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The Ilsababy 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k6 grants · $168k
- $50k–250k18 grants · $1.7M
- $250k+2 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000,000 |
| DIRECT RELIEF | $500,000 |
| HEATHER ABBOTT FDN | $160,000 |
| CLASSROOM CENTRAL | $150,000 |
| THE HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND | $150,000 |
| HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS | $125,000 |
| JOURNEY HOME | $105,000 |
| WINTER | $100,000 |
| NEADS | $100,000 |
| OPERATION HOME | $90,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $90,000 |
| NEABPD | $80,000 |
| KATIES KROPS | $80,000 |
| HARTFORD PROMISE | $75,000 |
| APOPO | $70,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 30% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
89 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 66 since wound down; 3 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k 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
DIRECT RELIEF7× · 2019–2025 · $5.3M · revenue +67%- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION4× · 2018–2022 · $2.2M · revenue +377%
- CCCLASSROOM CENTRAL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +65%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $500k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $100k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $46k
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.
Upwardly global removes employment barriers for immigrant, refugee, and asylee professionals while advancing the inclusion of their skills into the u.s. economy.
Refugepoint partners with refugees to access life-changing solutions and transforms how the world supports them. refugepoint seeks to expand access to lasting solutions for refugees, especially those facing vulnerabilities who are…
Earthenable works to solve the housing crisis in africa by revolutionizing the rural housing industry through innovative, affordable, and sustainable home-building solutions. its mission is to create healthier, safer, and climate-resilient…
Devworks international is dedicated to a society where all people enjoy the freedom to pursue their own sustainable development. we contribute to this by strengthening the capacity of local organizations.
Democratizing societal and economic well-being through digital equity for everyone, increased diversity in the tech sector, innovative education, and technology for the public good
Handicap international dba humanity & inclusion (hi) works with people with disabilities and people living in situations of vulnerability, including poverty, exclusion, conflict, and disaster.
To provide opportunity for a better life through appropriate employment for those disenfranchised from the mainstream economy.
Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.
Pact is a nonprofit organization that builds evidence-based, data-driven, and community-led solutions for human development (continued in schedule o)
Hollywood food coalition welcomes people to dinner each night. we rescue and redistribute food daily to other organizations. we care for our immediate community through our wellness program. we build community with and through our…
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
Through faith in action, austin habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Her Justice Inc and the most unlike its peers is Community Culinary School of Charlotte 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 22 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 107 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 DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLASSROOM CENTRAL INC ↗
- Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds JOURNEY HOME INC ↗
- Who funds NEADS INC ↗
- Who funds HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC ↗
- Who funds HEATHER ABBOTT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KATIE'S KROPS ↗
- Who funds RIVERFRONT RECAPTURE INC ↗
- Who funds Insulin For Life USA Inc ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HOME INC ↗
- Who funds USS YORKTOWN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds APOPO US INC ↗
- Who funds UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE LTD ↗
- Who funds PROJECT OUTPOUR ↗
- Who funds RURAL RENEWABLE ENERGY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds SAMARITANS INC ↗
- Who funds HUNGRY FOR MUSIC ↗
- Who funds EAGLES WINGS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Community Culinary School of Charlotte 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: Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · The Nutmeg Foundation Inc · Travelers Foundation · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Carmax Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Ge Aerospace Foundation · 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 organization The Ilsababy 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Journey Home Inc — 59% of income from government
- Samaritans Inc — 31% of income from government
- Riverfront Recapture Inc — 2% of income from government
- Neads Inc — 1% of income from government
- Forge City Works Inc — 1% 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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