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Carl E Wynn Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
65
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$140k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$2.8MEnvironment$2.0MHealth$1.3MEducation$1.1MArts & Culture$663kPublic Benefit$546kYouth Development$441kHousing & Shelter$345kOther$0
02FY2024 · 65 grants

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
$12,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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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.

area typical 10%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $25k → 14%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $25k → 14%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $15k → 14%HOPE HELPING OTHERS PREPARE FOR ETERNITY: $10k → 10%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $15k → 14%HOPE HELPING OTHERS PREPARE FOR ETERNITY: $6k → 10%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $15k → 11%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $75k → 8%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $15k → 11%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $75k → 8%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $15k → 11%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $75k → 8%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $75k → 8%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $75k → 8%CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT: $15k → 14%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $75k → 8%FOOTHILL FAMILY SERVICE (DBA FOOTHILL FAMILY): $10k → 14%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $75k → 8%FOOTHILL FAMILY SERVICE (DBA FOOTHILL FAMILY): $10k → 14%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $54k → 8%FOOTHILL FAMILY SERVICE (DBA FOOTHILL FAMILY): $10k → 14%LAURA'S HOUSE: $15k → 10%LAURA'S HOUSE: $10k → 10%LAURA'S HOUSE: $10k → 10%DAVID AND MARGARET YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICE: $10k → 14%DAVID AND MARGARET YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICE: $10k → 14%DAVID AND MARGARET YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICE: $10k → 14%DAVID AND MARGARET YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICE: $10k → 14%CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT: $45k → 14%CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT: $40k → 14%CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT: $30k → 14%CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT: $20k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $15k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $15k → 14%GUIDE DOGS OF AMERICA: $10k → 14%GUIDE DOGS OF AMERICA: $10k → 14%GUIDE DOGS OF AMERICA: $10k → 14%SHOES THAT FIT: $25k → 14%SHOES THAT FIT: $25k → 14%SHOES THAT FIT: $15k → 14%HOUSE OF RUTH: $15k → 14%EXCEPTIONAL MINDS: $10k → 14%THE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $10k → 14%EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $7k → 14%FOOD ON FOOT: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.9M · 113 repeat orgs$216k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

113
26

Total granted

$9.9M
$186k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+84%

Still filing today

73%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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 ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CF
    CENTER FOR ALASKAN COASTAL STUDIES
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +76%
  • PR
    PEPPERMINT RIDGE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +52%
  • GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $579k · revenue +86%

Funded once

  • SC
    SADDLEBACK CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · $66k
  • AM
    ARMENIAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA - AMMA
    one grant, 2023 · $30k
  • OI
    ORTHOPEDIC INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN
    one 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.

04Its field

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.

1
Mercy House Living Centers

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…

Housing & Shelter
2
Human Services Association

The principal mission of Human Services Association is to provide families with compassionate and comprehensive care to promote wellness and build strong communities.

Human Services
3
Bayfront Youth and Family Services Inc

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…

Health
4
Family Care Network Inc

The mission of the Family Care Network is to enhance the wellbeing of children, adults, and families in partnership with our community.

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5
Human Services Network Dba Youth Services Network Inc

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…

Health
6
Heritage Group Homes Inc

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…

Unclassified
7
Mary's Shelter

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.

Human Services
8
Housing Works

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.

Housing & Shelter
9
Children's Home Society of California

The mission of children's home society of california is to provide children, families, and communities with supportive services to thrive.

Human Services
10
Vip Community Mental Health Center Inc

Intervening to protect and treat all victims of violence

Health
11
Milestone House

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,…

Unclassified
12
Compass Family Services

Compass family services helps homeless families and those at imminent risk to achieve housing stability, economic self-sufficiency, and well-being.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Families Forward; 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.
04the grantee network

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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
33
Early backer (in before they grew)
100/104
Grantees still filing
80/104
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STAR INC: $545,829 · OtherSTAR INCHOMER SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY INC PRATT MUSEUM: $300,000 · OtherHOMER SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY INC PRATT M…PATRONS OF THE PRATT SOCIETY (POPS): $240,000 · OtherPATRONS OF THE PRATT SOCIETY (POPS)BLANKETS FOR SOLDIERS INC: $178,000 · OtherPEDIATRIC THERAPY NETWORK: $160,000 · OtherSECOND HARVEST FOOD DISTRIBUTION CENTER OF ORANGE COUNTY: $156,500 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE HOMER PUBLIC LIBRARY INC: $139,000 · Other+71 more: $2,292,082 · Other+71 morePEPPERMINT RIDGE: $1,015,000 · Human ServicesPEPPERMINT RIDGEGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $578,500 · Human ServicesGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INCChildren of the Night: $150,000 · Human ServicesChildren of the NightDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $96,000 · Human Services+26 more: $705,865 · Human Services+26 moreCENTER FOR ALASKAN COASTAL STUDIES: $1,836,493 · EnvironmentCENTER FOR ALASKAN C…AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $370,000 · EducationAZUSA PAC…CARING HOUSE INCORPORATED: $273,000 · EducationCARING HO…NEIGHBORHOOD HOMEWORK HOUSE: $78,065 · EducationNEIGHBORH…GLENDORA PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION: $45,000 · EducationNEW VILLAGE CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $43,500 · Education+3 more: $43,000 · EducationChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $160,000 · HealthEmanate Health Foundation: $70,000 · HealthHear Center: $46,000 · HealthYOUNG & HEALTHY: $42,000 · HealthPROVIDENCE SPEECH AND HEARING CENTER: $40,000 · HealthAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $35,000 · HealthWOMEN'S CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $32,500 · HealthALZHEIMERS GREATER LOS ANGELES: $22,000 · HealthHOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Health+9 more: $91,000 · HealthORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION: $150,000 · Crime & LegalHelpline Youth Counseling Inc: $30,000 · Crime & LegalTHE PRIORITY CENTER ENDING THE GENERATIONAL CYCLE: $16,000 · Crime & LegalBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LOS ANGELES HARBOR: $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentC5 YOUTH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentJEWISH BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BUENA PARK: $14,000 · Youth Development
Other$4,011,411Human Services$2,545,365Environment$1,836,493Education$852,565Health$558,500Crime & Legal$196,000Youth Development$149,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCENTER FOR ALASKAN COASTAL STUDIES: $1,836,493 over 8y, 24% of budgetPEPPERMINT RIDGE: $1,015,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $578,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetAZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $370,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCARING HOUSE INCORPORATED: $273,000 over 8y, 6.2% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $160,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPEDIATRIC THERAPY NETWORK: $160,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetChildren of the Night: $150,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HOMER PUBLIC LIBRARY INC: $139,000 over 8y, 37% of budgetOLIVE CREST ABUSED CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $115,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $96,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAnimals Rule Placement Foundation: $82,500 over 8y, 27% of budgetSHOES THAT FIT: $81,365 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetBEACON LIGHT MISSION: $80,000 over 6y, 9.5% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOMEWORK HOUSE: $78,065 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetVOLUNTEER CENTER SOUTH BAY-HARBOR- LONG BEACH: $74,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetFOODBANK OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $72,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetEmanate Health Foundation: $70,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $68,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LOS ANGELES HARBOR: $60,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $60,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCASA OF LOS ANGELES: $55,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetEXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $54,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLAURA'S HOUSE: $50,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE OF ORANGE COUNTY: $50,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetInternational Guiding Eyes Inc DBA Guide Dogs of America: $49,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetUNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $48,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHear Center: $46,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetHOUSE OF RUTH INC: $46,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetFoothill Family Service: $45,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetC5 YOUTH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $45,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetGLENDORA PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetNEW VILLAGE CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $43,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetYOUNG & HEALTHY: $42,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetBEYOND BLINDNESS: $40,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHELPING OTHERS PREPARE FOR ETERNITY: $40,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetDavid and Margaret Home Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPROVIDENCE SPEECH AND HEARING CENTER: $40,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $32,500 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetProject Access Inc: $32,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION SAFE HOUSE INC: $32,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLA GOAL: $30,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetJEWISH BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES: $30,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPF Bresee Foundation: $30,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFristers: $30,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetCharity On Wheels Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budget
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.

The Rose Hills FoundationCA54.7× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    44report 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    Find your warmest path to Carl E Wynn 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 142 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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