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Burton G Bettingen Corporation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$721k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Health$703kHuman Services$694kEducation$549kCommunity Improvement$373kYouth Development$171kCrime & Legal$127kHousing & Shelter$95kInternational$94kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $165k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $300k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STRIVE$250,000
THE TEEN PROJECT INC$150,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
SYCAMORES$50,000
MF PLACE INC DBA MY FRIEND'S PLACE$50,000
MIDNIGHT MISSION$25,000
CALIFORNIA ART CLUB$25,000
THE COLLEAGUES HELPERS IN PHILANTHROPIC SERVICE (CHIPS)$25,000
SUMMIT COUNTY CLUBHOUSE$25,000
ORDER OF MALTA CLINIC OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CLINIC$25,000
UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN$20,000
GARDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION$10,290
LES AMIES INC$10,000
THE COLLEAGUES$3,000
USC CARUSO CATHOLIC CENTER$2,500
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $677k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Breaking Free: $15k → 14%BOYS REPUBLIC: $20k → 14%THE COLLEAGUES: $236k → 14%JOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION: $35k → 20%Breaking Free: $2k → 14%The Colleagues: $50k → 14%The Colleagues: $40k → 14%Young Horizons: $5k → 14%THE COLLEAGUES: $3k → 14%Young Horizons: $1k → 14%THE TEEN PROJECT INC: $150k → 14%SYCAMORES: $50k → 14%ST ANNE'S MATERNITY HOME: $3k → 14%Children's Institute Inc: $3k → 14%Children's Institute Inc: $100 → 14%LES AMIES INC: $10k → 14%LES AMIES: $10k → 14%UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $20k → 14%MIDNIGHT MISSION: $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 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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.1M · 27 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.

27 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
48

Total granted

$2.1M
$629k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+27%

Still filing today

63%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $380k 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 ServicesEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalOther

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

  • SF
    STRIVE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2024 · $300k · revenue +221%
  • PH
    PROJECT HOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    2× · 2020–2021 · $150k · revenue +299%
  • BG
    Boys & Girls Clubs of Fresno Inc
    3× · 2020–2022 · $145k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • PW
    Piney Woods School
    one grant, 2021 · $65k · revenue +22%
  • NB
    NEW BEGINNINGS CHURCH
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • US
    University System of Maryland Foundation
    one grant, 2020 · $50k

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
Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.

Health
2
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology

The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.

Education
3
Communities in Schools of Los Angeles Inc

To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. we work with public school systems, establishing relationship with superintendents, principals, educators, and community partners to…

Youth Development
4
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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5
California Institute for Behavioral Health Solutions

Cibhs partners with communities, providers, and systems to transform the behavioral health ecosystem by delivering high-impact training, technical assistance, and systems transformation grounded in evidence and lived experience.

Health
6
Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice

The survivor justice center secures justice for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault and empowers them to create their own future.

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7
Trauma Informed La
Civil Rights
8
California Court Appointed Special Advocate Association

California casa was founded in 1987. its mission is to ensure that children and youth in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems have both a voice and the services they need to thrive. we achieve this by strengthening and empowering…

Civil Rights
9
California College of the Arts

California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…

Education
10
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
11
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
12
California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy

To harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is The L a Fire Department Scholarship Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyIndependent K-8 SchoolsYouth Development CentersCommunity Arts OrganizationsChild and Family ServicesSubstance Abuse TreatmentCommunity Health CentersAt-Risk Youth MentoringUrban Agriculture & Food Ac…Cancer Support OrganizationsPublic University Foundatio…Professional Ballet Compani…Veteran Support ServicesJewish Community FederationsEarly Childhood Education C…Fallen First Responder Supp…Legal Aid & Immigration Ser…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Domestic Violence Crisis Se…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%2%<5yr15%5%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr17%20%20–35yr11%17%35–55yr13%39%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%3%<5yr15%1%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr17%27%20–35yr11%13%35–55yr13%37%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/49
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,929

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

45 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. 45 of the 87 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/45
Grantees still filing
32/45
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER NEW ENGLAND EYE CENTER — $400,000 · OtherTUFTS MEDICAL CENTER NEW ENGLAND EYE CENTERTufts University Medical Center — $150,000 · OtherTufts University Medical CenterJOURNEY OUT — $95,456 · OtherJOURNEY OUTIndividual grant recipient — $70,000 · OtherNEW BEGINNINGS CHURCH — $50,000 · OtherUniversity System of Maryland Foundation — $50,000 · OtherFORGOTTEN CHILD INC — $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $50,000 · OtherM F PLACE INC — $50,000 · Other+52 more — $473,415 · Other+52 moreTHE COLLEAGUES INC — $329,000 · Human ServicesTHE COLLEAGUES INCThe Teen Project Inc — $150,000 · Human ServicesThe Teen Project IncHATHAWAY-SYCAMORES CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES — $50,000 · Human ServicesHATHAWAY-SYCAMORES CHIL…JOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION — $35,000 · Human ServicesTHE MIDNIGHT MISSION — $25,000 · Human Services+7 more — $87,897 · Human Services+7 moreSTRIVE FOUNDATION — $300,000 · Youth DevelopmentSTRIVE FOUNDATI…Boys & Girls Clubs of Fresno Inc — $145,000 · Youth DevelopmentBoys & Girls Cl…WOODSON CENTER — $220,841 · Community ImprovementWOODSON CENTE…PROJECT HOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $150,000 · Community ImprovementPROJECT HOOD …+1 more — $675 · Community ImprovementPiney Woods School — $65,030 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $43,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $28,500 · EducationCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — $5,000 · Education+3 more — $4,000 · EducationFAIR GIRLS INC — $94,125 · InternationalCALIFORNIA ART CLUB — $55,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,438,871Human Services$676,897Youth Development$445,000Community Improvement$371,516Education$145,530International$94,125Arts & Culture$55,000

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 COLLEAGUES INC — $329,000 over 4y, 24% of budgetSTRIVE FOUNDATION — $300,000 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetWOODSON CENTER — $220,841 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetThe Teen Project Inc — $150,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPROJECT HOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $150,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Fresno Inc — $145,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetJOURNEY OUT — $95,456 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetFAIR GIRLS INC — $94,125 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetCALIFORNIA ART CLUB — $55,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetHATHAWAY-SYCAMORES CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetM F PLACE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $43,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $28,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSUMMIT COUNTY CLUBHOUSE — $25,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetOrder of Malta Clinic of Northern California — $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCATHOLIC SCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE — $25,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTHE MIDNIGHT MISSION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLES AMIES INC — $20,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetUNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBoys Republic — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInner City Law Center — $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPATHWAYS TO INDEPENDENCE — $11,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budget1IN6 INC — $10,100 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetYOUNG HORIZONS — $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Anne's Family Services — $2,797 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC — $2,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Community Watch Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS — $1,450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JUVENILE & FAMILY COURT JUDGES — $927 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBarak Ballet Corporation — $815 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLong Beach Nonprofit Partnership Inc DBA The Nonprofit Partnership — $675 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA FOUNDATION — $514 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHORDS2CURE CORPORATION — $259 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIMMUNE DEFICIENCY FOUNDATION — $30 over 1y, 0.0% 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…California Community …The Ralph M Parsons F…The Annenberg Foundat…Klm FoundationWeingart FoundationThomas & Dorothy Leav…The California Endowm…Lon V Smith FoundationRobert a Waller Found…The Brian D Stevens F…
The Rose Hills FoundationCA23.5× affinity9 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 · California Community Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Klm Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Thomas & Dorothy Leavey Foundation · The California Endowment · Lon V Smith Foundation · Robert a Waller Foundation · The Brian D Stevens 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 Burton G Bettingen Corporation 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 · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Burton G Bettingen Corporation?

    Find your warmest path to Burton G Bettingen Corporation 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 87 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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