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Flourish Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$40k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$341kEducation$341kYouth Development$28kCommunity Improvement$28kCivil Rights$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$40,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$24k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$40,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%NICKERSON - ROSSI DANCE: $15k → 11%LATINO PRODUCERS ACTION NETWORK: $10k → 14%DANCE USA LOS ANGELES CONFERENCE: $7k → 14%LADIES OF HIP-HOP: $20k → 14%PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL DANCE FESTIVAL: $15k → 11%LADIES OF HIP-HOP FESTIVAL: $8k → 14%NICKERSON - ROSSI DANCE: $8k → 11%KAYNE ERAS SCHOOL: $5k → 14%PALM SPRINGS DANCE FESTIVAL: $12k → 11%ROBERT FROST MIDDLE SCHOOL: $5k → 14%PALM SPRINGS DANCE FESTIVAL: $10k → 11%PUEBLO DE LOS ANGELES HIGH SCHOOL: $5k → 14%Hawthorne Math Science Academy: $5k → 14%ROBERT FROST MIDDLE SCHOOL: $5k → 14%FOSHAY LEARNING CENTER: $5k → 14%PUEBLO DE LOS ANGELES HIGH SCHOOL: $5k → 14%SAN FERNANDO HIGH VAUGHN NEXT CENTU: $10k → 14%SAN FERNANDO HIGH VAUGHN NEXT CENTU: $5k → 14%SAN FERNANDO HIGH SCHOOL: $5k → 14%El Rancho High School: $5k → 14%Marshall Drama Trust: $5k → 14%EL RANCHO HIGH SCHOOL: $5k → 14%John Marshall High School: $5k → 14%FAIRFAX HIGH SCHOOL: $5k → 14%JOHN MARSHALL HIGH: $5k → 14%FAIRFAX HIGH SCHOOL: $5k → 14%CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LOS ANGELES: $5k → 14%LACER: $5k → 14%EAST WEST PLAYERS: $5k → 14%THE UNUSUAL SUSPECTS: $5k → 14%Manual Arts High School: $5k → 14%LOS ANGELES VALLEY COLLEGE: $5k → 14%LOS ANGELES VALLEY COLLEGE: $5k → 14%LOS ANGELES VALLEY COLLEGE: $5k → 14%LOS ANGELES VALLEY COLLEGE: $5k → 14%4C ARTS LAB: $5k → 14%UC REGENTS: $50k → 14%UC REGENTS: $44k → 14%UCLA SUMMER SESSIONS: $43k → 14%UCLA SUMMER SESSIONS: $41k → 14%UC REGENTS: $8k → 14%AWOKE: $10k → 14%AWOKE: $10k → 14%AWOKE: $8k → 14%CANOGA PARK HIGH SCHOOL: $10k → 14%VERSASTYLE DANCE: $40k → 14%Los Angeles High School: $12k → 14%LOS ANGELES HIGH SCHOOL: $11k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$607k · 26 repeat orgs$175k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +83% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
26

Total granted

$607k
$135k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+83%
+31%

Still filing today

27%
12%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • LO
    Ladies of Hip-Hop Festival
    4× · 2019–2022 · $33k · revenue +22%
  • A
    AWOKE
    3× · 2020–2022 · $28k · revenue ×13
  • ND
    Nickerson-Rossi Dance
    2× · 2021–2022 · $23k · revenue +260%

Funded once

  • PS
    PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL DANCE FESTIVAL
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
  • CP
    CANOGA PARK HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • LP
    LATINO PRODUCERS ACTION NETWORK
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Los Angeles International Dance Festival
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2
San Francisco High School of the Arts

San Francisco Arts and Science Academy (ASA) provides TK5 grade students with a strong foundation in the arts, language, math, and science, fostering creativity, curiosity, and character development. Our bilingual, hands-on curriculum…

Education
3
Artronika

ARTRONIKA is a collective of Los Angeles based artists that produce immersive arts programming showcasing an array of South Asian talent and culture. Through innovative and inclusive events, we reimagine traditional music, art, and…

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4
El Paso Jazz Girls

Our 6th year was our biggest year yet with 70 particiants! Participants (girls age 11 - 18) learned to compose, arrange, record, and perform their original music. We taught girls digital literacy skills, theory, ear training, and…

Arts & Culture
5
Hisako Film Lab
Arts & Culture
6
All About Kids La
Philanthropy
7
Oakland School for the Arts

To establish and maintain a positive school culture in which all students are motivated to learn, support each other, and have structures in place that assist students in accessing their full artistic and academic potential.

Education
8
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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9
Los Angeles Choregraphers and Dance Inc

To educate, create and perform dance.

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10
Inner-City Arts

Inner-city arts believes that the arts and creativity are transformational, and we envision a society that honors the human capacity for creativity, and values its cultivation in the education of young people. inner-city arts uses arts…

Arts & Culture
11
Hollywood Schoolhouse Inc

Hollywood Schoolhouse knows, values, and encourages fearless curiosity. Through a blended program of innovative academics and structured learning, our diverse community inspires students to be academically strong, artistically proud,…

Education
12
Los Angeles Performance Practice

As creative producers, we are devoted to the production and presentation of groundbreaking experiences in contemporary performance that use innovative approaches to collaboration, technology, and social engagement. As a service…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Awoke; the most unlike its peers is St Bernard's Catholic School St Bernard's Academy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 53 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UC REGENTS: $141,446 · OtherUC REGENTSIndividual grant recipient: $84,048 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $40,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT: $30,000 · OtherLos Angeles High School: $25,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES VALLEY COLLEGE: $22,500 · Other+39 more: $324,450 · Other+39 moreLadies of Hip-Hop Festival: $32,500 · Arts & CultureLadies of …Nickerson-Rossi Dance: $22,500 · Arts & CultureNickerson-…4C LAB: $10,000 · Arts & Culture4C LABEAST-WEST PLAYERS INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureEAST-WEST …AWOKE: $27,500 · PhilanthropyST BERNARD'S CATHOLIC SCHOOL ST BERNARD'S ACADEMY: $10,000 · Education826LA: $5,000 · EducationGreen Dot Public Schools: $2,000 · Education
Other$667,444Arts & Culture$70,000Philanthropy$27,500Education$17,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLadies of Hip-Hop Festival: $32,500 over 4y, 7.1% of budgetAWOKE: $27,500 over 3y, 12% of budgetNickerson-Rossi Dance: $22,500 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetTHE OUTKAST ACADEMY INC: $20,000 over 4y, 4.7% of budget4C LAB: $10,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetST BERNARD'S CATHOLIC SCHOOL ST BERNARD'S ACADEMY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetROBERT FROST MIDDLE SCHOOL PTSA AKA PTA CA CONGRESS OF PARENTS: $10,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetEAST-WEST PLAYERS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetALICE G HARRISON MEMORIAL TRUST: $5,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budget826LA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGreen Dot Public Schools: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds Ladies of Hip-Hop Festival ↗
  • Who funds AWOKE ↗
  • Who funds Nickerson-Rossi Dance ↗
  • Who funds THE OUTKAST ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds 4C LAB ↗
  • Who funds ST BERNARD'S CATHOLIC SCHOOL ST BERNARD'S ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds ROBERT FROST MIDDLE SCHOOL PTSA AKA PTA CA CONGRESS OF PARENTS ↗
  • Who funds EAST-WEST PLAYERS INC ↗

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.

California Community …The Ahmanson Foundati…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
California Community FoundationCA17.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Flourish Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Flourish Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Flourish Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Flourish 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.

    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 53 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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