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Frome Family 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.

$830k
Granted FY2024still arriving
66
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Human Services$1.2MHealth$767kYouth Development$486kArts & Culture$418kRecreation & Sports$342kEducation$301kHousing & Shelter$254kFood & Nutrition$73kOther$0
02FY2024 · 66 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k24 grants · $121k
  • $10k–50k40 grants · $589k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $120k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHOC Childrens Foundation$60,000
Hoag Hospital Foundation$60,000
Kidworks$40,000
Illumination Foundation$30,000
Alzheimer's Orange County$25,000
Special Olympics OC$25,000
Casa Teresa$25,000
Cure Duchenne$20,000
Orangewood Foundation$20,000
Individual grant recipient$19,500
Miracles For Kids$19,500
Big Brothers Big Sisters of OC$15,000
Mission San Juan Capistrano Foundat$15,000
Servite High School$15,000
Serving People in Need SPIN$15,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $573k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Share Our Selves SOS: $30k → 10%Serving People in Need SPIN: $10k → 14%Peninsula Family Services: $2k → 7%Serving People in Need SPIN: $10k → 14%Project Glimmer: $1k → 10%Peninsula Family Services: $1k → 7%Serving People in Need SPIN: $20k → 10%Peninsula Family Services: $1k → 7%Share Our Selves SOS: $16k → 10%Share Our Selves SOS: $15k → 10%Serving People in Need SPIN: $15k → 10%Serving People in Need SPIN: $15k → 10%Serving People in Need SPIN: $15k → 10%Serving People in Need SPIN: $10k → 10%Share Our Selves SOS: $6k → 10%Share Our Selves SOS: $5k → 10%Share Our Selves SOS: $7k → 10%Share Our Selves SOS: $7k → 10%Laura's House: $4k → 10%Laura's House: $4k → 10%Laura's House: $4k → 10%The Teen Project: $1k → 10%Childhelp: $3k → 10%Laura's House: $15k → 10%Laura's House: $10k → 10%Laura's House: $5k → 10%Laura's House: $4k → 10%Kidworks: $48k → 10%Kidworks: $40k → 10%Kidworks: $35k → 10%Kidworks: $33k → 10%Kidworks: $25k → 10%Casa Teresa: $13k → 10%Casa Teresa: $11k → 10%Illumination Foundation: $30k → 10%Assistance League of Santa Ana: $3k → 10%Illumination Foundation: $23k → 10%Assistance League of Santa Ana: $2k → 10%Illumination Foundation: $30k → 10%Illumination Foundation: $13k → 10%Illumination Foundation: $12k → 10%Illumination Foundation: $10k → 10%Illumination Foundation: $10k → 10%Caterina's Club: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.9M · 86 repeat orgs$137k to everyone else

86 repeat relationships — 59 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

86
28

Total granted

$3.9M
$105k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+102%

Still filing today

66%
18%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsCrime & LegalOther

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

  • HH
    HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $228k · revenue +300%
  • CF
    CHOC FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $214k · revenue +103%
  • KC
    KIDWORKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP
    5× · 2020–2024 · $181k · revenue +86%

Funded once

  • N
    Notley
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • WS
    We Share Program
    one grant, 2023 · $5k

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

04Your field

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.

1
Mary's Shelter

Believing in the value of every life, mary's path empowers vulnerable teen mothers in foster care and their babies to create lives of dignity, hope and self-sufficiency.

Human Services
2
Florence Crittenton Services of Orance County Inc

Crittenton provides transformative behavioral health services, supportive housing, and foster care to children, young adults, and families to build a better future.

Human Services
3
California Court Appointed Special Advocate Association

California casa was founded in 1987. its mission is to ensure that children and youth in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems have both a voice and the services they need to thrive. we achieve this by strengthening and empowering…

Civil Rights
4
Oak Hill School of California

To offer special education (k-12) based on the latest research for children facing significant challenges in communication, sensory processing and social relations for the benefit of individuals and the public on a non- discriminatory…

Education
5
The California Channel

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…

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6
Children's Home Society of California

The mission of children's home society of california is to provide children, families, and communities with supportive services to thrive.

Human Services
7
Altamed Health Services Corporation

To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.

Health
8
Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.

Health
9
Alpha Treatment Centers

Alpha treatment centers is a california non-profit corporation set up for the general purpose of the prevention of cruelty to children, charitable, and/or educational purposes.

Human Services
10
Orange County School of the Arts

We provide an unparalleled arts and acdademic education in a creative, challenging and nurturing environment to a diverse student body passionate about the arts, preparing them to reach their highest potential.

Education
11
Thomas House Temporary Shelter

To provide at-risk and unhoused families-with-children a safe and supportive environment where they are empowered to achieve independence and self-sufficiency.

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12
Waymakers

Waymakers builds safer communities by helping individuals make their way through conflict and crisis to a place of strength and stability. we redirect youthful offenders, stabilize children dealing with mental health concerns, counsel…

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Olive Crest and the most unlike its peers is Irrelevant Week Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCoastal & Environmental Edu…Community Support Organizat…Arts Education and Performa…Professional Associations &…Disability Services & Suppo…School Parent Support Organ…Affordable Housing & Suppor…Family Philanthropic Founda…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 32 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%3%<5yr16%3%5–10yr21%16%10–20yr18%34%20–35yr9%25%35–55yr11%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%2%<5yr16%2%5–10yr21%14%10–20yr18%40%20–35yr9%26%35–55yr11%16%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/67
the rest of the field
14%
2,114/15,453

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.

04the grantee network

65 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. 65 of the 121 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
65/65
Grantees still filing
46/65
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Special Olympics OC — $147,500 · OtherSpecial Olympics OCOC Ronald McDonald House — $145,000 · OtherOC Ronald McDonald HouseMATER DEI HIGH SCHOOL ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP OF ORANGE — $85,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $68,250 · OtherBig Brothers Big Sisters of OC — $65,000 · Other+76 more — $1,228,200 · Other+76 moreKIDWORKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP — $180,500 · Human ServicesKIDWORKS COMMUNITY DEV…CASA TERESA INC — $146,750 · Human ServicesCASA TERESA INCIllumination Health Home formerly The Illumination Foundation — $126,500 · Human ServicesIllumination Health Ho…Serving People In Need Inc — $95,000 · Human ServicesServing People In Need…Share Our Selves Corporation — $85,000 · Human ServicesShare Our Selves Corpo…Human Options Inc — $53,000 · Human ServicesHuman Options IncCHILDHELP INC — $49,500 · Human ServicesCHILDHELP INCLAURA'S HOUSE — $44,000 · Human ServicesLAURA'S HOUSE+5 more — $15,500 · Human ServicesHOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $227,500 · HealthHOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDA…CHOC FOUNDATION — $214,000 · HealthCHOC FOUNDATIONCURE DUCHENNE — $98,000 · HealthCURE DUCHENNEALZHEIMER'S ORANGE COUNTY — $88,500 · HealthALZHEIMER'S ORANGE C…OLIVE CREST — $83,500 · HealthOLIVE CRESTNEW DIRECTIONS FOR WOMEN INC — $28,500 · Health+1 more — $6,500 · HealthTHE WOODEN FLOOR FOR YOUTH MOVEMENT — $95,000 · Arts & CultureSegerstrom Center for the Arts — $71,000 · Arts & CultureMISSION PRESERVATION FOUNDATION — $59,000 · Arts & CultureSIERRA CLASSIC THEATRE — $52,500 · Arts & CulturePHILHARMONIC SOCIETY OF ORANGE COUNTY — $28,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $11,500 · Arts & CultureTHINK TOGETHER — $66,000 · EducationACCESS MAMMOTH — $60,000 · EducationSCHOLARS' HOPE FOUNDATION — $38,000 · EducationTILLY'S LIFE CENTER — $36,480 · EducationPATRICK'S PURPOSE FOUNDATION — $20,500 · Education+1 more — $6,000 · EducationSAVE OUR YOUTH SOY — $58,500 · Crime & LegalORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION — $55,000 · Crime & LegalAMERICA ON TRACK — $21,300 · Crime & LegalMIRACLES FOR KIDS INC — $89,000 · Recreation & SportsFOR THE CHILDREN — $11,000 · Recreation & SportsJF SHEA THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC FKA FRAN JOSWICK THERAP RIDING CTR INC — $5,000 · Recreation & SportsNorthwestern University — $4,500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,738,950Human Services$795,750Health$746,500Arts & Culture$317,000Education$226,980Crime & Legal$134,800Recreation & Sports$109,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $227,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCHOC FOUNDATION — $214,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetKIDWORKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP — $180,500 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetCASA TERESA INC — $146,750 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetIllumination Health Home formerly The Illumination Foundation — $126,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCURE DUCHENNE — $98,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetServing People In Need Inc — $95,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetTHE WOODEN FLOOR FOR YOUTH MOVEMENT — $95,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetMIRACLES FOR KIDS INC — $89,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetALZHEIMER'S ORANGE COUNTY — $88,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetShare Our Selves Corporation — $85,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetOLIVE CREST — $83,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSegerstrom Center for the Arts — $71,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHINK TOGETHER — $66,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetACCESS MAMMOTH — $60,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetMISSION PRESERVATION FOUNDATION — $59,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetSAVE OUR YOUTH SOY — $58,500 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetIRRELEVANT WEEK INC — $57,500 over 7y, 34% of budgetMERCY HOUSE LIVING CENTERS — $56,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION — $55,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHuman Options Inc — $53,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetSIERRA CLASSIC THEATRE — $52,500 over 7y, 11% of budgetCHILDHELP INC — $49,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLAURA'S HOUSE — $44,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetNortheast of the Well — $41,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetEASTERN SIERRA ARTS ALLIANCE — $40,000 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetOrange County Rescue Mission Inc — $38,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOLARS' HOPE FOUNDATION — $38,000 over 6y, 5.4% of budgetTILLY'S LIFE CENTER — $36,480 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetAda's Cafe — $32,500 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetFAMILY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE OF ORANGE COUNTY — $29,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNEW DIRECTIONS FOR WOMEN INC — $28,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetPHILHARMONIC SOCIETY OF ORANGE COUNTY — $28,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPEDIATRIC CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $24,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE LITERACY PROJECT — $22,500 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetAge Well Senior Services Inc — $22,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMONO ARTS COUNCIL — $22,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetAMERICA ON TRACK — $21,300 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetPATRICK'S PURPOSE FOUNDATION — $20,500 over 5y, 6.1% of budgetFarm to Pantry — $17,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetWorking Wardrobes For A New Start — $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSOMEONE CARES SOUP KITCHEN — $11,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetFOR THE CHILDREN — $11,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetOLYMPIC CLUB FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetONEOC — $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH COAST REPERTORY INC — $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGold Rush Cure Foundation Inc — $6,500 over 2y, 2.6% of budget
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 HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHOC FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KIDWORKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
  • Who funds CASA TERESA INC ↗
  • Who funds Illumination Health Home formerly The Illumination Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CURE DUCHENNE ↗
  • Who funds Serving People In Need Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE WOODEN FLOOR FOR YOUTH MOVEMENT ↗
  • Who funds MIRACLES FOR KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S ORANGE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds Share Our Selves Corporation ↗
  • Who funds OLIVE CREST ↗
  • Who funds Segerstrom Center for the Arts ↗
  • Who funds THINK TOGETHER ↗
  • Who funds ACCESS MAMMOTH ↗
  • Who funds MISSION PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SAVE OUR YOUTH SOY ↗
  • Who funds IRRELEVANT WEEK INC ↗
  • Who funds MERCY HOUSE LIVING CENTERS ↗
  • Who funds ORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Human Options Inc ↗
  • Who funds SIERRA CLASSIC THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds CHILDHELP INC ↗
  • Who funds LAURA'S HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds Northeast of the Well ↗
  • Who funds EASTERN SIERRA ARTS ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds Orange County Rescue Mission Inc ↗
  • Who funds SCHOLARS' HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TILLY'S LIFE CENTER ↗

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.

Orange County Communi…O L Halsell FoundationThe Devto Support Fou…Hoag Memorial Hospita…Argyros Family Founda…Sisters of St Joseph …Edwards Lifesciences …Ueberroth Family Foun…The Crean FoundationFarmers & Merchants B…Croul Family Foundati…Orange County's Unite…
Orange County Community FoundationCA62× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · O L Halsell Foundation · The Devto Support Foundation · Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian · Argyros Family Foundation · Sisters of St Joseph Healthcare Foundation · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · Ueberroth Family Foundation · The Crean Foundation · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · Croul Family Foundation · Orange County's United Way

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 Frome Family 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 121 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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