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Harbor Community Benefit Foundation

Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission:The mission of The Foundation is to carry out public benefit projects that assess, protect, and improve public health, quality of life and the natural environment, including but not limited to noise mitigation, air quality, health care, workforce development, land use, and…

$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$1.5MEnvironment$216kCommunity Improvement$75kAnimals$63kPhilanthropy$47kYouth Development$40kEducation$35kScience & Tech$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $100,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,016,346 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,916,346 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$899k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
4G Management$100,000
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 (FY17–22, $117k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SHAREFEST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $40k → 14%SHAREFEST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC: $5k → 14%La Walks: $72k → 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.

29%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 6 repeat orgs$2.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
18

Total granted

$1.2M
$2.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+33%

Still filing today

100%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
HealthAnimalsHuman ServicesEnvironmentEducationCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • WC
    WILMINGTON COMMUNITY CLINIC
    3× · 2018–2022 · $360k · revenue +57%
  • MM
    MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
    3× · 2018–2022 · $220k · revenue +2%
  • IF
    IQAIR FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $47k · revenue ×329 · 79% of their budget

Funded once

  • W
    WattEV
    one grant, 2023 · $2.0M
  • SH
    STUDENT HEALTH SERVICES SUPPORT FUND INC dba The LA Trustgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $118k · revenue +87%
  • CP
    COMMUNITY PARTNERSgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $75k · revenue +111%
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
Los Angeles Medical Center Foundation
Health
2
Community Clinic Association of Los Angeles County

Ccalac empowers community health centers to remain at the forefront of health care transformation. we forge partnerships, foster innovation, promote health equity, and advocate for the communities they serve.

Health
3
Children's Hospital Los Angeles

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

Health
4
Los Angeles General Medical Center Foundation Inc

To support and enhance the mission of the los angeles general medical center (formerly the lac+usc medical center) and ensure it maintains its status as a leader in medicine, education and research, and continues to provide the highest…

—
5
Community Medical Centers Inc

The organization provides primary medical, behavior health, and dental care to the population of san joaquin, and solano counties without regard to patients' ability to pay.

Health
6
Laguna Beach Community Clinic

The mission of laguna beach community clinic (lbcc) is to provide excellent medical care regardless of the patient's ability to pay.

Health
7
California Institute for BioMedical Research

Our mission is to build a unique institute that bridges basic research and drug discovery, and that attracts the best and brightest scientists, physicians and students to work together synergistically to find cures for neglected human…

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8
Pacific Central Coast Health Centers

Pacific central coast health centers', sponsored by dignity community care, mission is to provide access to cost effective, quality medical services in the northern santa barbara county, san luis obispo county, kern county and ventura…

Health
9
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
10
Los Angeles County Medical Association

To enhance the professionalism and clinical autonomy of physicians to allow them to advocate for their patients and the health of the community of los angeles.

—
11
San Fernando Community Hospital

Provides primary care, oral health, and behavioral health care, including health education to the community without regard to the ability to pay for services.

Health
12
The California Medical Innovations Institute Inc

The Institute is a scientific research center dedicated to conducting basic and applied research to advance the understanding of human disease and the improvement of human health. The Institute fosters an innovative research environment…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memorial Medical Center Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Iqair Foundation. 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

20 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. 20 of the 25 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
13/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WattEV: $2,000,000 · OtherWattEVSTUDENT HEALTH SERVICES SUPPORT FUND INC dba The LA Trust: $118,000 · OtherSOUTH BAY COMMUNITY COUNSELING CENTER: $110,000 · Other4G Management: $100,000 · Other+7 more: $211,220 · Other+7 moreST MARY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $399,194 · HealthST MARY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATI…WILMINGTON COMMUNITY CLINIC: $360,025 · HealthWILMINGTON COMMUNITY CLINICMEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $220,000 · HealthMEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDAT…LUNDQUIST INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL INNOVATION AT HARBOR-UCLA MEDICAL CENTER: $75,000 · HealthLUNDQUIST INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDI…ROBERT F KENNEDY INSTITUTE OF COMMUNITY AND FAMILY MEDICINE: $72,479 · HealthROBERT F KENNEDY INSTITUTE OF C…+1 more: $21,637 · HealthOPERATION WALK OF LOS ANGELES INC: $71,800 · Human ServicesSharefest Community Development Inc: $44,950 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $75,000 · Community ImprovementINTERNATIONAL BIRD RESCUE: $62,615 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF CABRILLO AQUARIUM: $10,000 · AnimalsTHINK EARTH ENVIROMENTAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $40,000 · EnvironmentHEAL THE BAY: $30,000 · EnvironmentIQAIR FOUNDATION: $46,606 · Philanthropy
Other$2,539,220Health$1,148,335Human Services$116,750Community Improvement$75,000Animals$72,615Environment$70,000Philanthropy$46,606

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetST MARY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $399,194 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetWILMINGTON COMMUNITY CLINIC: $360,025 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetMEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $220,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSTUDENT HEALTH SERVICES SUPPORT FUND INC dba The LA Trust: $118,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetSOUTH BAY COMMUNITY COUNSELING CENTER: $110,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLUNDQUIST INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL INNOVATION AT HARBOR-UCLA MEDICAL CENTER: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION WALK OF LOS ANGELES INC: $71,800 over 1y, 10% of budgetINTERNATIONAL BIRD RESCUE: $62,615 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetCLEAN SAN PEDRO INC: $50,050 over 1y, 26% of budgetIQAIR FOUNDATION: $46,606 over 2y, 79% of budgetSharefest Community Development Inc: $44,950 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetPORT OF LOS ANGELES HIGH SCHOOL: $35,204 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBUDDHIST TZU CHI MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHEAL THE BAY: $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSOUTH BAY CENTER FOR COUNSELING: $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $21,637 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF CABRILLO AQUARIUM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

The Ralph M Parsons F…California Community …Kaiser Foundation Hos…The Annenberg Foundat…Orange County Communi…The Kenneth T and Eil…The Crail-Johnson Fou…Marathon Petroleum Fo…Baby2babyNational Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…American Online Givin…
The Ralph M Parsons FoundationCA21.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · California Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The Annenberg Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · The Kenneth T and Eileen L Norris Foundation · The Crail-Johnson Foundation · Marathon Petroleum Foundation Inc · Baby2baby · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Harbor Community Benefit Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harbor Community Benefit Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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

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    How do I get to Harbor Community Benefit Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Harbor Community Benefit 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 25 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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