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Mar Vista Investment Partners Charitable 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF MINNESOTA | $5,000 |
| FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION | $1,500 |
| EDEN PRAIRIE BOYS VOLLEYBALL | $500 |
| DAKOTA MEDICAL FOUNDATION - 463 FOUNDATION | $500 |
| ST JOSEPH CATHOLIC CHURCH & SCHOOL | $500 |
| S V TEMPLE | $350 |
| MAMMOTH MOUNTAINS SKI PATROL ALUMNI | $293 |
| CLEAN WATER FUND | $240 |
| MAMMOTH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $207 |
| VT SEVA | $150 |
| MINNESOTA PROFESSIONAL FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION | $100 |
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 (FY18–23, $76k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those 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.
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.
25 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 6 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- KFKCRW FOUNDATION INC4× · 2020–2023 · $48k · revenue +17%
- GSGOOD SEED COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION5× · 2018–2023 · $45k · revenue +545%
- OIORTHOPAEDIC INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION3× · 2021–2023 · $37k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- TSThe Soulnic Foundationone grant, 2024 · $15k
- BBBig Brothers Big Sisters Of Americagraduatedone grant, 2018 · $12k · revenue +158%
- AFALL FOR KIDS ORGANIZATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +63%
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.
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
The mission of children's cancer cause is to champion policies and programs that improve the lives of children with cancer and survivors.
The multiple myeloma research foundation (mmrf) is the largest nonprofit in the world solely focused on accelerating acurefor multiple myeloma patient. we drive the development and delivery of next-generation therapies, leverage data to…
The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.
Susan g. komen has an unmatched, comprehensive 360-degree approach to fighting breast cancer across all fronts and supporting millions of people in the u.s. and in countries worldwide. we advocate for policies to protect patients, drive…
Curesearch's mission is to fund & support targeted & innovative cancer research with measurable results, & to be the authoritative source of information & resources for all those affected by children's cancer. see schedule o for…
Skc impacts children through the initiation of clinical research trials of investigative treatment strategies. our vision is to continue expanding the armamentarium of effective and less toxic treartment strategies for pediatric…
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To significantly improve the lives of people with down syndrome through research, medical care, education and advocacy. an important part of this mission is to support the global affiliate organizations that we helped establish and…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
To advance cures and treatment of childhood cancer and other rare diseases.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Orthopaedic Institute for Children Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Ashtalakshmi Temple. 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 29 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 14% 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.
43 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. 43 of the 66 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 BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds KCRW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SEED COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL OF URBAN PROFESSIONALS INC ↗
- Who funds ORTHOPAEDIC INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Down Syndrome Association of Minnesota ↗
- Who funds ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds NATUREBRIDGE ↗
- Who funds The Soulnic Foundation ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST NATIVE-AMERICAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEALTH IN THE HOOD INC ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America ↗
- Who funds FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION ↗
- Who funds Relate Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPE IGNITES SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds ALL FOR KIDS ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds THRIVE SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds WISEPLACE ↗
- Who funds THE PEOPLE CONCERN ↗
- Who funds Hero Haven ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds CLEAN WATER FUND ↗
- Who funds MISERICORDIA HOME ↗
- Who funds TREEHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds WARRIOR DOG RESCUE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND ↗
- Who funds FOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH & EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds SPARE KEY ↗
- Who funds Jessie Rees Foundation ↗
- Who funds WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP ↗
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: Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Donatestock Charitable Inc · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · American Gift Fund · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · California Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · United Way Worldwide
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 Mar Vista Investment Partners Charitable 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.
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of America — 21% of income from government
- Health in the Hood Inc — 1% 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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