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Marian & Pinkus Happ Fund

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.

$65k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
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 FY2019–2025.

Human Services$247kHealth$109kEducation$40kArts & Culture$30kFood & Nutrition$15kPublic Safety & Disaster$12kYouth Development$5kRecreation & Sports$5k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
$8,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS ANGELES$10,000
MCKINLEY CHILDRENS CENTER INC$10,000
LOVE MORE$10,000
BLIND CHILDRENS CENTER INC$10,000
GIANT STEPS THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTE$8,000
THREE STARLINGS FOUNDATION$5,000
KIDS ENJOY EXERCISE NOW$5,000
NORTH COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC$4,500
WE CARE SERVICES FOR CHILDREN$2,500
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 (FY19–25, $233k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WE CARE SERVICES FOR CHILDREN: $3k → 9%VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 14%YOLO CRISIS NURSERY INC: $10k → 16%VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 14%CATERINAS CLUB: $10k → 10%NORTH COUNTY LIFELINE INC: $8k → 11%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS ANGELES: $10k → 14%WAYFINDER FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 14%WAYFINDER FAMILY SERVICES: $8k → 14%WAYFINDER FAMILY SERVICES: $8k → 14%WAYFINDER FAMILY SERVICES: $8k → 14%HOMELESS NOT TOOTHLESS: $10k → 14%HOMELESS NOT TOOTHLESS: $10k → 14%HOMELESS NOT TOOTHLESS: $6k → 14%ST ANNES MATERNITY HOME: $15k → 14%ST ANNE'S FAMILY SERVICES: $15k → 14%ST ANNE'S MATERNITY HOME: $5k → 14%ABILITYFIRST: $10k → 14%ABILITYFIRST: $10k → 14%ABILITYFIRST: $10k → 14%ABILITYFIRST: $10k → 14%HELPING HANDS SOCIETY OF LOS ANGELES: $10k → 14%ABILITYFIRST: $10k → 14%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS ANGELES: $10k → 14%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS ANGELES: $10k → 14%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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$275k · 10 repeat orgs$189k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
18

Total granted

$275k
$154k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+70%

Still filing today

90%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • MC
    McKinley Children's Center Inc
    4× · 2019–2025 · $35k · revenue +117%
  • SA
    St Anne's Family Services
    3× · 2019–2024 · $35k · revenue +63%
  • WF
    Wayfinder Family Services
    4× · 2019–2024 · $33k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • SP
    SAFE - PROJECT US
    one grant, 2023 · $12k
  • CK
    CONGA KIDSgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +472%
  • CC
    CATERINAS CLUB
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -5%

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
Allies for Every Child Inc

All children need a childhood. Allies for Every Child brings together and strengthens families, cultivating conditions for children to succeed in life. (Continues on Schedule O)

Human Services
2
All About Kids La
Philanthropy
3
Child Lane

Child lane provides care in an environment where play is valued and children are supported to reach their full potential.

Human Services
4
Children's Council of San Francisco

By advocating for quality early care and education, empowering families with information and financial support, and building the capabilities of educators, Children's Council of San Francisco ensures that every child in San Francisco has…

Human Services
5
Nuevo Amanecer Latino Children's Services

Our mission is to provide our children and families with love, education and family based concurrent services. We feel honored to have served more than 20,176 children and youth during our 31 years of service.

Human Services
6
Quality Childrens Services

QCS provides early childhood development and childcare program services to children from underserved and disadvantaged families. The programs are funded by various governmental entities and are located in the counties of Los Angeles Madera…

Human Services
7
Bayfront Youth and Family Services Inc

Bayfront Youth & Family Services is a quality provider of behavioral and mental health treatment services for children, adolescents, and their caregivers. Our mission is to provide a comprehensive support system that promotes safe and…

Health
8
Family Care Network Inc

The mission of the Family Care Network is to enhance the wellbeing of children, adults, and families in partnership with our community.

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9
California Alliance of Caregivers

California Alliance of Caregivers represents the voices of relative and non-relative caregivers to promote the well-being of children in foster care. California Alliance of Caregivers provides training information support and advocacy for…

Health
10
Wellnest Emotional Health & Wellness

Through a holistic approach to emotional well-being, Wellnest offers hope, healing, and opportunity to the children, young adults, families, and communities we serve. Our commitment remains steadfast as we enter our second century of…

Human Services
11
Childrens Center At Caltech

The center is a non-profit organization providing quality early education and care for infants, toddlers and preschool age children for the caltech and pasadena communities. caring, nurturing educators staff this outstanding program. the…

Human Services
12
Ettie Lee Homes Inc dba Ettie Lee Youth and Family Services

Ettie Lee Youth & Family Services ("Ettie Lee") operates residential care facilities, a network of treatment foster homes, a substance abuse treatment program and provides an array of mental health services for young people and their…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is We Care Services for Children and the most unlike its peers is Wayfinder Family Services. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyIndependent and Charter Sch…Youth & Family Support Serv…Healthcare Institutions and…University Foundation Suppo…Youth Sports ProgramsPerforming Arts Organizatio…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 28 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%3%<5yr16%10%5–10yr20%23%10–20yr17%26%20–35yr10%7%35–55yr12%32%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%1%<5yr16%6%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr17%30%20–35yr10%6%35–55yr12%45%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/31
the rest of the field
15%
12,086/79,844

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

31 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. 31 of the 34 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/31
Grantees still filing
21/31
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ABILITYFIRST — $50,000 · Human ServicesABILITYFIRSTSt Anne's Family Services — $35,000 · Human ServicesSt Anne's Family ServicesWayfinder Family Services — $32,500 · Human ServicesWayfinder Family ServicesASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS ANGELES — $29,500 · Human ServicesASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS ANGELESHOMELESS NOT TOOTHLESS — $26,250 · Human ServicesHOMELESS NOT TOOTHLESSVISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES — $20,000 · Human ServicesVISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICESCATERINAS CLUB — $10,000 · Human ServicesYolo Crisis Nursery — $10,000 · Human ServicesHelping Hands Society of Los Angeles — $10,000 · Human Services+3 more — $16,500 · Human Services+3 moreMcKinley Children's Center Inc — $35,000 · HealthMcKinley Childre…UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOC OF OC — $10,000 · HealthUNITED CEREBRAL …OUR HOUSE GRIEF SUPPORT CENTER — $10,000 · HealthOUR HOUSE GRIEF …Giant Steps Therapeutic Equestrian Center Inc — $8,000 · HealthGiant Steps Ther…Children's Hospital Los Angeles — $5,000 · HealthChildren's Hospi…The Blind Childrens Center Inc — $20,000 · EducationThe Blind…EDUCATING STUDENTS TOGETHER INC — $10,000 · EducationEDUCATING…ECHOES OF HOPE — $5,000 · EducationECHOES OF…North County Education Foundation Inc — $4,500 · EducationNorth Cou…SAFE - PROJECT US — $12,000 · OtherSAFE - PROJE…COMMUNITY HOSPITAL OF CENTRAL — $10,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY HO…AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS — $10,000 · OtherAMERICAN ACA…KIDS ENJOY EXERCISE NOW LOS ANGELES CO DENTONS — $5,000 · OtherKIDS ENJOY E…JEWISH BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES — $5,000 · OtherJEWISH BIG B…THREE STARLINGS FOUNDATION — $5,000 · OtherTHREE STARLI…FEEDING SAN DIEGO — $5,000 · OtherFEEDING SAN …CONGA KIDS — $10,000 · Arts & CultureSAN PEDRO CITY BALLET — $10,000 · Arts & CultureCLASSICS FOR KIDS INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureCalifornia Aquatic Therapy & Wellness Center Inc — $16,250 · Recreation & SportsTOGETHER WE RISE — $7,500 · Recreation & SportsLOVE MORE — $10,000 · Community Improvement
Human Services$239,750Health$68,000Education$39,500Other$52,000Arts & Culture$30,000Recreation & Sports$23,750Community Improvement$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetABILITYFIRST — $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMcKinley Children's Center Inc — $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSt Anne's Family Services — $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWayfinder Family Services — $32,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS ANGELES — $29,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHOMELESS NOT TOOTHLESS — $26,250 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetVISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Blind Childrens Center Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCalifornia Aquatic Therapy & Wellness Center Inc — $16,250 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetCONGA KIDS — $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCATERINAS CLUB — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYolo Crisis Nursery — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEDUCATING STUDENTS TOGETHER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOC OF OC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAN PEDRO CITY BALLET — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetOUR HOUSE GRIEF SUPPORT CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHelping Hands Society of Los Angeles — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCLASSICS FOR KIDS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetGiant Steps Therapeutic Equestrian Center Inc — $8,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNORTH COUNTY LIFELINE INC DBA LIFELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTOGETHER WE RISE — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF CONEJO VALLEY — $6,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHREE STARLINGS FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING SAN DIEGO — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetECHOES OF HOPE — $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetJEWISH BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNorth County Education Foundation Inc — $4,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWe Care Services For Children — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Goodwin Family Memori…Henry L Guenther Foun…The Ahmanson Foundati…California Community …Kaiser Foundation Hos…Thomas & Dorothy Leav…Adams Mastrovich Fam …Carrie Estelle Doheny…S Mark Taper Foundati…The Ralph M Parsons F…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Network for Good
Goodwin Family Memorial TuaMO26.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Goodwin Family Memorial Tua · Henry L Guenther Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · California Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Thomas & Dorothy Leavey Foundation · Adams Mastrovich Fam Fdn · Carrie Estelle Doheny Foundation · S Mark Taper Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Network for Good

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 Marian & Pinkus Happ Fund 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%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 34 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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