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Kiwanis Charities of Santa Monica Inc at a glance

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Kiwanis Charities of Santa Monica Inc

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.

$374k
Granted FY2025still arriving
83
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$101k
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$415kCommunity Improvement$240kEducation$168kRecreation & Sports$100kYouth Development$95kHuman Services$59kHealth$47kFood & Nutrition$26kOther$0
02FY2025 · 83 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k80 grants · $157k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $16k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $201k
$1,300
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE SALVATION ARMY$100,500
AMERICAN RED CROSS OF SANTA MONICA$100,000
SANTA MONICA POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE$16,325
UCLA CIRCLE K$7,500
SANTA MONICA HISTORY MUSEUM$6,000
THE CHILDREN'S LIFESAVING FOUNDATION$6,000
ELEMENTAL MUSIC$5,000
KIWANIS CHILDRENS FUND$5,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SANTA MONICA$5,000
SANTA MONICA FAMILY YMCA$5,000
SWIM WITH HEART$5,000
FRIENDS OF SANTA MONICA PUBLIC LIBRARY$4,500
Individual grant recipient$4,000
Individual grant recipient$4,000
Individual grant recipient$4,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $80k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SWIM WITH HEART: $5k → 14%CONNECTIONS FOR CHILDREN: $199 → 14%CONNECTIONS FOR CHILDREN: $175 → 14%A SENSE OF HOME: $4k → 14%WESTSIDE CHILDREN'S CENTER: $209 → 14%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF LOS ANGE: $3k → 14%WAYFINDER FAMILY SERVICES: $4k → 14%WAYFINDER FAMILY SERVICES: $4k → 14%REDISCOVER CENTER INC: $3k → 14%REDISCOVER CENTER INC: $3k → 14%REDISCOVER CENTER INC: $2k → 14%SWIM WITH HEART: $4k → 14%SWIM WITH HEART: $3k → 14%SWIM WITH HEART: $3k → 14%SWIM WITH HEART: $3k → 14%SWIM WITH HEART: $3k → 14%SWIM WITH HEART: $3k → 14%SWIM WITH HEART: $2k → 14%SWIM WITH HEART: $213 → 14%JUNIOR BLIND OF AMERICA: $121 → 14%PAWSLA: $490 → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $2k → 14%ST JOSEPHS CENTER: $4k → 14%ST JOSEPHS CENTER: $4k → 14%ST JOSEPHS CENTER: $4k → 14%ST JOSEPHS CENTER: $4k → 14%ST JOSEPHS CENTER: $4k → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $2k → 14%ST JOSEPHS CENTER: $4k → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $2k → 14%SAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH: $2k → 14%MEALS ON WHEELS WEST: $262 → 14%MEALS ON WHEELS WEST: $136 → 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.
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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 88 repeat orgs$519k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +36% for those funded once.

88 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2025, 61 since wound down; 56 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

88
262

Total granted

$1.0M
$337k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+36%

Still filing today

32%
6%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $182k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationYouth 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

  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA MONICA INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $92k · revenue +46%
  • SM
    SANTA MONICA POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $89k · revenue +20%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE SANTA MONICA PUBLIC LIBRARY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $39k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • UB
    UPWARD BOUND HOUSE
    one grant, 2020 · $13k · revenue +23%
  • SM
    SANTA MONICA COLLEGE
    one grant, 2021 · $9k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
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
All About Kids La
Philanthropy
2
University of Southern California

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…

Education
3
The City of Los Angeles Workforce Development Board

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 &…

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4
South Central Family Health Center

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.

Health
5
Trauma Informed La
Civil Rights
6
Los Angeles Accessible Apartments C
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7
League of Women Voters of Los Angeles

The League of Women Voters, a nonpartisan political organization, encourages informed and active participation in government, works to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and…

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8
Young Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Los Angeles

The ymca of metropolitan los angeles ("ymca "la y "the y") advances community well-being by addressing root causes and improving equitable access to services across three integrated areas of impact: healthy living, youth development, and…

Human Services
9
Vista Del Mar Child and Family Services

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.

Human Services
10
Los Angeles Conservation Corps

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.

Employment
11
Wellnest Emotional Health & Wellness

Through a holistic approach to emotional well-being, Wellnest offers hope, healing, and opportunity to the children, young adults, families, and communities we serve. Our commitment remains steadfast as we enter our second century of…

Human Services
12
Los Angeles Retired Fire and Police Benevolent Association
Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Safe Place for Youth Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

49 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. 49 of the 406 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/49
Grantees still filing
39/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE SALVATION ARMY: $104,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYAMERICAN RED CROSS OF SANTA MONICA: $100,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS OF SANTA MONICASANTA MONICA-UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT: $91,349 · OtherSANTA MONICA-UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICTSANTA MONICA POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE: $89,023 · OtherSANTA MONICA POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUEUCLA CIRCLE K: $70,470 · OtherUCLA CIRCLE KCITY OF SANTA MONICA: $70,300 · OtherCITY OF SANTA MONICAIndividual grant recipient: $45,131 · Other+170 more: $504,003 · Other+170 moreBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA MONICA INC: $91,828 · Youth DevelopmentSWIM WITH HEART: $24,504 · Human ServicesST JOSEPH CENTER: $24,000 · Human ServicesREDISCOVER CENTER INC: $8,000 · Human ServicesWayfinder Family Services: $7,121 · Human ServicesTHE PEOPLE CONCERN: $5,000 · Human ServicesA SENSE OF HOME: $4,000 · Human ServicesINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF LOS ANGELES: $3,450 · Human Services+1 more: $2,000 · Human ServicesELEMENTAL MUSIC: $21,000 · Arts & CultureNO LIMITS THEATER GROUP INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureSANTA MONICA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $13,252 · Arts & CultureSANTA MONICA ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $13,000 · Arts & CultureSanta Monica Arts Parents Association: $7,000 · Arts & CultureA WINDOW BETWEEN WORLDS: $5,217 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE SANTA MONICA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $38,500 · EducationThe Blind Childrens Center Inc: $27,738 · EducationSanta Monica High School Grad Nite: $3,000 · EducationWESTSIDE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER: $24,606 · HealthVENICE FAMILY CLINIC: $5,000 · HealthANGEL FLIGHT WEST INC: $2,660 · HealthMAKE GOOD INC: $2,500 · HealthWESTSIDE FOOD BANK: $25,466 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,074,276Youth Development$91,828Human Services$78,075Arts & Culture$74,469Education$69,238Health$34,766Food & Nutrition$25,466

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 budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA MONICA INC: $91,828 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetSANTA MONICA POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE: $89,023 over 9y, 16% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE SANTA MONICA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $38,500 over 9y, 6.4% of budgetThe Blind Childrens Center Inc: $27,738 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetWESTSIDE FOOD BANK: $25,466 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetWESTSIDE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER: $24,606 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSWIM WITH HEART: $24,504 over 9y, 2.4% of budgetST JOSEPH CENTER: $24,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetELEMENTAL MUSIC: $21,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetNO LIMITS THEATER GROUP INC: $15,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA MONICA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $13,252 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetUPWARD BOUND HOUSE: $12,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKIWANIS INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $9,718 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMAR VISTA FAMILY CENTER: $8,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetREDISCOVER CENTER INC: $8,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWayfinder Family Services: $7,121 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Monica Arts Parents Association: $7,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetA WINDOW BETWEEN WORLDS: $5,217 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE PEOPLE CONCERN: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVENICE FAMILY CLINIC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetONE WITH THE WATER: $4,600 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF LOS ANGELES: $3,450 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA MONICA PIER CORPORATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSanta Monica High School Grad Nite: $3,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetSafe Parking LA: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA MONICA BREAKFAST CLUB WELFARE FUND: $2,800 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetANGEL FLIGHT WEST INC: $2,660 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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 The Blind Childrens Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds WESTSIDE FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds WESTSIDE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SWIM WITH HEART ↗
  • Who funds ST JOSEPH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ELEMENTAL MUSIC ↗
  • Who funds NO LIMITS THEATER GROUP INC ↗
  • Who funds SANTA MONICA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds SANTA MONICA ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds UPWARD BOUND HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds KIWANIS INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MAR VISTA FAMILY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds REDISCOVER CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Wayfinder Family Services ↗
  • Who funds Santa Monica Arts Parents Association ↗
  • Who funds The Childrens Lifesaving Foundation ↗
  • Who funds A WINDOW BETWEEN WORLDS ↗
  • Who funds THE PEOPLE CONCERN ↗
  • Who funds VENICE FAMILY CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds THE JONSSON CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION ↗

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 …The Annenberg Foundat…The Rose Hills Founda…The Ralph M Parsons F…The Ahmanson Foundati…Weingart FoundationMorley Builders Found…The Green FoundationSanta Monica Rotary C…Stern Sidney Memorial…Providence Saint John…Gary E Milgard Family…
California Community FoundationCA32.7× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Kiwanis Charities of Santa Monica Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kiwanis Charities of Santa Monica Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to Kiwanis Charities of Santa Monica Inc 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 406 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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