· Private foundation
The Cruz Family Foundation Inc
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 $10k20 grants · $80k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MONMOUTH COUNTY | $55,000 |
| EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| HOPE PROGRAM INC | $10,000 |
| THE ISLAND SCHOOL INC | $10,000 |
| COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC | $10,000 |
| WEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE INC | $10,000 |
| STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| GREENPEACE FUND INC | $5,000 |
| BLAIR IN KENYA INC | $5,000 |
| ALZHEIMERS DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS NEW YORK CITY INC | $5,000 |
| HELPING HANDS NJ | $5,000 |
| COMMON GOOD ATLANTA INC | $5,000 |
| NEWNAN COWETA HUMANE SOCIETY INC | $5,000 |
| 15-10 FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FOUNDATION INC | $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 (FY17–25, $102k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 26% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 13 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k 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
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MONMOUTH COUNTY4× · 2020–2025 · $81k · revenue +53%- WSWESTOVER SCHOOL INC7× · 2017–2023 · $79k · revenue +43%
LUNCH BREAK INC6× · 2017–2023 · $77k · revenue +251%
Funded once
- TFTRUST FOR PUBLIC LANDone grant, 2017 · $50k
- THTHE HELP USA FUND INCone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -24%
- DSDC SCORESgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +26%
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide post-secondary education of excellence.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Health Care Center for the Homeless Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Renfrew Center Foundation. 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 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
87 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. 87 of the 108 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 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MONMOUTH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds WESTOVER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds LUNCH BREAK INC ↗
- Who funds The Rumson Country Day School ↗
- Who funds The Island School Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds 180 TURNING LIVES AROUND ↗
- Who funds WEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE ↗
- Who funds BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds BOCA GRANDE WOMAN'S CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds BLAIR ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE CALHOUN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE HELP USA FUND INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOPE PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JACK LANGERMAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds BLAIR IN KENYA INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP DUDLEY INC ↗
- Who funds DC SCORES ↗
- Who funds JOHANN FUST LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds FARRELL BOY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE SUNCOAST INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION STOPS ABUSE INC ↗
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: Chubb Charitable Foundation · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · Linda & Barry Allen Foundation · Van Beuren Charitable Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The William Stamps Farish Fund · Triad Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Akron Community Foundation · Henry L OBrien Foundation Inc · The Rig III Family Foundation · Sullivan Family Foundation 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 Cruz Family Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- 180 Turning Lives Around — 61% of income from government
- Health Care Center for the Homeless Inc — 34% of income from government
- Bridges Outreach Inc — 25% of income from government
- Community Action Stops Abuse Inc — 13% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Lunch Break Inc — 4% of income from government
- Grounds for Sculpture Inc — 1% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
- CROSSROADS4HOPE — 1% of income from government
- New Jersey Performing Arts Center Corporation — 0% of income from government
- The 11TH Hour Animal Rescue Inc T/a Eleventh Hour Animal Rescue — 0% of income from government
- Blair Academy — 0% 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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