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Decorative Arts Society

Fundraising primarily to support charitable women and needy teenager groups.

$410k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$965kHousing & Shelter$518kHealth$499kFood & Nutrition$188kEmployment$170kYouth Development$125kEducation$65kArts & Culture$30kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k12 grants · $300k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THOMAS HOUSE FAMILY SHELTER$60,218
MARIPOSA WOMEN'S AND FAMILY CENTER$50,000
HUMAN OPTIONS$40,000
WISE PLACE$25,000
RADIANT FUTURES$25,000
HOPE HARBOR$25,000
FAMILY SUPPORT NETWORK$25,000
BEYOND BLINDNESS$25,000
MARY'S PATH$25,000
PROJECT SELF-SUFFICIENCY$25,000
SOUTH COUNTY OUTREACH$25,000
FRISTERS$20,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BUENA PARK$20,000
ICEC - INTERVENTION CENTER FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD$20,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $520k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ASPIN: $35k → 10%SPIN: $35k → 10%SPIN: $20k → 10%SPIN - SERVING PEOPLE IN NEED: $20k → 10%SERVING PEOPLE IN NEED: $15k → 10%PROJECT SELF-SUFFICIENCY: $25k → 10%PROJECT SELF-SUFFICIENCY: $20k → 10%LAURA'S HOUSE: $10k → 10%LAURA'S HOUSE: $10k → 10%FRISTERS: $40k → 10%FRISTERS: $20k → 10%FRISTERS: $20k → 10%FRISTERS: $20k → 10%FRISTERS: $10k → 10%ILLUMINATION FOUNDATION: $15k → 10%MARY'S PATH: $25k → 10%WHW-WOMEN HELPING WOMEN: $15k → 10%WOMEN HELPING WOMEN: $15k → 10%WOMEN HELPING WOMEN: $10k → 10%WOMEN'S TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER INC: $30k → 10%CATERINA'S CLUB: $65k → 10%CATERINA'S CLUB: $45k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 27 repeat orgs$365k to everyone else

27 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
19

Total granted

$2.2M
$340k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+49%

Still filing today

100%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthHousing & ShelterArts & CultureCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • WOMENS TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER INC RADIANT FUTURES
    7× · 2017–2025 · $180k · revenue +124%
  • TH
    THOMAS HOUSE TEMPORARY SHELTER
    5× · 2019–2025 · $170k · revenue +38%
  • BB
    BEYOND BLINDNESS
    6× · 2017–2025 · $150k · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • FF
    FAMILIES FORWARDgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $45k · revenue +49%
  • PS
    Project Scientist Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $35k · revenue +44%
  • CY
    CASA YOUTH CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Family Promise of Orange County

To provide emergency shelter, hospitality, and services to homeless families, helping to eliminate their homelessness and place each family in a home of their own in about two months.

Human Services
2
Transition House

Transition House is dedicated to the solution of family homelessness in the Santa Barbara community. Capable and motivated families with children are offered life tools and respectful, non-sectarian residential services designed to…

Housing & Shelter
3
Mercy House Living Centers

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…

Housing & Shelter
4
Colette's Children's Home Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
5
Temporary Shelter Inc

The mission of Temporary Shelter, Inc. is to operate an emergency homeless shelter within the City of Tustin, California.

Housing & Shelter
6
Court Appointed Special Advocate of Orange County

Court Appointed Special Advocates of Orange County provides a powerful voice and a meaningful connection for children who have experienced abuse, neglect and abandoment.

Civil Rights
7
Inland Temporary Homes

Aims to reduce countywide homelessness while addressing each family's personal struggle with perpetuating homelessness and poverty in their children. Provides both transitional shelter and rapid re-housing options in addition to…

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8
Casa de Esperanza

Casa is a refuge, providing protection and education for people caught in the cylces of domestic violence, sexual assault and child assault. Casa is a healing community where women and children can receive the nurturing and support…

Human Services
9
Optimist Boys' Home and Ranch Inc

Our mission is to support children/youth, and their families, in and at-risk of foster care, to build hope and achieve bright futures through wellness, education, relationships, and career focused services and resources.

Health
10
Children's Home of Stockton Inc

CHS guides youth and young adults forward to hope and resiliency.

—
11
Wiseplace

The organization provides services to homeless women over eighteen years of age, primarily in the orange county area. the services include transitional housing and emgergency shelter, meals, clothing, counseling, employment assistance and…

Human Services
12
Bayfront Youth and Family Services Inc

Bayfront Youth & Family Services is a quality provider of behavioral and mental health treatment services for children, adolescents, and their caregivers. Our mission is to provide a comprehensive support system that promotes safe and…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Families Forward; the most unlike its peers is Women Helping Women. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

41 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 41 of the 47 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/41
Grantees still filing
25/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THOMAS HOUSE TEMPORARY SHELTER: $170,218 · OtherTHOMAS HOUSE TEMPORARY SHELTERBEYOND BLINDNESS: $150,000 · OtherBEYOND BLINDNESSSOUTH COUNTY OUTREACH: $143,000 · OtherSOUTH COUNTY OUTREACHICEC: $103,311 · OtherICECFRIENDLY CENTER INC: $65,000 · OtherFRIENDLY CENTER INCFAMILY SUPPORT NETWORK: $65,000 · OtherFAMILY SUPPORT NETWORKWOMEN HELPING WOMEN: $55,000 · OtherLaurel House Inc dba Hope Harbor: $45,000 · OtherFAMILIES FORWARD: $45,000 · OtherHOPE IGNITES SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $40,000 · OtherHOMELESS INTERVENTION SERVICES OF ORANGE COUNTY: $40,000 · Other+14 more: $225,000 · Other+14 moreWOMENS TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER INC RADIANT FUTURES: $180,000 · Human ServicesWOMENS TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTE…Serving People In Need Inc: $125,000 · Human ServicesServing People In Need IncFristers: $115,000 · Human ServicesFristersCATERINAS CLUB: $110,200 · Human ServicesCATERINAS CLUBHuman Options Inc: $80,000 · Human ServicesHuman Options IncPROJECT SELF-SUFFICIENCY: $45,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT SELF-SUFFICIENCYMARY'S SHELTER: $25,000 · Human Services+3 more: $50,000 · Human Services+3 moreMARIPOSA WOMEN AND FAMILY CENTER: $140,000 · HealthMARIPOSA WOM…BREAST CANCER SOLUTIONS: $85,000 · HealthBREAST CANCE…PROVIDENCE SPEECH AND HEARING CENTER: $45,500 · HealthPROVIDENCE S…THE AUTISM COMMUNITY IN ACTION: $15,000 · HealthTALLER SAN JOSE HOPE BUILDERS: $135,000 · EducationTALLER SAN…Project Hope Alliance: $55,000 · EducationProject Ho…Project Scientist Inc: $35,000 · EducationProject Sc…LAGUNA COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN: $10,000 · EducationOrange County Rescue Mission Inc: $52,450 · Housing & ShelterCASA YOUTH SHELTER: $50,000 · Housing & ShelterWAYMAKERS: $45,000 · Crime & LegalBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BUENA PARK: $40,000 · Youth Development
Other$1,146,529Human Services$730,200Health$285,500Education$235,000Housing & Shelter$102,450Crime & Legal$45,000Youth Development$40,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWOMENS TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER INC RADIANT FUTURES: $180,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetTHOMAS HOUSE TEMPORARY SHELTER: $170,218 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetBEYOND BLINDNESS: $150,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetSOUTH COUNTY OUTREACH: $143,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetMARIPOSA WOMEN AND FAMILY CENTER: $140,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetTALLER SAN JOSE HOPE BUILDERS: $135,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetServing People In Need Inc: $125,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetFristers: $115,000 over 6y, 7.6% of budgetCATERINAS CLUB: $110,200 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetICEC: $103,311 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetBREAST CANCER SOLUTIONS: $85,000 over 6y, 7.4% of budgetHuman Options Inc: $80,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDLY CENTER INC: $65,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetFAMILY SUPPORT NETWORK: $65,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetProject Hope Alliance: $55,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetWOMEN HELPING WOMEN: $55,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetOrange County Rescue Mission Inc: $52,450 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCASA YOUTH SHELTER: $50,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetPROVIDENCE SPEECH AND HEARING CENTER: $45,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWAYMAKERS: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT SELF-SUFFICIENCY: $45,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetLaurel House Inc dba Hope Harbor: $45,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetFAMILIES FORWARD: $45,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHOPE IGNITES SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $40,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BUENA PARK: $40,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHOMELESS INTERVENTION SERVICES OF ORANGE COUNTY: $40,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetProject Scientist Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetBuild Futures: $25,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetMARY'S SHELTER: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE DECORATIVE ARTS TRUST: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetYOUTH EMPLOYMENT SERVICE OF THE HARBOR AREA INC: $20,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetLAURA'S HOUSE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHEALTHY SMILES FOR KIDS OF ORANGE COUNTY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTEMPLO CALVARIO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCASA TERESA INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE AUTISM COMMUNITY IN ACTION: $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetIllumination Health Home formerly The Illumination Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL NATURE CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLAGUNA COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPRETEND CITY THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ORANGE COUNTY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF ORANGE COUNTY: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Orange County Communi…O L Halsell FoundationSisters of St Joseph …The Devto Support Fou…Hoag Memorial Hospita…Glen and Dorothy Stil…Edwards Lifesciences …Farmers & Merchants B…Angels Baseball Found…The Crean FoundationHenry L Guenther Foun…Samueli Foundation
Orange County Community FoundationCA63× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · O L Halsell Foundation · Sisters of St Joseph Healthcare Foundation · The Devto Support Foundation · Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian · Glen and Dorothy Stillwell Charitable Trust · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · Angels Baseball Foundation Inc · The Crean Foundation · Henry L Guenther Foundation · Samueli Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Decorative Arts Society funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Decorative Arts Society. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 47 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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