyst Certification Board Inc

We protect consumers of behavior analysis services by systematically establishing, promoting, and disseminating professional standards.

Employment
11
The Vermont Community Foundation

The vermont community foundation helps to build philanthropic resources to sustain healthy and vital vermont communities. the foundation connects and mobilizes people through giving to multiply the impact of philanthropy.

Philanthropy
12
American Water Works Association

To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Lebanon Pride Inc. 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

107 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. 107 of the 165 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)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
106/107
Grantees still filing
46/107
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MAIN STREET WILMINGTON: $141,500 · OtherMAIN STREET WILMINGTONCRISTO REY: $125,000 · OtherCRISTO REYIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNITED NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS OF NE PA: $50,000 · OtherUNITED NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS OF NE PA+110 more: $499,624 · Other+110 moreASHLAND SCHINES THEATER INC: $180,000 · Human ServicesASHLAND SCHINES THEAT…A SENSE OF HOME: $20,000 · Human ServicesA SENSE OF HOMEREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL: $20,000 · Human ServicesREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM …HONOR FLIGHT INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesHONOR FLIGHT INC+15 more: $31,994 · Human Services+15 moreONE TREE PLANTED INC: $31,873 · PhilanthropyKEN DUKE AND FRIENDS INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyTHE SKATEPARK PROJECT: $15,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF FAYETTE COUNTY: $5,000 · PhilanthropyBILLY ANDRADE-BRAD FAXON CHARITIES FOR CHILDREN INC: $5,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $2,284 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $25,779 · HealthPAWS FOR PATRICK: $20,000 · HealthWITHALL: $10,000 · HealthNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: $5,000 · HealthHAMPTON DESIGNER SHOWHOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Health+8 more: $7,426 · HealthSCRANTON NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES INC: $50,000 · Housing & ShelterCLINTON COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY: $15,000 · Food & NutritionGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $11,290 · Food & NutritionFOR EVERY CHILD INC PETROVIC: $5,000 · Food & Nutrition+4 more: $2,250 · Food & NutritionONEGOAL: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentWEST COOK COUNTY YOUTH CLUB: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBERNIE'S BOOK BANK: $2,500 · Youth Development
Other$866,124Human Services$266,994Philanthropy$79,157Health$73,205Housing & Shelter$50,000Food & Nutrition$33,540Youth Development$32,500

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 budgetASHLAND SCHINES THEATER INC: $180,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetMAIN STREET WILMINGTON: $141,500 over 2y, 63% of budgetSCRANTON NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetONE TREE PLANTED INC: $31,873 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $25,779 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetANNAPOLIS SUMMER GARDEN THEATRE: $21,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetONEGOAL: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKEN DUKE AND FRIENDS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFriends of Skinner - West: $20,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetPEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWALKER ART CENTER: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLINTON COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY: $15,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetHONOR FLIGHT INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN RIVERS INC: $13,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budget360 Communities: $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $11,290 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $10,124 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIDAHO BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWEST COOK COUNTY YOUTH CLUB: $10,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA OF ILLINOIS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBoca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBF Jones Memorial Library: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWITHALL: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSugartree Ministry Center Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCommunity Greening Corp: $7,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF FORSYTH COUNTY INC: $6,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,044 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S GOLF FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Arc of the St Johns Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBILLY ANDRADE-BRAD FAXON CHARITIES FOR CHILDREN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFOR EVERY CHILD INC PETROVIC: $5,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetARRIVE MINISTRIES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetConnectability Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetAmerican Legion 49 Wilmington Veterans: $5,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetADOPT A SINGLE MOM PROJECT: $3,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetNorth Georgia Interfaith Minis: $3,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetCHICAGO FURNITURE BANK: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBERNIE'S BOOK BANK: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEducation Foundation For Joint School District #2 Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROVISION INTERNATIONAL INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTRAUMA INTERVENTION PROGRAMS INC: $1,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCLINTON COUNTY FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOperation Second Chance Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 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.

Allone FoundationAllone CharitiesJohn D and Catherine …AbbVie FoundationThe Chicago Community…Chubb Charitable Foun…The Blackbaud Giving …Arthur J Gallagher Fo…United Way WorldwideJpmorgan Chase Founda…The Ayco Charitable F…Edward Jones Foundati…
Allone FoundationPA15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Allone Foundation · Allone Charities · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Edward Jones 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 The Azek Cares Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Azek Cares Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Community Greening Corp: 5% of income from government
  • Children's Golf Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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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How do I get to The Azek Cares Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Azek Cares Foundation 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 165 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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