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Gregg Bussjaeger Memorial Foundation

The organization's purpose is to support organizations that serve the needs of youth in the community of glendale, ca, and its surrounding communities.

$104k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$87k
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.

Youth Development$212kEducation$60kHousing & Shelter$15kCommunity Improvement$2k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $87k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$551k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GLENDALE YMCA$86,701
GLENDALE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$10,000
ASCENCIA$6,891
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 (FY17–20, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%OROVILLE YMCA: $3k → 18%OROVILLE YMCA: $3k → 18%TAKING THE REINS: $1k → 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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$283k · 5 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +64% since the first grant, against +46% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
5

Total granted

$283k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%
+46%

Still filing today

100%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentHealthOther
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

  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GLENDALE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $187k · revenue +30%
  • A
    ASCENCIA
    3× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +120%
  • GY
    GLENDALE YOUTH ALLIANCE INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $13k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • H
    Human-I-Tgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +111%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $1k
  • TT
    TAKING THE REINSgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +46%
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
The Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Grand Rapids (3019)

Guided by our christian principles, we strengthen the spirit mind and body of all individuals.

Human Services
2
Channel Islands Young Men's Christian Association

The channel islands ymca is a charitable organization providing programs based upon christian principles to people of all ages, races, religious beliefs and economic status, to promote youth development, healthy living and social…

Human Services
3
Golden Corridor Family Ymca

The golden corridor family ymca is committed to developing the spirit, mind, and body of all, regardless of financial ability, in a positive healthy, christian environment through quality leadership, programs, services, and facilities.

Human Services
4
The Young Mens Christian Association of Greater Des Moines

The y's programs focus on improving people's spiritual, intellectual, and physical well-being to support people as they actualize their fullest potential. the ymca serves community members of all abilities, ages, cultural backgrounds,…

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5
Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Oklahoma City

To put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all.

Human Services
6
Central Coast Young Mens Christian Association

The central coast ymca embraces the values of caring, honesty, respect and responsibility, with a mission to strengthen community through programs that develop youth, support healthy living, and foster social responsibility.

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7
Young Men's Christian Association of Greensboro Inc

Our mission is to put Judeo-Christian principles into practice though programs that build a healthy spirit, mind and body for all. The YMCA of Greensboro is a volunteer-led public charity that includes men, women, and children of all ages,…

Human Services
8
Los Angeles Youth Network

Youth Emerging Stronger (YES) empowers young people, between ages of 12 and 24 within Los Angeles County, including but not limited to run-away and homeless youth. YES mission is to end homelessness one youth at a time to become…

Human Services
9
Young Men's Christian Association of Central New Mexico

The mission of the ymca of central new mexico is to put christian principles into practice through programs that build a healthy spirit, mind and body for all. for over 100 years, the ymca of central new mexico has served our community…

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10
Santa Monica Young Men's Christian Association

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Human Services
11
New Vista Ranch Inc

New vista is committed to providing people of all ages with intellectual and developmental disabilities, equitable opportunities, and supported living arrangements so that they may experience life to the fullest.

Human Services
12
Young Women's Christian Association of St Paul

YWCA St. Paul's mission is to eliminate racism, empower women and promote peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Men's Christian Association of Glendale; the most unlike its peers is Taking the Reins. 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

8 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. 8 of the 10 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GLENDALE: $187,197 · EducationYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GLENDALEGLENDALE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $60,000 · OtherGLENDALE EDUCATIONAL FOUN…+3 more: $3,880 · Other+3 moreASCENCIA: $18,391 · Housing & ShelterGLENDALE YOUTH ALLIANCE INC: $12,500 · Youth DevelopmentYoung Mens Christian Association of Superior California: $5,000 · Human ServicesTAKING THE REINS: $1,000 · Human ServicesRyan Gordy Foundation: $750 · Health
Education$187,197Other$63,880Housing & Shelter$18,391Youth Development$12,500Human Services$6,000Health$750

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GLENDALE: $187,197 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetGLENDALE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 6y, 7.4% of budgetASCENCIA: $18,391 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGLENDALE YOUTH ALLIANCE INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetYoung Mens Christian Association of Superior California: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHuman-I-T: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTAKING THE REINS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRyan Gordy Foundation: $750 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%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 · 0–5%
    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 10 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 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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