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Barons Second Chance 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.

$487k
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$152k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $55k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $280k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $152k
$10,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE BESSEMER GIVING FUND$152,000
DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER$30,000
PROJECT ANGEL FOOD$25,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES$25,000
NEW VILLAGE GIRLS ACADEMY$25,000
BRADY UNITED AGAINST GUN VIOLENCE$25,000
WELLNEST$25,000
CALIFORNIA HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER$25,000
PARA LOS NINOS$25,000
FRIENDS OF 40 PRADO$15,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$10,000
PORTLAND HUMANE SOCIETY$10,000
MY FRIENDS PLACE$10,000
NORTHWEST TRAIL ALLIANCE INC$10,000
ALEXANDRIA HOUSE$10,000
02The need
02

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $104k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $30k → 14%ASPEN ELKS YOUTH AND VETERANS FUND: $7k → 6%MOUNTAIN VALLEY DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES: $7k → 8%ALEXANDRIA HOUSE: $10k → 14%WELLNEST: $25k → 14%PARA LOS NINOS: $25k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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 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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Casa de Esperanza

Casa is a refuge, providing protection and education for people caught in the cylces of domestic violence, sexual assault and child assault. Casa is a healing community where women and children can receive the nurturing and support…

Human Services
2
Valley Humane SocietyInc

Valley Humane Society (VHS) creates a brighter future for cats and dogs by encouraging and strengthening the bond between people and pets. VHS rescues and rehabilitates companion animals, champions responsible caretaking, shares pets'…

Animals
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
Allies for Every Child Inc

All children need a childhood. Allies for Every Child brings together and strengthens families, cultivating conditions for children to succeed in life. (Continues on Schedule O)

Human Services
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Safe Nesttemporary Assistance for

Safe nest's mission is to provide comprehensive, collaborative, and innovative services for everyone affected by domestic and sexual violence while passionatley working to end this shared epidemic.

Human Services
6
Didi Hirsch Psychiatric Service

The roots of the los angeles didi hirsch psychiatric service dba didi hirsch mental health services ("dhmhs") extend back to the 1930s, when a group of women funded psychiatric care for people whose lives were devastated by the depression.…

Health
7
Consejo Counseling & Referral Service

Consejo brings healing, health, and hope to communities through holistic, culturally, and linguistically competent behavioral health services and advocacy.

Health
8
Wayfinder Family Services

The mission of Wayfinder Family Services is to ensure that children, youth and adults facing challenges always have a place to turn. Founded in 1953 as the Foundation for the Junior Blind, the organization initially enabled visually…

Human Services
9
La Casa de las Madres

La Casa de las Madres' mission is to respond to calls for help from DV victims, of all ages, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. We give survivors the tools to transform their lives. We seek to prevent future violence by educating the…

10
High Sierra Animal Rescue Inc

High Sierra Animal Rescues mission is to save the lives of homeless dogs in the regions served. Our staff and volunteers are dedicated to making our communities better through successful adoptions advancing their welfare and creating human…

Animals
11
Trauma Informed La
Civil Rights
12
Pet Orphans of Southern California

In addition to rescue and adoption, pet orphans provides a wide range of services including education, medical/financial, spay/neuter, and training assistance.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Para Los Ninos and the most unlike its peers is Meade Canine Rescue Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 20172026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 26 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
5/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE BESSEMER GIVING FUND — $152,000 · PhilanthropyTHE BESSEMER GIVING FUNDDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER — $30,000 · Human ServicesDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTERPARA LOS NINOS — $25,000 · Human ServicesPARA LOS NINOSWellnest Emotional Health & Wellness — $25,000 · Human ServicesWellnest Emotional Healt…ALEXANDRIA HOUSE — $10,000 · Human ServicesALEXANDRIA HOUSEMountain Valley Developmental Services — $7,000 · Human ServicesMountain Valley Developm…ASPEN ELKS YOUTH AND VETERANS FUND — $7,000 · Human ServicesASPEN ELKS YOUTH AND VET…CALIFORNIA HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER — $25,000 · OtherCALIFORNIA HOSPITAL MEDICA…BRADY UNITED AGAINST GUN VIOLENCE — $25,000 · OtherBRADY UNITED AGAINST GUN V…PLANNED PARENTHOOD — $10,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODPORTLAND HUMANE SOCIETY — $10,000 · OtherPORTLAND HUMANE SOCIETYMY FRIENDS PLACE — $10,000 · OtherMY FRIENDS PLACEFROM THE HEART TRIBE — $5,000 · OtherKINO BORDER INITIATIVE INC — $5,000 · OtherESSEX BAY SAILING CLUB INC — $5,000 · OtherASPEN ANIMAL SHELTER — $4,000 · OtherNorthwest Trail Alliance Inc — $10,000 · OtherNorthwest Trail Alliance I…PREGNANCY JUSTICE INC — $5,000 · OtherPROJECT ANGEL FOOD — $25,000 · HealthPROJECT ANGEL…Children's Hospital Los Angeles — $25,000 · HealthChildren's Ho…Pathfinders — $7,000 · HealthPathfindersNEW VILLAGE CHARTER SCHOOL INC — $25,000 · EducationMEADE CANINE RESCUE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · AnimalsATLAS ANIMAL RESCUE CORPORATION — $5,000 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF TRUCKEE-TAHOE — $5,000 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF 40PRADO — $15,000 · Housing & Shelter
Philanthropy$152,000Human Services$104,000Other$114,000Health$57,000Education$25,000Animals$20,000Housing & Shelter$15,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE BESSEMER GIVING FUND — $152,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW VILLAGE CHARTER SCHOOL INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPARA LOS NINOS — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL FOOD — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWellnest Emotional Health & Wellness — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF 40PRADO — $15,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetALEXANDRIA HOUSE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNorthwest Trail Alliance Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetMEADE CANINE RESCUE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetMountain Valley Developmental Services — $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASPEN ELKS YOUTH AND VETERANS FUND — $7,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetPathfinders — $7,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetKINO BORDER INITIATIVE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetATLAS ANIMAL RESCUE CORPORATION — $5,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetPREGNANCY JUSTICE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF TRUCKEE-TAHOE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

The Bessemer Giving FundNJ12.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bessemer Giving Fund · California Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Barons Second Chance 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.

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no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Barons Second Chance Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Barons Second Chance 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 26 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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