· Private foundation
Carrie Estelle Doheny 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k218 grants · $5.1M
- $50k–250k32 grants · $2.8M
- $250k+4 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARCHDIOCESE OF LADEPARTMENT OF CATHOLIC SCHOOLS | $425,000 |
| DOHENY EYE INSTITUTE | $300,000 |
| MOUNT SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY | $270,500 |
| COUNSELING PARTNERS OF LOS ANGELES | $250,500 |
| MARYVALE | $160,000 |
| LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY | $155,000 |
| UNION RESCUE MISSION | $138,000 |
| OUR LADY QUEEN OF ANGELS HOUSING ALLIANCE | $130,000 |
| OUTREACH CONCERN INC | $122,000 |
| CLARIS HEALTH | $105,000 |
| MEND INC | $100,000 |
| DOOR OF HOPE | $100,000 |
| PROYECTO PASTORAL AT DOLORES MISSION | $100,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL CHURCH | $100,000 |
| COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA | $95,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $6.6M) 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.
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
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.
284 repeat relationships — 252 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 11 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; $169k 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
- DEDOHENY EYE INSTITUTE5× · 2020–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +34%
- MSMOUNT SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +10%
- CPCOUNSELING PARTNERS OF LOS ANGELES5× · 2020–2024 · $988k · revenue +135% · 32% of their budget
Funded once
- AOARCHDIOCESE OF LOS ANGELESone grant, 2021 · $50k
- VDVERBUM DEI HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $48k
- LRLA REINA HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $23k
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.
Family promise of the south bay assists families experiencing housing insecurity with short-term shelter, case management, and navigation with the goal of creating a sustainable solution for their family.
The mission of the organization is to ensure safety and stability for people who are battered, abused, homeless or at risk; to create public awareness about the epidemic of violence; and to mobilize the community to prevent violence and…
Youth Emerging Stronger (YES) empowers young people, between ages of 12 and 24 within Los Angeles County, including but not limited to run-away and homeless youth. YES mission is to end homelessness one youth at a time to become…
To provide comprehensive, family-centered social, educational and behavioral health services that encourage children, adolescents and their families to lead self reliant, stable and productive lives.
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…
We are a premier provider dedicated to healing children and young adults, strengthening families, and transforming communities through quality comprehensive services and advocacy. we envision a world in which children and young adults,…
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.
strengthening the leadership and workforce skills of Day Laborers and Domestic Workers. through 5 Day Labor Centers, Workers Health Program & Mujeres en Accion using Education & outreach empowerment tools
Colettes childrens home provides housing and supportive services to homeless women and children with nowhere to turn. we work to remove the barriers that cause displacement and provide the means for transition from homelessness to stable…
To build capacity and community engagement to better serve the most vulnerable population suffering poverty and the homeless crisis.
All children need a childhood. Allies for Every Child brings together and strengthens families, cultivating conditions for children to succeed in life. (Continues on Schedule O)
Harriett buhai center for family law is a non-profit corporation organized in 1984 that ensures meaningful access to justice in the family law system by providing free legal services, education, and advocacy for low-income residents of los…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Olive Crest and the most unlike its peers is Doheny Eye Institute. 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 47 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
155 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. 155 of the 318 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 DOHENY EYE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MOUNT SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds COUNSELING PARTNERS OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds OUTREACH CONCERN INC ↗
- Who funds ALEXANDRIA HOUSE ↗
- Who funds UNION RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds MEND - Meet Each Need With Dignity ↗
- Who funds Proyecto Pastoral ↗
- Who funds MARYVALE ↗
- Who funds SALESIAN FAMILY YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC ↗
- Who funds St Francis Center ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES HOUSE OF RUTH ↗
- Who funds St Anne's Family Services ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH CENTER ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC ↗
- Who funds HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES ↗
- Who funds DOOR OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds DEPAUL USA INC ↗
- Who funds Harvest Home Inc ↗
- Who funds DON BOSCO TECHNICAL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CLARIS HEALTH ↗
- Who funds FOSTERALL ↗
- Who funds Las Familias Del Pueblo ↗
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 Ahmanson Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Green Foundation · Thomas & Dorothy Leavey Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Weingart Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · S Mark Taper Foundation · Shelter Partnership Inc
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 Carrie Estelle Doheny 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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