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Luther Burbank Corporation Foundation

LUTHER BURBANK CORPORATION FOUNDATION (the "foundation") is a grant-making, operating public charity.

$739k
Granted FY2023
26
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$153k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2023.

Housing & Shelter$695kHuman Services$224kRecreation & Sports$195kInternational$184kPhilanthropy$153kCommunity Improvement$90kYouth Development$75kEducation$64kOther$0
02FY2023 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 26 grants below total $601,064 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $738,564 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $137,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k8 grants · $61k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $201k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $340k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WASHINGTON FEDERAL FOUNDATION$152,564
NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF LA$80,000
THE LIVING ROOM CENTER$56,000
NEIGHBORWORKS ORANGE COUNTY$51,000
COMMUNITY ACTION PSHIP SONOMA$30,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF SR$25,000
COUNCIL ON AGING FOR SENIORS$20,000
CLEARINGHOUSE CDFI$15,000
COMMITTE ON THE SHELTERLESS$15,000
UNION RESCUE MISSION$15,000
HOUSING HOPE$10,500
ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY HOUSING CORP$10,500
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN CA$10,000
SHALOM CENTER FOR TREE OF LIFE$10,000
BURBANK HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORP$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–23, $259k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%National Asian American Coalition: $8k → 7%THE LIVING ROOM CENTER: $56k → 9%American Red Cross: $15k → 10%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $15k → 14%American Red Cross: $10k → 10%RICHSTONE FAMILY CENTER: $8k → 14%SUNDAY FRIENDS FOUNDATION: $8k → 8%HOPE THE MISSION: $8k → 14%Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Santa Rosa: $33k → 9%Catholic Charities of the Diocese of SR: $25k → 9%Catholic Charities of the Diocese of SR: $25k → 9%Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Santa Rosa: $25k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF SR: $25k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 10 repeat orgs$633k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2023, 1 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
6

Total granted

$1.1M
$241k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+26%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $393k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionInternationalHealthOther

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

  • NH
    NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY
    6× · 2018–2023 · $280k · revenue +102%
  • NH
    NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF ORANGE COUNTY INC
    6× · 2018–2023 · $276k · revenue +34%
  • JA
    Junior Achievement of Northern California
    5× · 2018–2023 · $231k · revenue +0%

Funded once

  • MIRACLES FOR KIDS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $195k · revenue +140%
  • RE
    REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2020 · $13k · revenue +17%
  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC
    one grant, 2019 · $12k · revenue -3%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Housing Trust Silicon Valley

Our mission at housing trust silicon valley, is to use transformative housing finance and public and private partnerships to create more equitable and affordable communities.

Housing & Shelter
2
Community Housing Sonoma County

Community Housing Sonoma County creates supportive housing communities for people living with disabling conditions, especially veterans.

Housing & Shelter
3
Housing Works

Our mission is to create housing and service options that model, with respect and dignity, sustainable, environmentally sensitive, affordable communities for people of limited resources.

Housing & Shelter
4
Mercy House Living Centers

Mercy house's most significant exempt activities focus on ending homelessness and providing comprehensive housing and support services. the organization offers homeless prevention, rapid rehousing, permanent supportive housing, and…

Housing & Shelter
5
West Valley Community Services of Santa Clara County Inc

Our mission is to unite the community to fight hunger and homelessness. our vision is a community where every person has food on the table and every person has a roof over their head.

Housing & Shelter
6
Sunnyvale Community Services

The mission of sunnyvale community services is to prevent homelessness and hunger for low-income sunnyvale residents facing temporary crises.

Human Services
7
Sonoma Applied Village Services

Address the homeless crisis in California.

Housing & Shelter
8
Homes for California Dba Homes for Sonoma

Homes for Sonoma is a nonprofit developer creating quality workforce housing options that support safe and sustainable community, and finds efficient, scalable solutions to address the housing crisis in Sonoma County and throughout…

Housing & Shelter
9
Nhs Neighborhood Redevelopment Corp

Nhs neighborhood redevelopment corporation (nrc) serves as a catalyst for local residents, business and government representatives to work together to build stronger neighborhoods, improve the quality of life for families of modest means…

Community Improvement
10
Los Angeles Regional Food Bank

The organization's mission is to mobilize resources to fight hunger in our community. to fulfill its mission, the food bank:* sources and acquires nutritious food and other products and distribute them to people experiencing nutrition…

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11
Housing Choices Coalition for Persons With Developmental Disabilities Inc

To enhance the lives of people with developmental and other disabilities by creating quality, affordable housing options.

Housing & Shelter
12
Shelter Inc

The mission of shelter, inc. is to prevent and end homelessness for low-income, homeless, and disadvantaged families and individuals by providing housing, services, support, and resources that lead to self-sufficiency.

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neighborhood Housing Services of Los Angeles County and the most unlike its peers is Washington Federal Foundation. 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 33 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%0%<5yr16%3%5–10yr20%10%10–20yr17%39%20–35yr11%26%35–55yr11%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%0%<5yr16%0%5–10yr20%10%10–20yr17%38%20–35yr11%38%35–55yr11%14%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/33
the rest of the field
14%
11,328/78,150

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.

04the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 33 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
21/32
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF ORANGE COUNTY INC — $276,000 · Community ImprovementNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SER…SONOMA COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BOARD FOUNDATION — $60,000 · Community ImprovementSONOMA COUNTY ECONOMIC D…COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF SONOMA COUNTY — $30,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNER…HISPANIC FOUNDATION OF SILICON VALLEY — $15,000 · Community ImprovementNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY — $280,000 · Housing & ShelterNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING S…BURBANK HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $40,000 · Housing & ShelterBURBANK HOUSING DEVELO…+2 more — $21,000 · Housing & Shelter+2 moreCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF SANTA ROSA — $132,500 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITI…THE LIVING ROOM CENTER — $56,000 · Human ServicesTHE LIVING ROOM …American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $25,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Nationa…UNION RESCUE MISSION — $15,000 · Human ServicesUNION RESCUE MIS…+4 more — $30,500 · Human Services+4 moreJunior Achievement of Northern California — $230,558 · InternationalJunior Achievem…JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC — $12,000 · InternationalMIRACLES FOR KIDS INC — $195,000 · Recreation & SportsMIRACLES FOR…WASHINGTON FEDERAL FOUNDATION — $152,564 · PhilanthropyWASHINGTO…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA-MARIN — $30,000 · OtherBOYS & GIR…Council on Aging Services for Seniors — $20,000 · OtherCouncil on…COMMITTEE ON THE SHELTERLESS — $15,000 · OtherCOMMITTEE …CLEARINGHOUSE CDFI — $15,000 · OtherCLEARINGHO…REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK — $12,500 · OtherREDWOOD EM…SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY — $7,500 · OtherLONG BEACH LOCAL — $6,000 · OtherSHALOM CENTER FOR TREE OF LIFE — $10,000 · OtherSHALOM CEN…American Heart Association Inc — $7,500 · OtherNO LIMITS THEATER GROUP INC — $15,000 · OtherNO LIMITS …TALLER SAN JOSE HOPE BUILDERS — $10,000 · OtherTALLER SAN…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LONG BEACH — $10,000 · OtherBOYS & GIR…Downtown Streets Inc — $7,500 · Other
Community Improvement$381,000Housing & Shelter$341,000Human Services$259,000International$242,558Recreation & Sports$195,000Philanthropy$152,564Other$166,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY — $280,000 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF ORANGE COUNTY INC — $276,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetJunior Achievement of Northern California — $230,558 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetMIRACLES FOR KIDS INC — $195,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetWASHINGTON FEDERAL FOUNDATION — $152,564 over 1y, 37% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF SANTA ROSA — $132,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSONOMA COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BOARD FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 6y, 6.4% of budgetTHE LIVING ROOM CENTER — $56,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetBURBANK HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $40,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF SONOMA COUNTY — $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA-MARIN — $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCouncil on Aging Services for Seniors — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMITTEE ON THE SHELTERLESS — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHISPANIC FOUNDATION OF SILICON VALLEY — $15,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetUNION RESCUE MISSION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNO LIMITS THEATER GROUP INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK — $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC — $12,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOUSING HOPE — $10,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY HOUSING CORP — $10,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTALLER SAN JOSE HOPE BUILDERS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LONG BEACH — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSHALOM CENTER FOR TREE OF LIFE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE RICHSTONE CENTER INC — $8,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDowntown Streets Inc — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE THE MISSION — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUNDAY FRIENDS FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPACIFIC COMMUNITY FUND FKA NATIONAL ASIAN AMERICAN COALITION — $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLONG BEACH LOCAL — $6,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budget
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.

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.

Sonoma County Communi…East Bay Community Fo…Banc of California Ch…Washington Federal Fo…Umpqua Bank Charitabl…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Bothin FoundationRedwood Credit Union …Cathay Bank FoundationSpeedway Children's C…Mufg Union Bank Found…The San Francisco Fou…
Sonoma County Community FoundationCA21.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sonoma County Community Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Banc of California Charitable Foundation · Washington Federal Foundation · Umpqua Bank Charitable Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Bothin Foundation · Redwood Credit Union Community Fund Inc · Cathay Bank Foundation · Speedway Children's Charities · Mufg Union Bank Foundation Ag · The San Francisco 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 Luther Burbank Corporation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%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
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 33 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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