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Alice Ghostley 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.

$6k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Health$208kEducation$68kCrime & Legal$18kArts & Culture$10kHuman Services$10kEmployment$10kYouth Development$9kAnimals$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$3,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$388k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SHERIFF'S YOUTH FOUNDATION$3,500
CONCERN FOUNDATION$2,000
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 (FY17–19, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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%HOME FRONT K9 PROJECT: $5k → 12%HOME FRONT K9 PROJECT: $3k → 12%GUIDE DOGS OF AMERICA: $5k → 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.
$92k · 6 repeat orgs$94k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
14

Total granted

$92k
$92k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
+5%

Still filing today

83%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureAnimalsPublic BenefitOther

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

  • S
    SEL4CA
    3× · 2018–2022 · $40k · revenue +118% · 33% of their budget
  • BC
    BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $16k · revenue +2%
  • HF
    HOME FRONT K9 PROJECT INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $8k · revenue +225%

Funded once

  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR FAMILIES
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +19% · 31% of their budget
  • CO
    CITY OF HOPE
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • CI
    CHIME INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -11%

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
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
2
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
3
The Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation

The jonsson cancer center foundation is the single most important vehicle for raising private funds for cancer research at ucla and plays a key role in advancing cancer treatments and care. please see schedule o for additional information.

4
University of California Irvine Foundation

The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…

Education
5
University of California San Francisco Foundation

Organization's mission ====================== the university of california, san francisco(ucsf) is among the world's leading universities dedicated to advancing health worldwide through biomedical research, graduate-level education in the…

Education
6
Shield of Faith Missions

Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.

Religion
7
Community Partners

Community development and social enterprise organization.

Community Improvement
8
Los Angeles Police Foundation

The mission of lapf is to create partnerships to provide resources and programs that help the police perform at their highest level and to enhance lapd-community relations.(see schedule o)

Human Services
9
Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy

The parker institute for cancer immunotherapy's (pici) mission is to accelerate the development of breakthrough immune therapies to turn all cancers into curable diseases.

Health
10
California Dental Association Foundation

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.

Science & Tech
11
California Healthcare Foundation

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…

12
California Communications Access Foundation Dba Ability Central

The mission of california communications access foundation (ccaf) is to serve as an educator, convener and resource that works collaboratively to ensure communications and information access in service of individuals who are deaf or…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Broadway Caresequity Fights Aids Inc and the most unlike its peers is Guardians Support Center Inc. 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

17 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. 17 of the 23 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)
15/17
Grantees still filing
10/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PROVIDENCE HEALTH & SERVICES FOUNDATION SAN FERNANDO & SANTA CLARITA VALLEYS SA — $150,000 · HealthPROVIDENCE HEALTH & SERVICES FOUNDATION SAN FERN…+1 more — $1,000 · HealthINSTITUTE FOR FAMILIES — $25,000 · OtherINSTITUTE FOR FAMILIESCOUNTY OF LA SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT — $18,000 · OtherCOUNTY OF LA SHERIFF'S DEPARTMEN…BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC — $16,250 · OtherBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS…CITY OF HOPE — $10,000 · OtherCITY OF HOPEPAYACTIV ACCESS FOUNDATION — $9,500 · OtherPAYACTIV ACCESS FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · OtherTEMPLE JUDEA — $5,000 · Other+4 more — $6,500 · Other+4 moreSEL4CA — $40,000 · EducationSEL4CAUCLA FOUNDATION — $15,000 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIONCHIME INSTITUTE — $10,000 · EducationCHIME INSTITUTEHOME FRONT K9 PROJECT INC — $7,500 · Human ServicesInternational Guiding Eyes Inc DBA Guide Dogs of America — $5,000 · Human ServicesSHERIFFS YOUTH FOUNDATION — $8,500 · Youth DevelopmentSHALOM INSTITUTE CAMP & CONFERENCE CENTER — $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentCENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES — $10,000 · Arts & CultureBIG SKY BRAVERY FOUNDATION — $2,000 · Public Benefit
Health$151,000Other$100,250Education$65,000Human Services$12,500Youth Development$10,500Arts & Culture$10,000Public Benefit$2,000

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 budgetPROVIDENCE HEALTH & SERVICES FOUNDATION SAN FERNANDO & SANTA CLARITA VALLEYS SA — $150,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSEL4CA — $40,000 over 3y, 33% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR FAMILIES — $25,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC — $16,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHIME INSTITUTE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAYACTIV ACCESS FOUNDATION — $9,500 over 1y, 13% of budgetSHERIFFS YOUTH FOUNDATION — $8,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetBIG SKY BRAVERY FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHALOM INSTITUTE CAMP & CONFERENCE CENTER — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONCERN FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWILDAID INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPenny Lane Centers — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGuardians Support Center Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 1.4% 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.

American Endowment FoundationOH8.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Alice Ghostley 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your 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
    8report 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, 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 Alice Ghostley Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Alice Ghostley 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 23 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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