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Downey-Short Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$50k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 8
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Downey-Short Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20231$50k100%
FY20227$200k0%
FY20218$200k13%
FY20208$205k25%
FY20197$190k0%
FY20188$230k50%
FY20177$175kn/a
87% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Health$985kHuman Services$100kReligion$25kPhilanthropy$25kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Okizu Foundation$195,00062%
Cancer for College$140,00062%
Children's Hospital Los Angeles$125,00050%
Choc Foundation$125,00050%
The V Foundation$50,00010%
Kids Konnected$40,00035%
The Nebraska Medical Center$40,00010%
Jessie Rees Foundation$25,00011%

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($510k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Downey-Short Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOkizu Foundation: $195,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetCancer for College: $140,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $125,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetChoc Foundation: $125,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe V Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKids Konnected: $40,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetThe Nebraska Medical Center: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJessie Rees Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA5.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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How do I get to Downey-Short Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Downey-Short 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.

About Downey-Short Foundation

How much does Downey-Short Foundation give?
Downey-Short Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $50,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 8 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Downey-Short Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Health (77%), Human Services (8%), Religion (2%).
Who are Downey-Short Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Okizu Foundation ($195k), Cancer for College ($140k), Children's Hospital Los Angeles ($125k).
Does Downey-Short Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Downey-Short Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Downey-Short Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Downey-Short Foundation based?
Downey-Short Foundation is based in CA.

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 16 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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