· Public charity
Magic Johnson Foundation Inc
To develop programs and support community-based organizations that address the educational, health and social needs of ethnically diverse, urban communities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- $10k–50k9 grants · $155k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $280k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IN A PERFECT WORLD | $105,000 |
| IRIS HOUSE | $75,000 |
| EAST OAKLAND YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $50,000 |
| HOLLYROD FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CHARLES DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE | $30,000 |
| WEST ANGELES CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST | $25,000 |
| THE LEAGUE OF ALLIED ARTS CORPORATION | $20,000 |
| THE JUMP AND BALL FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| PINE FORGE ACADEMY | $15,000 |
| GREATER LOS ANGELES AFRICAN AMERICAN CHAMBER COMMERCE | $15,000 |
| OAKWOOD UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| LOS ANGELES URBAN LEAGUE | $10,000 |
| OUR AUTHORS STUDY CLUB | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 89% of your 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.
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.
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.
Life pieces to masterpieces (lptm) is dedicated to the creative, academic, social-emotional, physical, and citizenship development of black boys and young men living in washington d.c.'s underserved 7th and 8th wards. founded in 1996, lptm…
As a vital east harlem education and enrichment center, ehtp works with students from early childhood through adulthood to prepare them with the academic skills, strength of character, and social and emotional well-being to excel in high…
Moore is dedicated to excellence in art and design. Founded in 1848, Moore is the first and only visual arts college for women in the US. With its undergraduate BFA degree for women and coeducational graduate programs, Moore cultivates…
Move|nyc| is a civic arts and social justice organization committed to cultivating a more diverse and inclusive society through transforming the field of professional dance. more than an arts organization, move|nyc| is a movement for…
Musical Education and Training
Teen art salon provides young people open-door, free-of-charge art instruction and materials to establish and advance individual studio practices.
Leap empowers young people to be leaders who create a nurturing community for children in need. we believe that families in all neighborhoods deserve access to learning opportunities that inspire a broad world view and encourage young…
Empower the youth of new york city through basketball, providing them with academic enrichment, career development, and a strong sense of community to unlock their full potential
Empowering underserved students with access to advanced technology and dynamic educational STEAM Science Technology Engineering Arts and Mathematics programs and competitions to develop critical skills for the future.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Los Angeles Urban League and the most unlike its peers is The Jump and Ball Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 17 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 IN A PERFECT WORLD ↗
- Who funds HOLLYROD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IRIS HOUSE - A CENTER FOR WOMEN LIVING WITH HIV INC ↗
- Who funds East Oakland Youth Development Center ↗
- Who funds CHARLES R DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds THE JUMP AND BALL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LEAGUE OF ALLIED ARTS ↗
- Who funds Educating Young Minds ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES URBAN LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds OUR AUTHORS STUDY CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds OAKWOOD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WACO THEATER 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: The Samuel and Latanya R Jackson Foundation · California Community Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Magic Johnson Foundation Inc 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.
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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