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Warm Blanket Hugs

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$14k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$520
Median grant
4
States reached
$734
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CROSSROADS YOUTH CENTER$4,500
NORTH DAKOTA STATE COLLEGE OF SCIENCE$3,209
Individual grant recipient$2,050
EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA$1,800
JEREMIAH PROGRAM$672
ENOUGH WITH THE STIGMA$520
YWCA CASS CLAY$300
PRESENTATION PARTNERS IN HOUSING$300
TURTLE MOUNTAIN ANIMAL RESCUE$269
Individual grant recipient$265
FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN$153
GOLDEN DRIVE HOMELESS KIDS$100
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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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY24–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN: $153 → 6%EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA: $2k → 11%THREE LITTLE PITTIES: $265 → 14%NORTH DAKOTA STATE COLLEGE OF SCIENCE: $3k → 10%ENOUGH WITH THE STIGMA: $520 → 12%TURTLE MOUNTAIN ANIMAL RESCUE: $269 → 26%CROSSROADS YOUTH CENTER: $5k → 9%JEREMIAH PROGRAM: $672 → 12%PRESENTATION PARTNERS IN HOUSING: $300 → 12%YWCA CASS CLAY: $300 → 12%GOLDEN DRIVE HOMELESS KIDS: $100 → 12%MISCELLANEOUS DONATIONS: $2k → 12%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.

1
Shelter House Community Shelter and Transition Services

Through shelter and housing, advocacy and supportive services, our mission is to prevent and end homelessness in our community.

2
The Family Place

Assisting families in shelters to gain more confidence in building future goals that will lead to success of the entire family.

3
Human Services Programs of Carroll County Inc

Hsp gives hope, inspires change, and provides opportunity by mobilizing the community in the fight against poverty.

Housing & Shelter
4
Youth Emergency Services Inc

Youth emergency services (yes) provides housing and support to youth experiencing instability, crisis, and homelessness.

Human Services
5
Simpson Housing Services Inc

Simpson housing services' mission is to house, support, & advocate for people experiencing homelessness. we know that with close, individual advocacy & support individuals & families experiencing homelessness achieve housing stability.

Unclassified
6
Urban Peak Denver

Urban peak helps youth experiencing homelessness and youth at risk of becoming homeless overcome real life challenges by providing essential services and a supportive community, empowering them to become self-sufficient adults.

Housing & Shelter
7
Covenant House

In 34 cities across five countries, covenant house builds bridges to hope for young people facing homelessness and survivors of human trafficking. we meet their immediate needs for food, clothing, protection, and medical and mental health…

Human Services
8
Youthlink

To be a community in which all youth, without regard to their living situation, have an equal opportunity to pursue and achieve their goals and dreams. the agency does this by supporting, resourcing, and empowering young people on their…

Human Services
9
St John the Evangelist Homeless Shelter Inc

To honor the dignity, restore hope and create lasting change for homeless and those at risk in the green bay area.

Housing & Shelter
10
Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter Inc

Providing emergency food and shelter to homeless and displaced persons in central Maine.

Housing & Shelter
11
The San Francisco Particular Council of the Society of St Vincent De Paul

The mission of the st. vincent de paul society of san francisco (svdp-sf) is to offer hope and service on a direct person-to-person basis, working to break the cycles of homelessness and domestic violence.

Human Services
12
Anna Marie's Alliance

Provide education, intervention and advocacy to those affected by relationship abuse with a holistic approach and anti-oppression focus.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Crossroads Youth Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 12 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
2/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NORTH DAKOTA STATE COLLEGE OF SCIENCE — $3,209 · OtherNORTH DAKOTA STATE COLLEGE OF SCIENCEIndividual grant recipient — $2,050 · OtherIndividual grant recipientENOUGH WITH THE STIGMA — $520 · OtherENOUGH WITH THE STIGMAIndividual grant recipient — $265 · Other+1 more — $100 · OtherCROSSROADS YOUTH CENTER — $4,500 · Crime & LegalCROSSROADS YOUTH CENTEREPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA INC — $1,800 · HealthEPILEPSY FOUND…JEREMIAH PROGRAM — $672 · Housing & ShelterJEREMIAH P…YWCA CASS CLAY — $300 · Housing & ShelterYWCA CASS …PRESENTATION PARTNERS IN HOUSING — $300 · Housing & ShelterPRESENTATI…TURTLE MOUNTAIN ANIMAL RESCUE — $269 · AnimalsFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC — $153 · International
Other$6,144Crime & Legal$4,500Health$1,800Housing & Shelter$1,272Animals$269International$153

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 budgetCROSSROADS YOUTH CENTER — $4,500 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA INC — $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEREMIAH PROGRAM — $672 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA CASS CLAY — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRESENTATION PARTNERS IN HOUSING — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTURTLE MOUNTAIN ANIMAL RESCUE — $269 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC — $153 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOLDEN DRIVE HOMELESS KIDS LLC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Warm Blanket Hugs 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
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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s 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.

    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Warm Blanket Hugs?

    Find your warmest path to Warm Blanket Hugs 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 12 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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