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The Release Recovery Foundation Inc

To provide assistance to individuals suffering from addiction and alcoholism and to their families.

$536k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$91k
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, FY2021 to 2024.

Health$1.3MEducation$176kArts & Culture$30k
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $407,749, the rows itemized in this filing. The $536,010 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $128,261 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $163k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $237k
$15,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$845k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CARON TREATMENT SERVICES$90,500
CHARLIE HEALTH$89,217
HIGH WATCH RECOVERY CENTER$57,500
SURFSIDE RECOVERY SERVICES$42,832
ASHLEY ADDICTION TREATMENT$40,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
OCEAN'S RECOVERY$15,000
INTERGATED LIFE CENTER$10,200
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
MOMENTA$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Individual grant recipient$7,500
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 60% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%RECOVERY CARE PARTNERS: $7k → 11%CMC BERKSHIRES: $40k → 12%CHARLIE HEALTH: $18k → 10%SYNERGY HOUSES: $10k → 6%CARON TREATMENT CENTER: $100k → 11%ALTA MIRA: $10k → 8%CHARLIE HEALTH: $89k → 17%SYLVIA BRAFMAN: $32k → 13%SYLVIA BRAFMAN: $22k → 10%HIGH WATCH RECOVERY CENTER: $58k → 9%RIGHT PATH: $9k → 12%INTEGRATIVE LIFE CENTER: $15k → 14%RED OAK TREATMENT: $10k → 12%OCEAN'S RECOVERY: $15k → 14%CIRQUE LODGE: $37k → 8%THE GUEST HOUSE: $30k → 6%MOMENTA: $10k → 8%ALINA LODGE: $10k → 7%SURFSIDE RECOVERY SERVICES: $43k → 11%INNOVO DETOX: $9k → 16%ASHLEY INC: $120k → 7%MARYLAND ADDICTION RECOVERY CENTER: $63k → 11%BERKSHIRE TRANSITION NETWORK: $10k → 12%CARON TREATMENT SERVICES: $91k → 11%MUIR WOODS TEENS: $10k → 8%CARON TREATMENT CENTER: $138k → 17%SYLVIA BRAFMAN: $8k → 13%HIGH WATCH RECOVERY: $11k → 9%INTERGATED LIFE CENTER: $10k → 14%CIRQUE LODGE: $15k → 8%SURFSIDE RECOVERY SERVICES: $21k → 11%ASHLEY ADDICTION TREATMENT: $90k → 7%MARYLAND ADDICTION RECOVERY CENTER: $8k → 11%CARON TREATMENT CENTER: $97k → 17%MOUNTAINSIDE TREATMENT CENTER: $65k → 9%SURFSIDE RECOVERY SERVICES: $24k → 11%ASHLEY ADDICTION TREATMENT: $40k → 7%JONATHAN RAUSCH ASSOCIATES: $6k → 17%MOUNTAINSIDE TREATMENT CENTER: $30k → 9%SURFSIDE RECOVERY SERVICES: $10k → 11%ASHLEY ADDICTION TREATMENT CENTER: $35k → 7%MOUNTAINSIDE TREATMENT CENTER: $21k → 9%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MT
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
MD
AZ
TN
NC
GA
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 8 repeat orgs$433k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
12

Total granted

$1.1M
$282k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+20%

Still filing today

50%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $152k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationOther
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

  • RJ
    RICHARD J CARON FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $329k · revenue -4%
  • AI
    ASHLEY INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $285k · revenue +12%
  • MT
    MOUNTAINSIDE TREATMENT CENTER
    3× · 2021–2023 · $116k

Funded once

  • CO
    CARON OF FLORIDA INC
    one grant, 2021 · $97k · revenue +20%
  • CB
    CMC BERKSHIRES
    one grant, 2023 · $40k
  • CL
    CIRQUE LODGE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $37k · revenue +101%
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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 27 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
5/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RICHARD J CARON FOUNDATION: $329,128 · HealthRICHARD J CARON FOUNDATIONASHLEY INC: $285,000 · HealthASHLEY INCSURFSIDE RECOVERY SERVICES INC: $112,801 · HealthSURFSIDE RECOVERY SERVICES INCCARON OF FLORIDA INC: $96,719 · HealthCARON OF FLORIDA INC+1 more: $10,000 · HealthMOUNTAINSIDE TREATMENT CENTER: $115,833 · OtherMOUNTAINSIDE TREATMENT CENTERCHARLIE HEALTH: $89,217 · OtherCHARLIE HEALTHMARYLAND ADDICTION RECOVERY CENTER: $70,100 · OtherMARYLAND ADDICTION RECOVERY CENTERHIGH WATCH RECOVERY CENTER INC: $68,325 · OtherHIGH WATCH RECOVERY CENTER INCSYLVIA BRAFMAN: $54,000 · OtherSYLVIA BRAFMANCMC BERKSHIRES: $40,000 · OtherCMC BERKSHIRESTHE GUEST HOUSE: $30,000 · OtherINTEGRATIVE LIFE CENTER: $25,200 · Other+13 more: $130,600 · Other+13 moreCIRQUE LODGE FOUNDATION: $36,750 · Education
Health$833,648Other$623,275Education$36,750

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRICHARD J CARON FOUNDATION: $329,128 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetASHLEY INC: $285,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSURFSIDE RECOVERY SERVICES INC: $112,801 over 4y, 8.7% of budgetCARON OF FLORIDA INC: $96,719 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHIGH WATCH RECOVERY CENTER INC: $68,325 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCIRQUE LODGE FOUNDATION: $36,750 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetLITTLE HILL FOUNDATION FOR THE REHABILITATION OF ALCOHOLICS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 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.

  • Who funds RICHARD J CARON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ASHLEY INC ↗
  • Who funds SURFSIDE RECOVERY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds CARON OF FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds HIGH WATCH RECOVERY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CIRQUE LODGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LITTLE HILL FOUNDATION FOR THE REHABILITATION OF ALCOHOLICS INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN6.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • High Watch Recovery Center Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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.
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Find your warmest path to The Release Recovery Foundation Inc 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 27 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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