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Arms Family Foundation Tr

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.

$50k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$16k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$106kEducation$100kReligion$27kPhilanthropy$9kPublic Benefit$5kHuman Services$3kPublic Safety & Disaster$2kCrime & Legal$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $38k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$668k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LA Opera$16,000
Santa Monica Education Fdn$12,125
St Pauls Lutheran Church$10,000
SMAPA JAMS Theatre$5,000
ICEF Public Schools$2,500
Santa Monica HS Samohi Choir$2,500
CBB4Life$1,000
The Music Center$1,000
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 (FY19–20, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%American Red Cross: $1k → 11%Charity Navigator: $250 → 7%Charity Navigator: $50 → 7%American Red Cross: $875 → 11%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

MN
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
UT
VA
TN
DC
GA
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$212k · 19 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
10

Total granted

$212k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+60%

Still filing today

53%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesPublic BenefitAnimalsHealthCrime & 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

  • SM
    Santa Monica Education Foundation
    5× · 2019–2024 · $43k · revenue +10%
  • IC
    INNER CITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $15k · revenue +32%
  • SF
    SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND
    2× · 2019–2020 · $3k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • SM
    Santa Monica High School ASB
    one grant, 2019 · $2k
  • SP
    SMA PA Theater
    one grant, 2019 · $500
  • BG
    Boys Girls Club
    one grant, 2020 · $500
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
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
2
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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3
Zoological Society of San Diego

San diego zoo wildlife alliance is committed to saving species worldwide by uniting our expertise in wildlife care and conservation science with our dedication to inspiring passion for nature.

Animals
4
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.

Education
5
Pitzer College

Pitzer College produces engaged socially responsible citizens of the world through an academically rigorous, interdisciplinary liberal arts education emphasizing social justice, intercultural understanding and environmental sensitivity.…

Education
6
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
7
Claremont Graduate University

Claremont Graduate University prepares individuals to be leaders for positive change in the world. Unique in its transdisciplinary approach, the University is dedicated to the creation, dissemination, and application of new knowledge and…

Education
8
Santa Catalina Island Conservancy

The catalina island conservancy protects and stewards 88% of catalina island. more than 42,000 acres of wildlands, coves and coastal habitats. founded to preserve the island's natural resources, the conservancy advances a mission rooted in…

—
9
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
10
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
11
San Francisco Friends School

At san francisco friends school, students learn in a community grounded in the quaker values of reflection, integrity, peaceful problem-solving and stewardship. our teachers challenge students with a dynamic curriculum that inspires…

Education
12
California Western School of Law

California western school of law is an independent, aba/aals and wasc senior college and university commission (wscuc) accredited s.d. law school that prepares graduates for the practice of law through a carefully sequenced program of…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Whittier College. 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

18 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. 18 of the 33 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
16/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LA Opera: $67,000 · OtherLA OperaSanta Monica Education Foundation: $42,625 · OtherSanta Monica Education FoundationSt Pauls Lutheran Church: $26,000 · OtherSt Pauls Lutheran ChurchSMAPA JAMS Theatre: $20,000 · OtherSMAPA JAMS TheatreSanta Monica HS Samohi Choir: $15,000 · OtherSanta Monica HS Samohi ChoirThe St Olaf Fund: $6,500 · Other+16 more: $15,725 · Other+16 moreTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $38,600 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF…INNER CITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationINNER CITY EDUCATION FOU…+2 more: $1,625 · EducationSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $3,125 · HealthRANCHO SANTA FE FOUNDATION: $2,300 · PhilanthropyAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,875 · Human ServicesCharity Navigator: $300 · Human ServicesPacific Legal Foundation: $2,000 · Crime & LegalJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $1,250 · Public BenefitTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $750 · Public Benefit
Other$192,850Education$55,225Health$3,125Philanthropy$2,300Human Services$2,175Crime & Legal$2,000Public Benefit$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSanta Monica Education Foundation: $42,625 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $38,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINNER CITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $3,125 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRANCHO SANTA FE FOUNDATION: $2,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Legal Foundation: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,875 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWhittier College: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $1,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCharity Navigator: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRANCHO COASTAL HUMANE SOCIETY: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQUAIL BOTANICAL GARDENS FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA: $125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT: $125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $125 over 1y, 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.

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.

National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA9.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Arms Family Foundation Tr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arms Family Foundation Tr. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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 · 0–25%
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.

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 33 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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The camps
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By state
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