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The Cause Connection

Our core mission is to provide vital support to these small yet impactful charities, enabling them to dedicate more of their time and energy to pursuing their overarching missions.

$88k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
4
Grants FY2024
3
Organizations funded FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$27,119
Largest grant, FY2024
$27,119
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$170k
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Health$48kYouth Development$27kAnimals$22kFood & Nutrition$21kHuman Services$21kCivil Rights$12k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Cancer Schmancer$27,1191n/a
Girls on the Run of Los Angeles County$27,11917%
Foxy and the Hounds$21,77816%
Food on Foot$21,18911%
National Veterans Foundation Inc$21,18911%
Cancer Kinship$21,189117%
Hav A Sole$11,54411%

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.

American Online Giving Foundation IncDE6.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About The Cause Connection

How much does The Cause Connection give?
The Cause Connection reported 4 grants totaling $87,560 in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does The Cause Connection fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (32%), Youth Development (18%), Animals (14%).
Who are The Cause Connection's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2024: Cancer Schmancer ($27k), Girls on the Run of Los Angeles County ($27k), Foxy and the Hounds ($22k).
Which funders back the same organizations as The Cause Connection?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is The Cause Connection based?
The Cause Connection is based in CA.

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 7 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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