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John F Grundhofer Charitable Fdn Tr
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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE LIVING DESERT | $300,000 |
| UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE | $10,000 |
| INSPIRATION AND RECOGNITION OF SCIENCE | $10,000 |
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 (FY19–22, $199k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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 +41% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- LDLIVING DESERT THE7× · 2019–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +138%
- MCMIZELL CENTER3× · 2019–2022 · $49k · revenue +26%
- CCCove Communities Senior Association DBA The Joslyn Center3× · 2019–2022 · $40k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- OSOPERATION SAFE HOUSE INCone grant, 2019 · $159k · revenue +10%
- SHSACRED HEART CHURCHone grant, 2019 · $100k
- MFMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ORANGE COUNTY AND THE INLAND EMPIRE INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +37%
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.
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
The mission of desert montessori school (dms) is to provide a personalized, engaging education that inspires a life-long love of learning, fosters meaningful, independent thinking, social responsibility and self- confidence. utilizing the…
We inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the sonoran desert.
The Greater Coachella Valley Chamber of Commerce is a regional chamber formed in 2016 to support a diverse business community that spans nearly forty-five miles and serves the needs of nearly 500,000 visitors each year. As a business…
Our passion is to support the drinking water professionals that provide safe and reliable water to millions of people throughout california and nevada. we do this by providing trusted resources to the drinking water community.…
Sun health champions superior health and wellbeing through philanthropy, inspired living and wellness programs.
Phoenix art museum creates spaces of exchange and belonging for all audiences through dynamic exhibitions, collections, and experiences with art. this mission is supported by seven strategic pillars:(continued on schedule o)1. be a space…
The mission of the san diego history center is to preserve our region's history - tell the diverse story of our region's past, present, and future; educate and enrich our community; and foster civic pride.
Mission statement the mission of usc arcadia hospital foundation educates and inspires the community to generously support quality medical care at usc arcadia hospital.
Throughout its history, pomona college has educated men and women of exceptional promise. we gather individuals, regardless of financial circumstances, into a small residential community that is strongly rooted in southern california yet…
Founded in 1924 by philanthropist Ellen Browning Scripps, Scripps Health is a $4.9 billion, private not-for-profit integrated health system in San Diego, Ca. (see Sch O)
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Orange County and the Inland Empire Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wadena County Humane Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 41 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 LIVING DESERT THE ↗
- Who funds PALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SAFE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ORANGE COUNTY AND THE INLAND EMPIRE INC ↗
- Who funds PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MIZELL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Cove Communities Senior Association DBA The Joslyn Center ↗
- Who funds BILLINGS CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds United Way of the Desert ↗
- Who funds Animal Samaritans ↗
- Who funds COACHELLA VALLEY SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds Eisenhower Medical Center ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY'S UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds HORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds THE GIRLFRIEND FACTOR ↗
- Who funds WADENA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE STATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TOOLS FOR TOMORROW INC ↗
- Who funds DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL MIDWIFE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
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: Inland Empire Community Foundation · The Coeta and Donald Barker Foundation · Bighorn Golf Club Charities Inc · The Auen Foundation · The Grace Helen Spearman Foundation · The Galen Family Foundation · Houston Family Foundation · Anderson Childrens Foundation · Regional Access Project Foundation · HN and Frances C Berger Foundation · Mike and Jan Salta Foundation · The US Charitable Gift 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 John F Grundhofer Charitable Fdn Tr 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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