· Private foundation
Cindy and Fred Soldwedel 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 FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PASADENA HUMANE SOCIETY AND SCPA | $2,500 |
| SAN MARINO COMMUNITY CHURCH | $2,000 |
| MONTE VISTA GROVE HOMES | $1,750 |
| COLUMBIA MEMORIAL SPACE SCIENCE LEARNING CENTER FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| YMCA OF METROPOLITAN LOS ANGELES | $750 |
| THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF PASADENA | $500 |
| LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK | $500 |
| SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO | $480 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN | $250 |
| BOYS REPUBLIC | $250 |
| PASADENA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $250 |
| ARROYOS AND FOOTHILLS CONSERVANCY | $250 |
| TUNNELS TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $200 |
| ROTARY INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION | $144 |
| PASADENA ROTARY FOUNDATION | $120 |
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 (FY24–25, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 1 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PASADENA2× · 2024–2025 · $2k · revenue +46%
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO2× · 2024–2025 · $2k · revenue +22%- BRBoys Republic2× · 2024–2025 · $500 · revenue +34%
Funded once
- UUCLAone grant, 2023 · $4k
- WFWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $750 · revenue +14%
- RCROTARY CLUB OF PASADENAone grant, 2023 · $396
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 ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
To improve the quality of life for the diverse communities we serve providing affordable and comprehensive healthcare and education in a welcoming multi-cultural environment.
The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.
Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.
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.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…
Chamber's mission: design and advance opportunities and solutions for a thriving regional economy that are inclusive and globally competitive. 1) advocacy - be a bold advocate for business as a driver of a strong economy that enables…
The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.
The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southern California Public Radio and the most unlike its peers is The Columbia Memorial Space Science Lear Columbia Memorial Science Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 23 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 PASADENA HUMANE ↗
- Who funds MONTE VISTA GROVE HOMES ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PASADENA ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE COLUMBIA MEMORIAL SPACE SCIENCE LEAR COLUMBIA MEMORIAL SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Pasadena Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds Boys Republic ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds ARROYOS & FOOTHILLS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
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 · California Community Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Cindy and Fred Soldwedel 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.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% 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.