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Ghj 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k37 grants · $91k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $43k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GROUNDSWELL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC | $30,000 |
| BUILDERS OF JEWISH EDUCATION | $12,500 |
| HEAL THE BAY | $7,500 |
| THE WHOLE CHILD | $5,000 |
| SAVING INNOCENCE | $5,000 |
| INNOCENCE PROJECT | $5,000 |
| JOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $3,500 |
| SYCAMORES | $3,000 |
| ABILITYFIRST | $3,000 |
| CHILDREN'S BUREAU OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $3,000 |
| CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE | $2,500 |
| DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER | $2,500 |
| STEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC | $2,500 |
| FOOD FORWARD INC | $2,500 |
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 (FY20–24, $173k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% 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.
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 +29% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 19 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, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k 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
- DWDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER4× · 2021–2024 · $16k · revenue +64%
- HCHATHAWAY-SYCAMORES CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES5× · 2020–2024 · $13k · revenue +16%
- SUSTEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC5× · 2020–2024 · $13k · revenue +158%
Funded once
- SNSpecial Needs Network Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +339%
- KKRZYZOWAone grant, 2022 · $10k
- AFAICPA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $8k
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.
Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.
To improve the quality of life for the diverse communities we serve providing affordable and comprehensive healthcare and education in a welcoming multi-cultural environment.
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.
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…
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.
Hollywood food coalition welcomes people to dinner each night. we rescue and redistribute food daily to other organizations. we care for our immediate community through our wellness program. we build community with and through our…
Intervening to protect and treat all victims of violence
Our mission is to create housing and service options that model, with respect and dignity, sustainable, environmentally sensitive, affordable communities for people of limited resources.
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…
Meeting the professional needs of los angeles lawyers, and improving the administration of justice.
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…
South central los angeles regional center, (sclarc), believes special needs deserve special attention. we are committed to the provision of culturally sensitive services which enhance the inherent strengths of the family and enable…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Institute 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
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 40 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
114 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. 114 of the 145 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 GROUNDSWELL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds HATHAWAY-SYCAMORES CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds STEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FORWARD INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds ABILITYFIRST ↗
- Who funds Special Needs Network Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds THE PEOPLE CONCERN ↗
- Who funds VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ALL FOR KIDS ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD ON FOOT ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SOCIETY OF AMERICA LOS ANGELES INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds HEAL THE BAY ↗
- Who funds PARA LOS NINOS ↗
- Who funds EL NIDO FAMILY CENTERS ↗
- Who funds PET ADOPTION FUND ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds DIDI HIRSCH PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE ↗
- Who funds CHILD EDUCATIONAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds SAVING INNOCENCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds WEAVE INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SURF ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Imagine Los Angeles Inc ↗
- Who funds We Are Brave Together ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY GIVING TREE ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds JOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Weingart Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · United Way Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Baby2baby · The Deutsch Foundation · Shelter Partnership 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 Ghj 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Global Empowerment Mission Inc — 0% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% 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.
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Find your warmest path to Ghj Foundation 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.