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Trends Charitable Fund

The mission of the Trends Charitable Fund is to support charities that provide positive assistance for women, families and childred

$500k
Granted FY2021
1
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172021.

Health$840kCrime & Legal$125kHousing & Shelter$75kHuman Services$50kYouth Development$35k
02FY2021 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$500,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$96k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TGen Foundation$500,000
02The need
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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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–18, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%AZ Friends of Foster Children: $25k → 11%Fresh Start Womens Foundatio: $25k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your 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.

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Arizona's Children Association

The mission of arizona's children association is to protect children, empower youth, and strengthen families.

Human Services
2
La Paloma Family Services Inc

We build relationships that enhance the development of skills, foster a sense of worth and enhance a belief in each child's individual potential.

3
House of Hope

Treating substance use disorders, rebuilding lives, strengthening families, and empowering women.

4
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
5
Foster 360

Foster360 equips former clients of the foster care system to break the cycle of homelessness and abuse.

Human Services
6
City Help Inc of Phoenix

Our mission is to reach in and mine the incredible potential we believe lies within the lives of at-risk youth, the homeless, and needy families of our community by restoring hope and allowing them to dream again.

Human Services
7
Child Crisis Arizona

To provide children and youth in arizona a safe environment, free from abuse and neglect, by creating strong and successful families.

Crime & Legal
8
Umom New Day Centers Inc

To end family homelessness by restoring hope and rebuilding lives, so no child will ever have to sleep on the streets.

Housing & Shelter
9
Codac Health Recovery & Wellness

Codac provides tools, support and services to individuals, families, and communities so they may live with dignity, free from the harmful effects of mental illness, substance use disorders and trauma.

10
Community Awareness Resource Entity of Arizona

The Community Awareness Resource Entity of Arizona (CareAz) is a community-based organization dedicated to reducing the harmful effects of substance use disorder through comprehensive prevention, treatment, recovery, and reentry support.…

Health
11
Our Family Services Inc

Our Family's mission is to eliminate homelessness and strengthen our community. We do this by providing stability in times of crisis, linking people to support and resources, supporting social connectedness, engaging our neighbors to…

12
Against Abuse Inc

To provide services, support, and education to all who experience the effects of family dysfunction and/or violence, past and present.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Streetlightusa and the most unlike its peers is Casa Center for Positive Social Change. 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

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
7/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION — $775,761 · HealthTHE TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATIONSTREETLIGHTUSA — $100,000 · Crime & LegalSTREETLIGH…FAMILY PROMISE INC — $50,000 · Housing & ShelterHouse of Refuge Sunnyslope Inc — $25,000 · Housing & ShelterHIGHER OCTAVE HEALING INC — $64,400 · Arts & CultureTHE NEW FOUNDATION — $35,000 · OtherCASA CENTER FOR POSITIVE SOCIAL CHANGE — $25,000 · OtherArizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation — $25,000 · Human ServicesFRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Human Services
Health$775,761Crime & Legal$100,000Housing & Shelter$75,000Arts & Culture$64,400Other$60,000Human Services$50,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION — $775,761 over 2y, 13% of budgetHIGHER OCTAVE HEALING INC — $64,400 over 1y, 16% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTHE NEW FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetArizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budget
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.

Arizona Community FoundationAZ15.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · McKesson Foundation Inc · American Express Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Trends Charitable Fund 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 2%
  • Family Promise Inc2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 9 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $265k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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