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Maddocks-Brown Foundation at a glance

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Maddocks-Brown 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.

$32k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$194kHousing & Shelter$78kArts & Culture$75kAnimals$12kReligion$10kRecreation & Sports$10kCommunity Improvement$5kHealth$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$965k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$10,000
PBS SOCAL$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY$5,000
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY$2,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY: $5k → 10%SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS: $5k → 14%LUZERNE MUSIC CENTER: $5k → 10%HERBIE HANCOCK INSTITUTE OF JAZZ: $50k → 14%UTAH FILM CENTER: $5k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $10k → 14%FOUNDATION FOR OPEN RESIDENTIAL TREASURES: $3k → 14%SAINT JOHN'S HOSPITAL AND HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%KCET CINEMA SERIES: $5k → 14%PBS SOCAL: $5k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $88k → 14%KCET CINEMA SERIES: $5k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $88k → 14%SANTE DFOUNDATION: $10k → 14%KCET CINEMA SERIES: $5k → 14%FRIENDS OF RESIDENTIAL TREASURESLA: $24k → 14%FRIENDS OF RESIDENTIAL TREASURESLA: $19k → 14%FRIENDS OF RESIDENTIAL TREASURESLA: $19k → 14%FIRST BREAK ACADEMY: $3k → 14%FRIENDS OF RESIDENTIAL TREASURESLA: $13k → 14%LOS ANGELES PUBLIC LIBRARY: $9k → 14%LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART: $10k → 14%FIRST BREAK ACADEMY: $2k → 14%BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $2k → 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.

43%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$95k · 3 repeat orgs$125k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +145% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
9

Total granted

$95k
$103k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+145%
+31%

Still filing today

67%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF RESIDENTIAL TREASURESLA
    4× · 2020–2023 · $75k · revenue +145% · 28% of their budget
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    3× · 2020–2022 · $15k
  • FB
    First Break Academy
    2× · 2022–2023 · $5k · revenue -84%

Funded once

  • HH
    HERBIE HANCOCK INSTITUTE OF JAZZ
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • HO
    HEAVEN ON EARTH
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • SD
    SANTE DOR FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +12%
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
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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2
San Jose Museum of Art Association

Nurture empathy and connection by engaging communities with socially relevant contemporary art

Arts & Culture
3
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
4
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
5
Los Angeles International Dance Festival
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6
Academy Museum Foundation

The academy museum of motion pictures advances the understanding, celebration, and preservation of cinema through inclusive and accessible exhibitions, screenings, programs, initiatives, and collections. welcoming visitors from los angeles…

Arts & Culture
7
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
8
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
9
Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts

Deeply rooted in our local beverly hills community and influenced by cultural change, the wallis annenberg center for the performing arts, a public-private partnership with the city of beverly hills, strives to be a site for the…

Arts & Culture
10
Los Angeles Center of Photography

Los Angeles Center of Photography promotes photography through its educational programs, exhibits, and other creative opportunties and venues.

Arts & Culture
11
Lowell Observatory

The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…

Science & Tech
12
Los Angeles Medical Center Foundation
Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint John's Health Center Foundation; the most unlike its peers is First Break Academy. 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

10 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. 10 of the 17 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $185,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAHERBIE HANCOCK INSTITUTE OF JAZZ: $50,000 · OtherHERBIE HANCOCK INSTITUTE OF …Individual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHEAVEN ON EARTH: $10,000 · OtherHEAVEN ON EARTHLOS ANGELES PUBLIC LIBRARY: $9,473 · OtherLOS ANGELES PUBLIC LIBRARYLUZERNE MUSIC CENTER INC: $5,000 · OtherPBS SOCAL: $5,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY: $5,000 · Other+1 more: $3,113 · OtherFRIENDS OF RESIDENTIAL TREASURESLA: $75,156 · Community ImprovementFRIENDS OF RESIDENTIA…MUSEUM ASSOCIATES: $10,000 · Arts & CultureUTAH FILM CENTER: $5,000 · Arts & CultureSANTE DOR FOUNDATION: $10,000 · AnimalsBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $2,000 · AnimalsSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $5,348 · EnvironmentSAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthFirst Break Academy: $4,500 · Youth Development
Education$185,000Other$102,586Community Improvement$75,156Arts & Culture$15,000Animals$12,000Environment$5,348Health$5,000Youth Development$4,500

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $185,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF RESIDENTIAL TREASURESLA: $75,156 over 4y, 28% of budgetMUSEUM ASSOCIATES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANTE DOR FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $5,348 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUZERNE MUSIC CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUTAH FILM CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFirst Break Academy: $4,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Maddocks-Brown Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Maddocks-Brown Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 17 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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