· Private foundation
Freeman E Fairfield 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 $10k11 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RM Plyes Boys Camp | $20,000 |
| Meals on Wheels of Long Beach | $20,000 |
| Downtown Associated Youth Svcs | $15,000 |
| Boys Girls Club of Long Beach | $10,000 |
| Pathways | $10,000 |
| Assistance Leage of Long Beach | $5,000 |
| YMCA of Greater Long Beach | $5,000 |
| Caterina's Club | $5,000 |
| Salvation Army | $5,000 |
| Conservation Corps of Long Beach | $5,000 |
| Ronald McDonald House | $5,000 |
| Century Villages of Cabrillo | $5,000 |
| Food Bank of Southern CA | $5,000 |
| Young Horizons Child Development Ce | $3,000 |
| Long Beach Blast | $2,000 |
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, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 62% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +90% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 5 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
Best Buddies International Inc5× · 2017–2023 · $127k · revenue +81%- RPRM PYLES BOYS CAMP5× · 2017–2024 · $90k · revenue +72%
- FFFOOD FINDERS INC4× · 2017–2023 · $52k · revenue +84%
Funded once
- TETHE EDWIN DOROTHY BAKER FDone grant, 2017 · $15k
- BGBOYS GIRLS CLUBSone grant, 2017 · $10k
- LALB AREA COUNCIL OF BOY SCone grant, 2017 · $7k
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.
Expand opportunities available to underresourced individuals in the city of long beach
To provide high quality and affordable child care, nutrition and other social services to low-income families.
We are a catalyst that informs, activates, and connects community leaders to more meaningfully serve Long Beach.
Assistance League of Laguna Beach volunteers are focused on transforming lives and strengthening our community.
To help at-promise children and youth in los angeles reach their fullest potential through professionally supported, one-to-one mentoring relationships that strengthen their social, emotional, cognitive and behavioral competencies. youth…
Create and support mentoring matches that ignite the power and promise of youth.
To ensure all long beach secondary students, grades 6-12, have access to inspiring work-based learning opportunities in growing and emerging career sectors, complementing what they learn in class.
Family promise of the south bay assists families experiencing housing insecurity with short-term shelter, case management, and navigation with the goal of creating a sustainable solution for their family.
The Chamber is the platform for business to provide leadership, education and advocacy so that the Long Beach area thrives in the 21st century.
Our mission is to create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
Los Angeles Team Mentorings (LATM) mission is to guide middle school students growing up in challenging urban environments to recognize and reach their full potential. See Schedule O for more details.
Catholic Big Brothers Big Sisters pairs youth in-need and volunteers of all faiths and backgrounds in one-to-one professionally suported mentoring relationships to help them academically and in life.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Clubs of Long Beach and the most unlike its peers is Life Steps Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 30 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 Best Buddies International Inc ↗
- Who funds RM PYLES BOYS CAMP ↗
- Who funds FOOD FINDERS INC ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels of Long Beach Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LONG BEACH ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION CORPS OF LONG BEACH ↗
- Who funds Long Beach BLAST Better Learning for All Students Today ↗
- Who funds YOUNG HORIZONS ↗
- Who funds CATERINAS CLUB ↗
- Who funds CENTURY VILLAGES AT CABRILLO INC ↗
- Who funds Assistance League of Long Beach ↗
- Who funds LIFE STEPS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Power 4 Youth Inc ↗
- Who funds LONG BEACH DAY NURSERY ↗
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: Earl B & Loraine H Miller Foundation · The Josephine S Gumbiner Foundation · Bess J Hodges Foundation · The Rudolph J & Daphne a Munzer Foundation · Long Beach Community Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Crail-Johnson Foundation · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · Temple Family Charitable Foundation · Porter John W Tuw
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 Freeman E Fairfield 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.
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% 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.