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Avonlea Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Avonlea Charitable 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.

$43k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$97kEducation$65kHuman Services$43kHousing & Shelter$40kHealth$22kAnimals$15kInternational$8kPhilanthropy$7kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$3,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$661k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SWARTHMORE COLLEGE - ELMER WINKLER$10,000
REED COLLEGE$5,000
MUSICAL THEATER ACADEMY OF ORANGE C$5,000
BREBEUF PREPARATORY SCHOOL$5,000
MY FRIEND'S PLACE$3,500
STAND UP FOR KIDS$3,500
KRISTI'S CATTITUDE$2,500
LAURA'S HOUSE$2,000
LOS ANGELES MISSION$1,500
ORANGE COUNTY RESCUE MISSION$1,500
CASA ROMANTICA CULTURAL CENTER GARD$1,500
SHARED HOPE INTERNATIONAL$1,500
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $97k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SHARE OUR SELVES: $3k → 10%SHARE OUR SELVES: $3k → 10%SHARE OUR SELVES: $1k → 10%LAURA'S HOUSE: $3k → 10%LAURA'S HOUSE: $3k → 10%LAURA'S HOUSE: $2k → 10%LAURA'S HOUSE: $1k → 10%MUSICAL THEATER ACADEMY OF ORANGE C: $25k → 10%MUSICAL THEATER ACADEMY OF ORANGE C: $15k → 10%MUSICAL THEATER ACADEMY OF ORANGE C: $10k → 10%MUSICAL THEATER ACADEMY OF ORANGE C: $5k → 10%MUSICAL THEATER ACADEMY OF ORANGE C: $5k → 10%MUSICAL THEATER ACADEMY OF ORANGE COUNTY: $5k → 10%MUSICAL THEATER ACADEMY OF ORANGE C: $5k → 10%MUSICAL THEATER ACADEMY OF ORANGE C: $5k → 10%MUSICAL THEATER ACADEMY OF ORANGE C: $2k → 10%THE ELI HOME: $3k → 10%THE ELI HOME: $2k → 10%THE ELI HOME: $1k → 10%THE ELI HOME: $1k → 10%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

WA
NY
OR
IN
PA
CA
CO
MD
DC
HI
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 9% of Avonlea Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 74% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 70%.

Avonlea Charitable 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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$250k · 26 repeat orgs$58k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against -17% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
19

Total granted

$250k
$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
-17%

Still filing today

69%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureHousing & ShelterInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • StandUp for Kids
    5× · 2018–2024 · $12k · revenue +76%
  • OC
    Orange County Rescue Mission Inc
    7× · 2018–2024 · $12k · revenue +26%
  • GARY SINISE FOUNDATION
    4× · 2018–2022 · $9k · revenue +126%

Funded once

  • MH
    MAUI HOMEWARD BOUND INC
    one grant, 2023 · $6k
  • HC
    HAWAI'I COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONMAUI ST
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • CA
    CORPORATE ANGEL NETWORK INC
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -31%
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
Mercy House Living Centers

Mercy house's most significant exempt activities focus on ending homelessness and providing comprehensive housing and support services. the organization offers homeless prevention, rapid rehousing, permanent supportive housing, and…

Housing & Shelter
2
City of Hope

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

Health
3
Interval House

The mission of the organization is to ensure safety and stability for people who are battered, abused, homeless or at risk; to create public awareness about the epidemic of violence; and to mobilize the community to prevent violence and…

Human Services
4
Altamed Health Services Corporation

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.

Health
5
The Hospice of the Florida Suncoast Inc

Suncoast hospice's mission is to be the center to improve life for those touched by advanced illness, death, dying, grief, bereavement and other end-of-life issues.

Human Services
6
City of Hope National Medical Center

City of Hope National Medical Center'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

Health
7
Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd

Huntington Health stands for community. We stand for compassion. But more than anything, Huntington stands for health. Providing world-class health care is our specialty, and it's what we've been doing for the San Gabriel Valley since…

Health
8
Union Rescue Mission

Union rescue mission embraces people with the compassion of christ. we assist people experiencing homelessness by providing a comprehensive array of emergency and long-term services to our guests, including: food, shelter, clothing,…

Human Services
9
Emanate Health Hospice

Our mission is to help people keep well in body, mind, and spirit by providing quality health care services in a safe, compassionate environment.

Human Services
10
Children's Healthcare of California

The primary exempt purpose of children's healthcare of california includes without limitation the receipt of distributions and grants for the making of distributions and grants to children's hospital of orange county (choc) and to…

Health
11
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Share Our Selves Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Mustard Seed Ranch Inc. 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

30 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. 30 of the 48 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
19/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST MARGARETS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $31,900 · OtherST MARGARETS EPISCOPAL SCHOOLBREBEUF JESUIT PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $16,500 · OtherBREBEUF JESUIT PREPARATORY SCHOOL INCStandUp for Kids: $11,500 · OtherStandUp for KidsMY FRIEND'S PLACE: $10,500 · OtherMY FRIEND'S PLACESWARTHMORE COLLEGE - ELMER WINKLER: $10,000 · OtherSWARTHMORE COLLEGE - ELMER WINKLERMAUI HOMEWARD BOUND INC: $6,000 · OtherHAWAI'I COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONMAUI ST: $5,000 · OtherKRISTIS CATTITUDE: $5,000 · OtherREED INSTITUTE: $5,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF FOLSOM: $5,000 · Other+17 more: $37,751 · Other+17 moreMUSICAL THEATRE ACADEMY OF ORANGE COUNTY: $76,500 · Human ServicesMUSICAL THEATRE ACADEMY OF ORANGE COU…LAURA'S HOUSE: $8,000 · Human ServicesLAURA'S HOUSEShare Our Selves Corporation: $6,000 · Human ServicesShare Our Selves CorporationTHE ELI HOME INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesTHE ELI HOME INCMUSTARD SEED RANCH INC: $4,500 · Human Services+2 more: $5,500 · Human ServicesOrange County Rescue Mission Inc: $11,500 · Housing & ShelterLOS ANGELES MISSION INC: $4,500 · Housing & ShelterHEARTLAND FILM INC: $7,000 · Arts & CultureCASA ROMANTICA CULTURAL CENTER & GARDENS: $5,000 · Arts & CultureSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $4,000 · Arts & CultureGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $9,000 · PhilanthropyNORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $6,500 · PhilanthropyCORPORATE ANGEL NETWORK INC: $5,000 · HealthCHOC FOUNDATION: $3,500 · HealthLOVE HOPE STRENGTH FOUNDATION: $2,500 · HealthChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $2,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,500 · HealthMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $5,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $1,500 · International
Other$144,151Human Services$106,500Housing & Shelter$16,000Arts & Culture$16,000Philanthropy$15,500Health$14,500International$6,500

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 budgetMUSICAL THEATRE ACADEMY OF ORANGE COUNTY: $76,500 over 8y, 4.5% of budgetStandUp for Kids: $11,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOrange County Rescue Mission Inc: $11,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLAURA'S HOUSE: $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHEARTLAND FILM INC: $7,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetShare Our Selves Corporation: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ELI HOME INC: $6,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCASA ROMANTICA CULTURAL CENTER & GARDENS: $5,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetREED INSTITUTE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCORPORATE ANGEL NETWORK INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMUSTARD SEED RANCH INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLOS ANGELES MISSION INC: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY MAUI INC: $4,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHOC FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN HELPING WOMEN: $3,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSHARED HOPE INTERNATIONAL: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOVE HOPE STRENGTH FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCASA TERESA INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRocklin Police Officers Association: $1,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LET IT BE FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,500 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.

  • Who funds MUSICAL THEATRE ACADEMY OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds StandUp for Kids ↗
  • Who funds Orange County Rescue Mission Inc ↗
  • Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LAURA'S HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds HEARTLAND FILM INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Share Our Selves Corporation ↗
  • Who funds THE ELI HOME INC ↗
  • Who funds CASA ROMANTICA CULTURAL CENTER & GARDENS ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds REED INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds CORPORATE ANGEL NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF FOLSOM ↗
  • Who funds MUSTARD SEED RANCH INC ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY MAUI INC ↗
  • Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CHOC FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN HELPING WOMEN ↗
  • Who funds SHARED HOPE INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds LOVE HOPE STRENGTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CASA TERESA INC ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Rocklin Police Officers Association ↗

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.

Orange County Communi…O L Halsell FoundationCalifornia Foundation…Enterprise Holdings F…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Morgan Stanley Global…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…American Endowment Fo…Natl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…
Orange County Community FoundationCA16.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · O L Halsell Foundation · California Foundation for Stronger Communities · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Avonlea Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Avonlea Charitable Foundation. 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%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Reed Institute: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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 · 0–40%
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 48 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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