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Durfee Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k32 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $712k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $887k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY PARTNERS | $120,000 |
| SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS | $100,000 |
| SOCIAL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS | $100,000 |
| HEART OF LOS ANGELES | $70,282 |
| FOOD FORWARD | $60,000 |
| STRATEGIC ACTIONS FOR A JUST ECONOMY (SAJE) | $60,000 |
| COALITION FOR CLEAN AIR | $60,000 |
| THE LOS ANGELES TRUST FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH | $60,000 |
| COMUNIDADES INDIGENAS EN LIDERAZGO | $56,160 |
| MEZTLI PROJECTS | $50,188 |
| FULCRUM ARTS | $50,000 |
| HAVEN HILLS INC | $50,000 |
| ALLIES FOR EVERY CHILD | $50,000 |
| COALITION TO ABOLISH SLAVERY & TRAFFICKING | $46,271 |
| CONCERNED CITIZENS COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT | $45,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
80 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 50 since wound down; 36 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $543k 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
- SASOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC5× · 2020–2024 · $655k · revenue +156%
- CPCOMMUNITY PARTNERS6× · 2017–2024 · $564k · revenue +266%
- LALost Angels Childrens Project Inc6× · 2017–2022 · $515k · revenue ×41 · 38% of their budget
Funded once
- NPNATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK INCone grant, 2023 · $110k · revenue -67%
- BCBLACK COOPERATIVE IMPACT FUNDone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -52% · 26% of their budget
- 1I1IN6 INCone grant, 2018 · $75k · revenue -84%
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.
Community organizing, education, advocacy, leadership development, direct services and organizational development for communities faced with immense poverty.
strengthening the leadership and workforce skills of Day Laborers and Domestic Workers. through 5 Day Labor Centers, Workers Health Program & Mujeres en Accion using Education & outreach empowerment tools
The Asian Law Caucus's mission is to promote, advance, and represent the legal and civil rights of Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities, recognizing that social, economic, political and racial inequalities continue to exist…
The mission of the Los Angeles Black Worker Center is to increase access to quality jobs, reduce employment discrimination, and improve industries that employ black workers through action and unionization.
Latino Media Collaborative's mission is to leverage the power of Latino and community news media to impact policy, change narratives, and promote civic engagement, while also supporting advancement of the sector through capacity building,…
The la conservation corps creates equitable opportunities for young people to build resilience in themselves, their communities and the environment through a program of work, education and support.
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…
Active San Gabriel Valley (ActiveSGV) is a community-based environmental advocacy and public health non-profit organization. Our mission is to promote a more sustainable, equitable, and livable San Gabriel Valley.
Well educates and trains local latino elected officials about california water policy to promote timely and equitable actions that serve to develop a robust economy, healthy communities, and a resilient environment for all californians.
California Donor Table anchors a hub of donors, foundations, and community leaders. We pool together our resources to shape California into a truly democratic state that works for the people, not the powerful. Rooted in our commitment to…
Public counsel is a nonprofit public interest law firm dedicated to advancing civil rights and racial and economic justice, as well as to amplifying the power of our clients through comprehensive legal advocacy. (see sch o for…
Transform local communities into places that are fair and flourishing for everyone through education, community organization, and coalition-building.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ywca of Glendale and Pasadena and the most unlike its peers is Sierra Health Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
182 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 182 of the 217 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 EARTHWATCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Lost Angels Childrens Project Inc ↗
- Who funds LA-MAS INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY ↗
- Who funds LA COMPOST ↗
- Who funds PROJECTQ ↗
- Who funds THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds KOREAN IMMIGRANT WORKERS ADVOCATES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds PILIPINO WORKERS CENTER OF SOUTHERN ↗
- Who funds INCLUSIVE ACTION FOR THE CITY ↗
- Who funds ALL PEOPLES COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds BARRIO ACTION YOUTH & FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COALITION FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT ↗
- Who funds HEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds COMUNIDADES INDIGENAS EN LIDERAZGO CORP ↗
- Who funds FOOD FORWARD INC ↗
- Who funds FULCRUM ARTS ↗
- Who funds ENGAGE INC ↗
- Who funds COALITION TO ABOLISH SLAVERY & TRAFFICKING ↗
- Who funds MEZTLI PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR RESPONSIBLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds Prevention Institute ↗
- Who funds NEUROTALENT WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds URBAN VOICES PROJECT ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLACK COOPERATIVE IMPACT FUND ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CENTER FOR NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT ↗
- Who funds Coalition for Clean Air ↗
- Who funds TONGVA TARAXAT PAXAAVXA CONSERVANCY ↗
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: Weingart Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · The California Endowment · The Ahmanson Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · United Way Inc · The Rose Hills Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · Community Partners
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 Durfee 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.
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- HomeWorks Trenton — 6% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
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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