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Think of US

Our mission is to help youth and families heal, develop and thrive.

$2.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$2.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Employment$3.8MHuman Services$609kEducation$401kCommunity Improvement$174kRecreation & Sports$104kArts & Culture$45kCrime & Legal$31kHealth$30kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $2,545,978, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,753,595 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $207,617 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

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $65k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $333k
  • $250k+1 grant · $2.1M
$58,195
Median grant
7
States reached
$42M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BLOOM WORKS$2,148,012
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO$150,000
CYRCA STRATEGY$125,000
PROXIMITY DESIGN STUDIO$58,195
INVENT TV PRODUCTIONS$44,771
KINTUPS$10,000
THE NYSPCC$10,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY22–23, $439k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%KVC BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE: $30k → 14%TFI FAMILY SERVICES: $30k → 16%FOSTER ADOPT CONNECT: $325k → 15%BLACK ADMINISTRATORS IN CHILD WELFARE: $24k → 8%CORNERSTONES OF CARE: $30k → 15%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

WA
IL
NY
PA
CA
MO
MD
KS
DC
GA
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.3M · 4 repeat orgs$928k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +62% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
11

Total granted

$4.3M
$739k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
+23%

Still filing today

50%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $190k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationCrime & LegalHealthRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • BW
    BLOOM WORKS
    2× · 2023–2024 · $3.8M
  • University of Chicago
    2× · 2023–2024 · $300k · revenue +21%
  • PD
    PROXIMITY DESIGN STUDIO
    2× · 2023–2024 · $174k

Funded once

  • FC
    FOSTERADOPT CONNECT INC
    one grant, 2022 · $325k · revenue +23%
  • TW
    TOGETHER WE RISEgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $104k · revenue +71%
  • S
    SCHOLLY
    one grant, 2023 · $101k
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

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Family & Children Services Inc

Family & children services strengthens the safety and well being of children, individuals and families; accomplished by providing a comprehensive array of critical human services.

Human Services
2
Allies for Every Child Inc

All children need a childhood. Allies for Every Child brings together and strengthens families, cultivating conditions for children to succeed in life. (Continues on Schedule O)

Human Services
3
Christian Family Care Agency Inc

The mission of christian family care is to strengthen families and serve at-risk children in the name of jesus christ. the outcome of our work results in building flourishing families and communities focusing on three pillars: preserve,…

Human Services
4
Thompson Child & Family Focus Inc

Founded in 1886, thompson child & family focus is called to strengthen children, families, and communitiesdelivering measurable outcomes through healing, teaching, worship, and play. for more than a century, thompson has transformed lives…

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5
Casey Family Programs
Philanthropy
6
Kentucky Youth Advocates Inc

For nearly 50 years, kentucky youth advocates (kya) has worked to improve child well-being, public policies, and systems that influence the lives of children, families, and communities. kya is the only multi-issue, statewide child advocacy…

Civil Rights
7
Children's Bureau Inc

Empowering individuals to build stronger families and communities.

Human Services
8
Stanford Youth Solutions dba Stanford Sierra Youth & Families

To help solve the most challenging issues facing youth and families in northern california by providing tailored services from counseling and therapy to alternative placements with an end result of permanently connecting our young clients…

Human Services
9
Pathway Caring for Children

Our mission is to help children and families realize the possibilities of their lives through foster care, adoption, and mental health. we serve over 1,700 children and families in 14 northeast ohio counties.

Health
10
Center for Adoption Support and Education Inc

Center for adoption support and education, inc. (c.a.s.e.) is a national leader in mental health, ensuring the well-being and permanence of children, families, and individuals connected to adoption, foster, and kinship care. c.a.s.e. works…

Health
11
Children's Trust Inc

To partner with organizations and communities to drive systemic change that impacts the root causes of child abuse and neglect.

Crime & Legal
12
Plummer Youth Promise Inc

Plummer's mission is to set a standard of excellence that improves outcomes for young people in or at risk of entering state care by deeply engaging youth, families, and the systems that impact them to develop permanent family…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fosteradopt Connect Inc; the most unlike its peers is Echoes of Hope. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 19 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BLOOM WORKS: $3,804,449 · OtherBLOOM WORKSPROXIMITY DESIGN STUDIO: $173,667 · Other+6 more: $320,671 · Other+6 moreFOSTERADOPT CONNECT INC: $325,000 · Human ServicesFOSTERADO…TFI FAMILY SERVICES INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesTFI FAMIL…KVC BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesKVC BEHAV…CORNERSTONES OF CARE: $30,000 · Human ServicesCORNERSTO…BLACK ADMINISTRATORS IN CHILD WELFARE INC: $24,000 · Human ServicesBLACK ADM…University of Chicago: $300,000 · EducationECHOES OF HOPE: $34,694 · EducationTOGETHER WE RISE: $104,000 · Recreation & SportsSaint Francis Ministries Group Return: $30,000 · HealthTHE NEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN: $10,000 · Crime & LegalCHILDREN'S TRUST FUND ALLIANCE: $5,400 · Crime & Legal
Other$4,298,787Human Services$439,000Education$334,694Recreation & Sports$104,000Health$30,000Crime & Legal$15,400

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFOSTERADOPT CONNECT INC: $325,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $300,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTOGETHER WE RISE: $104,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetECHOES OF HOPE: $34,694 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetTFI FAMILY SERVICES INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKVC BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSaint Francis Ministries Group Return: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCORNERSTONES OF CARE: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW AMERICA FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLACK ADMINISTRATORS IN CHILD WELFARE INC: $24,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: $15,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S TRUST FUND ALLIANCE: $5,400 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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.

Annie E Casey Foundat…Amazonsmile Foundation
Annie E Casey Foundation IncMD13× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · 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 Think of US funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Think of US. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.

    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 19 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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