· Private foundation
Guillermo J Valenzuela Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $196k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL DE CHILE | $300,000 |
| UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL DE CHILE | $41,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES SAN BERNARDINO | $30,000 |
| ARROWHEAD REGIONAL MEDICAL CTR FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ARROWHEAD REGIONAL MEDICAL CTR FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| DESERT SANCTUARY INC | $25,000 |
| UJIMA INC | $20,000 |
| SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO | $20,000 |
| DAVID A PAIGE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CAL MATTERS | $9,383 |
| UJIMA INC | $4,000 |
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 US giving — 90% of grant dollars ($3.4M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 10% that went abroad ($382k) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $308k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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.
Beyond the US — 10% of all-years giving ($382k)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Guillermo J Valenzuela Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 90% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 86% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +63% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- TDThe Desert Sanctuary Inc6× · 2019–2025 · $170k · revenue +41%
CalMatters3× · 2023–2025 · $159k · revenue +15%
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO7× · 2017–2025 · $143k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- HHHISPANIC HEALTH INSTITUTEone grant, 2023 · $1.1M · revenue -61%
- HPHEALTH PROFESSIONS EDUCATION FOUNDAone grant, 2020 · $110k
- ARARROWHEAD REGIONAL MEDICAL CTR FOUNDone grant, 2023 · $50k
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.
To promote health equity by advocating for public policies and sufficient resources to address the health needs of communities of color.
To deliver comprehensive health and human service programs that improve the health and well-being of under-served california residents.
The Organization advocates for health equity by leading and facilitating convenings in all regions of California for the purpose of providing policy analysis, research and training that promotes best practices, which supports the creation…
Clinicas is the safety net provider for Imperial and Eastern Riverside Counties providing primary health care to low income and medically under served populations. We provide comprehensive, preventative and treatment services, pediatric,…
We exist to support our membership and community parnters to ensure acessible high-quality, and cost-effictve health services.
Asian Pacific Health Care Venture, Inc. is a family of community health centers whose mission is to be the medical home for our patients by providing personalized, quality health care services in a culturally accessible manner.
CentroMed is a network of integrated primary care clinics providing accessible services of superior quality.
The organization provides health care and other related services to medically underserved populations in Los Angeles County.
Our mission is to join diverse people, ideas, and resources to address the most pressing social and environmental justice priorities. We believe that the community concerns of Californias San Joaquin Valley (SJV) can only be addressed if…
Active San Gabriel Valley (ActiveSGV) is a community-based environmental advocacy and public health non-profit organization. Our mission is to promote a more sustainable, equitable, and livable San Gabriel Valley.
The California Housing Partnership Corporation creates and preserves affordable and sustainable homes for Californians with low incomes by providing expert financial and policy solutions to nonprofit and public partners.
California Donor Table anchors a hub of donors, foundations, and community leaders. We pool together our resources to shape California into a truly democratic state that works for the people, not the powerful. Rooted in our commitment to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is El Sol Neighborhood Educational Center and the most unlike its peers is Youth Mentoring Action Network. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 33 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 HISPANIC HEALTH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds The Desert Sanctuary Inc ↗
- Who funds CalMatters ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds EL SOL NEIGHBORHOOD EDUCATIONAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Reach Out ↗
- Who funds ARROWHEAD REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ONEFUTURE COACHELLA VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Time For Change Foundation ↗
- Who funds Inland Empire Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds Coachella Valley Volunteers in Medicine ↗
- Who funds SAHABA INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds KVCR EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MALO MOTIVATING ACTION LEADERSHIP OPPORTUNITY ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE PACIFIC SOUTHWEST ↗
- Who funds Inland Behavioral & Health Services Inc ↗
- Who funds MUSIC CHANGING LIVES ↗
- Who funds YOUTH MENTORING ACTION NETWORK ↗
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: The California Endowment · Inland Empire Community Foundation · Weingart Foundation · California Community Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · California Physicians' Service Fdn Dba Blue Shield of California Fdn · California Healthcare Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · IEHP Foundation · Regional Access Project Foundation
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 Guillermo J Valenzuela 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.
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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