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Garcia Family Spotlight 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.

$144k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$57k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182024.

Education$1.4MArts & Culture$425kInternational$204kCivil Rights$68kCrime & Legal$56kHealth$28kFood & Nutrition$16kHuman Services$16kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $43k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $57k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION$57,200
A BREEZE OF HOPE$15,000
WE ARE FAMILY FOUNDATION$15,000
BROWN UNIVERSITY$12,500
ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME$8,896
ALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION$8,000
TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL$5,660
TRANSFORMER DC$5,000
THE WASHINGTON BALLET$4,680
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART$4,500
PENFAULKNEER FOUNDATION$3,068
CITYDANCE$2,500
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART$896
NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES$619
BEST FRIENDS$326
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 (FY20–24, $72k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 21% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%A BREEZE OF HOPE FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%NATIONAL DIAPER BANK: $5k → 12%A BREEZE OF HOPE: $25k → 10%NATIONAL DIAPER BANK: $5k → 12%A BREEZE OF HOPE: $15k → 10%NATIONAL DIAPER BANK: $5k → 12%A BREEZE OF HOPE FOUNDATION: $11k → 10%NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $619 → 8%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.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
UT
VA
MD
AR
DC
TX

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 22 repeat orgs$147k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

22 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
21

Total granted

$1.2M
$140k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+23%

Still filing today

82%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationAnimalsHuman ServicesInternationalHealthOther

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

  • WU
    WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2018–2021 · $550k · revenue +55%
  • TP
    THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION
    6× · 2018–2024 · $288k · revenue +91%
  • WA
    WE ARE FAMILY FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $68k · revenue +72%

Funded once

  • AI
    ANTARA INTERNATIONAL INC
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -81%
  • OD
    One Days Wages
    one grant, 2022 · $13k · revenue -51%
  • SR
    ST ROSE OF LIMA
    one grant, 2021 · $10k

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
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
2
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
3
Philadelphia Museum of Art

The philadelphia museum of art - in partnership with the city, the region, and art museums around the globe - seeks to preserve, enhance, interpret, and extend the reach of its great collection in particular, and the visual arts in…

Arts & Culture
4
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
5
San Diego Museum of Art

To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.

Arts & Culture
6
Baltimore Museum of Art

The baltimore museum of art connects art to baltimore and baltimore to the world, embodying a commitment to artistic excellence and social equity in every decision from art presentation, interpretation, and collecting, to the composition…

Arts & Culture
7
Metropolitan Museum of Art

The metropolitan museum of art collects, studies, conserves, and presents significant works of art across all times and cultures in order to connect people to creativity, knowledge, and ideas.

Arts & Culture
8
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
9
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
10
Berggruen Institute
Education
11
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
12
National Geographic Society

To increase and diffuse geographic knowledge in the broadest sense, using the power of science, exploration, education and storytelling to illuminate and protect the wonder of the world.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Children and Families and the most unlike its peers is Smiling Dog Farms. 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 backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Domestic Violence Crisis Se…Professional Ballet Compani…Cancer Support OrganizationsCommunity Arts OrganizationsLgbtq+ Community CentersLand Conservation Organizat…Animal Rescue and AdoptionChristian Missionary Organi…Independent K-8 Schools
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 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr13%19%35–55yr16%41%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%4%10–20yr16%5%20–35yr13%4%35–55yr16%82%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/33
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,532

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

32 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 32 of the 47 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
22/32
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BROWN UNIVERSITY — $825,000 · Community ImprovementBROWN UNIVERSITYWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $550,000 · EducationWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY+3 more — $8,018 · EducationTHE PHILLIPS COLLECTION — $287,735 · Arts & CultureTHE PHILLIPS COLLE…THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC — $48,932 · Arts & CultureTHE ROCK AND ROLL …THE WASHINGTON BALLET — $19,680 · Arts & CultureTHE WASHINGTON BAL…+4 more — $11,434 · Arts & CultureWORLD OF CHILDREN INC — $85,000 · OtherWORLD OF CH…PEN FAULKNER FOUNDATION — $31,068 · OtherPEN FAULKNE…MEALS ON WHEELS — $15,000 · OtherMEALS ON WH…TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL — $10,735 · OtherST ROSE OF LIMA — $10,000 · OtherTRANSFORMER DC — $10,000 · OtherALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION — $26,680 · OtherALZHEIMER'S…One Days Wages — $13,222 · OtherOne Days Wa…+20 more — $22,999 · Other+20 moreANTARA INTERNATIONAL INC — $100,000 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $5,500 · HealthA BREEZE OF HOPE FOUNDATION — $56,267 · Human ServicesNATIONAL DIAPER BANK NETWORK INC — $15,000 · Human Services+1 more — $619 · Human ServicesWE ARE FAMILY FOUNDATION — $67,500 · Civil Rights+1 more — $518 · Civil Rights
Community Improvement$825,000Education$558,018Arts & Culture$367,781Other$224,704Health$105,500Human Services$71,886Civil Rights$68,018

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $825,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $550,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PHILLIPS COLLECTION — $287,735 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetANTARA INTERNATIONAL INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetWORLD OF CHILDREN INC — $85,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetWE ARE FAMILY FOUNDATION — $67,500 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetA BREEZE OF HOPE FOUNDATION — $56,267 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetTHE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC — $48,932 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPEN FAULKNER FOUNDATION — $31,068 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION — $26,680 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WASHINGTON BALLET — $19,680 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL DIAPER BANK NETWORK INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOne Days Wages — $13,222 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMARET SCHOOL INC — $6,925 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF CHINESE IN AMERICA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL STUDENT HOUSE — $4,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNational Gallery of Art — $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS — $2,320 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHORIZONS GREATER WASHINGTON INC — $1,807 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art — $1,794 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSMILING DOG FARMS — $1,602 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY — $1,430 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES — $619 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION — $518 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMELANOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlley Cat Rescue Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION — $140 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Washington-Waldorf School Inc — $93 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

The Rockefeller FoundationNY13× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Rockefeller Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Garcia Family Spotlight 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • National Center for Children and Families2% of income from government
  • Wesleyan University1% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
8report 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, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Garcia Family Spotlight Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Garcia Family Spotlight Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 47 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.

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