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David Bohnett Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k107 grants · $225k
- $10k–50k44 grants · $822k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+4 grants · $2.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC | $1,000,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $1,000,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE BIDEN HALL | $400,000 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $252,907 |
| Individual grant recipient | $228,800 |
| LGBTQ VICTORY INSTITUTE | $167,748 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA | $165,722 |
| UCLA SCHOOL OF LAW UCLA FOUNDATION | $80,000 |
| MOVEMENT ADVANCEMENT PROJECT INC | $80,000 |
| LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND INC | $50,000 |
| KCRW FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| WALLIS ANNENBERG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $50,000 |
| USC SHOAH FOUNDATION INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| GLOBAL IMPACT | $50,000 |
| USC DANA AND DAVID DORNSIFE COLLEGE OF LETTERS ARTS AND SCIENCES | $50,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $311k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 17% of David Bohnett Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 64% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 25% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +46% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.
176 repeat relationships — 83 still active in FY2024, 93 since wound down; 34 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $266k 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
- LALOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION4× · 2020–2024 · $4.2M · revenue +141%
- MAMUSEUM ASSOCIATES5× · 2017–2021 · $1.8M · revenue +89%
- LVLGBTQ Victory Institute Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +52%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA USC VILLAGE OFFICE OF GIFT PLANNINGone grant, 2017 · $1.0M
- TFTHE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCHone grant, 2019 · $200k · revenue -21%
- JFJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTSgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +133%
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.
To provide leadership and professional development, education and research to create workplaces free from discrimination.
Founded forty years ago, glaad is the world's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer ("lgbtq") media advocacy organization promoting and ensuring fair, accurate, and inclusive representation of people and issues across all…
To create a world that is healthy, just and fully equal for all lgbtq+ people.
To empower and train LGBTQ students and young people to organize and advocate for safe schools and healthy communities.
To promote activities that will enable lgbtq+ and allied attorneys to become more proficient in their profession; to provide education and networking opportunities through conferences and programs for lgbtq+ and ally legal professionals;…
To secure equal rights and protections for lgbtq utahns and their families.
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.
San diego lesbian gay bisexual transgender pride, inc. is a non-profit volunteer-led human rights and arts & culture organization. its mission is to foster pride, equality, and respect for all lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender…
Nlgbtq+ bar association's purpose is to promote justice in and through the legal profession for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community (referred to collectively as the community) and its allies, and to provide a means to…
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…
Transgender Law Center TLC changes law, policy and attitudes so that all people can live safely, authentically, and free from discrimination regardless of their gender identity or expression.
The transgender legal defense and education fund is committed to ending discrimination based on gender identity and expression, and to achieving equality for transgender people through public education, test-case litigation, direct legal…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gay Mens Chorus of Los Angeles and the most unlike its peers is Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery. 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 31 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 12% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
261 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. 261 of the 418 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 LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds THE KENNEDY-WARREN RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds LGBTQ Victory Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds KCRW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Kenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER ↗
- Who funds MOVEMENT ADVANCEMENT PROJECT ↗
- Who funds CENTERLINK INC ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WALLIS ANNENBERG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds FOOD FORWARD INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE BIDEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRATION EQUALITY ↗
- Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GUNSDOWN INC ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR TRANS EQUALITY EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds CICLAVIA INC ↗
- Who funds Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence ↗
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: Liberty Hill Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · Centerlink Inc · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · The California Endowment · California Community Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Horizons Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert 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 David Bohnett 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.
- Pride Center of Vermont Inc — 37% of income from government
- University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
- Centerlink Inc — 12% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Glbtq Legal Advocates & Defenders Inc — 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.
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