· Private foundation
Carl E Wynn Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $88k
- $10k–50k40 grants · $787k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $475k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTER FOR ALASKAN COASTAL STUDIES | $140,000 |
| CENTER FOR ALASKAN COASTAL STUDIES | $85,000 |
| GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND | $75,000 |
| PEPPERMINT RIDGE | $65,000 |
| PEPPERMINT RIDGE | $60,000 |
| CARING HOUSE | $50,000 |
| CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT | $45,000 |
| AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY | $40,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD DISTRIBUTION CENTER OF ORANGE COUNTY | $40,000 |
| HOMER SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY INC PRATT MUSEUM | $40,000 |
| PATRONS OF THE PRATT SOCIETY (POPS) | $40,000 |
| ORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE HOMER PUBLIC LIBRARY | $30,000 |
| SHOES THAT FIT | $25,109 |
| BLANKETS FOR SOLDIERS | $25,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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.
113 repeat relationships — 60 still active in FY2024, 53 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CFCENTER FOR ALASKAN COASTAL STUDIES8× · 2017–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +97%
- PRPEPPERMINT RIDGE8× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +52%
GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC8× · 2017–2024 · $579k · revenue +86%
Funded once
- SCSADDLEBACK CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $66k
- AMARMENIAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA - AMMAone grant, 2023 · $30k
- OIORTHOPEDIC INSTITUTE FOR CHILDRENone grant, 2021 · $15k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
The principal mission of Human Services Association is to provide families with compassionate and comprehensive care to promote wellness and build strong communities.
Bayfront Youth & Family Services is a quality provider of behavioral and mental health treatment services for children, adolescents, and their caregivers. Our mission is to provide a comprehensive support system that promotes safe and…
The mission of the Family Care Network is to enhance the wellbeing of children, adults, and families in partnership with our community.
Our missions is to restore youth to lives of purpose, meaning and opportunity. human services network, dba youth services network (ysn), was founded in 1985. ysn operates three (3) community-based homes that serve boys from throughout los…
Our mission is to serve foster youth, families and our community through intensive clinical evidence-based treatment services, along with personalized and compassionate care. we provide mental health treatment that changes lives through a…
Believing in the value of every life, mary's path empowers vulnerable teen mothers in foster care and their babies to create lives of dignity, hope and self-sufficiency.
Our mission is to create housing and service options that model, with respect and dignity, sustainable, environmentally sensitive, affordable communities for people of limited resources.
The mission of children's home society of california is to provide children, families, and communities with supportive services to thrive.
Intervening to protect and treat all victims of violence
Milestone House assists disadvantaged children and young adults, primarily those who come from the foster care system, by creating and implementing innovative programs that provide a variety of need services, including treatment services,…
Compass family services helps homeless families and those at imminent risk to achieve housing stability, economic self-sufficiency, and well-being.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Families Forward 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 42 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
104 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. 104 of the 142 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds CENTER FOR ALASKAN COASTAL STUDIES ↗
- Who funds PEPPERMINT RIDGE ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CARING HOUSE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds PEDIATRIC THERAPY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds Children of the Night ↗
- Who funds ORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HOMER PUBLIC LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds OLIVE CREST ABUSED CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds Animals Rule Placement Foundation ↗
- Who funds SHOES THAT FIT ↗
- Who funds BEACON LIGHT MISSION ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOMEWORK HOUSE ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER CENTER SOUTH BAY-HARBOR- LONG BEACH ↗
- Who funds FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds Emanate Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LOS ANGELES HARBOR ↗
- Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Rose Hills Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Green Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · California Community Foundation · Henry L Guenther Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · O L Halsell Foundation · S Mark Taper Foundation · In-N-Out Burgers 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 Carl E Wynn 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.
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.
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