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Marilyn J Degroot Charitable Trust
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $385k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARILYN DE GROOT CHARITABLE TRUST - DONOR ADVISED FUND (FIDELITY) | $250,000 |
| PROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN COLLEGE | $150,000 |
| ONTARIO CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $125,000 |
| MISSION AVIATION FELLOWSHIP | $60,000 |
| SALEM CHRISTIAN HOMES | $50,000 |
| ARMENIAN EVANGELICAL SCHOOLS | $20,000 |
| IMAGINE LA | $10,000 |
| ARMENIAN AMERICAN MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| ARMENIAN MISSIONARY ASSN OF AMERICA | $5,000 |
| LOS ANGELES POLICE RESERVE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $155k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +114% since the first grant, against +105% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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
- PCPROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN COLLEGE8× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +42%
- ILImagine Los Angeles Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $105k · revenue +132%
- HSHARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL3× · 2017–2019 · $25k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- VCVALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $50k
- AUAMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +228%
- MSMARLBOROUGH SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +32%
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.
Los angeles pacific university exists to deliver high quality, accessible christ-centered education to learners everywhere.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Arcadia university's pioneering, global, integrated, liberal arts, and professional learning experience cultivates leaders who are intellectually fearless and uniquely prepared for life and work. our highly regarded, values-based learning…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Ensuring the prosperity and well-being of all armenians.
The mission of the american college of the mediterranean is to provide excellence in international education, inspire intercultural awareness, and prepare students for success in a global community through the study of european and…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
See schedule othe mission of occidental college is to provide a gifted and diverse group of students with a total educational experience of the highest quality - one that prepares them for leadership in an increasingly complex,…
Arizona christian university provides a biblically-integrated, liberal arts education equipping graduates to serve the lord jesus christ in all aspects of life, as leaders of influence and excellence.
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
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…
Ararat charter is committed to educating students to their full potential in an environment that actively engages students in relevant programs and expected school wide learning results and standards.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American University of Armenia Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Imagine Los Angeles Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 26 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 PROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Imagine Los Angeles Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds SALEM CHRISTIAN HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN EVANGELICAL SCHOOLS OF CA INC ↗
- Who funds MARLBOROUGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Armenian American Museum and Cultural Center of California ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES POLICE RESERVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL GIVING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN AUTISM OUTREACH PROJECT ↗
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: Nora Tertzag Hampar Charitable Trust · TF Educational Foundation · George Ignatius Foundation · The Stephen Philibosian Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Marilyn J Degroot Charitable Trust 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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