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We Can Be Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$21k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What you fund
0186% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Human Services$63kHealth$12kEducation$12kYouth Development$9kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kArts & Culture$3kAnimals$2kCrime & Legal$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,909
Median grant
3
States reached
$161k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PARKINSONS SUPPORT GROUP$5,727
MO EMERGENCY RESPONSE SERVICES$4,773
TEDI BEAR CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTE$4,773
Individual grant recipient$1,909
COMMUNITY CRISIS SERVICES$1,909
IMMIGRANT WELCOME NETWROK OF IA CIT$1,309
CENTER FOR WORKER JUSTICE$500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NURSES FOR NEWBORNS: $2k → 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 edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

47%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$57k · 3 repeat orgs$64k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
19

Total granted

$57k
$45k

Still filing today

0%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 9% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureAnimalsFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • Y
    YMCA
    6× · 2017–2022 · $49k
  • CL
    CHILD LIFE FUND
    2× · 2023–2024 · $5k
  • CC
    COMMUNITY CRISIS SERVICES
    2× · 2024–2025 · $4k

Funded once

  • UA
    UNITED ACTION FOR YOUTH
    one grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue +4%
  • TC
    TUTORING CHICAGO
    one grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue -5%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $4k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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
Thomas Jefferson School

Thomas jefferson school engages its students in the education necessary to live as responsible citizens of the world. through the strongest possible college-prepatory program and within a nurturing community, students develop a…

2
Community Foundation of Central Mo

The community foundation of central missouri inspires and nurtures philanthropy for the public good.

Philanthropy
3
Central California Food Bank

Ccfb is dedicated to ending hunger, working with over 200 partner agencies to provide food to those experiencing hunger. our mission: transforming lives together, in the passionate pursuit to end hunger in central ca - one meal, one…

Food & Nutrition
4
Chicago Public Education Fund

The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.

Education
5
Food Bank of Iowa

The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.

Food & Nutrition
6
Northern Illinois Food Bank

With the support of our community, we provide over 90 million meals annually through our network of over 900 member food pantries and programs across thirteen counties, currently reaching over a half million individuals each month with…

Food & Nutrition
7
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition
8
Central Illinois Foodbank Inc

The Foodbank's mission is to provide food, and develop awareness of and creative solutions for food insecurity. Annually, the Foodbank distributes approximately 9.5 million pounds of food to 130 food pantries, soup kitchens, children's…

Food & Nutrition
9
Missouri Council of School Administrator

Representation and support of missouri educators.

10
St Louis Community Foundation

To promote the possibilities of charitable giving, helping charitable citizens understand how they can effectively provide for the community they love and the causes they care deeply about.

Philanthropy
11
Child Safe of Central Missouri Inc

Child safe of central missouri's mission is to respond to and prevent child abuse by providing advocacy, support, and resources to children who are alleged victims of abuse and other traumatic crimes, and to their non-offending family…

Crime & Legal
12
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Foundation for the Iowa City Community School District and the most unlike its peers is Daughters of Worth. 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 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. 11 of the 28 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
5/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

YMCA — $48,585 · OtherYMCAPARKINSONS SUPPORT GROUP — $5,727 · OtherPARKINSONS SUPPORT GROUPCHILD LIFE FUND — $4,959 · OtherMO EMERGENCY RESPONSE SERVICES — $4,773 · OtherTEDI BEAR CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTE — $4,773 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $4,073 · OtherCOMMUNITY CRISIS SERVICES — $3,818 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $3,250 · OtherFDN FOR THE IA CITY COMM SCH DIST — $3,240 · Other+10 more — $13,986 · Other+10 moreUNITED ACTION FOR YOUTH — $6,000 · Human ServicesNURSES FOR NEWBORNS — $1,909 · Human ServicesHIGHLAND PARK COMMUNITY NURSERY SCHOOL — $3,818 · EducationWILSON EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP INC — $1,654 · EducationCOLUMBIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $1,620 · EducationTUTORING CHICAGO — $4,300 · Arts & CultureDAUGHTERS OF WORTH — $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentCENTRAL MISSOURI HUMANE SOCIETY — $1,909 · AnimalsTHE FOOD BANK FOR CENTRAL & NORTHEAST MISSOURI — $500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$97,184Human Services$7,909Education$7,092Arts & Culture$4,300Youth Development$2,500Animals$1,909Food & Nutrition$500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNITED ACTION FOR YOUTH — $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTUTORING CHICAGO — $4,300 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHIGHLAND PARK COMMUNITY NURSERY SCHOOL — $3,818 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDAUGHTERS OF WORTH — $2,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetNURSES FOR NEWBORNS — $1,909 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL MISSOURI HUMANE SOCIETY — $1,909 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILSON EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP INC — $1,654 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCOLUMBIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $1,620 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR THE IOWA CITY COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT — $809 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOOD BANK FOR CENTRAL & NORTHEAST MISSOURI — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC — $500 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.

  • Who funds UNITED ACTION FOR YOUTH
  • Who funds TUTORING CHICAGO
  • Who funds HIGHLAND PARK COMMUNITY NURSERY SCHOOL
  • Who funds DAUGHTERS OF WORTH
  • Who funds NURSES FOR NEWBORNS
  • Who funds CENTRAL MISSOURI HUMANE SOCIETY
  • Who funds WILSON EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP INC
  • Who funds COLUMBIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR THE IOWA CITY COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
  • Who funds THE FOOD BANK FOR CENTRAL & NORTHEAST MISSOURI
  • Who funds ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC

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.

American Online Giving Foundation IncDE5.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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 We Can Be Family Foundation 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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 28 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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