· Public charity
Community Justice Foundation
Dedicated to religious, charitable and educational purposes
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 27 grants below total $460,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $495,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $35,000 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.
By grant size · FY2018
- $10k–50k26 grants · $410k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HUNGER FOR SUCCESS | $50,000 |
| THE GOOD SHEPARD CENTER FOR WOMEN | $40,000 |
| THE SPRIT OF MACY AWARDS | $40,000 |
| CARING HANDS FOOD PANTRY | $30,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC | $25,000 |
| US FRIENDS OF THE HAGUE | $25,000 |
| MEND | $20,000 |
| INTERPRETIVE ASSOCIATION OF | $20,000 |
| BANDINI FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| LOS ANGELES CITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| FOR THE TROOPS | $15,000 |
| THE WILDLIFE WAY SATION | $10,000 |
| NAZARETH CONVENT AND ACADEMY CORPOR | $10,000 |
| CITY OF SIMI VALLEY | $10,000 |
| CENTER FOR GREAT APES | $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 (FY17–18, $220k) 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.
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.
23 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (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 FY2018, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC2× · 2017–2018 · $90k · revenue +87%
- UOUniversity of the Pacific2× · 2017–2018 · $50k · revenue +39%
- TBTHE BANDINI FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $40k · revenue +290%
Funded once
- YHYOUNG & HEALTHYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +132%
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +17%
- LALOS ANGELES HOUSE OF RUTHgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +66%
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 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…
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 serve those in need by sharing the saving grace of jesus christ through the provision of food, shelter, clothing, and spiritual recovery. and a place where daily physical and spiritual needs may be met.
The midnight mission seeks to offer a bridge to self sufficiency for people experiencing homelessness through interim shelter, advocacy, education, training and job placement, make available the necessities of life, offer the 12-step…
This organization provides clothing, food, and medical services to low income citizens in various areas of southern california and reunite them with family
Covenant house new orleans (the organization) is a not-for-profit organization affiliated with 34 similar organizations across five countries, all of which are affiliates of covenant house international (parent affiliate) and share a…
The mission of the st. vincent de paul society of san francisco (svdp-sf) is to offer hope and service on a direct person-to-person basis, working to break the cycles of homelessness and domestic violence.
At cots, our mission is to assist those experiencing homelessness to find and keep housing, increase self-sufficiency and improve well-being. we envision a community where everyone has a place to call home.
Catholic charities creates access to opportunities for self-sufficiency by providing innovative and compassionate services to people of all backgrounds, beliefs, and cultures.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young & Healthy and the most unlike its peers is Spirit of the Macy Awards. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 31 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 HUNGER FOR SUCCESS ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC ↗
- Who funds Spirit of the MACY Awards ↗
- Who funds University of the Pacific ↗
- Who funds THE BANDINI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEND - Meet Each Need With Dignity ↗
- Who funds FOR THE TROOPS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY JUSTICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WESTERN COLORADO INTERPRETIVE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BROTHERS HELPERS INC ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT SENIOR CITIZEN NUTRITION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds SACRAMENTO CA BIKERS AGAINST CHILD ABUSE ↗
- Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL OF SIMI VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Center for Orangutan & Chimpanzee Conservation Inc ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds Children of the Night ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHILDREN'S CHORAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE THE MISSION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG & HEALTHY ↗
- Who funds WASHBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE WAYSTATION ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES HOUSE OF RUTH ↗
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 Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Justice 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.
- Brandeis University — 9% 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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