Skip to content
Ghj Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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.

$134k
Granted FY2024still arriving
39
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$135kPhilanthropy$97kHealth$96kHousing & Shelter$61kEducation$38kReligion$32kFood & Nutrition$27kCrime & Legal$22kOther$0
02FY2024 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k37 grants · $91k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $43k
$2,500
Median grant
7
States reached
$84k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GROUNDSWELL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC$30,000
BUILDERS OF JEWISH EDUCATION$12,500
HEAL THE BAY$7,500
THE WHOLE CHILD$5,000
JOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION$5,000
SAVING INNOCENCE$5,000
INNOCENCE PROJECT$5,000
ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL$3,500
ABILITYFIRST$3,000
SYCAMORES$3,000
CHILDREN'S BUREAU OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$3,000
WE ARE BRAVE TOGETHER$2,500
CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE$2,500
FOOD FORWARD INC$2,500
DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER$2,500
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $8k → 14%JOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION: $5k → 20%UPLIFT FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 8%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $3k → 14%SENIOR SUPPORT SERVICES: $3k → 12%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $3k → 14%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $5k → 17%VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 14%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $3k → 14%VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 14%VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $3k → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $3k → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $3k → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $2k → 14%JOHN TRACY CENTER: $2k → 14%IMAGINE LOS ANGELES INC: $5k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $5k → 14%PARA LOS NINOS: $5k → 14%PARA LOS NINOS: $2k → 14%SPECIAL NEEDS NETWORK: $10k → 14%SYCAMORES: $3k → 14%HATHAWAY-SYCAMORES CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 14%HATHAWAY-SYCAMORES CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 14%HATHAWAY-SYCAMORES CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 14%LOS ANGELES HOUSE OF RUTH: $4k → 14%HATHAWAY-SYCAMORES CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 14%STEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC: $3k → 14%STEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC: $3k → 14%CHILDRENS INSTITUTE INC: $5k → 14%STEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC: $3k → 14%CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE: $3k → 14%STEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC: $3k → 14%CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE: $3k → 14%STEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC: $3k → 14%CHILDRENS INSTITUTE INC: $3k → 14%ABILITYFIRST: $3k → 14%ABILITYFIRST: $3k → 14%ABILITYFIRST: $3k → 14%FOOD ON FOOT INC: $3k → 14%WE ARE BRAVE TOGETHER: $3k → 14%WE ARE BRAVE TOGETHER: $3k → 14%CHILDREN'S BUREAU OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $3k → 14%CHILDREN'S BUREAU OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $3k → 14%CHILDREN'S BUREAU OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $3k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES LOS ANGELES: $5k → 14%FOOD ON FOOT INC: $5k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES LOS ANGELES: $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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
IL
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
AZ
TN
NC
DC
HI
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

51%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$258k · 37 repeat orgs$253k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +20% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
87

Total granted

$258k
$203k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+20%

Still filing today

84%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationAnimalsPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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

  • DW
    DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER
    4× · 2021–2024 · $16k · revenue +64%
  • HC
    HATHAWAY-SYCAMORES CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES
    5× · 2020–2024 · $13k · revenue +16%
  • SU
    STEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $13k · revenue +158%

Funded once

  • SN
    Special Needs Network Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +339%
  • K
    KRZYZOWA
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • AF
    AICPA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $8k
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
Children's Hospital Los Angeles

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

Health
2
South Central Family Health Center

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.

Health
3
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
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
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
6
Hollywood Food Coalition

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…

—
7
Vip Community Mental Health Center Inc

Intervening to protect and treat all victims of violence

Health
8
Housing Works

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.

Housing & Shelter
9
Communities in Schools of Los Angeles Inc

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…

Youth Development
10
Los Angeles County Bar Association (Lacba)

Meeting the professional needs of los angeles lawyers, and improving the administration of justice.

—
11
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…

—
12
South Central Los Angeles Regional Center for Dev Disabled Persons Inc

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…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Institute Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

114 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
114/114
Grantees still filing
78/114
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $16,250 · Human ServicesDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTERHATHAWAY-SYCAMORES CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $13,000 · Human ServicesHATHAWAY-SYCAMORES CHILD AND FAMIL…STEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC: $13,000 · Human ServicesSTEP UP ON SECOND STREET INCCHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $12,500 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INCABILITYFIRST: $10,100 · Human ServicesABILITYFIRSTSpecial Needs Network Inc: $10,001 · Human ServicesSpecial Needs Network IncJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES: $10,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGEL…THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $9,500 · Human ServicesVISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $8,000 · Human ServicesFOOD ON FOOT: $8,000 · Human ServicesALL FOR KIDS ORGANIZATION: $8,000 · Human ServicesPARA LOS NINOS: $7,000 · Human Services+20 more: $55,333 · Human Services+20 moreKRZYZOWA: $10,000 · OtherEXECUTIVE SERVICE CORPS SOUTHERN CA: $8,000 · OtherPACIFIC CLINICS: $7,500 · OtherAICPA FOUNDATION: $7,500 · OtherFOOD FORWARD INC: $12,500 · OtherFOOD FORWARD INCHEAL THE BAY: $7,500 · Other+71 more: $150,244 · Other+71 moreGROUNDSWELL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $90,000 · PhilanthropyGROUNDSWELL CHARITA…THE AURELIA FOUNDATION: $4,000 · Philanthropy+5 more: $8,350 · Philanthropy+5 moreAUTISM SOCIETY OF AMERICA LOS ANGELES INC: $7,500 · HealthAUTISM SO…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $6,000 · HealthST JUDE C…PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES: $6,000 · HealthPLANNED P…DIDI HIRSCH PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE: $5,500 · HealthDIDI HIRS…The Whole Child - Mental Health & Housing Services: $5,000 · HealthThe Whole…OPERATION SURF: $5,000 · HealthOPERATION…PROJECT ANGEL FOOD: $5,000 · HealthPROJECT A…Maine Cancer Foundation: $4,000 · HealthMaine Can…VENICE FAMILY CLINIC: $2,700 · HealthVENICE FA…+3 more: $2,700 · Health+3 moreSCHOOL ON WHEELS INC: $7,500 · EducationLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $4,500 · EducationWISHFORWARD EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $4,250 · EducationSYNERGY ACADEMIES: $3,500 · EducationWARNER AVENUE FOUNDATION: $3,500 · EducationTHE PLUS ME PROJECT: $2,500 · EducationHarmony Project: $2,500 · EducationTHE SANTA MONICA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $1,500 · EducationTHE PLAY EQUITY FUND: $1,500 · EducationCalabasas HS Theater Boosters Inc: $1,303 · EducationBUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES INC: $20,000 · Religion+1 more: $250 · ReligionMUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST: $4,000 · Arts & CultureHOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA: $3,000 · Arts & CultureBo's Place: $2,500 · Arts & CultureTHE UNUSUAL SUSPECTS THEATRE COMPANY: $2,000 · Arts & CultureHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY: $2,000 · Arts & Culture
Human Services$180,684Other$203,244Philanthropy$102,350Health$49,400Education$32,553Religion$20,250Arts & Culture$13,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGROUNDSWELL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetBUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $16,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHATHAWAY-SYCAMORES CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $13,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSTEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC: $13,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $12,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FORWARD INC: $12,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetABILITYFIRST: $10,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Needs Network Inc: $10,001 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PEOPLE CONCERN: $9,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD ON FOOT: $8,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetALL FOR KIDS ORGANIZATION: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHEAL THE BAY: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAUTISM SOCIETY OF AMERICA LOS ANGELES INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSCHOOL ON WHEELS INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPARA LOS NINOS: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEL NIDO FAMILY CENTERS: $6,625 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPET ADOPTION FUND: $6,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIDI HIRSCH PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Whole Child - Mental Health & Housing Services: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEAVE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD EDUCATIONAL CENTER: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION SURF: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWe Are Brave Together: $5,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetTHE FAMILY GIVING TREE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetImagine Los Angeles Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAVING INNOCENCE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL FOOD: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWISHFORWARD EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $4,250 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetTHE AURELIA FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNeighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Rightway Foundation: $4,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMexican American Opportunity Foundation: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES HOUSE OF RUTH: $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMaine Cancer Foundation: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSYNERGY ACADEMIES: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWARNER AVENUE FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

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.

California Community …The Ralph M Parsons F…Weingart FoundationThe Ahmanson Foundati…The Rose Hills Founda…The Annenberg Foundat…United Way IncJewish Community Foun…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Baby2babyThe Deutsch FoundationShelter Partnership I…
California Community FoundationCA44.4× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Ghj Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ghj Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
42report 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
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Ghj Foundation?

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.

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 145 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Ghj’s filings →

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home