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Adrian and Betsy Gonzalez Foundation at a glance

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Adrian and Betsy Gonzalez 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.

$51k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$28k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$660kHealth$75kEducation$55kRecreation & Sports$32kAnimals$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $43k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$824k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTER FOR EARLY EDUCATION$27,500
Individual grant recipient$15,000
GOLDIES YOUTH SPORTS$8,500
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 58% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%DAVID ORTIZ FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%SECOND CHANCE FIELDS: $10k → 11%GOLDIES YOUTH SPORTS: $9k → 14%FUNDACION TELETON USA: $25k → 14%FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $8k → 15%SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $150k → 11%GOLDIES YOUTH SPORTS: $2k → 14%FUNDACION TELETON USA: $20k → 14%FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $3k → 15%SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $100k → 11%GREATER LA ZOO ASSOICATION: $5k → 14%SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $80k → 11%CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $110k → 14%CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $90k → 14%CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $80k → 14%CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%CENTER FOR EARLY EDUCATION: $28k → 14%CENTER FOR EARLY EDUCATION: $28k → 14%YMCA METRO LA: $30k → 14%YMCA METRO LA: $15k → 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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 38% of Adrian and Betsy Gonzalez Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Adrian and Betsy Gonzalez Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$167k · 5 repeat orgs$45k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
4

Total granted

$167k
$45k

Still filing today

80%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’20’21’23’24
EducationRecreation & SportsInternationalYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • TC
    THE CENTER FOR EARLY EDUCATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $55k · revenue +9%
  • FT
    FUNDACION TELETON USA
    2× · 2017–2018 · $45k · revenue +11%
  • FO
    FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES
    2× · 2020–2021 · $11k · revenue +87%

Funded once

  • DO
    DAVID ORTIZ FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • GL
    GREATER LA ZOO ASSOICATION
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
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
05the grantee network

6 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. 6 of the 11 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
6/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $330,000 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONTHE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $330,000 · PhilanthropyTHE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $45,000 · OtherIndividual …DAVID ORTIZ FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherDAVID ORTIZ…Individual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual …GREATER LA ZOO ASSOICATION: $5,000 · OtherGREATER LA …FUNDACION INFANTIL RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $5,000 · OtherFUNDACION I…THE CENTER FOR EARLY EDUCATION: $55,000 · EducationFUNDACION TELETON USA: $45,000 · InternationalFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $11,000 · Youth DevelopmentGOLDIES YOUTH SPORTS: $10,500 · Recreation & Sports
Philanthropy$660,000Other$90,000Education$55,000International$45,000Youth Development$11,000Recreation & Sports$10,500

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 budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $330,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $330,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR EARLY EDUCATION: $55,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFUNDACION TELETON USA: $45,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGOLDIES YOUTH SPORTS: $10,500 over 2y, 3.0% 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 CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR EARLY EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds FUNDACION TELETON USA ↗
  • Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
  • Who funds GOLDIES YOUTH SPORTS ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Adrian and Betsy Gonzalez Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Adrian and Betsy Gonzalez Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s 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.
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    How do I get to Adrian and Betsy Gonzalez Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Adrian and Betsy Gonzalez 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 11 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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