· Private foundation
JAG Molina Family Foundation
Its FY2021 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 FY2019–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- $10k–50k15 grants · $375k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $375k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RAINFOREST TRUST | $125,000 |
| HUBBS-SEA WORLD RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $75,000 |
| CARE CLOSET LBC | $75,000 |
| THE MOLINA FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| NATIONAL PARKS FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| AQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC | $45,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA | $35,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $30,000 |
| WORLD WILDLIFE FUND | $30,000 |
| MALDEF | $25,000 |
| LONG BEACH RESCUE MISSION | $25,000 |
| COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS | $25,000 |
| WILD HONEY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CENTRO LEGAL DE LA RAZA | $25,000 |
| FARMWORKER JUSTICE FUND | $25,000 |
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 human-services grants (FY19–21, $105k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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 +37% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2021, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).
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 FY2021, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $165k 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
- RTRAINFOREST TRUST2× · 2020–2021 · $225k · revenue +54%
- TMTHE MOLINA FOUNDATION3× · 2019–2021 · $200k · revenue +43%
- NPNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION3× · 2019–2021 · $200k · revenue +288%
Funded once
- ACARTS COUNCIL OF LONG BEACHone grant, 2019 · $75k
- LBLONG BEACH ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIPgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +32%
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIESone grant, 2019 · $25k
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 strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
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…
Educational & charitable. to provide legal and scientific information to public interest attorneys and scientists in numerous countries.
Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.
Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.
The los angeles conservancy is a nonprofit membership organization that works through education and advocacy to recognize, preserve, and revitalize the historic architectural and cultural resources of los angeles county.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wild Honey Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
35 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. 35 of the 56 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 RAINFOREST TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE MOLINA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CARE CLOSET LBC ↗
- Who funds HUBBS-SEA WORLD RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds LONG BEACH RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRO LEGAL DE LA RAZA ↗
- Who funds MALDEF - MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds WILD HONEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FARMWORKER JUSTICE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FINDERS INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK AND BROWN FOUNDERS INC ↗
- Who funds LONG BEACH ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds THORN ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBILITY AND ETHICS IN WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds OUR RESCUE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds HORSES WITH HEART INC ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LINC HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
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: California Community Foundation · Long Beach Community Foundation · The Rudolph J & Daphne a Munzer Foundation · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · Earl B & Loraine H Miller Foundation · The California Endowment · Sempra Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust
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 JAG Molina Family 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.