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Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$61k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Environment$89kArts & Culture$78kYouth Development$45kEducation$30kHealth$26kFood & Nutrition$22kHousing & Shelter$20kCivil Rights$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$55k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FEEDING AMERICA$10,000
WHITTIER COLLEGE$10,000
CANDELAS MUSIC ARTS FOUNDATION$10,000
INTERFAITH FOOD CENTER$10,000
Individual grant recipient$9,789
ACGELA INC$8,303
Individual grant recipient$2,480
ORCHARD COMMUNITY$300
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 83% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BE THE MATCH: $8k → 11%MILLS COLLEGE: $10k → 10%FEEDING AMERICA: $10k → 11%YMCA OF WHITTIER: $10k → 14%WHITE BUFFALO LAND: $2k → 14%ACLU FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%ST ELIZABETH'S SHELTER: $10k → 12%USA FOR UNHCR: $10k → 14%KSUT PUBLIC RADIO: $10k → 12%CLIMATE CENTRAL: $10k → 11%SITE SANTA FE: $10k → 10%YMCA WHITTIER: $10k → 14%ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND: $10k → 17%KSUT PUBLIC RADIO: $10k → 12%CLIMATE CENTRAL: $10k → 11%SITE SANTA FE: $9k → 10%YMCA OF WHITTIER: $3k → 14%SITE SANTA FE: $9k → 10%MONTEBELLO HOUSING DEV CORP - SEEDS OF PEACE: $10k → 14%INTERFAITH FOOD CENTER: $10k → 14%ORCHARD COMMUNITY: $300 → 14%LA ANIMAL CARE: $10k → 14%CANDELAS FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%CANDELAS FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%CANDELAS MUSIC ARTS FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%CHICANA'S DIRECTORS INITIATIVE: $8k → 14%TREEPEOPLE: $10k → 14%SAN GABRIEL MOUNTAINS REGIONAL CONSERVANCY: $10k → 14%GHOST DIVING USA: $10k → 14%GHOST DIVING USA: $10k → 14%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $10k → 14%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $10k → 14%WHITTIER COLLEGE: $10k → 14%WHITTIER COLLEGE: $10k → 14%PIH HEALTH FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%ACGELA INC: $8k → 14%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $7k → 14%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $5k → 14%A CLEANER GREENER EAST LA: $4k → 14%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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$173k · 8 repeat orgs$176k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
14

Total granted

$173k
$125k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+58%

Still filing today

63%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationHealthCivil RightsPhilanthropyOther

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

  • SS
    SITE SANTA FE
    3× · 2019–2023 · $28k · revenue +52%
  • KI
    KUTE INC DBA KSUT PUBLIC RADIO
    2× · 2019–2021 · $20k · revenue +53%
  • CC
    CLIMATE CENTRAL INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $20k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • SG
    SAN GABRIEL MOUNTAINS REGION CONSERVANCY
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • MC
    MILLS COLLEGE
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -53%
  • United States Association for UNHCR
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -9%

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
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
2
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

See schedule ouniversity corporation for atmospheric research (ucar), on behalf of, and in cooperation with its member university members, is engaged in the management of long-term atmospheric and related research and educational…

Science & Tech
3
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
4
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
5
California Institute of Contemporary Art
6
Chile-California Council

The Chile-California Council is a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to developing and promoting joint endeavors and cooperative relations between Chile and California, as well as individuals, legal entities and other institutions in…

International
7
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
8
Uc Riverside Foundation

To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.

Education
9
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
10
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
11
American Geophysical Union

Agu's mission is to advance and support an inclusive community of earth and space scientists and partners dedicated to discovery and solutions to societal challenges. agu seeks to catalyze discovery and solutions to scientific and societal…

Science & Tech
12
California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy

To harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Acgene Lab a California Nonprofit Organization. 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

16 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. 16 of the 29 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
8/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB — $32,069 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBCANDELAS FOUNDATION — $20,000 · OtherCANDELAS FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient — $13,140 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSAN GABRIEL MOUNTAINS REGION CONSERVANCY — $10,000 · OtherSAN GABRIEL MOUNTAINS REGION CONSERVANCYMILLS COLLEGE — $10,000 · OtherMILLS COLLEGEMONTEBELLO HOUSING DEV CORP - SEEDS OF PEACE — $10,000 · OtherMONTEBELLO HOUSING DEV CORP - SEEDS OF PEACEFEEDING AMERICA — $10,000 · OtherFEEDING AMERICAST ELIZABETH'S SHELTER — $10,000 · OtherST ELIZABETH'S SHELTERLA ANIMAL CARE — $10,000 · OtherLA ANIMAL CAREIndividual grant recipient — $9,789 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPIH Health Foundation — $9,786 · OtherPIH Health FoundationIndividual grant recipient — $8,254 · OtherACGENE LAB A CALIFORNIA NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION — $8,303 · OtherNMDP FOUNDATION — $8,000 · Other+4 more — $11,780 · Other+4 moreSITE SANTA FE — $27,750 · Arts & CultureSITE SANTA FEKUTE INC DBA KSUT PUBLIC RADIO — $20,000 · Arts & CultureKUTE INC DBA KSUT …Candelas Music and Arts Foundation — $10,000 · Arts & CultureCandelas Music and…GHOST DIVING USA — $20,000 · EnvironmentGHOST DIVING…ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $10,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTA…TREEPEOPLE INC — $10,000 · EnvironmentTREEPEOPLE I…Whittier College — $20,000 · EducationWhittier …INTERFAITH FOOD CENTER — $10,000 · EducationINTERFAIT…CLIMATE CENTRAL INC — $20,000 · Science & TechUnited States Association for UNHCR — $10,000 · InternationalAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Civil Rights
Other$181,121Arts & Culture$57,750Environment$40,000Education$30,000Science & Tech$20,000International$10,000Civil Rights$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSITE SANTA FE — $27,750 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetKUTE INC DBA KSUT PUBLIC RADIO — $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetGHOST DIVING USA — $20,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetWhittier College — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCLIMATE CENTRAL INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMILLS COLLEGE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERFAITH FOOD CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCandelas Music and Arts Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetTREEPEOPLE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPIH Health Foundation — $9,786 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetACGENE LAB A CALIFORNIA NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION — $8,303 over 1y, 14% of budgetNMDP FOUNDATION — $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetORCHARD COMMUNITY INC — $300 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

California Community FoundationCA12.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 3greenassistance 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%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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, 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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to 3greenassistance?

    Find your warmest path to 3greenassistance 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 29 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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