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The Foundation for a Second Chance

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1k
Granted FY2022
1
Grants FY2022
1
Organizations funded FY2022
0%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2022
$1,200
Largest grant, FY2022
$1,200
Organizations funded a year
1 to 7
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
1
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 0% of the organizations The Foundation for a Second Chance funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22
EducationPublic BenefitPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementHealthInternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20221$1k0%
FY20216$35k50%
FY20202$3k50%
FY20197$13k71%
FY20186$9k100%
FY20176$9kn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Animals$32kPublic Benefit$9kInternational$7kHuman Services$5kPhilanthropy$4kArts & Culture$4kEducation$3kRecreation & Sports$3kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
VA
MD
TN
MS
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 16 grantees

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($8k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Foundation for a Second Chance supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAgape Animal Rescue: $27,329 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetMarine Corps League Inc: $5,050 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRotary Club of Franklin Charities I: $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetUnited Service Organizations Inc: $4,275 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Press Photographers Foundation Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetSpecial Olympics Tennessee Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVietnam Veterans of America Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarine Toys for Tots Foundation: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe US Constitution Scholarship Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe George W Bush Foundation: $1,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBaptist Medical & Dental Mission International Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFirst Baptist Christian Academy: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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 IncDE4.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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How do I get to The Foundation for a Second Chance?

Find your warmest path to The Foundation for a Second Chance 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.

About The Foundation for a Second Chance

How much does The Foundation for a Second Chance give?
The Foundation for a Second Chance reported 1 grants totaling $1,200 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does The Foundation for a Second Chance fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Animals (46%), Public Benefit (12%), International (10%).
Who are The Foundation for a Second Chance's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: Agape Animal Rescue ($27k), Marine Corps League Inc ($5k), Rotary Club of Franklin Charities I ($5k).
Does The Foundation for a Second Chance fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Foundation for a Second Chance accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Foundation for a Second Chance?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is The Foundation for a Second Chance based?
The Foundation for a Second Chance is based in TN.

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 21 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2023) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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