· Private foundation
The Never Better Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $3k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PHILANTHROPIES | $30,000 |
| RUN ELITE PROGRAM | $2,500 |
| CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK | $500 |
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 (FY17–17, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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 +156% since the first grant, against -3% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
Antelope Valley Domestic Violence Council2× · 2017–2018 · $5k · revenue +251%- SASpectrum Academy2× · 2017–2018 · $5k · revenue +156%
- TITHE INTERMOUNTAIN SUZUKI STRING INSTITUTE2× · 2017–2018 · $4k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- AIAccess Independence Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +60%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBone grant, 2018 · $57k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
Aerial recovery's mission is to save lives and stop evil. through the creation and deployment of humanitarian special operators, aerial recovery brings together selected veterans, first responders, and mission-qualified civilians who,…
Surf competition training for Paralympic athletes
Improve outcomes for African children with heart disease
Heart Bridge International exists to equip and empower Christians around the world to fulfill the Great Commission. The organization provides free ministry training, discipleship resources, and practical coaching to under-resourced…
To improve the lives of our nations warriors (veterans, first responders, peace officers, and their families) by helping them build a new mission and purpose in life, support their recovery and reintegration, and empower them to accomplish…
Train and equip first responders to reset their nervous system in order to prevent PTSD and other impacts of prolonged trauma.
Fund and conduct research relating to intracranial hypertension disorder; to develop therapies, treatments, and ultimately a cure for people suffering from such disorder; to disseminate such information to the medical community and…
Veteran special operators using skills, capabilities, expertise, and experience to make a difference in the world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tbi Warrior Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Make Kids and Teachers First. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 25 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 Access Independence Inc ↗
- Who funds HEARTS AND HANDS FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds ANGELMAN SYNDROME FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE KIDS AND TEACHERS FIRST ↗
- Who funds Antelope Valley Domestic Violence Council ↗
- Who funds Spectrum Academy ↗
- Who funds THE INTERMOUNTAIN SUZUKI STRING INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Launching Leaders Worldwide Inc ↗
- Who funds RUN ELITE PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds Type of Wood Charities ↗
- Who funds HOPE INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Olympians & Paralympians Relief Fund ↗
- Who funds RICHARD BREUNIG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TBI WARRIOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds SHADOW HILLS RIDING CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds GARY & JEANETTE HERBERT FOUNDATION ↗
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: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Never Better 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.
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.