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Kenneth a Picerne Foundation at a glance

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Kenneth a Picerne 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.

$57k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
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 2024.

Arts & Culture$184kHousing & Shelter$49kEducation$46kYouth Development$38kHuman Services$25kPublic Safety & Disaster$21kPhilanthropy$6kCivil Rights$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$29M
Total assets

Anchored by a single position: about 100% of reported assets are held in Picerne Investment Corp.

Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE PEGASUS SCHOOL$25,000
COMMUNITY'S CHILD INC$15,000
SPEAK UP NEWPORT FOUNDATION$5,500
THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOC OF ANAHEIM$5,000
COLLEGE OF THE CANYONS FOUNDATION$5,000
Individual grant recipient$500
LOMITA KIWANIS FOUNDATION$500
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 (FY21–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%STARS AND STRIPES CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOC OF ANAHEIM: $5k → 10%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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$243k · 9 repeat orgs$139k to everyone else

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

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
20

Total granted

$243k
$109k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
+14%

Still filing today

44%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthPublic Safety & DisasterCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • CC
    COMMUNITYS CHILD INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $39k · revenue +1%
  • SU
    SPEAK UP NEWPORT FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $11k · revenue +10%
  • TC
    The College of the Canyons Foundation
    2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • LA
    LOS ANGELES COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -99%
  • LN
    LAGUNA NIGUEL MILITARY SUPPORT FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -60%
  • SA
    STARS AND STRIPES CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +25%
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 L a Fire Department Scholarship Fund
Education
2
Captain David Lyman Maritime Scholarship Fund

Provide for maritime scholarships via california maritime academy

Philanthropy
3
Long Beach City College Foundation

The foundation's specific and primary purposes are to promote the general welfare of long beach city college by assisting and supporting the attainment of educational, athletic, and cultural goals; by assisting it in fulfilling its role of…

Education
4
Los Angeles Retired Fire and Police Benevolent Association
Crime & Legal
5
The California Boys & Girls State Foundation
Philanthropy
6
San Diego County Citizens' Scholars Foundation
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7
Stem Advantage

Talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not. STEM Advantage mentors, prepares, and inspires first-generation, low-income, and underserved college students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). We level…

Youth Development
8
The Santa Monica College Foundation

The santa monica college foundation leads the private fundraising efforts of santa monica college in support of the college's mission to provide open and affordable access to high quality education. the foundation receives, disperses and…

Education
9
Anchor Scholarship Foundation Inc

To award college scholarships to dependent children and spouses of active duty, retired and honorably discharged surface navy personnel.

Education
10
Oceanside High School Foundation

Schlorships - granted to graduating seniors to help them continue their post-secondary education after graduation.

Education
11
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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12
Yosemite Lodge #99 Scholarship Fund
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friendship Shelter Inc; the most unlike its peers is Japanese American National Museum. 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

14 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. 14 of the 31 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LOMITA KIWANIS FOUNDATION: $28,000 · OtherLOMITA KIWANIS FOUNDATIONTHE PEGASUS SCHOOL: $25,000 · OtherTHE PEGASUS SCHOOLCERRITOS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $20,000 · OtherCERRITOS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTSIndividual grant recipient: $13,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $12,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $11,400 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLAGUNA NIGUEL MILITARY SUPPORT FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherLAGUNA NIGUEL MILITARY SUPPORT FOUNDATIONThe College of the Canyons Foundation: $10,000 · OtherThe College of the Canyons FoundationBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ORANGE COUNTY AND THE INLAND EMPIRE INC: $10,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ORANGE COUNTY AND THE INLA…CCPA ENDOWMENT FUND: $10,000 · OtherCCPA ENDOWMENT FUNDIndividual grant recipient: $8,000 · Other+12 more: $26,000 · Other+12 moreJAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM: $100,000 · Arts & CultureJAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MU…COMMUNITYS CHILD INC: $38,500 · HealthCOMMUNITYS …LOS ANGELES COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Public Safety & DisasterSTARS AND STRIPES CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ANA: $5,000 · Human ServicesSPEAK UP NEWPORT FOUNDATION: $10,500 · Community ImprovementFRIENDSHIP SHELTER INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterNEWPORT HARBOR FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$183,400Arts & Culture$100,000Health$38,500Public Safety & Disaster$20,000Human Services$15,000Community Improvement$10,500Housing & Shelter$10,000Philanthropy$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM: $100,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITYS CHILD INC: $38,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTHE PEGASUS SCHOOL: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSPEAK UP NEWPORT FOUNDATION: $10,500 over 2y, 23% of budgetLAGUNA NIGUEL MILITARY SUPPORT FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetThe College of the Canyons Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSTARS AND STRIPES CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDSHIP SHELTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ORANGE COUNTY AND THE INLAND EMPIRE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ANA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUTHER BURBANK MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEWPORT HARBOR FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 29% 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.

California Community …Orange County Communi…Charities Aid Foundat…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
California Community FoundationCA16× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Kenneth a Picerne Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kenneth a Picerne 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%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–10%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Kenneth a Picerne Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Kenneth a Picerne 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 31 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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