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Lionel & Debra Dluna Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k36 grants · $139k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $75k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $205k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IIT Bombay Heritage Foundation | $205,000 |
| SVDPSEAS | $15,000 |
| Wayne Township Education Foundation | $10,000 |
| CampCare | $10,000 |
| Mercy House | $10,000 |
| Little Tokyo Service Center | $10,000 |
| Healing Waters Inc | $10,000 |
| Charge Syndrome Foundation | $10,000 |
| Social and Environmental Entreprene | $8,000 |
| St Elizabeth Ann Seton Church | $7,000 |
| Family Assistance Ministries | $5,000 |
| UCI Foundation | $5,000 |
| Irvine Public Schools Foundation | $5,000 |
| Working Wardrobes | $5,000 |
| Isaiah House | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 48% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
45 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- IBIIT Bombay Heritage Foundation3× · 2023–2025 · $224k · revenue +1%
- KSKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $135k · revenue +77%
- MHMERCY HOUSE LIVING CENTERS6× · 2020–2025 · $58k · revenue +134%
Funded once
THE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL INCone grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue +3%- 1B100 BLACK MEN OF ORANGE COUNTYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue +39%
- BGBLACK GIRLS CODE INCone grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue -74%
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 lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…
To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
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 san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…
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 foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Justfaith Ministries Inc and the most unlike its peers is 100 Black Men of Orange County. 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 33 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 60 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 IIT Bombay Heritage Foundation ↗
- Who funds KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MERCY HOUSE LIVING CENTERS ↗
- Who funds ASPIRE CREATIVE ARTS PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds CHARGE SYNDROME FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WAYNE TOWNSHIP EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds 1979 LEGACY CORP ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH COAST REPERTORY INC ↗
- Who funds ISAIAH HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Working Wardrobes For A New Start ↗
- Who funds PATH ↗
- Who funds University of Arizona Foundation ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FORWARD ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds SPIRIT YOUTH SPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds SADDLEBACK COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF ORANGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CONCERN AMERICA ↗
- Who funds JUSTFAITH MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SENIORSERV INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH CENTER ↗
- Who funds IRVINE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
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: Orange County Community Foundation · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · Oneoc · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · California Community Foundation · O L Halsell Foundation · Laloo Vision Inc · Frome Family Foundation · Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian · St Joseph Health System Foundation · Argyros Family Foundation · Sempra 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 Lionel & Debra Dluna Family 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.
- Oxfam-America 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.
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