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Frank McHugh-O'Donovan Foundation Inc
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 $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $289k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $919k
- $250k+2 grants · $723k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $400,000 |
| FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC | $323,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE LOS ANGELES RIVER | $200,000 |
| STELLA ADLER THEATRE | $160,000 |
| ANTELOPE VALLEY CONSERVANCY | $140,000 |
| COLETTES CHILDREN HOME INC | $100,000 |
| VENTURA COUNTY FARM TO SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| LOS ANGELES ARBORETUM FOUNDATION INC | $100,000 |
| TREEPEOPLE INC | $69,000 |
| ALEXANDRIA HOUSE | $50,000 |
| MESIVTA OF GREATER LOS ANGELES | $30,000 |
| HOMES FOR LIFE FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| STUDENTS FOR ECO EDUCATION AND AGRICULTURE INC | $20,000 |
| LAS FAMILIAS DEL PUEBLO | $20,000 |
| LOS ANGELES BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $20,000 |
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, $1.1M) 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Frank McHugh-O'Donovan Foundation Inc’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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
43 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 7 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $513k 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
VISION TO LEARN2× · 2022–2023 · $1.8M · revenue +77%- HSHARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL2× · 2019–2021 · $600k · revenue +10%
- TITREEPEOPLE INC6× · 2019–2024 · $574k · revenue +111%
Funded once
- SCST CORNELIUS CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $500k
- WCWE CARE SOLARgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $314k · revenue +103%
GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $300k · revenue -7%
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 los angeles conservancy is a nonprofit membership organization that works through education and advocacy to recognize, preserve, and revitalize the historic architectural and cultural resources of los angeles county.
To help each child reach his/her full potential by cultivating an active village of parents, community members, and stakeholders involved in providing an individual, personal, and conceptual learning environment for each student.
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
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.
To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…
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…
Spcala is dedicated to the prevention of cruelty to animals through education, law enforcement, intervention and advocacy.
To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. we work with public school systems, establishing relationship with superintendents, principals, educators, and community partners to…
The university of la verne offers a distinctive and relevant educational experience to a diverse population of traditional-age, adult, and graduate learners, preparing them for successful careers and a commitment to lifelong learning…
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc and the most unlike its peers is Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
77 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. 77 of the 97 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 THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds VISION TO LEARN ↗
- Who funds Stella Adler Theatre ↗
- Who funds HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TREEPEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds Los Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES ARBORETUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE LOS ANGELES RIVER ↗
- Who funds HOMES FOR LIFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VENTURA COUNTY FARM TO SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds The Childrens Lifesaving Foundation ↗
- Who funds FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds WE CARE SOLAR ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds Las Familias Del Pueblo ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES BOYS & GIRLS CLUB ↗
- Who funds Students for Eco-Education and Agriculture Inc ↗
- Who funds ANTELOPE VALLEY CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds RAINBOW SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ST MONICA ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds MESIVTA OF GREATER LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds DIY GIRLS ↗
- Who funds VALLEY VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds APOPO US INC ↗
- Who funds KHALSA PEACE CORPS ↗
- Who funds GAVI ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds COLETTE'S CHILDREN'S HOME INC ↗
- Who funds EL NIDO FAMILY CENTERS ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC SCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
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 Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · Lon V Smith Foundation · Carrie Estelle Doheny Foundation · Baby2baby
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 Frank McHugh-O'Donovan Foundation Inc 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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