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Lady's Secret Foundation

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.

$42k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$168kEducation$45kInternational$32kYouth Development$31kArts & Culture$30kPublic Safety & Disaster$22kFood & Nutrition$22kHuman Services$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$848k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Harriett Buhai Center For Family Law$5,000
AMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOCIATION$5,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$5,000
JVS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM$5,000
Rady Children's Hospital$5,000
St Jude Children's Research Hospital$3,000
Communities in Schools Los Angeles$2,500
CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION$2,500
MR HOLLAND'S OPUS FOUNDATION$2,500
Give Lively Foundation$1,530
Vista Del Mar$1,000
Healdsburg Community Nursery School$1,000
CALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION$500
AARP Foundation$500
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) 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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $13k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Vista Del Mar: $5k → 14%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $235 → 7%Vista Del Mar: $2k → 14%Vista Del Mar: $1k → 14%Vista Del Mar: $1k → 14%Vista Del MAR: $1k → 14%IRAQ & AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA: $2k → 17%The Midnight Mission: $1k → 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
IL
NY
IA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NE
VA
DC
GA
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$362k · 37 repeat orgs$62k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

37 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
27

Total granted

$362k
$56k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+15%

Still filing today

57%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
HealthHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $18k · revenue +177%
  • COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS
    3× · 2021–2023 · $15k · revenue +148%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER INC
    2× · 2017–2022 · $15k · revenue +573%

Funded once

  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & HEALTH CENTER
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • PS
    PALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +9%
  • AF
    American Friends of Sheba Medical Center
    one grant, 2021 · $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
Food Forward Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
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
California Dental Association Foundation

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.

Science & Tech
4
Ucla Foundation

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…

Education
5
Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd

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…

Health
6
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
7
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
8
California Healthcare Foundation

Chcf is dedicated to advancing meaningful, measurable improvements in the way the health care delivery system provides care to the people of california, particularly those with low incomes and those whose needs are not well served by the…

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9
Feeding San Diego

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,…

Food & Nutrition
10
Public Health Institute

Public health institute generates and promotes research, leadership and partnerships to build capacity for strong public health policy, programs, systems and practices.

Health
11
International Foundation for Gastrointes

Our mission is to inform, assist, and support people affected by gastrointestinal (gi) disorders.

Education
12
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A global nonprofit biomedical research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Partners; 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.
04the grantee network

44 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. 44 of the 70 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/44
Grantees still filing
29/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $40,500 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODRady Children's Hospital: $34,320 · OtherRady Children's HospitalJVS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM: $31,400 · OtherJVS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientInternational Medical Corp: $12,050 · OtherLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $10,500 · OtherLACMA FUND: $10,000 · OtherCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL: $10,000 · OtherARMED SERVICES YMCA SAN DIEGO: $10,000 · Other+33 more: $80,615 · Other+33 morePARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $17,500 · HealthPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER INC: $15,000 · HealthAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SH…Connecting to Cure Crohn's and Colitis Inc: $12,000 · HealthConnecting to Cure Cro…VENICE FAMILY CLINIC: $11,500 · HealthVENICE FAMILY CLINICTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $10,150 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUN…AMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOC: $7,500 · HealthAMERICAN PARKINSON DIS…IBD SUPPORT FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthIBD SUPPORT FOUNDATION+3 more: $5,500 · Health+3 moreCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS: $15,000 · EducationTHE MR HOLLAND'S OPUS FOUNDATION: $10,500 · EducationHIRE HEROES USA INC: $2,000 · EducationHEALDSBURG COMMUNITY NURSERY SCHOOL: $1,000 · Education+1 more: $500 · EducationSave The Children Federation Inc: $10,522 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $7,500 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · InternationalHARRIETT BUHAI CENTER FOR FAMILY LAW: $14,525 · Crime & LegalVISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $10,250 · Human ServicesIRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesTHE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $1,000 · Human ServicesAARP FOUNDATION: $500 · Human Services+1 more: $385 · Human ServicesDESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyTHE SILVERSTEIN FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S WITH GBA: $5,000 · PhilanthropyGIVE LIVELY FOUNDATION INC: $1,530 · PhilanthropyGrateful Giving Foundation: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$254,385Health$84,150Education$29,000International$20,022Crime & Legal$14,525Human Services$14,135Philanthropy$12,530

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $17,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHARRIETT BUHAI CENTER FOR FAMILY LAW: $14,525 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetConnecting to Cure Crohn's and Colitis Inc: $12,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetVENICE FAMILY CLINIC: $11,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $10,522 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $10,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MR HOLLAND'S OPUS FOUNDATION: $10,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetVISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $10,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $10,150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF LOS ANGELES INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIBD SUPPORT FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SILVERSTEIN FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S WITH GBA: $5,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN YOUTH SYMPHONY INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMAR VISTA FAMILY CENTER: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHISPANIC FEDERATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION: $1,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGIVE LIVELY FOUNDATION INC: $1,530 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF WEST LOS ANGELES INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEALDSBURG COMMUNITY NURSERY SCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE JARED BOX PROJECT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWESTSIDE FOOD BANK: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGrateful Giving Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $515 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHP 11-99 FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDKG INTERNATIONAL EDUCATORS FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding America: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIVING DESERT THE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCharity Navigator: $385 over 2y, 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 PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds HARRIETT BUHAI CENTER FOR FAMILY LAW ↗
  • 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 MR HOLLAND'S OPUS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF LOS ANGELES INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOC ↗
  • Who funds PALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds IBD SUPPORT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE SILVERSTEIN FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S WITH GBA ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN YOUTH SYMPHONY INC ↗
  • Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MAR VISTA FAMILY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗

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.

Jewish Community Foun…The Rose Hills Founda…The Ralph M Parsons F…California Community …The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Community Foundation of Los AngelesCA15.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Lady's Secret Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lady's Secret Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
10report 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.

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 70 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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