· Private foundation
Mara W Breech Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k31 grants · $184k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $398k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JOHN TRACY CLINIC | $33,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $30,000 |
| LEAP | $27,500 |
| CHILDREN'S ART VILLAGE-SEVALAYA | $27,500 |
| UC SAN DIEGO-MATH FOR AMERICA | $27,500 |
| THE WORLD IS JUST A BOOK AWAY | $22,000 |
| SCRIPPS COLLEGE | $22,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA | $22,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $22,000 |
| CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY | $22,000 |
| OVERLAND AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $22,000 |
| STANFORD CENTER TO SUPPORT EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING | $20,000 |
| LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATES | $16,500 |
| CHIME INSTITUTE | $16,500 |
| MIND RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $15,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $228k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
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.
57 repeat relationships — 50 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- WLWESTERN LOS ANGELES COUNTY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 515× · 2021–2025 · $133k · revenue +34%
- TWTHE WORLD IS JUST A BOOK AWAY5× · 2021–2025 · $106k · revenue +14%
- SCScripps College5× · 2021–2025 · $106k · revenue +79%
Funded once
- TBTWO BIT CIRCUSTRASH FOR TEACHINGone grant, 2021 · $10k
- FBFRINGE BENEFITS THEATRE ALLIANCEone grant, 2022 · $5k
- CFCENTER FOR COUNCIL (COMMUNITY PARTNERS)one grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
Hollywood Schoolhouse knows, values, and encourages fearless curiosity. Through a blended program of innovative academics and structured learning, our diverse community inspires students to be academically strong, artistically proud,…
The center for early education, a socio-economically and culturally diverse independent school for children, toddlers through grade six, strives to graduate students who are joyful, resilient, lifelong learners. the center embraces a…
The institution provides educational instruction and activities to students ranging from preschool through 8th grade.
Institute for Applied Tinkering IAT develops, practices and shares educational methods that challenge and support all children to engage deeply in their learning via real interests and real tools.
The mission of tlc is to educate diverse students through a rigorous, standards-based, collegepreparatory program to become conscientious, caring, and responsible 21st century citizens. tlc is grounded in an inclusive vision of teaching…
The archer school for girls is an educational community that supports and challenges young women to discover their passions and realize their true potential by a) providing a rigorous, integrated college preparatory curriculum that fosters…
We cultivate the boundless potential of highly gifted children, nurture their passions and talents, and develop a diverse community of creative and constructive lifelong learners.
The buckley school is a dynamic, nurturing learning community committed to equity and inclusion. our innovative teachers and challenging programs inspire creativity, courage, and collaboration. by promoting a balanced development of mind,…
Our mission is to spark wonder and intellectual curiosity in each child. We achieve this through a purposeful blend of:Engaging academics custom-tailored to each child's abilities, strengths and interests;An unparalleled social-emotional…
Wns is committed to creating a deeply caring community of lifelong learners that nurtures students from diverse backgrounds to reach their full potential, develop cultural competency, and inspire the world with their curiosity, innovation,…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is Smiling Calm Hearts Open Ourlearning Inc. 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 32 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 63 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 JOHN TRACY CLINIC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN LOS ANGELES COUNTY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 51 ↗
- Who funds Claremont Graduate University ↗
- Who funds THE WORLD IS JUST A BOOK AWAY ↗
- Who funds Scripps College ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds CHIME INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds The Blind Childrens Center Inc ↗
- Who funds AHA ATTITUDE HARMONY ACHIEVEMENT ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SMILING CALM HEARTS OPEN OURLEARNING INC ↗
- Who funds STAR SPORTS THEATRE ARTS & RECREATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARIANNE FROSTIG CTR OF EDU THERAPY ↗
- Who funds PS Science ↗
- Who funds ENNEAGRAM PRISON PROJECT ↗
- Who funds NETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP ↗
- Who funds EDGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds A Noise Within ↗
- Who funds MAR VISTA FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds RED HEN PRESS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CIVIC EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Tierra del Sol 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: The Ahmanson Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Carrie Estelle Doheny Foundation · The Green Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Thomas & Dorothy Leavey Foundation · Pasadena Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Mark Hughes Foundation · Wm Keck 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 Mara W Breech 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.
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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