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· Private foundation
DOWNEY FAMILY FOUNDATION
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$482k
Granted FY2019
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Grants
1
Communities
$482k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2019.
Philanthropy$484kHuman Services$8kHealth$4kEducation$2kOther$11k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
education
2019
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2019 · 1 grant
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$482,085
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
- SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND$482,085
02The need
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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 (FY18–18, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your 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.
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Sacramento Steps Forward
To end homelessness through leadership, convening partners, data-driven best practices, and improving system performance.
Human Services
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California Housing Defense Fund
CalHDF's purpose is to make housing more affordable and accessible. CalHDF will advance its mission through activities such as fostering housing policy dialogue, conducting research and supporting pro housing litigation.
Civil Rights
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The Uc Davis Foundation
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
Education
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California Housing Partner Corporation
The California Housing Partnership Corporation creates and preserves affordable and sustainable homes for Californians with low incomes by providing expert financial and policy solutions to nonprofit and public partners.
Unclassified
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Ucla Foundation
The mission of the ucla foundation is to actively promote philanthropy and manage donated resources for the advancement of ucla.
Education
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Philadelphia University
To improve lives and provide students with exceptional value in 21st century professional education.
Education
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Community Housing Foundation Mill Valley
Support housing programs that protect and expand the supply of affordable workforce housing in mill valley, california
Housing & Shelter
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Pasadena Community Foundation
Pasadena Community Foundation (PCF) strives to improve and enrich lives of people in the greater Pasadena area through: the establishment and management of charitable funds with an emphasis on permanently endowed funds that benefit the…
Philanthropy
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Moving Forward Network
Our mission is to provide free philadelphia transitional housing and support services to homeless populations to facilitate their movement to long-term housing.
Housing & Shelter
10
Children's Healthcare of California
The primary exempt purpose of children's healthcare of california includes without limitation the receipt of distributions and grants for the making of distributions and grants to children's hospital of orange county (choc) and to…
Health
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Pajaro Valley Healthcare District
The organization has been formed by the community and governmental leaders to raise funds to form a hospital district in the County of Santa Cruz, CA that will purchase and operate Watsonville Community Hospital from its current owner and…
Health
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California Black Health Network
To improve the health status of people of African descent in California and eliminate health disparities through legislative, administrative and media advocacy.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Philanthropy$484,435Other$11,350Human Services$8,450Health$3,750Education$1,500
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 SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND ↗
- Who funds BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds STAMFORD PUBLIC EDUCATION FDN ↗
- Who funds HOMEFRONT ↗
- Who funds VACAVILLE PUBLIC EDUCATION FDN ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BACK ON MY FEET ↗
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.
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCA6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: 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 organisation DOWNEY FAMILY 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: OPPORTUNITY HOUSE.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 953374642 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on OPPORTUNITY HOUSE, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue held over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 11% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Downey Family Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Downey Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines