· Private foundation
Downey Kiwanis Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $56k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $193k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 59 GRADUATING HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS | $143,125 |
| DOWNEY FAMILY YMCA | $50,000 |
| ARC OF SOUTHEAST LOS ANGELES | $23,000 |
| DOWNEY SYMPHONIC SOCIETY | $17,000 |
| KIWANIS CLUB OF DOWNEY LOS AMIGOS | $15,597 |
| RANCHO LOS AMIGOS FOUNDATION | $7,076 |
| KIWANIS INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S FU | $6,000 |
| 3 DOWNEY HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS | $6,000 |
| PIH HEALTH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| DOWNEY UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | $4,838 |
| DOWNEY POLICE OFFICERS' ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
| KIWANIS LITERACY CLUB FOUNDATION | $1,250 |
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 (FY17–25, $207k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
24 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k 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
- YMYoung Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Los Angeles7× · 2017–2025 · $207k · revenue +12%
- RLRANCHO LOS AMIGOS FOUNDATION INC8× · 2018–2025 · $106k · revenue +34%
- RRRancho Research Institute2× · 2017–2024 · $47k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- 4G43 GRADUATING HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTSone grant, 2022 · $114k
- 4G47 GRADUATING HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTSone grant, 2023 · $113k
- 3G32 GRADUATING HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTSone grant, 2020 · $70k
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.
Dedicated in fundraising activities to help the under privileged children in our communities such as providing scholarships to needy high school graduates, help with back to school supplies, summer camp, holiday food baskets, etc. In…
The League of Women Voters, a nonpartisan political organization, encourages informed and active participation in government, works to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and…
Providing service to children in the local community and throughout the world with a special emphasis on developing youth ethics, citizenship, and leadership skills.
The Los Angeles Dysautonomia Network (LADN) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to providing mental health, community, education, and financial support for individuals impacted by dysautonomia in the LA and greater CA area
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Assistance League of Downey and the most unlike its peers is Rancho Research Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 41 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 Young Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds DOWNEY SYMPHONIC SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds RANCHO LOS AMIGOS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Rancho Research Institute ↗
- Who funds KIWANIS CLUB OF DOWNEY LOS AMIGOS ↗
- Who funds PIH Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds DOWNEY MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF DOWNEY ↗
- Who funds Los Angeles Centers for Alcohol and Drug Abuse ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST DISTRICT BAR ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds KIWANIS LITERACY CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KIWANIS CAL-NEV-HA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Kiwanis Club of Long Beach Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds GANGS OUT OF DOWNEY ↗
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: California Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 Downey Kiwanis 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.
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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