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Joseph Drown Foundation at a glance

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Joseph Drown Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5.3M
Granted FY2026still arriving
98
Grants FY2026still arriving
6
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$20MHealth$3.0MYouth Development$2.8MHuman Services$2.7MArts & Culture$1.6MCommunity Improvement$1.4MCrime & Legal$880kRecreation & Sports$790kOther$0
02FY2026 · 98 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k2 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k45 grants · $1.1M
  • $50k–250k48 grants · $3.4M
  • $250k+3 grants · $800k
$50,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$103M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMON SENSE MEDIA$300,000
EDVOICE INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH & EDUCATION$250,000
LA PROMISE FUND$250,000
THE SEED SCHOOL OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY$200,000
EQUITAS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS$175,000
KIPP SOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS$125,000
SUCCESS FOR ALL FOUNDATION INC$100,000
PARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS$100,000
LOS ANGELES SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT COMMISSION$100,000
UNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION$100,000
EDNOVATE INC$100,000
COLLEGE TRACK$80,000
PROYECTO PASTORAL$80,000
FRIENDS OF GALA$80,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$80,000
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 (FY17–26, $3.4M) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $80k → 22%THE JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $50k → 22%JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION THE: $25k → 17%JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%CHILDREN NOW: $50k → 10%JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION THE: $25k → 17%CHILDREN NOW: $30k → 10%CHILDREN NOW: $30k → 10%VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $50k → 14%A SENSE OF HOME: $30k → 14%A SENSE OF HOME: $30k → 14%A SENSE OF HOME: $30k → 14%PARA LOS NINOS: $30k → 14%PARA LOS NINOS: $30k → 14%WAYFINDER FAMILY SERVICES: $35k → 14%UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $45k → 14%UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $30k → 14%CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $50k → 14%CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $40k → 14%PROYECTO PASTORAL: $150k → 14%PROYECTO PASTORAL: $80k → 14%PROYECTO PASTORAL: $75k → 14%PROYECTO PASTORAL: $40k → 14%AVALON-CARVER COMMUNITY CENTER: $80k → 14%AVALON-CARVER COMMUNITY CENTER: $80k → 14%AVALON CARVER COMMUNITY CENTER: $60k → 14%FULFILLMENT FUND: $50k → 14%FULFILLMENT FUND: $50k → 14%FULFILLMENT FUND: $50k → 14%UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $50k → 14%ONE VOICE: $50k → 14%ONE VOICE: $50k → 14%ONE VOICE: $50k → 14%ONE VOICE: $50k → 14%ONE VOICE: $50k → 14%ONE VOICE: $50k → 14%YOUNG EISNER SCHOLARS: $30k → 14%YOUNG EISNER SCHOLARS: $30k → 14%YOUNG EISNER SCHOLARS: $30k → 14%FULFILLMENT FUND: $50k → 14%LOS ANGELES YOUTH NETWORK: $30k → 14%LOS ANGELES YOUTH NETWORK: $30k → 14%LOS ANGELES YOUTH NETWORK: $30k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
WI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
VA
DC
TX
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 9% of Joseph Drown Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 91% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 94%.

Joseph Drown Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.0% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$37M · 201 repeat orgs$4.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

201 repeat relationships: 80 still active in FY2026, 121 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

201
107

Total granted

$37M
$4.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+24%

Still filing today

90%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $675k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • CS
    CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +126%
  • LP
    LA PROMISE FUND
    8× · 2017–2026 · $785k · revenue +287%
  • CS
    COMMON SENSE MEDIA
    8× · 2017–2026 · $650k · revenue +80%

Funded once

  • BC
    BARUCH COLLEGE
    one grant, 2020 · $250k
  • CS
    CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION CSUN MARILYN MAGARAM CENT
    one grant, 2020 · $200k
  • UF
    UCLA FOUNDATION DAVID GEFFEN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
    one grant, 2019 · $150k
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
Communities in Schools of Los Angeles Inc

To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. we work with public school systems, establishing relationship with superintendents, principals, educators, and community partners to…

Youth Development
2
Alternative Schools Inc

To help each child reach his/her full potential by cultivating an active village of parents, community members, and stakeholders involved in providing an individual, personal, and conceptual learning environment for each student.

Education
3
Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences

Crossroads is an independent school for approximately 1,200 students.

Education
4
The Archer School for Girls Inc

The archer school for girls is an educational community that supports and challenges young women to discover their passions and realize their true potential by a) providing a rigorous, integrated college preparatory curriculum that fosters…

Education
5
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
6
Los Angeles Academy of Arts and Enterprise

To prepare students for leadership in the arts and business; where creativity, academic knowledge and financial literacy are essential for success. we are providing an education that integrates the four lenses of learning: academics, arts,…

Education
7
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

—
8
Crestview Preparatory School

We believe childhood is extraordinary. crestview culitivates academic excellence by nurturing individual potential, empowering students to learn joyfully and discover their unique talents within our caring community that fosters belonging.…

Education
9
The Buckley School

The buckley school is a dynamic, nurturing learning community committed to equity and inclusion. our innovative teachers and challenging programs inspire creativity, courage, and collaboration. by promoting a balanced development of mind,…

—
10
Vistamar School

Vistamar school empowers students, preparing them to contribute and excel in higher education and in life, and commits to: a broad and balanced program that challenges and engages students, building their individual skills and inspiring a…

Education
11
Tomorrow's Leadership Collaborative Charter School

The mission of tlc is to educate diverse students through a rigorous, standards-based, collegepreparatory program to become conscientious, caring, and responsible 21st century citizens. tlc is grounded in an inclusive vision of teaching…

—
12
La Scuola International School

Inspire brave learners to shape the future.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is After-School All-Stars Los Angeles; the most unlike its peers is The Narrative Method Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

256 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. 256 of the 325 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)
54
Early backer (in before they grew)
245/256
Grantees still filing
170/256
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE SEED FOUNDATION: $1,500,000 · EducationTHE SEED FOUNDATIONCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION: $1,062,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATIONGREAT PUBLIC SCHOOLS NOW: $880,000 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATION: $805,000 · EducationLA PROMISE FUND: $785,000 · Education+72 more: $14,645,000 · Education+72 moreTHE RAPE FOUNDATION: $500,000 · OtherEMERGING MARKETS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $475,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $405,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $375,000 · OtherLIFT INC: $450,000 · Other+68 more: $8,798,000 · Other+68 moreProyecto Pastoral: $370,000 · Human ServicesProyecto …One Voice: $325,000 · Human ServicesOne VoiceFULFILLMENT FUND: $300,000 · Human ServicesFULFILLME…AVALON-CARVER COMMUNITY CENTER: $220,000 · Human ServicesAVALON-CA…CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $215,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'…A SENSE OF HOME: $210,000 · Human ServicesA SENSE O…THE JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION: $200,000 · Human ServicesTHE JOE T…PARA LOS NINOS: $185,000 · Human ServicesPARA LOS …Young Eisner Scholars: $165,000 · Human ServicesLos Angeles Youth Network: $165,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN NOW: $160,000 · Human ServicesSPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $130,000 · Human ServicesSAVING INNOCENCE INC: $130,000 · Human ServicesUNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $125,000 · Human Services+6 more: $415,000 · Human Services+6 moreCOMMON SENSE MEDIA: $650,000 · Arts & CultureINNER-CITY ARTS: $230,000 · Arts & CultureLOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY FOUNDATION: $150,000 · Arts & CultureNO LIMITS THEATER GROUP INC: $125,000 · Arts & CultureBALLET HISPANICO OF NEW YORK INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION: $85,000 · Arts & CultureTHE 74 MEDIA INC: $85,000 · Arts & CultureMuseIque: $60,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $50,000 · Arts & CultureLULU'S PLACE INC: $1,000,000 · Recreation & SportsLOS ANGELES SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT COMMISSION: $200,000 · Recreation & SportsUNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Recreation & SportsLOS ANGELES PARKS FOUNDATION: $65,000 · Recreation & SportsINNOVATE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $575,000 · PhilanthropySOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS: $234,800 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY INC: $150,000 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropyCouncil on Foundations Inc: $81,300 · PhilanthropyTHE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES: $75,000 · PhilanthropyBETTER ANGELS INC: $65,000 · PhilanthropyNMDP FOUNDATION: $50,000 · PhilanthropyCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $355,000 · HealthTOWER CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $300,000 · HealthVISION TO LEARN: $115,000 · HealthEDGE FOUNDATION: $115,000 · HealthVENICE FAMILY CLINIC: $90,000 · HealthOUR HOUSE GRIEF SUPPORT CENTER: $90,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $85,000 · HealthNATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION: $85,000 · HealthCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 · Health
Education$19,677,000Other$11,003,000Human Services$3,315,000Arts & Culture$1,535,000Recreation & Sports$1,365,000Philanthropy$1,331,100Health$1,290,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE SEED FOUNDATION: $1,500,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION: $1,062,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetLULU'S PLACE INC: $1,000,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetGREAT PUBLIC SCHOOLS NOW: $880,000 over 5y, 6.7% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $805,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLA PROMISE FUND: $785,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetCOMMON SENSE MEDIA: $650,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetEQUITAS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $625,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetINNOVATE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $575,000 over 4y, 9.5% of budgetKIPP SOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $550,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS: $525,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetSTEP UP TUTORING: $500,000 over 4y, 8.0% of budgetTHE RAPE FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetEMERGING MARKETS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $475,000 over 4y, 100% of budgetLIFT INC: $450,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetCitizens of the World Charter Schools Los Angeles: $450,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetHARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL: $425,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHINK TOGETHER: $405,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLEGE TRACK: $405,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $405,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $375,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetProyecto Pastoral: $370,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetGreen Dot Public Schools: $370,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetASPIRE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $360,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetEDNOVATE INC: $360,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $355,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOne Voice: $325,000 over 7y, 3.6% of budgetALLIANCE COLLEGE-READY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $325,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS ATHLETIC LEADERSHIP SCHOOL LOS ANGELES: $325,000 over 7y, 3.8% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $310,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER LOS ANGELES EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetTOWER CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetFULFILLMENT FUND: $300,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LOS ANGELES FOUNDATION: $295,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO LOS ANGELES: $295,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $285,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $280,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP: $275,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetCENTER FOR POWERFUL PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $275,000 over 6y, 6.8% of budgetTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC: $275,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNEW TEACHER CENTER: $255,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES: $250,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetCALIFORNIA CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION: $250,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetSCHOOL ON WHEELS INC: $250,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS: $234,800 over 10y, 0.2% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $230,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetCASA OF LOS ANGELES: $230,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetINNER-CITY ARTS: $230,000 over 7y, 0.9% 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.

  • Who funds THE SEED FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LULU'S PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds GREAT PUBLIC SCHOOLS NOW ↗
  • Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LA PROMISE FUND ↗
  • Who funds COMMON SENSE MEDIA ↗
  • Who funds EQUITAS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds INNOVATE PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds KIPP SOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds STEP UP TUTORING ↗
  • Who funds THE RAPE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds EMERGING MARKETS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds LIFT INC ↗
  • Who funds Citizens of the World Charter Schools Los Angeles ↗
  • Who funds HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THINK TOGETHER ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE TRACK ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds EDVOICE INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS ↗
  • Who funds Proyecto Pastoral ↗
  • Who funds Green Dot Public Schools ↗
  • Who funds ASPIRE PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds EDNOVATE INC ↗
  • Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds One Voice ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE COLLEGE-READY PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS ATHLETIC LEADERSHIP SCHOOL LOS ANGELES ↗
  • Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER LOS ANGELES EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TOWER CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FULFILLMENT FUND ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LOS ANGELES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO LOS ANGELES ↗
  • Who funds HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR POWERFUL PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗

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…Great Public Schools …Weingart FoundationThe Ahmanson Foundati…California Community …The Annenberg Foundat…The Rose Hills Founda…Johnny Carson Foundat…The Eli and Edythe Br…Jewish Community Foun…Elbridge Stuart Found…The Los Angeles Dodge…
The Ralph M Parsons FoundationCA117.6× affinity66 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Great Public Schools Now · Weingart Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · Johnny Carson Foundation · The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Elbridge Stuart Foundation Dba Stuart Foundation · The Los Angeles Dodgers 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 Joseph Drown Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joseph Drown Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
63report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 Joseph Drown Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Joseph Drown 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 325 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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