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BCM Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
40
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$947k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Youth Development$3.1MFood & Nutrition$2.4MArts & Culture$2.2MCommunity Improvement$2.0MEducation$1.6MHealth$870kHuman Services$695kCrime & Legal$650kOther$0
02FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $592k
  • $50k–250k17 grants · $1.7M
  • $250k+1 grant · $947k
$40,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$55M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Boys Girls Club of Whittier$946,950
Interfaith Food Center$235,000
Los Angeles Regional Food Bank$185,000
United Peace Officers Against Crime$150,000
Library Foundation of Los Angeles$125,000
United Friends fo the Chiildren$125,000
CASA of Los Angeles$100,000
World Federation of Youth Clubs$95,000
Long Beach Museum of Art$75,000
Helpline Youth Counseling Inc$75,000
Kidspace Children's Museum$75,000
LA County High School for the Arts$75,000
Natural History Museum$75,000
Individual grant recipient$59,500
Whittier Historical Society$52,000
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 (FY20–24, $550k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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%SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL WELLNESS INITIATIVE: $50k → 14%Jovenes Inc: $50k → 14%JOVENES INC: $25k → 14%Shoes That Fit: $25k → 14%Shoes That Fit: $20k → 14%Shoes That Fit: $15k → 14%SHOES THAT FIT: $15k → 14%United Friends fo the Chiildren: $125k → 14%United Friends fo the Chiildren: $125k → 14%United Friends fo the Chiildren: $100k → 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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$13M · 44 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

44 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
15

Total granted

$13M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+66%

Still filing today

84%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $169k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthAnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • IF
    INTERFAITH FOOD CENTER
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +695% · 27% of their budget
  • CO
    CASA OF LOS ANGELES
    5× · 2020–2024 · $500k · revenue +49%
  • RL
    RANCHO LOS AMIGOS FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $290k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • WC
    WHITTIER COLLEGE - CEC
    one grant, 2020 · $532k
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WHITTIER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +280%
  • BG
    Boys Girls Club of Hawaii
    one grant, 2021 · $70k

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
All About Kids La
Philanthropy
2
Los Angeles Conservation Corps

The la conservation corps creates equitable opportunities for young people to build resilience in themselves, their communities and the environment through a program of work, education and support.

Employment
3
Museum Associates

To serve the public through the collection, conservation, exhibition and interpretation of significant works of art from a broad range of cultures and historical periods, and through translation of these collections into meaningful…

Arts & Culture
4
California Institute of Contemporary Art
—
5
Latino Theater Company

The latino theater company operates the los angeles theatre center, whose mission is to provide a world class arts center for those pursuing artistic excellence; a laboratory where both tradition and innovation are honored and honed; a…

Arts & Culture
6
Chico Children's Museum

None

Education
7
La's Best

La's best provides free supervised before and after-school activities to over 15,000 children at 200 schools in los angeles unified school district (lausd).

Education
8
La Scuola International School

Inspire brave learners to shape the future.

Education
9
Los Angeles Academy of Arts and Enterprise

To prepare students for leadership in the arts and business; where creativity, academic knowledge and financial literacy are essential for success. we are providing an education that integrates the four lenses of learning: academics, arts,…

Education
10
Los Angeles Conservancy

The los angeles conservancy is a nonprofit membership organization that works through education and advocacy to recognize, preserve, and revitalize the historic architectural and cultural resources of los angeles county.

Arts & Culture
11
Pasadena Museum of California Art

To present the breadth of california art and design through exhibitions that explore the cultural dynamics and influence that are unique to california.

—
12
San Carlos Childrens Theater

San carlos children's theater is a non-profit organization committed to educating youth on all aspects of theater production while nurturing creative expression, teamwork and appreciation for the arts

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Friends of the Children and the most unlike its peers is Foodbank of Southern California. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%0%<5yr16%9%5–10yr20%0%10–20yr17%33%20–35yr10%39%35–55yr12%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%0%<5yr16%4%5–10yr20%0%10–20yr17%39%20–35yr10%42%35–55yr12%14%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/50
the rest of the field
16%
7,867/49,766

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

50 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 50 of the 66 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.

8
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/50
Grantees still filing
33/50
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Boys Girls Club of Whittier — $2,152,425 · OtherBoys Girls Club of WhittierWhitter College CEC — $1,389,781 · OtherWhitter College CECLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK — $925,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANKWHITTIER COLLEGE - CEC — $532,073 · OtherWHITTIER COLLEGE - CEC+32 more — $2,845,405 · Other+32 moreINTERFAITH FOOD CENTER — $1,229,000 · EducationINTERFAITH FOOD CENTE…WHITTIER PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $652,500 · EducationWHITTIER PUBLIC LIBRA…THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES — $425,000 · EducationTHE LIBRARY FOUNDATIO…PUENTE LEARNING CENTER — $195,000 · EducationPUENTE LEARNING CENTE…MOUNT SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY — $100,000 · Education+4 more — $138,938 · EducationTHE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM SANTA MARIA CALIFORNIA — $360,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NATURAL …LONG BEACH MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION — $285,000 · Arts & CultureLONG BEACH M…KIDSPACE A PARTICIPATORY MUSEUM — $275,000 · Arts & CultureKIDSPACE A P…Whittier Historical Society — $147,000 · Arts & CultureWhittier His…THE LOS ANGELES CHAMBER ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC — $140,000 · Arts & CultureTHE LOS ANGE…FRIENDS OF THE CHILDRENS MUSEUM — $100,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF T…EDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC — $95,000 · Arts & CultureEDUCATION TH…A Noise Within — $70,000 · Arts & CultureINNER-CITY ARTS — $60,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $30,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED PEACE OFFICERS AGAINST CRIME — $450,000 · Human ServicesUNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN — $350,000 · Human ServicesJOVENES INC — $75,000 · Human ServicesSHOES THAT FIT — $75,000 · Human ServicesSOCIAL & EMOTIONAL WELLNESS INITIATIVE — $50,000 · Human ServicesRANCHO LOS AMIGOS FOUNDATION INC — $290,000 · HealthThe Whole Child - Mental Health & Housing Services — $175,000 · HealthSPIRITT Family Services — $105,000 · HealthCASA OF LOS ANGELES — $500,000 · Civil RightsWORLD YOUTH CLUBS INC — $255,000 · Youth DevelopmentAL WOOTEN JR YOUTH CENTER — $25,000 · Youth Development
Other$7,844,684Education$2,740,438Arts & Culture$1,562,000Human Services$1,000,000Health$570,000Civil Rights$500,000Youth Development$280,000

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 budgetINTERFAITH FOOD CENTER — $1,229,000 over 5y, 27% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK — $925,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWHITTIER PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $652,500 over 2y, 42% of budgetCASA OF LOS ANGELES — $500,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetUNITED PEACE OFFICERS AGAINST CRIME — $450,000 over 4y, 66% of budgetTHE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES — $425,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetUNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN — $350,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetRANCHO LOS AMIGOS FOUNDATION INC — $290,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetLONG BEACH MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION — $285,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetKIDSPACE A PARTICIPATORY MUSEUM — $275,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetWORLD YOUTH CLUBS INC — $255,000 over 5y, 6.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WHITTIER INC — $250,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $220,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetHelpline Youth Counseling Inc — $200,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetPUENTE LEARNING CENTER — $195,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetFOOD FINDERS INC — $185,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Whole Child - Mental Health & Housing Services — $175,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetA PLACE CALLED HOME — $155,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetWhittier Historical Society — $147,000 over 3y, 54% of budgetTHE LOS ANGELES CHAMBER ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC — $140,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetLOS ANGELES MUSIC AND ART SCHOOL — $125,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetTHE RYMAN-CARROLL FOUNDATION — $120,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetChorale Bel Canto — $118,105 over 5y, 34% of budgetSPIRITT Family Services — $105,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDRENS MUSEUM — $100,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetMOUNT SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY — $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES REPERTORY THEATER — $100,000 over 5y, 100% of budgetWHITTIER REGIONAL SYMPHONY — $80,000 over 2y, 63% of budgetGRIFFITH OBSERVATORY FOUNDATION — $80,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetJOVENES INC — $75,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSHOES THAT FIT — $75,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetWhittier Area Literacy Council — $74,938 over 3y, 53% of budgetA Noise Within — $70,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetFOODBANK OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $70,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS — $60,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetINNER-CITY ARTS — $60,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSOCIAL & EMOTIONAL WELLNESS INITIATIVE — $50,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetAQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC CORPORATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCalifornia Aquatic Therapy & Wellness Center Inc — $40,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetMAKING THE RIGHT CONNECTIONS INC — $40,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetGREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION — $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCALIFORNIA SCHOOL OF THE ARTS - SAN GABRIEL VALLEY FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetAL WOOTEN JR YOUTH CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S BURN FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGROUND EDUCATION — $15,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSOUTH COAST BOTANIC GARDEN FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SAN MARCOS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRio Hondo College Foundation — $9,000 over 1y, 1.0% 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 Rose Hills Founda…The Ahmanson Foundati…The Ralph M Parsons F…California Community …The Green FoundationWeingart FoundationThe Annenberg Foundat…S Mark Taper Foundati…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Employees Community F…Sempra FoundationStern Sidney Memorial…
The Rose Hills FoundationCA37.9× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Rose Hills Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Green Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · S Mark Taper Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Employees Community Fund of Boeing California Inc · Sempra Foundation · Stern Sidney Memorial Tuw

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 BCM 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    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 66 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.

    Source object · view filing

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