· Private foundation
The Cec 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $223k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FISHBOWL MINISTRIES | $100,000 |
| SHEEPFOLD | $38,187 |
| Individual grant recipient | $35,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| BRAIN | $25,000 |
| URBAN YOUTH WORKERS INST | $25,000 |
| ROOTED SOUL MINISTRIES | $20,000 |
| WAY OUT MINISTRIES | $15,000 |
| MERCY SHIPS | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 48% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
20 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- FMFISHBOWL MINISTRIES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $950k · revenue +43% · 52% of their budget
- HMHISPANIC MINISTRY CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $640k · revenue +24%
- TSTHE SHEEPFOLD INC9× · 2017–2025 · $284k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- HLHUME LAKE CHRISTIAN CAMPS INCone grant, 2020 · $50k
- MGMERRILL GARDENS - ASSISTED LIVINGone grant, 2022 · $20k
- JJ316one grant, 2017 · $20k
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.
Church ministering both locally and abroad to spread the word of god and jesus christ.
A ministry dedicated to helping men and women behind bars through discipleship and biblical education.
Ministry
Meeting physical & spiritual needs
Ministry that turns men from addiction to Jesus Christ by daily engaging them in spiritual, physical and financial guidance and goals
Religious ministry
Pastoral and ministry care and rest
To care for orphan, refugee and displaced children along with their caregivers and share the gospel with them so they know they are loved by jesus and become his disciples
To teach, preach, proclaim, publish, distribute and disseminate the gospel and doctrine of the christian faith. the ministry reaches approximately 1.5 million persons through its outreach ministries.
Share the word of god and to empower haitians by means of education and vocational means.
The mission is to advance the kingdom of god.
Religious missions
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hispanic Ministry Center and the most unlike its peers is Good News Ministry. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 32 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 FISHBOWL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC MINISTRY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE SHEEPFOLD INC ↗
- Who funds ROOTED SOULS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds The Way Out Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPE NOW FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD NEWS MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds PRECIOUS LAMB PRESCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds UGANDAN LAMBS ASSOCIATION USA ↗
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 · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Cec 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.