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Guess Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$610k
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2024.

Health$1.2MInternational$913kArts & Culture$726kHuman Services$564kEducation$485kCommunity Improvement$403kCivil Rights$250kPhilanthropy$183kOther$0
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $353k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $230k
$25,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$106k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$65,000
Black Design Collective$65,000
Feeding the Carolinas$50,000
RxArt Inc$50,000
Private School Village$35,000
Black Girls Tennis Club$35,000
Joe Torre Safe at Home Foundation$25,000
North East Trees Inc$25,000
Joe Torre Safe at Home$25,000
Autism Speaks$25,000
Pushing for Pink$25,000
Children's Diabetes Foundation$25,000
Children's Hospital Los Angeles$25,000
Habitat for Humanity of Greater LA$25,000
Tower Cancer Research Foundation$20,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $499k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%National Black Child Development In: $18k → 8%Joe Torre Safe at Home Foundation: $50k → 17%Joe Torre Safe at Home Foundation: $21k → 17%Joe Torre Safe at Home Foundation: $20k → 17%RxArt Inc: $75k → 17%RxArt Inc: $50k → 17%RxArt Inc: $50k → 17%Violence intervention Program Commu: $50k → 17%Women in Need Inc: $25k → 17%Step Up on Second Street Inc: $10k → 14%Step Up on Second Street Inc: $10k → 14%Visionary Women: $50k → 14%Joe Torre Safe at Home Foundation: $25k → 14%Safe Place for Youth: $5k → 14%LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $25k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NY
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
NM
NC
DC
GA
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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.2M · 36 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

36 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
44

Total granted

$3.2M
$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+27%

Still filing today

86%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $232k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC
    2× · 2020–2023 · $276k · revenue +127%
  • WS
    World Stage Performance Gallery
    3× · 2020–2022 · $221k · revenue +80% · 42% of their budget
  • RA
    RX ART INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $175k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • DIRECT RELIEF
    one grant, 2020 · $800k · revenue +20%
  • N
    NAACP
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • FI
    FASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $97k · revenue +32%
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
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
2
Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric Aids Foundation

The elizabeth glaser pediatric aids foundation (egpaf) is a proven leader in the fight against pediatric hiv/aids and has reached over 33 million pregnant women with services to prevent transmission of hiv to their babies. to date, egpaf…

Health
3
America's Health Insurance Plans Inc

Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…

Membership Benefit
4
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
5
Public Health Institute

Public health institute generates and promotes research, leadership and partnerships to build capacity for strong public health policy, programs, systems and practices.

Health
6
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
7
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
8
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
9
Girl Effect Inc

Girl effect works for a future in which every girl is in control of her body, her health, her learning and her livelihood. we work across africa and asia with adolescent girls and young women using the power of media and technology to…

Youth Development
10
UltraViolet Education Fund

Ultraviolet education fund (uvef) is a 501c3 organization. ultraviolet is the premier national organization advocating for gender justice issues using creative, strategic campaigning and digital-first organizing. ultraviolet drives…

Civil Rights
11
California Dental Association Foundation

The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.

Science & Tech
12
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Safe Place for Youth Inc; the most unlike its peers is Gyrl Wonder Inc. 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

71 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. 71 of the 91 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
71/71
Grantees still filing
45/71
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIDM SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $304,862 · OtherFIDM SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INCPEACE OVER VIOLENCE: $300,000 · OtherPEACE OVER VIOLENCEIndividual grant recipient: $125,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNAACP: $100,000 · OtherFASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION: $96,750 · OtherCHILDREN'S DIABETES FOUNDATION: $75,000 · OtherAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $100,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $75,000 · Other+41 more: $908,600 · Other+41 moreDIRECT RELIEF: $800,000 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEFUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $62,500 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUN…CHILDREN'S DIABETES FOUNDATION: $125,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S DIABE…PUSHING FOR PINK: $125,000 · HealthPUSHING FOR PINKTOWER CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $100,000 · HealthTOWER CANCER RES…THE ED ASNER FAMILY CENTER: $80,000 · HealthTHE ED ASNER FAM…Children's Hospital Los Angeles: $70,000 · HealthChildren's Hospi…VIP COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC: $70,000 · HealthVIP COMMUNITY ME…TOURETTE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC: $60,000 · HealthTOURETTE ASSOCIA…AUTISM SPEAKS INC: $50,000 · HealthAUTISM SPEAKS IN…PROJECT ANGEL FOOD: $40,000 · Health+7 more: $81,640 · Health+7 moreFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $276,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF UN…World Stage Performance Gallery: $221,236 · Arts & CultureWorld Stage P…INDEPENDENT CURATORS INTERNATIONAL: $75,000 · Arts & CultureINDEPENDENT C…Black Design Collective: $65,000 · Arts & CultureBlack Design …+2 more: $20,000 · Arts & CultureRX ART INC: $175,000 · Human ServicesRX ART INCTHE JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION: $116,000 · Human ServicesTHE JOE TO…Violence Intervention Program: $50,000 · Human ServicesViolence I…VISIONARY WOMEN: $50,000 · Human ServicesVISIONARY …LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $40,000 · Human ServicesLOS ANGELE…WOMEN IN NEED INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesSTEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL BLACK CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $18,000 · Human Services+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesCrenshaw Subway Coalition: $287,930 · Community ImprovementHISPANIC FEDERATION INC: $50,000 · Community ImprovementPrivate School Village: $35,000 · Community ImprovementHOPEWELL FUND: $50,000 · PhilanthropyPHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION: $50,000 · PhilanthropyONE TREE PLANTED INC: $26,000 · PhilanthropyCFDA FOUNDATION INC: $23,000 · PhilanthropyARMENIA FUND INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KESHET EILON INC: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$2,085,212International$862,500Health$801,640Arts & Culture$657,236Human Services$499,000Community Improvement$372,930Philanthropy$179,000

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 budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $800,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIDM SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $304,862 over 7y, 20% of budgetCrenshaw Subway Coalition: $287,930 over 4y, 54% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $276,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWorld Stage Performance Gallery: $221,236 over 3y, 42% of budgetRX ART INC: $175,000 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetCHILDREN'S DIABETES FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetPUSHING FOR PINK: $125,000 over 4y, 56% of budgetTHE JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION: $116,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTOWER CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetFASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION: $96,750 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE ED ASNER FAMILY CENTER: $80,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetINDEPENDENT CURATORS INTERNATIONAL: $75,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $70,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVIP COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC: $70,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBlack Design Collective: $65,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $62,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTOURETTE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetViolence Intervention Program: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHISPANIC FEDERATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVISIONARY WOMEN: $50,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetNorth East Trees Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGyrl Wonder Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetPHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding the Carolinas: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL FOOD: $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCHP 11-99 FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER: $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPrivate School Village: $35,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTHE RAPE FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $31,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: $30,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF NEW YORK INC: $26,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetONE TREE PLANTED INC: $26,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrauma Resource Institute Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetWOMEN IN NEED INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFASHION SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetKISS THE GROUND: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCFDA FOUNDATION INC: $23,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSTEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARMENIA FUND INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLACK GIRLS SMILE INC: $18,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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…The Maurice Marciano …Kaiser Foundation Hos…Weingart FoundationPaul Marciano Foundat…Chuck Lorre Family Fo…Johnny Carson Foundat…The Rose Hills Founda…The Ahmanson Foundati…The Annenberg Foundat…Jewish Community Foun…
California Community FoundationCA25.7× affinity14 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 · The Maurice Marciano Family Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Weingart Foundation · Paul Marciano Foundation · Chuck Lorre Family Foundation · Johnny Carson Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Safe Kids Worldwide: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 Guess Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Guess 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 91 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.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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