· Private foundation
Carl E Wynn Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| 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 |
| AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY | $40,000 |
| ORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE HOMER PUBLIC LIBRARY | $30,000 |
| SHOES THAT FIT | $25,109 |
| ANIMALS RULE PLACEMENT FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CFCENTER FOR ALASKAN COASTAL STUDIES8× · 2017–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +76%
- 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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
104 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds PEDIATRIC THERAPY NETWORK ↗
- 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 LAURA'S HOUSE ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Carl E Wynn Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carl E Wynn Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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