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Achieving America Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
51
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$275k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Civil Rights$4.5MPublic Benefit$1.7MArts & Culture$1.7MEducation$1.1MPhilanthropy$1.1MEnvironment$655kHealth$521kHuman Services$488kOther$0
02FY2024 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $466k
  • $50k–250k20 grants · $1.8M
  • $250k+1 grant · $275k
$25,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$46k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOPEWELL FUND$275,000
PENNSYLANIA VOICE$200,000
STATE LEADERSHIP PROJECT$175,000
UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION$150,000
AMERICA VOTES EDUCATION FUND$150,000
HAMMER MUSEUM$125,000
CALIFORNIA VOLUNTEERS FUND$125,000
ADVANCEMENT PROJECT$100,000
TIDES FOUNDATION$100,000
YOUTH SERVICE AMERICA$75,000
NEW VENTURE FUND$70,000
WORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND$60,000
HEARTLAND FUND$60,000
ACCELERATE CHANGE INC$55,000
ST JOHN'S COLLEGE$50,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $481k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WorkMoney Foundation: $25k → 17%LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY GARDEN COUNCIL: $500 → 14%Union Station Homeless Services: $5k → 14%GOLDEN STATE OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION: $200k → 14%GOLDEN STATE OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION: $150k → 14%GOLDEN STATE OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION: $100k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
SD
OH
PA
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
DE
AZ
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10M · 59 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

59 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

59
69

Total granted

$10M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+40%

Still filing today

75%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $845k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationCivil RightsPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalOther
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

  • SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO
    4× · 2017–2022 · $1.2M · revenue +20%
  • SL
    STATE LEADERSHIP PROJECT
    4× · 2021–2024 · $475k · revenue +67%
  • GS
    Golden State Opportunity
    3× · 2017–2019 · $450k · revenue +341%

Funded once

  • PP
    Planned Parenthood of PSGV
    one grant, 2022 · $200k
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD- PASADENA
    one grant, 2019 · $200k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $100k
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
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
2
The American Institute of Architects California

The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.

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3
The California Channel

To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…

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4
Los Angeles Conservancy

The los angeles conservancy is a nonprofit membership organization that works through education and advocacy to recognize, preserve, and revitalize the historic architectural and cultural resources of los angeles county.

Arts & Culture
5
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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6
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
7
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce

Chamber's mission: design and advance opportunities and solutions for a thriving regional economy that are inclusive and globally competitive. 1) advocacy - be a bold advocate for business as a driver of a strong economy that enables…

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8
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

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9
California Chamber of Commerce

Represent members and cal employers to members of cal legislature and other agencies of state government through in-house legislative analysts, lobbying staff, and contract lobbyists. cal chamber publishes books and software related to…

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10
Los Angeles County Bar Association (Lacba)

Meeting the professional needs of los angeles lawyers, and improving the administration of justice.

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11
California Budget & Policy Center

The budget center provides dependable, timely, policy guidance and public education through our independent research and analysis, public education, strategic collaborations, and communications to expand economic opportunities and promote…

Education
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Accelerate Change Inc; the most unlike its peers is Psychotherapy Action Network. 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

112 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 112 of the 151 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
111/112
Grantees still filing
74/112
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CATALYST CALIFORNIA: $3,876,921 · Public BenefitCATALYST CALIFORNIASTATE LEADERSHIP PROJECT: $475,000 · Public BenefitSTATE LEADERSHIP PROJECT+7 more: $275,000 · Public Benefit+7 moreUC BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $470,000 · OtherUC BERKELEY FOUNDATIONPlanned Parenthood of PSGV: $200,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD- PASADENA: $200,000 · OtherLA RIVER REVITALIZATION CORPORATION: $160,000 · OtherHeartland Fund: $160,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $150,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $140,000 · OtherGolden State Opportunity: $450,000 · OtherGolden State OpportunityNEW VENTURE FUND: $235,000 · OtherNEW VENTURE FUNDWINDWARD FUND: $140,000 · OtherCALIFORNIA VOLUNTEERS FUND: $250,000 · OtherCALIFORNIA VOLUNTEERS FUND+72 more: $1,585,820 · Other+72 moreSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO: $1,175,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTHERN CAL…ARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC: $130,000 · Arts & CultureARMAND HAMME…COMMON SENSE MEDIA: $50,000 · Arts & Culture+12 more: $135,879 · Arts & Culture+12 morePENNSYLVANIA VOICE: $200,000 · Civil RightsCOLOR OF CHANGEORG EDUCATION FUND: $175,000 · Civil RightsAmerica Votes Education Fund: $150,000 · Civil RightsTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $75,000 · Civil RightsACCELERATE CHANGE INC: $70,000 · Civil RightsVOTO LATINO FOUNDATION INC: $70,000 · Civil RightsNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc: $50,000 · Civil RightsCIVIC INFLUENCERS INC: $50,000 · Civil RightsAll Americans Vote: $45,000 · Civil Rights+4 more: $55,000 · Civil RightsLos Angeles River Revitalization Corporation dba River LA: $409,240 · Community Improvement21st Century School Fund: $225,000 · Community ImprovementDOLORES C HUERTA FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Community ImprovementTHE MARSHALL PROJECT INC: $50,000 · Community ImprovementPUBLIC CONCERN FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Community ImprovementONE ARROYO FOUNDATION: $35,000 · Community Improvement+2 more: $35,000 · Community ImprovementPasadena City College Foundation: $200,000 · EducationST JOHN'S COLLEGE: $120,000 · EducationWORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND: $100,000 · EducationCivic Nation: $95,000 · EducationOHIO CAMPUS COMPACT: $70,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS: $61,000 · EducationOCCIDENTAL COLLEGE: $60,000 · Education+8 more: $89,500 · EducationHOPEWELL FUND: $275,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATION: $190,000 · PhilanthropyPASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $65,000 · PhilanthropyTHE J PAUL GETTY TRUST: $55,000 · PhilanthropyAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $50,000 · PhilanthropySOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS: $32,585 · Philanthropy+2 more: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Public Benefit$4,626,921Other$4,140,820Arts & Culture$1,490,879Civil Rights$940,000Community Improvement$854,240Education$795,500Philanthropy$677,585

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCATALYST CALIFORNIA: $3,876,921 over 7y, 9.4% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO: $1,175,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetSTATE LEADERSHIP PROJECT: $475,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetGolden State Opportunity: $450,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetLos Angeles River Revitalization Corporation dba River LA: $409,240 over 4y, 31% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND: $275,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA VOLUNTEERS FUND: $250,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $235,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budget21st Century School Fund: $225,000 over 3y, 32% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA VOICE: $200,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetPasadena City College Foundation: $200,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $190,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLOR OF CHANGEORG EDUCATION FUND: $175,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAmerica Votes Education Fund: $150,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetWINDWARD FUND: $140,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC: $130,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetST JOHN'S COLLEGE: $120,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND: $100,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetLOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY: $100,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetYouth Service America: $97,500 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetCivic Nation: $95,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetREPOWER: $90,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCenter on Budget and Policy Priorities: $75,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetACCELERATE CHANGE INC: $70,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOHIO CAMPUS COMPACT: $70,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetVOTO LATINO FOUNDATION INC: $70,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetPASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $65,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS: $61,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOCCIDENTAL COLLEGE: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE J PAUL GETTY TRUST: $55,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOLORES C HUERTA FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMON SENSE MEDIA: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetA BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER INSTITUTE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPUBLIC CONCERN FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetCIVIC INFLUENCERS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetAll Americans Vote: $45,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIMAGINE NORTH CAROLINA FIRST: $40,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetInner City Law Center: $38,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMEXICAN AMERICAN BAR FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetONE ARROYO FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS: $32,585 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY: $32,279 over 7y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds CATALYST CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO ↗
  • Who funds STATE LEADERSHIP PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds Golden State Opportunity ↗
  • Who funds Los Angeles River Revitalization Corporation dba River LA ↗
  • Who funds HOPEWELL FUND ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA VOLUNTEERS FUND ↗
  • Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
  • Who funds 21st Century School Fund ↗
  • Who funds PENNSYLVANIA VOICE ↗
  • Who funds Pasadena City College Foundation ↗
  • Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COLOR OF CHANGEORG EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds America Votes Education Fund ↗
  • Who funds WINDWARD FUND ↗
  • Who funds ARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JOHN'S COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds WORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY ↗
  • Who funds Youth Service America ↗
  • Who funds Civic Nation ↗
  • Who funds REPOWER ↗
  • Who funds THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Center on Budget and Policy Priorities ↗
  • Who funds ACCELERATE CHANGE INC ↗
  • Who funds OHIO CAMPUS COMPACT ↗
  • Who funds VOTO LATINO FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Ralph M Parsons F…California Community …Weingart FoundationThe California Endowm…The Annenberg Foundat…Pasadena Community Fo…The California Wellne…The Ahmanson Foundati…The Greenberg Foundat…Tides FoundationThe James Irvine Foun…Amalgamated Charitabl…
The Ralph M Parsons FoundationCA45.3× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · California Community Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The California Endowment · The Annenberg Foundation · Pasadena Community Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Greenberg Foundation · Tides Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • St John's College: 2% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Achieving America Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Achieving America Family Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 151 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home