· Private foundation
Christen C and Ben H Garrett Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $127k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $351k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CSULB FOUNDATION | $232,658 |
| CSULB FOUNDATION | $61,900 |
| CRESTVIEW PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $56,000 |
| CHILD EDUCATIONAL CENTER (CEC) | $37,000 |
| SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION | $22,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL BIRD RESCUE | $17,000 |
| MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM | $10,000 |
| HUNTINGTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ALTADENA MOUNTAIN RESCUE | $10,000 |
| ELIZABETH HOUSE | $6,000 |
| DOWNHILL DERELICTS FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF PASADENA | $5,000 |
| ROSE BOWL AQUATIC CENTER | $5,000 |
| WESTRIDGE SCHOOL | $4,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $211k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
45 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k 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
- CEChild Education Center8× · 2017–2024 · $143k · revenue +44%
- IBINTERNATIONAL BIRD RESCUE9× · 2017–2025 · $116k · revenue +137%
- CPCRESTVIEW PREPARATORY SCHOOL2× · 2024–2025 · $81k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- CSCAL STATE UNIV LONG BEACH NATURALSCone grant, 2024 · $27k
- PHPASADENA HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION LTD DBA HUNTINGTON HOSPITALone grant, 2017 · $13k
- HHHUNTINGTON HOSPITAL FNDone grant, 2024 · $10k
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.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The institute is dedicated to scientific research, the results of which are used to promote public awareness and education in the areas of conservation biology and ecology,including the wise use of natural resources.
The academy is a renowned scientific and educational institution with a mission to regenerate the natural world through science, learning, and collaboration. based in san francisco's golden gate park, it is home to a world-class aquarium,…
The los angeles conservancy is a nonprofit membership organization that works through education and advocacy to recognize, preserve, and revitalize the historic architectural and cultural resources of los angeles county.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
The catalina island conservancy protects and stewards 88% of catalina island. more than 42,000 acres of wildlands, coves and coastal habitats. founded to preserve the island's natural resources, the conservancy advances a mission rooted in…
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
The Chile-California Council is a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to developing and promoting joint endeavors and cooperative relations between Chile and California, as well as individuals, legal entities and other institutions in…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child Educational Center and the most unlike its peers is Downhill Derelicts Foundation. 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 51 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 70 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 Child Education Center ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL BIRD RESCUE ↗
- Who funds CRESTVIEW PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd ↗
- Who funds Coastal Corridor Alliance ↗
- Who funds The Altadena Mountain Rescue Team ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds CHILD EDUCATIONAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood Pasadena and San Gabriel Valley Inc ↗
- Who funds POPULATION CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds International Guiding Eyes Inc DBA Guide Dogs of America ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds SURFAID INTERNATIONAL USA ↗
- Who funds ROSE BOWL AQUATICS CENTER ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES ARBORETUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PASADENA HUMANE ↗
- Who funds XERCES SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Claremont Graduate University ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ENGENDERHEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNHILL DERELICTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds South Bay Wildlife Rehab and Educ ↗
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: Pasadena Community Foundation · Ann Peppers Foundation · Western Asset Management Company Charitable Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · California Community Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Christen C and Ben H Garrett Family 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Xerces Society Inc — 22% of income from government
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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