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Tua Aspiring Angels Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Tua Aspiring Angels Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$175k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$40k
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 2025.

Human Services$265kHealth$247kAnimals$160kScience & Tech$147kCrime & Legal$55k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$40,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$40,000
CARINGBRIDGE$40,000
BOYS TOWN$40,000
CRADLE SOCIETY$35,000
PAWS CHICAGO$20,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $200k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BOYS TOWN: $55k → 12%CANINE COMPANIONS: $20k → 15%BOYS TOWN: $40k → 12%BOYS TOWN: $40k → 12%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $25k → 14%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $20k → 14%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.
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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$586k · 6 repeat orgs$287k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +77% since the first grant, against +76% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
6

Total granted

$586k
$192k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+77%
+76%

Still filing today

67%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesAnimalsOther
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

  • FF
    Father Flanagan's Boys' Home
    3× · 2023–2025 · $135k · revenue +9%
  • PP
    Planned Parenthood of Illinois
    3× · 2020–2022 · $85k · revenue +77%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    2× · 2023–2025 · $80k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • C
    CASA
    one grant, 2024 · $55k
  • CU
    CARE USA
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $42k · revenue +8%
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
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
2
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…

Animals
3
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

Ann & robert h. lurie children's hospital of chicago is dedicated to the health and well-being of all children. as the pediatric teaching facility for northwestern university feinberg school of medicine, this commitment drives us to be a…

Health
4
Children's Hospital & Research Center At Oakland

The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.

Health
5
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
6
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
7
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

As a leading academic healthcare organization, our mission is to elevate the health status of the communities we serve.(see schedule o for continuation)(continued)-we deliver exceptional healthcare enhanced by research and education-we…

Health
8
The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.

Animals
9
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
10
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
11
Upmc Carlisle

Upmc carlisle's mission is to serve the community by providing access to outstanding patient care and to shape tomorrow's health care system through clinical and technological innovation, research and education.

Health
12
University of Chicago Medical Center

Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cradles to Crayons Inc; the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. 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

11 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. 11 of the 15 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION: $147,000 · OtherSEARCH DOG FOUNDATIONHARMONY HOUSE FOR CATS: $94,667 · OtherHARMONY HOUSE FOR CATSCASA: $54,666 · OtherCASACARE USA: $50,000 · OtherCARE USAThe Cradle Society: $35,000 · OtherThe Cradle SocietyPlanned Parenthood of Illinois: $85,000 · HealthPlanned Parenthood of IllinoisST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $80,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSP…MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $42,000 · HealthMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION I…CaringBridge: $40,000 · HealthCaringBridgeFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $134,667 · Human ServicesFather Flanagan's Boys' H…CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesCRADLES TO CRAYONS INCCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesCANINE COMPANIONS FOR IND…PAWS CHICAGO: $20,000 · AnimalsTOUCHED BY AN ANIMAL: $15,000 · AnimalsYOUNG AT HEART SENIOR PET ADOPTIONS: $10,000 · Animals
Other$381,333Health$247,000Human Services$199,667Animals$45,000

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 budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $134,667 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Illinois: $85,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $80,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $42,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCaringBridge: $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Cradle Society: $35,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTOUCHED BY AN ANIMAL: $15,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetYOUNG AT HEART SENIOR PET ADOPTIONS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Tua Aspiring Angels Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tua Aspiring Angels Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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 15 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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