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Albatross Charitable Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k78 grants · $77k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE NATIONAL RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATIONAL FO | $10,000 |
| GRATEFUL AMERICANS CHARITY | $5,000 |
| CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC | $3,000 |
| UNITED HEALING CENTER | $2,500 |
| CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $2,500 |
| VOICES FOR CHILDREN | $2,000 |
| GIVEDIRECTLY INC | $2,000 |
| SHARIAS CLOSET | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $2,000 |
| MARGUERITE KIEFER EDUCATION CENTER INC | $2,000 |
| FOOD BANK CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO | $2,000 |
| CITY OF HOPE | $2,000 |
| BRIDGE OF HOPE GREATER DENVER | $1,500 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF ORANGE COUNTY | $1,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $167k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
98 repeat relationships — 56 still active in FY2025, 42 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MARY HARDIN-BAYLOR5× · 2020–2024 · $515k · revenue +8%
- CACHALLENGED ATHLETES INC6× · 2019–2025 · $44k · revenue +12%
- CCCHRYSALIS CENTER7× · 2019–2025 · $39k · revenue +84%
Funded once
- LCLos Cabos Children's Foundationone grant, 2024 · $33k · revenue 0%
- EWEastern Washington University Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +93%
- TNTHE NANCY PAINTER FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +76%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
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…
City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION
The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.
Chcf is dedicated to advancing meaningful, measurable improvements in the way the health care delivery system provides care to the people of california, particularly those with low incomes and those whose needs are not well served by the…
To improve the quality of life for the diverse communities we serve providing affordable and comprehensive healthcare and education in a welcoming multi-cultural environment.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.
The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of North Texas and the most unlike its peers is Muny Conservancy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
175 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 175 of the 194 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 UNIVERSITY OF MARY HARDIN-BAYLOR ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC ↗
- Who funds CHRYSALIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds Los Cabos Children's Foundation ↗
- Who funds ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PTSD FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CELEBRATE LIFE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLES HUMPHREY KEATING IV FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Apartment Life Inc ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HOME INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOUSING INDUSTRY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER TARRANT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY IN ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds SUNFLOWER HILL ↗
- Who funds BELLAS HOUSE OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds FAMILY HUMANITARIAN EXPERIENCE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA ↗
- Who funds VOICES FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds The National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds HILLEL AT UCLA ↗
- Who funds FIGHTER COUNTRY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KENNY VACCARO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CARITAS COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds GRANT CARDONE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC LOS ANGELES & ORANGE COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds BEACON OF LIGHT ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bay Area ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds STANDING STONE MINISTRIES 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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · California Community Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Kennedy Wilson Charitable Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Banc of California Charitable Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The Michael and Lori Milken Family Foundation · United Way Worldwide
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 Albatross Charitable 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.
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
- Hope and Comfort Inc — 1% of income from government
- Oregon Health & Science University Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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