· Private foundation
The I3 Cares 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k42 grants · $84k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $72k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MISCELLANEOUS MINISTRIES | $71,933 |
| HUNTSVILLE HOSPITAL | $14,533 |
| US SPACE AND ROCKET CENTER FDN | $8,000 |
| HUDSON ALPHA FOUNDATION | $6,725 |
| STILL SERVING VETERANS | $4,000 |
| TRAVIS MANION FOUNDATION | $3,908 |
| NORTH ALABAMA FOSTER CLOSET | $3,180 |
| HEALS INC | $3,000 |
| 305 8TH STREET | $2,758 |
| THE RILEY CENTER | $2,600 |
| KIDS TO LOVE | $2,500 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
| WEDC FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| FRIENDS OF RESCUE | $2,020 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE RIVER V | $2,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $84k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +21% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
71 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 7 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- ESEIGHTH STREET COMMUNITY8× · 2018–2025 · $50k · revenue +90%
- LVLINCOLN VILLAGE PRESERVATION CORPORATION5× · 2018–2022 · $25k · revenue +86%
- SSSTILL SERVING VETERANS5× · 2020–2025 · $18k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $76k
- MCMADISON COUNTY VETERAN'S MEMORIAL Fone grant, 2020 · $21k
- TBTHE BOOT CAMPAIGN INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $7k · revenue +36%
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 organization's mission is to transform the lives of veterans by helping them save an at risk shelter dog or cat, and to end all animal homelessness in the us and enrich the lives of men and women who serve, and have served our country.…
Saving southern kitties mission is to save cats and kittens from high kill animal controls, house them in team foster homes, provide quality veterinary care and adopt them into forever homes.
To compassionately serve pets and the people who love them.
The mission of the humane society is to save and enhance the lives of pets through cooperative and innovative approaches to adoption, spay/neuter, sheltering and community engagement.
To champion public awareness of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and challenges confronting our countrys heroes and rally support for shelter animal adoption by connecting heroes and companions.
The Organizations mission is to save the lives of adoptable dogs and cats from shelters throughout Texas, to decrease overpopulation of animals through low-cost veterinary services, and to enhance the lives of pets through educational…
Pets for Vets enriches the lives of veterans by creating a life-changing Super Bond with expertly selected and trained shelter or rescue pets. It provides ongoing expert support to ensure a reciprocal and thriving partnership at no cost to…
The humane society of manatee county leads the community in fostering compassion and respect for animals through quality care, education, and advocacy to improve the lives of animals and strengthen the human-animal bond.
Houston Pets Alive!s (HPA!) mission is to save the lives of at-risk companion cats and dogs and find them loving homes.
Priority veteran, inc. is engaged in providing supportive services to veterans and their families, primarily in the area of housing.
The vets to vets mission is to provide veterans in need of companionship, service, and love with service, therapy, or companion animals; reduce the number of animals unnecessarily euthanized in local shelters, who are also in need of love…
The austin humane society (ahs) offers comprehensive, humane, life-saving animal services, transforming the lives of animals and those who love them. because we believe homeless animals deserve a chance to thrive in a loving environment,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Camp Corral and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Upland Animal Shelter Inc. 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 19 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
64 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 64 of the 164 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 EIGHTH STREET COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN VILLAGE PRESERVATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds STILL SERVING VETERANS ↗
- Who funds HEALS INC ↗
- Who funds HUNTSVILLE DREAM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds HUNTSVILLE INNER CITY LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds US SPACE & ROCKET CENTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KIDS TO LOVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMP CORRAL ↗
- Who funds Rose of Sharon Inc ↗
- Who funds HUDSONALPHA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BOOT CAMPAIGN INC ↗
- Who funds FOURTH AND GOLD 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: Community Foundation of Greater Huntsville · The Jane K Lowe Charitable Foundation · Alpha Foundation · Wallace E Kirkpatrick Family Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Foundation 1781 · The Propst Foundation · The Beard-Young Family Foundation · Strong Family Foundation dated December 1 2012 · Inspire & Achieve Corporation · The Northrop Grumman 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 I3 Cares 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.
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 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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