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The Funding Passion and Love

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$210k
Granted FY2024still arriving
31
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0181% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$1.0MPublic Safety & Disaster$122kHousing & Shelter$113kReligion$90kAnimals$80kPhilanthropy$73kEducation$63kFood & Nutrition$62kOther$0
02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k26 grants · $65k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $45k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$2,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$833k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HAND TO HAND$100,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES$10,000
SOUTHWESTERN LAW FOUNDATION$10,000
URBAN SERVICES YMCA$10,000
UNITED JEWISH FEDERATION$6,000
Individual grant recipient$6,000
SAMBHALI US$5,000
MIDDLEAST CHILDRENS ALLIANCE$5,000
HOUSE THE HOMELESS$3,000
SUCCESS CENTER$3,000
FAMILY PROMISE$2,500
HOPALONG ANIMAL RESCUE$2,500
FAU FOUNDATION$2,500
ST MARY CENTER$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $923k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HAND TO HAND: $100k → 14%YMCA of Greater Houston: $1k → 16%Peace House: $1k → 5%AMERICAN INDIAN SERVICES: $3k → 8%HAND TO HAND: $100k → 14%AMERICAN INDIAN SERVICES: $3k → 8%HAND TO HAND: $100k → 14%AMERICAN INDIAN SERVICES: $3k → 8%HAND TO HAND: $100k → 14%HAND TO HAND: $95k → 14%HAND TO HAND: $60k → 14%HAND TO HAND: $60k → 14%URBAN SERVICES YMCA: $32k → 10%HAND TO HAND: $60k → 14%HOUSE THE HOMELESS: $5k → 10%URBAN SERVICES YMCA: $32k → 10%HOUSE THE HOMELESS: $3k → 10%URBAN SERVICES YMCA: $32k → 10%THE GIVING SPIRIT: $25k → 14%URBAN SERVICES YMCA: $32k → 10%THE GIVING SPIRIT: $10k → 14%URBAN SERVICES YMCA: $10k → 10%THE GIVING SPIRIT: $5k → 14%HOUSE THE HOMELESS: $3k → 10%URBAN SERVICES YMCA: $10k → 10%HOUSE THE HOMELESS: $3k → 10%ST JOSEPH CENTER: $2k → 14%ST JOSEPH CENTER: $2k → 14%HOUSE THE HOMELESS: $2k → 10%URBAN SERVICES YMCA: $10k → 10%ST JOSEPH CENTER: $2k → 14%URBAN SERVICES YMCA: $10k → 10%ST JOSEPH CENTER: $2k → 14%THERAPY PET PALS OF TEXAS: $1k → 10%The Inn Between: $3k → 8%INN BETWEEN: $2k → 8%CHILDREN AND THE EARTH: $1k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
NY
NV
WY
CA
UT
CO
MD
DC
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 68 repeat orgs$117k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +63% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

68 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2024, 40 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

68
51

Total granted

$2.0M
$114k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+21%

Still filing today

41%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesAnimalsHealthEducationFood & NutritionInternationalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO
    8× · 2017–2024 · $168k · revenue +40%
  • JF
    Jewish Family Service
    8× · 2017–2024 · $97k · revenue +219%
  • FA
    FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $31k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • CF
    COMMUNITY FUND OF UTAH
    one grant, 2017 · $9k
  • SK
    Shelter Kids Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue +2%
  • CA
    CONGREGATION AGUDAS ACHIM
    one grant, 2022 · $7k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Austin Street Center

The mission of austin street center is to provide emergency shelter and related services to the homeless. programs provide crisis intervention, substance abuse awareness information and opportunities to improve present life situations to…

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2
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
3
Humane Society of Southern Arizona

To compassionately serve pets and the people who love them.

Animals
4
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
5
Santa Barbara Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training…

Animals
6
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
7
Humane Society of Yuma

To reduce the number of homeless pets through adoption, rescue and spay and neuter programs.

Animals
8
Animal Humane Society

Animal Humane Society (AHS) established in 1878 and incorporated as a nonprofit charitable organization in 1891 works to engage the hearts, hands, and minds of the community to help animals. AHS's vision is to compassionately and…

Animals
9
Humane Society of San Antonio (Audit)

To protect and improve the lives of dogs and cats by providing shelter, care, adoption, rescue, spay & neuter programs and community education.

Animals
10
Arizona Humane Society

We save the most vulnerable animals and enrich the lives of pets and people.

Animals
11
Union Rescue Mission

Union rescue mission embraces people with the compassion of christ. we assist people experiencing homelessness by providing a comprehensive array of emergency and long-term services to our guests, including: food, shelter, clothing,…

Human Services
12
Mary's Shelter

Believing in the value of every life, mary's path empowers vulnerable teen mothers in foster care and their babies to create lives of dignity, hope and self-sufficiency.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Joseph Center; the most unlike its peers is Therapy Pet Pals of Texas. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

52 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 52 of the 123 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/52
Grantees still filing
37/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $154,497 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $107,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientJewish Family Service: $97,300 · OtherJewish Family ServiceAMERICAN RED CROSS: $80,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSSRED CROSS: $41,000 · OtherUNITED JEWISH FEDERATION: $40,100 · Other+84 more: $537,408 · Other+84 moreHAND TO HAND: $675,000 · Human ServicesHAND TO HANDYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO: $168,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISC…THE GIVING SPIRIT: $40,000 · Human Services+9 more: $56,000 · Human Services+9 moreSAMBHALI US INC: $25,000 · InternationalMIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $21,000 · International+1 more: $1,000 · InternationalAnimal Place: $22,000 · AnimalsWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC: $6,000 · AnimalsTHE SANTA BARBARA BIRD SANCTUARY: $4,000 · AnimalsTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF AUSTIN & TRAVIS COUNTY INC: $3,000 · AnimalsSEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $3,000 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF UTAH: $3,000 · AnimalsAUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC: $2,000 · AnimalsFLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $31,000 · EducationSTETSON UNIVERSITY INC: $2,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationAUSTIN RECOVERY INC: $8,500 · HealthSAINT FRANCIS FOUNDATION: $6,000 · HealthLIRIOS PEDIATRICS: $2,000 · HealthRonald McDonald House Global: $2,000 · HealthRonald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc: $1,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $1,000 · HealthFamily Promise - Salt Lake: $18,000 · Housing & ShelterSafe Parking LA: $2,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$1,057,305Human Services$939,000International$47,000Animals$43,000Education$34,000Health$20,500Housing & Shelter$20,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO: $168,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Family Service: $97,300 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetTHE GIVING SPIRIT: $40,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetFLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $31,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH FOOD BANK: $30,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSE THE HOMELESS INC: $29,500 over 8y, 13% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $27,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSAMBHALI US INC: $25,000 over 5y, 6.0% of budgetSAMARITAN HOUSE: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal Place: $22,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $21,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFamily Promise - Salt Lake: $18,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetStandUp for Kids: $17,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetST MARY'S CENTER: $17,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCANAL ALLIANCE: $13,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAUSTIN RECOVERY INC: $8,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL WILDERNESS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST JOSEPH CENTER: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Indian Services: $8,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOPALONG ANIMAL RESCUE: $7,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetForgotten Felines of Sonoma County: $7,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSAINT FRANCIS FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOpen Legal Services: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE INN BETWEEN: $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SANTA BARBARA BIRD SANCTUARY: $4,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF AUSTIN & TRAVIS COUNTY INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF UTAH: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTETSON UNIVERSITY INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIRIOS PEDIATRICS: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAustin Jazz Society: $2,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSafe Parking LA: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALLIES AGAINST SLAVERY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKEEP AUSTIN FED: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN AND THE EARTH INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY TEXAS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARITAS OF AUSTIN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAustin Rowing Club: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHERAPY PET PALS OF TEXAS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN INCORPORATED: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPeace House Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds HAND TO HAND ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
  • Who funds Jewish Family Service ↗
  • Who funds THE GIVING SPIRIT ↗
  • Who funds FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds HOUSE THE HOMELESS INC ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds SAMBHALI US INC ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds Animal Place ↗
  • Who funds MIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds Family Promise - Salt Lake ↗
  • Who funds StandUp for Kids ↗
  • Who funds ST MARY'S CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CANAL ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds AUSTIN RECOVERY INC ↗
  • Who funds Shelter Kids Inc ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL WILDERNESS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JOSEPH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds American Indian Services ↗

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.

Austin Community Foun…Larry H Miller and Ga…George S and Dolores …The Community Foundat…David Kelby Johnson M…Sorenson Legacy Found…Network for GoodThe San Francisco Fou…American Endowment Fo…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Silicon Valley Commun…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…
Austin Community Foundation IncTX16.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Austin Community Foundation Inc · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · David Kelby Johnson Memorial Foundation · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · Network for Good · The San Francisco Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Funding Passion and Love funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Funding Passion and Love. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Stetson University Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Funding Passion and Love?

Find your warmest path to The Funding Passion and Love 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.

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 123 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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