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George Foundation Joanne Marie & Marcel at a glance

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George Foundation Joanne Marie & Marcel

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$251k
Granted FY2025still arriving
32
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$576kReligion$267kHuman Services$255kArts & Culture$190kAnimals$190kHealth$163kPublic Safety & Disaster$100kYouth Development$61kOther$0
02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k23 grants · $86k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $165k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
USC CARUSO CATHOLIC CENTER$25,000
VERBUM DEI HIGH SCHOOL$25,000
ST MARY'S ACADEMY-SCHOLARSHIP FUND$25,000
USC THORTON SCHOOL OF MUSIC$20,000
USC LIBRARIES$20,000
GARY SINISE FOUNDATION$15,000
EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION$12,500
CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE$12,000
ST JOHNS HEALTH CTR FOUNDATION$10,000
NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FNDTN$7,700
GOOD SHEPHARD CTR FOR HOMELESS WM$7,000
LOVE ON 4 PAWS$7,000
ST ANNE'S FAMILY SERVICES$7,000
LA COUNTY FIRE DEPT FOUNDATION$5,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN CA$5,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $283k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $4k → 8%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $12k → 11%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $4k → 8%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $10k → 11%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $4k → 8%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $10k → 11%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $4k → 8%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $10k → 11%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $3k → 8%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $6k → 11%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 8%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 8%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 8%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 8%EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $13k → 14%EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $13k → 14%EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $8k → 14%ST ANNE'S FAMILY SERVICES: $7k → 14%ST ANNE'S FAMILY SERVICES: $7k → 14%ST ANNE'S FAMILY SERVICES: $7k → 14%GOOD SHEPHARD CTR FOR HOMELESS WOMEN & CHILDREN: $3k → 14%LOVE ON 4 PAWS: $7k → 14%LOVE ON 4 PAWS: $7k → 14%LOVE ON 4 PAWS: $7k → 14%LOVE ON 4 PAWS: $7k → 14%LOVE ON 4 PAWS: $6k → 14%LOVE ON 4 PAWS: $5k → 14%LOVE ON 4 PAWS: $5k → 14%LOVE ON 4 PAWS: $4k → 14%LANGE FOUNDATION: $4k → 14%LANGE FOUNDATION: $4k → 14%LANGE FOUNDATION: $4k → 14%LANGE FOUNDATION: $4k → 14%LANGE FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF CONEJO VALLEY: $2k → 14%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF CONEJO VALLEY: $2k → 14%LANGE FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF CONEJO VALLEY: $2k → 14%LANGE FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF CONEJO VALLEY: $2k → 14%LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $5k → 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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 42 repeat orgs$49k to everyone else

42 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
7

Total granted

$1.9M
$49k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+87%

Still filing today

55%
14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Human ServicesAnimalsHealthYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • GARY SINISE FOUNDATION
    8× · 2018–2025 · $92k · revenue +126%
  • EC
    EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION
    7× · 2019–2025 · $73k · revenue +5%
  • CC
    CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $64k · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • VO
    VARIOUS ORGANIZED CHARITIES
    one grant, 2017 · $23k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ATHLETIC FD
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • UA
    USC ATHLETIC FOUNDATION
    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 Retired Fire and Police Benevolent Association
Crime & Legal
2
The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.

Animals
3
Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd

Huntington Health stands for community. We stand for compassion. But more than anything, Huntington stands for health. Providing world-class health care is our specialty, and it's what we've been doing for the San Gabriel Valley since…

Health
4
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
5
Usc Arcadia Hospital Foundation

Mission statement the mission of usc arcadia hospital foundation educates and inspires the community to generously support quality medical care at usc arcadia hospital.

Health
6
Pet Orphans of Southern California

In addition to rescue and adoption, pet orphans provides a wide range of services including education, medical/financial, spay/neuter, and training assistance.

Animals
7
Children's Hospital Los Angeles

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

Health
8
Project Street Vet

Project Street Vet empowers veterinary teams to deliver professional, non-judgmental medical care & support to pet families experiencing homelessness and housing vulnerability.

Animals
9
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for Monterey County

The SPCA Monterey County's Mission is assuring compassionate treatment of all animals through rescue, rehabilitation, protection and education. The SPCA shelters homeless, neglected, and abused pets, including dogs, cats, horses, exotic…

Animals
10
Los Angeles Medical Center Foundation
Health
11
SPAY4LA Inc

Spay4la is dedicated to alleviating the needless pain and suffering of thousands of animals killed in los angeles. the organization offers free and low cost spay and neuter services for cats and dogs in the los angeles area.

Animals
12
Santa Barbara Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint John's Health Center Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Wellnest Emotional Health & Wellness. 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

25 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. 25 of the 50 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
20/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

USC CARUSO CATHOLIC CENTER: $210,000 · OtherUSC CARUSO CATHOLIC CENTERUSC LIBRARIES: $180,000 · OtherUSC LIBRARIESUSC THORTON SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $160,000 · OtherUSC THORTON SCHOOL OF MUSICST MARY'S ACADEMY-SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $150,000 · OtherST MARY'S ACADEMY-SCHOLARSHIP FUNDVERBUM DEI HIGH SCHOOL: $128,000 · OtherVERBUM DEI HIGH SCHOOLST MARY'S ACADEMY: $75,000 · OtherST MARY'S ACADEMYGOOD SHEPHARD CTR FOR HOMELESS WM: $49,000 · Other+22 more: $292,900 · Other+22 moreEXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $72,500 · Human ServicesEXCEPTIONAL CHILD…CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $64,000 · Human ServicesCANINE COMPANIONS…Love On 4 Paws Inc: $47,500 · Human ServicesLove On 4 Paws In…GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $27,000 · Human ServicesGUIDE DOGS FOR TH…LANGE FOUNDATION: $27,000 · Human ServicesLANGE FOUNDATIONSt Anne's Family Services: $21,000 · Human ServicesSt Anne's Family …LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Human ServicesLOS ANGELES POLIC…ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF CONEJO VALLEY: $14,000 · Human Services+2 more: $5,500 · Human ServicesSAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION: $57,500 · HealthNATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION: $51,800 · HealthALZHEIMERS GREATER LOS ANGELES: $24,000 · HealthGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $92,000 · PhilanthropyFOUNDATION FOR TEACHING ECONOMICS: $40,200 · Youth DevelopmentHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $21,000 · Youth DevelopmentLOS ANGELES SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $22,500 · AnimalsROAR FOUNDATION: $12,000 · AnimalsACTORS AND OTHERS FOR ANIMALS: $7,800 · AnimalsLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION: $28,500 · Public Safety & DisasterUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $20,000 · Education
Other$1,244,900Human Services$298,500Health$133,300Philanthropy$92,000Youth Development$61,200Animals$42,300Public Safety & Disaster$28,500Education$20,000

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 budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $92,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetEXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $72,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $64,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION: $57,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION: $51,800 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLove On 4 Paws Inc: $47,500 over 8y, 12% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR TEACHING ECONOMICS: $40,200 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetSt Anne's Foundation: $32,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION: $28,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $27,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetLANGE FOUNDATION: $27,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetALZHEIMERS GREATER LOS ANGELES: $24,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $22,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES: $21,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $21,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSt Anne's Family Services: $21,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF CONEJO VALLEY: $14,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetROAR FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetMission Doctors Association: $9,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetACTORS AND OTHERS FOR ANIMALS: $7,800 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWellnest Emotional Health & Wellness: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC: $2,500 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 GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds SAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Love On 4 Paws Inc ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR TEACHING ECONOMICS ↗
  • Who funds St Anne's Foundation ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
  • Who funds LANGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMERS GREATER LOS ANGELES ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
  • Who funds THE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES ↗
  • Who funds HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES ↗
  • Who funds St Anne's Family Services ↗
  • Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF CONEJO VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds ROAR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Mission Doctors Association ↗

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.

Klm FoundationCalifornia Community …Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Klm FoundationCA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Klm Foundation · California Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 George Foundation Joanne Marie & Marcel funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from George Foundation Joanne Marie & Marcel. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–20%
    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.

    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 50 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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