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J L Taylor Family Foundation at a glance

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J L Taylor Family 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.

$31k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$45kHealth$33kYouth Development$17kPhilanthropy$6kReligion$5kInternational$4kEnvironment$2kAnimals$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$636k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INSPIRING CHILDREN FOUNDATION$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO$5,000
PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO$5,000
SCHOOLPOWER LAGUNA BEACH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$2,880
GLOBAL LYME ALLIANCE$1,500
CEDARS SINAI$1,000
CEDARS SINAI$1,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 79% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TAHOE FUND: $1k → 6%ONEOC: $500 → 10%TRUCKEE DONNER LAND TRUST: $1k → 11%RANCHO SANTA FE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $9k → 11%PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%CHARITY BUZZ: $4k → 17%WAY OF LIFE FELLOWSHIP: $5k → 14%GLOBAL LYME ALLIANCE: $6k → 9%SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $3k → 21%OUSELESSEBOUGOU ALLIANCE: $1k → 8%CALIFORNIA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION: $500 → 6%SCHOOLPOWER LAGUNA BEACH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%RANCHO SANTA FE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $8k → 11%AMALFI JETS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%GLOBAL LYME ALLIANCE: $5k → 9%CALIFORNIA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION: $500 → 6%RANCHO SANTA FE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $8k → 11%CEDARS SINAI: $1k → 14%GLOBAL LYME ALLIANCE: $5k → 9%RANCHO SANTA FE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%CEDARS SINAI: $1k → 14%HOPE LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $7k → 11%CEDARS-SINAI: $1k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO: $5k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO: $5k → 11%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.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$61k · 5 repeat orgs$52k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
8

Total granted

$61k
$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+40%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
HealthEnvironmentPhilanthropyInternationalEducationYouth 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

  • MH
    MARTY HENNESSY INSPIRING CHILDREN FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2021 · $13k · revenue +573%
  • CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER
    2× · 2022–2024 · $3k · revenue +25%
  • CW
    CALIFORNIA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $1k · revenue +90%

Funded once

  • HL
    HOPE LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue +19%
  • WO
    WAY OF LIFE FELLOWSHIP
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • CB
    CHARITY BUZZ
    one grant, 2020 · $4k
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 San Diego Foundation

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

Philanthropy
2
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
3
Dominican University of California

Our institutional mission is to educate and prepare students to be ethical leaders and socially responsible global citizens who incorporate the dominican values of study, reflection, community and service into their lives.

Education
4
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
5
San Diego State University Foundation Sdsu Research Foundation

To support and further the research, education and community service objectives of san diego state university.

Education
6
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
7
University of Redlands

We welcome, educate, and empower a diverse community of learners for lives of meaning, impact, and joy.

Education
8
University of California Irvine Foundation

The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…

Education
9
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
10
Uc Riverside Foundation

To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.

Education
11
Santa Fe Community Foundation

The santa fe community foundation inspires philanthropic generosity, strengthens nonprofits, and fosters positive change to build a more vibrant, healthy, and resilient region. the foundation's vision is a thriving northern new mexico,…

Philanthropy
12
Western University of Health Sciences

To produce, in a humanistic tradition, health care professionals and biomedical knowledge that will enhance and extend the quality of life in our communities.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oneoc; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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

15 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. 15 of the 18 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
11/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GLOBAL LYME ALLIANCE INC: $17,000 · HealthGLOBAL LYME ALLIANCE INCMARTY HENNESSY INSPIRING CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $12,500 · HealthMARTY HENNESSY INSPIRING CHILDRE…CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $3,000 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTERUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO: $10,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGOINSPIRING CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherINSPIRING CHILDREN FOUNDATIONWAY OF LIFE FELLOWSHIP: $5,000 · OtherWAY OF LIFE FELLOWSHIPCHARITY BUZZ: $3,575 · OtherCHARITY BUZZSCHOOLPOWER LAGUNA BEACH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $2,880 · OtherSCHOOLPOWER LAGUNA BEACH EDUCAT…RANCHO SANTA FE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $27,300 · PhilanthropyRANCHO SANTA FE EDUCATION FOUN…The Amalfi Jets Charitable Foundation: $2,545 · PhilanthropyThe Amalfi Jets Charitable Fou…+1 more: $500 · PhilanthropyHOPE LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $7,000 · Youth DevelopmentPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationTRUCKEE DONNER LAND TRUST: $1,200 · EnvironmentCALIFORNIA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION: $1,000 · EnvironmentTAHOE FUND: $1,000 · EnvironmentSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $3,000 · ReligionOUELESSEBOUGOU ALLIANCE: $1,000 · International
Health$32,500Other$31,455Philanthropy$30,345Youth Development$7,000Education$5,000Environment$3,200Religion$3,000International$1,000

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 budgetRANCHO SANTA FE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $27,300 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetGLOBAL LYME ALLIANCE INC: $17,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMARTY HENNESSY INSPIRING CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Amalfi Jets Charitable Foundation: $2,545 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTRUCKEE DONNER LAND TRUST: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTAHOE FUND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUELESSEBOUGOU ALLIANCE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetONEOC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY11.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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 18 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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