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Community Foundation of the Valleys
To inspire, encourage and to facilitate charitable giving for lasting impact on those who live in the san fernando valley and santa clarita valley
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 44% of COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE VALLEYS’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $100,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $122,800 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $22,800 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LOAVES AND FISHES FOOD PANTRY VAN NUYS | $20,000 |
| THE HELP GROUP | $10,000 |
| VIDA MOBILE CLINIC | $10,000 |
| NAMI SAN FERNANDO VALLEY | $10,000 |
| CHILD AND FAMILY CENTER | $10,000 |
| EQUISTRIAN ORDER OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE OF JERUSALEM | $10,000 |
| NAMI GLENDALE | $10,000 |
| THE VALLEY ECONOMIC ALLIACNE | $10,000 |
| PARS EQUALITY CENTER | $10,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $20k) 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.
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 principal mission of Human Services Association is to provide families with compassionate and comprehensive care to promote wellness and build strong communities.
The mission of the Samaritan Center-Simi Valley is to offer people experiencing housing and food insecurity supportive services essential to human dignity.
The mission of the Candela Group is to bring stability and an improved quality of life to our clients and their loved ones affected by mental illness by uniting them with public and private mental health services Our lived experience as…
To improve the lives of persons living with serious mental illness and their families by providing support, education, and advocacy.
The fid group is a not-for-profit that delivers social services to people in the greater pasadena area who are experiencing homelessness, food vulnerabilities, and poverty.
The mission of the interfaith food center is to provide nutritious food to our neighbors in an environment that nurtures dignitiy and respect.
To provide primary healthcare to medically underserved residents of los angeles county.
To promote social emotional and economic self-sufficiency through a continum of human services.
To collaborate with diverse community partners for policy change, ensuring equitable access to food, health, and well-being for all Californians.
To provide substance abuse prevention & treatment.
To broaden the public's understanding of problems associated with alcoholism and drug dependency and to assist in a means of their treatment.
California Alliance of Caregivers represents the voices of relative and non-relative caregivers to promote the well-being of children in foster care. California Alliance of Caregivers provides training information support and advocacy for…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Valley Caring Services and the most unlike its peers is The Association of Knights and Ladies Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 15 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 CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds Child & Family Center ↗
- Who funds NORTH HOLLYWOOD INTERFAITH FOOD PAN ↗
- Who funds PARS EQUALITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE VALLEY ECONOMIC ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE HELP GROUP WEST ↗
- Who funds BURBANK TEMPORARY AID CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE ASSOCIATION OF KNIGHTS AND LADIES ORDER OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE OF JERUSALEM ↗
- Who funds NAMI GLENDALE ↗
- Who funds VIDA MOBILE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds NORTH VALLEY CARING SERVICES ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS GREATER LOS ANGELES CTY(NAMI GLAC) ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION ↗
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: California Community Foundation · Shelter Partnership Inc · Los Angeles Regional Food Bank · Local Initiatives Support Corporation · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Community Foundation of the Valleys 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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