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The Giggle Foundation at a glance

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The Giggle 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.

$70k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$124kEducation$50kInternational$42kHuman Services$16kPhilanthropy$10k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $5k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $65k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$676k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$25,000
PRATHAM USA$20,000
PHOENIX CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$10,000
BRITISH SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES FOUNDATION INC$10,000
HARMONY FAMILY SERVICES INC$1,250
JOSEPH THOMAS FOUNDATION$1,250
HOPE HOUSE$1,250
DYESS WE CARE TEAM$1,250
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.

US giving: 79% of grant dollars ($190k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 21% that went abroad ($52k) is mapped below.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $8k → 22%HARMONY FAMILY SERVICES INC: $1k → 22%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $5k → 22%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.

Beyond the US: 21% of all-years giving ($52k)

2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
India$40k · 2 grants
United Kingdom$12k · 2 grants
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$291k · 9 repeat orgs$20k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
4

Total granted

$291k
$15k

Still filing today

78%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementInternationalOther
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

  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    4× · 2017–2025 · $65k · revenue +145%
  • PU
    PRATHAM USA
    4× · 2017–2025 · $60k · revenue +20%
  • PC
    Phoenix Children's Hospital
    3× · 2017–2025 · $30k · revenue +98%

Funded once

  • TA
    THE ARNOLD FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • TC
    THE CHILDRENS RELIEF FUND
    one grant, 2019 · $2k
  • CD
    CORNERSTONE DAY CENTRE
    one grant, 2019 · $2k
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
Children's Hospital & Research Center At Oakland

The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.

Health
2
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
3
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
4
East Tennessee Children's Hospital Association Inc

East tennessee children's hospital is a free-standing, independent, not-for-profit pediatric health care system which serves the east tennessee region. children's hospital is certified by the state of tennessee as a comprehensive regional…

Health
5
Stc Healthcare Partners Llc

Website: https://towerhealth.org/locations/st-christophers-hospital- children stc opco, llc (st. christopher's hospital for children) provides a full range of high-quality healthcare services to all children and youth up to age 21 who seek…

Health
6
Beth Israel Hospital & Children's Hospital Medical Care Corporation

Pediatric healthcare, education & research

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7
Variety Children's Hospital

To inspire hope and promote lifelong health by providing the best care to every child.

Health
8
Dana-Farber Children's Hospital Cancer Care Inc

To oversee, coordinate and support the Pediatric Oncology Programs at Boston Children's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.

Health
9
Texas Children's Hospital

Texas children's hospital, headquartered in houston, texas, is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and…

Health
10
St Joseph's Health System Subordinate Group Return

We are committed to providing exceptional quality care which sustains and improves both individual and community health, with a special concern for those who are poor, vulnerable and underserved.

—
11
Rhode Island Hospital

As a founding hospital in the brown university health system, rih is committed to its mission: delivering health with care.

Health
12
Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled Children

To provide the highest quality care to improve the lives of children with orthopedic and related conditions and specific learning disabilities. texas scottish rite hospital for children focuses on patient care, research and education.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc; the most unlike its peers is Hope House Inc. 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

10 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. 10 of the 17 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $65,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCPhoenix Children's Hospital: $30,000 · HealthPhoenix Children's HospitalPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation: $20,000 · HealthPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation+1 more: $1,250 · HealthST JUDES CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $42,500 · OtherST JUDES CHILDRENS HOSPITALPRATHAM USA: $40,000 · OtherPRATHAM USATHE ARNOLD FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherTHE ARNOLD FOUNDATION+4 more: $6,710 · Other+4 morePRATHAM USA: $60,000 · PhilanthropyPRATHAM USABRITISH SCHOOLS & UNIVERSITIES FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · InternationalCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $12,500 · Human ServicesJOSEPH THOMAS FOUNDATION: $1,250 · Human ServicesHarmony Family Services: $1,250 · Human ServicesLIONS FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA INC: $1,000 · Community Improvement
Health$116,250Other$99,210Philanthropy$60,000International$20,000Human Services$15,000Community Improvement$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $65,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPRATHAM USA: $60,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRITISH SCHOOLS & UNIVERSITIES FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHarmony Family Services: $1,250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE HOUSE INC: $1,250 over 1y, 32% of budgetLIONS FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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 Giggle Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Giggle Foundation 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 17 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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