· Private foundation
Lady's Secret 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.
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 $10k14 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $10,000 |
| Harriett Buhai Center For Family Law | $5,025 |
| Rady Children's Hospital | $5,000 |
| The Michael J Fox Foundation | $5,000 |
| Communities in Schools Los Angeles | $5,000 |
| LACMA FUND | $5,000 |
| JVS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM | $3,300 |
| MR HOLLAND'S OPUS FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| AMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
| Vista Del Mar | $1,000 |
| MAR VISTA FAMILY CENTER | $1,000 |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital | $1,000 |
| Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) Foundation | $1,000 |
| National Park Conservations Association | $500 |
| THE CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL 11-99 FOUNDATION | $500 |
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, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +17% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 3 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC4× · 2017–2020 · $18k · revenue +177%
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS3× · 2021–2023 · $15k · revenue +148%- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER INC2× · 2017–2022 · $15k · revenue +573%
Funded once
- AFAmerican Friends of Sheba Medical Centerone grant, 2021 · $5k
- ISIBD SUPPORT FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -93%
- CICOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLSone grant, 2017 · $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.
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
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…
Huntington Health stands for community. We stand for compassion. But more than anything, Huntington stands for health. Providing world-class health care is our specialty, and it's what we've been doing for the San Gabriel Valley since…
The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
Public health institute generates and promotes research, leadership and partnerships to build capacity for strong public health policy, programs, systems and practices.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Partners and the most unlike its peers is The Silverstein Foundation for Parkinson's With Gba. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 65 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 PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Connecting to Cure Crohn's and Colitis Inc ↗
- Who funds VENICE FAMILY CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds HARRIETT BUHAI CENTER FOR FAMILY LAW ↗
- Who funds VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE MR HOLLAND'S OPUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS ↗
- Who funds IBD SUPPORT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF LOS ANGELES INC ↗
- Who funds THE SILVERSTEIN FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S WITH GBA ↗
- Who funds PALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN YOUTH SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds MAR VISTA FAMILY CENTER ↗
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: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Lady's Secret Foundation 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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.