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Douglas 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.

$4.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$851k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Philanthropy$10MHuman Services$5.0MReligion$2.8MEducation$2.5MHealth$2.4MArts & Culture$2.3MAnimals$1.0MYouth Development$201kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $700k
  • $250k+7 grants · $3.7M
$200,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$118M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDRENS HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES$850,662
THE ANNE DOUGLAS CENTER - LOS ANGELES MISSION$555,554
CENTER THEATRE GROUP$500,000
MOTION PICTURE & TELEVISION FUND$500,000
ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY$500,000
SINAI TEMPLE$500,000
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA$300,000
EISENHOWER HEALTH FOUNDATION$200,000
LOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER$100,000
BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION$100,000
NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY$100,000
LACER AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAMS$100,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY GREATER LOS ANGELES$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$50,000
THE INTERNATIONAL CITY THEATRE$30,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $2.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BOYS REPUBLIC: $1k → 14%SPEC LABS INC: $1k → 14%MOTION PICTURE & TELEVISION FUND: $502k → 14%MOTION PICTURE & TELEVISION FUND: $500k → 14%MOTION PICTURE & TELEVISION FUND: $500k → 14%MOTION PICTURE & TELEVISION FUND: $500k → 14%MOTION PICTURE & TELEVISION FUND: $500k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$14M · 10 repeat orgs$11M to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
19

Total granted

$14M
$10M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+25%

Still filing today

80%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $600k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureInternationalPhilanthropyEducationOther

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

  • MP
    MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +29%
  • ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +5%
  • EM
    Eisenhower Medical Center
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • PD
    PETER DOUGLAS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $9.0M · revenue -89% · 96% of their budget
  • TA
    THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue +14%
  • DG
    DAVID GEFFEN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT UCLA
    one grant, 2023 · $300k

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

04Your field

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.

1
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
2
Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd

Huntington Health stands for community. We stand for compassion. But more than anything, Huntington stands for health. Providing world-class health care is our specialty, and it's what we've been doing for the San Gabriel Valley since…

Health
3
Ucla Foundation

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…

Education
4
South Central Family Health Center

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.

Health
5
Children's Hospital Los Angeles Medical Group

To be the preeminent pediatric, multispecialty medical group in the nation, dedicated to providing the highest quality medical care to infants, children and adolescents; and supporting the finest teaching and research endeavors of our…

6
Pediatric and Family Medical Center Dba Eisner Health

Eisner health is a quality-focused, federally qualified nonprofit community health center dedicated to improving the physical, social, and emotional well-being of people in the communities we serve, regardless of income.

Health
7
California Dental Association

The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.

Community Improvement
8
Los Angeles General Medical Center Foundation Inc

To support and enhance the mission of the los angeles general medical center (formerly the lac+usc medical center) and ensure it maintains its status as a leader in medicine, education and research, and continues to provide the highest…

9
Emanate Health

Our mission is to help people keep well in body, mind, and spirit by providing quality health care services in a safe, compassionate environment.

Health
10
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
11
The California Medical Innovations Institute Inc

The Institute is a scientific research center dedicated to conducting basic and applied research to advance the understanding of human disease and the improvement of human health. The Institute fosters an innovative research environment…

Education
12
California Dental Association Foundation

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.

Science & Tech

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Hospital Los Angeles and the most unlike its peers is Peter Douglas Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 54 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%7%10–20yr18%14%20–35yr11%32%35–55yr12%46%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%43%10–20yr18%6%20–35yr11%2%35–55yr12%49%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/29
the rest of the field
15%
14,567/99,784

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.

04the grantee network

25 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 36 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
19/25
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PETER DOUGLAS FOUNDATION — $9,000,000 · PhilanthropyPETER DOUGLAS FOUNDATIONDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $1,000,000 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INCSINAI TEMPLE — $2,800,000 · OtherSINAI TEMPLETHE ANNE DOUGLAS CENTER - LOS ANGELES MISSION — $2,455,554 · OtherTHE ANNE DOUGLAS CENTER - L…DAVID GEFFEN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT UCLA — $300,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA — $300,000 · Other+17 more — $635,000 · Other+17 moreMOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND — $2,501,386 · Human ServicesMOTION PIC…+2 more — $2,000 · Human ServicesCENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES — $2,250,948 · Arts & CultureCENTER TH…+1 more — $55,000 · Arts & CultureST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY — $2,200,000 · EducationST LAWREN…+1 more — $50,000 · EducationEisenhower Medical Center — $1,000,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $852,662 · Health+3 more — $7,000 · HealthTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $1,000,000 · Animals
Philanthropy$10,000,000Other$6,490,554Human Services$2,503,386Arts & Culture$2,305,948Education$2,250,000Health$1,859,662Animals$1,000,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPETER DOUGLAS FOUNDATION — $9,000,000 over 1y, 96% of budgetMOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND — $2,501,386 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetCENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES — $2,250,948 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY — $2,200,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEisenhower Medical Center — $1,000,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $852,662 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLACER AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAMS — $200,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER LOS ANGELES — $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNeighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County — $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CITY THEATRE — $55,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM SPRINGS AND DESERT AREA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CARTER CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYONES HARVEST — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoys Republic — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPEC LABS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBEVERLY HILLS FIREMEN'S RELIEF FUND — $1,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetVENICE FAMILY CLINIC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

California Community FoundationCA14.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Douglas 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Douglas Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Douglas Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 36 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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