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Find Your Grind 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.
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 $10k2 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $23k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $250k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE PROGRAM NYC | $750,000 |
| JUST KEEP LIVIN FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| SEL4CA | $150,000 |
| STRUT CARES | $100,000 |
| GUITARS OVER GUNS | $12,576 |
| FUTURE OF FOOD ENTREPRENEURSHIP PRO | $10,000 |
| ANAHEIM DUCKS FOUNDATION | $6,500 |
| ALL SECURE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Find Your Grind Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 66% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 62% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
12 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- JKJUST KEEP LIVIN FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $310k · revenue +71%
- ADANAHEIM DUCKS FOUNDATION3× · 2018–2024 · $157k · revenue +16%
- KCKERSHAW'S CHALLENGE3× · 2018–2022 · $82k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- TWTIGER WOODS FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1.5M · revenue +48%
- TSTHE SKATEPARK PROJECT FKA THE TONY HAWK FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $200k
- LALos Angeles Chargers Charitiesone grant, 2021 · $175k · revenue +3%
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.
The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…
The archer school for girls is an educational community that supports and challenges young women to discover their passions and realize their true potential by a) providing a rigorous, integrated college preparatory curriculum that fosters…
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
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…
The seal (sobrato early academic language) mission is for all dual language/english learners in california to learn, thrive and lead.
We transform schools to revolutionize school systems, empowering all students with a high-quality education. the partnership's goals are to 1) dramatically accelerate achievement for students in the district's highest need and historically…
We steward $1.5 billion in charitable assets through donor-advised funds, endowments, and other giving vehicles. partnering with 1,400 individuals, families, and organizations, we build enduring legacies and multigenerational impact. in…
A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.
To advance educational equity. together with families, schools and the community, facilitate access to and opportunities for quality educational and wellness practices so that children thrive from diapers to diplomas.
The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.
The institution provides educational instruction and activities to students ranging from preschool through 8th grade.
The Learning Policy Institute (LPI) conducts and disseminates independent, high-quality research to improve learning for all children. A nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, LPI connects policymakers and stakeholders at the local, state,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tiger Woods Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Iamangel 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 18 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 150 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 TIGER WOODS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JUST KEEP LIVIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Los Angeles Chargers Charities ↗
- Who funds SEL4CA ↗
- Who funds ANAHEIM DUCKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SONANCE CARES INC ↗
- Who funds IAMANGEL Foundation ↗
- Who funds KERSHAW'S CHALLENGE ↗
- Who funds VETPAW INC ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
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- Who funds RABBLE MILL ↗
- Who funds FOOD EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW VILLAGE CHARTER SCHOOL INC ↗
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- Who funds TOGETHER WE RISE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG STORYTELLERS ↗
- Who funds SHAKESPEARE CENTER OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds Green Dot Public Schools ↗
- Who funds STREET POETS INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHECKLER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALL SECURE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds POLICE UNITY TOUR CHAPTER VII OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
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: The Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · California Community Foundation · Elbridge Stuart Foundation Dba Stuart Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
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 Find Your Grind 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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