· Private foundation
The Caritas Fund
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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $173k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SEASIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL | $45,000 |
| CHRISTCHURCH | $35,000 |
| CENTRAL ALABAMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATIO | $15,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $15,000 |
| NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM | $12,000 |
| MONTGOMERY AREA FOOD BANK | $11,000 |
| LAKE TOXAWAY CHARITIES | $10,000 |
| ALL SAINTS EPISCOPICAL CHURCH | $10,000 |
| INTOWN CARES | $10,000 |
| RESPITE FOR ALL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| YMCA OF MONTGOMERY | $5,007 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE RIVER REG | $5,000 |
| ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDENS | $5,000 |
| FAMILY SUNSHINE CENTER | $5,000 |
| HIGH MUSEUM OF ART | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $154k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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.
46 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 1 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- LTLAKE TOXAWAY CHARITIES6× · 2020–2025 · $90k · revenue +121%
- HOHEART OF ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC7× · 2019–2025 · $80k · revenue +48%
- RFRESPITE FOR ALL FOUNDATION4× · 2022–2025 · $35k · revenue +225%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST FLone grant, 2018 · $25k
- TFTHOMAS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $25k
- CACENTRAL ALABAMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATIOone grant, 2020 · $15k
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.
To promote the preservation and continued development of commercial banking in alabama.
The mission of the atlanta community food bank is to engage, educate and empower our community to fight hunger. our bold goal is to see that all people in our service area have access to the nutritious meals they need when they need them.
The woman's missionary union foundation was organized for the purpose of motivating and facilitating the making of gifts, donations, and benefactions for the advancement, promotion and maintenance of woman's missionary union and the…
Advancement and dissemination of knowledge concerning the water works industry.
Alabama Rivers Alliance is a statewide network of groups working to protect and restore all of Alabama's water resources through building partnerships, empowering citizens, and advocating for sound water policy and its enforcement.
To provide supportive services, educational services, and assistance to cancer patients throughout central alabama, including those patients who lack the resources
To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.
The mission of friends is to partner with, promote and preserve georgia state parks & historic sites. statewide, friends works to raise awareness of the economic and intrinsic values of georgia's greatest treasures. we work with state and…
To provide quality healthcare and related services to all communities, including the underserved and homeless persons, regardless of language, culture, or financial barriers
To be the fundraising arm for the georgia aquarium, inc., to hold financial and other investments for the benefit of the georgia aquarium, inc., and to make distributions/grants/loans to and for the benefit of the georgia aquarium, inc.…
The alabama alliance netowrk works to strengthen and enhance alabama's civic society through research, education, and grantmaking
Fernbank museum of natural history inspires a lifelong learning of natural history through immersive programming and unmatched experiences to encourage a greater appreciation of our planet and its inhabitants. fernbank is dedicated to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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 36 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
43 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. 43 of the 75 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 LAKE TOXAWAY CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds HEART OF ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL ALABAMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RESPITE FOR ALL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds RIVER REGION UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION OF NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SACRED HEART FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Wilderness Works ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ALABAMA ARCHIVES ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL OUTREACH MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STUDIO BY THE TRACKS INC ↗
- Who funds BIRMINGHAM JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds Highlands Biological Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds INTOWN COLLABORATIVE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds WOODSON CENTER ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY AREA COUNCIL ON AGING ↗
- Who funds THE ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE MCCALLIE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY AREA NON-TRADITIONAL EQUESTRI ↗
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: Viro Fund · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Arthur M Britton Foundation Inc · The S Adam Schloss Foundation Inc · The Landa Fund · Kiwanis Club of Montgomery Foundation Inc · John and Joyce Caddell Foundation · Gordy-Mead-Britton Foundation · Loeb Family Foundation Inc · The Alys Foundationinc · Alfa Foundation · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta 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 The Caritas Fund 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.