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· Private foundation
Alvarado Charitable Foundation
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$30k
Granted FY2021
1
Grants
1
Communities
$30k
Largest
01What you fund
0179% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2021.
Education$100kYouth Development$93kArts & Culture$45kCrime & Legal$8kHealth$6kAnimals$5kOther$68k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
lawloyolaboys girlsgirls losangeles harbor
2020
radio
2021
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2021 · 1 grant
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$357
Total assets
Largest grants
- LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES$30,000
02The need
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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 (FY19–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 11%. 94% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.
76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$246k · 3 repeat orgs$80k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +132% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2021, 2 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
3
7
Total granted
$246k
$80k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+132%
+35%
Still filing today
67%
86%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalHealthAnimalsOther
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
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOS ANGELES HARBOR2× · 2019–2020 · $93k · revenue +132%
- LFLIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES3× · 2019–2021 · $90k · revenue +14%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA2× · 2019–2020 · $63k
Funded once
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIOone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +20%- CTCENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELESone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +1%
- CUCHAPMAN UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +49%
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.
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Ucla Alumni Association
The mission of the ucla alumni association is to enrich the lives of alumni and involve them in the future of ucla.
Education
2
Segerstrom Center for the Arts
Developing and operating a major performing arts center presenting the finest in performing arts.
Arts & Culture
3
Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles
Tmc strives to deepen the cultural lives of every resident of los angeles county and continue creating an increasingly relevant, multidisciplinary performing arts center.
Arts & Culture
4
Los Angeles Review of Books
The los angeles review of books is a non profit multimedia literary, educational, intellectual, and cultural arts project that combines serious book reviews and essays with the evolving technologies of the internet, promoting and…
Education
5
University of California
To raise and manage private funds to support uci's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service.
Education
6
Los Angeles Opera Company
See part iii and schedule othe los angeles opera company (la opera) is a non-profit entity organized to provide an opportunity for all to enjoy the rich emotional and cultural experience of opera.
Arts & Culture
7
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Basic research in the following: molecular biology & genetics, neuroscience, and plant biology.
Science & Tech
8
Pitzer College
Pitzer College is an educational institution focusing on undergraduate education.
Education
9
Claremont Graduate University
A private, independent, nonprofit institution of higher learning that is a high research activity university awarding master's and doctoral degrees within its five schools and three independent departments.
Education
10
Los Angeles Philharmonic Association
La philharmonic association's mission is to perform, present, and promote music in its many varied forms at the highest level of excellence to a large & diverse audience.
Arts & Culture
11
California Academy of Sciences
To regenerate the natural world through science, learning, and collaboration
Arts & Culture
12
Azusa Pacific University
To advance the work of God in the world through academic excellence in higher education.
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Library Foundation of Los Angeles and the most unlike its peers is National Jewish Health. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
8/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Education$100,000Youth Development$92,700Other$68,250Arts & Culture$45,000Crime & Legal$8,490Health$5,900Animals$5,000
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 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOS ANGELES HARBOR ↗
- Who funds LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds CENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
- Who funds GREATER LOS ANGELES ZOO ASSOCIATION ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation Alvarado 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOS ANGELES HARBOR.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
medium risk
~4 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.3× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 951661682 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOS ANGELES HARBOR, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 4 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 1% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Alvarado Charitable Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Alvarado Charitable Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines