How much did THE I3 CARES FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 81% of THE I3 CARES FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

seniorjuniorarabministryelementary

2019

operationministry

2020

hopeministryvillagenorthgirls

2021

kidscancerchildren'slearningministryvillagenorth

2022

warriorstrails therapeutictherapeutic ridingcancerlearningchildren'smadison

2023

humanearmygreaternorthministries

2024

internationalnorthministries

2025

northministries

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 44 grants

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

$1,655

Median grant

States reached

$43k

Total assets

Largest grants

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
WEDC FOUNDATION$2,500
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$2,500
FRIENDS OF RESCUE$2,020
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE RIVER V$2,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $73k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 11%. 92% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1000k · 68 repeat orgs$282k to everyone else

68 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1000k

$255k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%

+74%

Still filing today

32%

21%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

AnimalsHuman ServicesHealthEducationPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementOther

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

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305 8th Street
8× · 2018–2025 · $50k · revenue +90%
DR
Downtown Rescue Mission
6× · 2018–2025 · $28k · revenue +19%
SS
STILL SERVING VETERANS
5× · 2020–2025 · $18k · revenue +60%

Funded once

MM
MISCELLANEOUS MINISTIRES
one grant, 2019 · $76k
MC
MADISON COUNTY VETERAN'S MEMORIAL F
one grant, 2020 · $21k
St Jude Children's Research Hospitalgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $9k · revenue +74%

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

04Your field

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.

House a Vet

To aid veterans and their families in martin and st. lucie counties by helping them achieve the success of a comfortalbe safe home and improve their quality of life.

Housing & Shelter

The Haven

The haven provides a shelter for homeless pets while implementing lifesaving programs to end shelter euthanasia of healthy and treatable dogs and cats in baldwin county, alabama.

Animals

Home Free Animal Rescue

To save homeless animals, vet them and find them loving homes

Animals

Carleys Angels

Carley's angels, senior sanctuary and hospice, is a foster driven rescue dedicated to providing senior, treminal, and criticaly endangered animals a loving home to live out their end days. our dogs, and sometimes cats, are almost always…

Animals

Heaven After Hell Rescue

Take in animals from overcrowded state shelters and have them properly vetted evaluated and adopted by screened families. In 2024 we took in 112 new animals and adopted out 123!

Animals

Scouts Honor Rescue

Rescue animals from abusive situations from local animal shelters vet them and rehabilitate them and adopt them out to loving and permanent homes.

Animals

K9 Battle Buddies Inc

Animal rescue and shelter for dogs and cats providing service qualified dogs to veterans and members qualified at no cost while unqualified dogs and cats are adopted to loving homes

Animals

Heavens Home Rescue Inc

Heavens Home Rescue saves dogs and cats from high kill shelters. We focus our efforts on abuse cases feral dogs hospice cases and pregnant and nursing dogs and cats and the prevention of cruelty to animals.

Animals

Angies Dog House

Angies Dog House is a non-profit, volunteer animal rescue organization serving the Gulf Coast.

Animals

Austin Dog Rescue Inc

Austin dog rescue is a foster home based organization that saves dogs from shelters that were picked up as strays or abandoned by their family and left with no hope of a better life. we believe that life is precious and the dogs we save…

Animals

Heroes First Foundation Inc

The heroes first foundation, inc. was established to provide additional support to our military and first responder families. the heroes first foundation recognizes the countless hours spent and sacrifices made by our military heroes,…

Philanthropy

Georgia Homeless Pets

To rescue at risk dogs and cats, rehabillitate, vaccinate, spay and neuter, and find forever homes for them.

Animals

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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 16 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/52

the rest of the field

12%

2,668/22,727

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.

05the grantee network

46 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

43/46

Grantees still filing

35/46

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,069,675Human Services$73,238Health$52,411Housing & Shelter$28,185Public Benefit$26,580Animals$18,132Education$13,765

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.

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.

Community Foundation of Greater HuntsvilleAL40.3× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Huntsville · Alpha Foundation · The Jane K Lowe Charitable Foundation · Wallace E Kirkpatrick Family · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Inspire & Achieve Corporation · The Northrop Grumman Foundation · Employees of Community Fund · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Network for Good · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 organisation 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: ALABAMA CONSTITUTION VILLAGE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~36 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 631182396 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on ALABAMA CONSTITUTION VILLAGE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 36 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 15% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The I3 Cares Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The I3 Cares Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE I3 CARES FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

46 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The I3 Cares Foundation?

More from the funding graph

THE I3 CARES FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

46 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The I3 Cares Foundation?

More from the funding graph