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Kiwanis Charities of Santa Monica Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k79 grants · $108k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SANTA MONICA POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE | $14,835 |
| UCLA CIRCLE K | $7,500 |
| FRIENDS OF SANTA MONICA PUBLIC LIBRARY | $4,500 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SANTA MONICA | $3,500 |
| SANTA MONICA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| ELEMENTAL MUSIC | $3,000 |
| SM ARTS FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| SANTA MONICA REPERTORY THEATER | $3,000 |
| SWIM WITH HEART | $3,000 |
| BLIND CHILDREN'S CENTER | $3,000 |
| SANTA MONICA FAMILY YMCA | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| REDISCOVER CENTER INC | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,750 |
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 (FY17–24, $68k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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 +49% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
82 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 56 since wound down; 54 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k 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
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA MONICA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $87k · revenue +46%
- SMSANTA MONICA POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE8× · 2017–2024 · $73k · revenue +20%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE SANTA MONICA PUBLIC LIBRARY8× · 2017–2024 · $34k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- UBUPWARD BOUND HOUSEone grant, 2020 · $13k · revenue +23%
- SMSANTA MONICA COLLEGEone grant, 2021 · $9k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $5k
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 improve the quality of life for the diverse communities we serve providing affordable and comprehensive healthcare and education in a welcoming multi-cultural environment.
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 Workforce Development Board promotes workforce development activitieswhich connect Los Angeles jobseekers and youth to training, workforce preparedness and employment opportunities. Facilitates placing youth into private,public &…
To provide comprehensive, family-centered social, educational and behavioral health services that encourage children, adolescents and their families to lead self reliant, stable and productive lives.
California Streets Initiative is a non-profit that practices solutions journalism at its five news websites listed above to educate inform and empower its readers.
The la conservation corps creates equitable opportunities for young people to build resilience in themselves, their communities and the environment through a program of work, education and support.
South central los angeles regional center, (sclarc), believes special needs deserve special attention. we are committed to the provision of culturally sensitive services which enhance the inherent strengths of the family and enable…
To advocate and represent business' interests in issues affecting the community of santa monica, california.
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…
Providing health care services to the poor and underserved of los angeles.
Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Safe Place for Youth Inc and the most unlike its peers is Santa Monica Historical 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 36 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 — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
44 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. 44 of the 350 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA MONICA INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA MONICA POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE SANTA MONICA PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds The Blind Childrens Center Inc ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH CENTER ↗
- Who funds SWIM WITH HEART ↗
- Who funds ELEMENTAL MUSIC ↗
- Who funds SANTA MONICA ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UPWARD BOUND HOUSE ↗
- Who funds NO LIMITS THEATER GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds MAR VISTA FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds SANTA MONICA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Wayfinder Family Services ↗
- Who funds Santa Monica Arts Parents Association ↗
- Who funds A WINDOW BETWEEN WORLDS ↗
- Who funds THE PEOPLE CONCERN ↗
- Who funds VENICE FAMILY CLINIC ↗
- Who funds REDISCOVER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE JONSSON CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KIWANIS INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ONE WITH THE WATER ↗
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 · The Annenberg Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Morley Builders Foundation · The Green Foundation · Santa Monica Rotary Club Foundation · Stern Sidney Memorial Tuw · Providence Saint John's Health Center · Gary E Milgard Family Foundation-Lori
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 Kiwanis Charities of Santa Monica Inc 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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