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Marshall and Margherite McComb Foundation

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.

$810k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$225k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Health$1.2MEducation$1.1MArts & Culture$541kReligion$356kCommunity Improvement$300kYouth Development$195kSocial Science$110kFood & Nutrition$100kOther$0
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $210k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $575k
$25,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MARYCREST MANOR$225,000
Proyetco Pastoral$100,000
ST Monica Catholic Community$100,000
BELOVED ASHEVILLE$50,000
18TH Street Arts Center$50,000
CRI-HELP INC$50,000
Mesa Independent Living$25,000
UC REGENTS JEFFREY SUH'S FUND$25,000
UCLA HEALTH DIVISION OF PULMONARY$25,000
Creative Visions Foundation$25,000
Angel Flight West Inc$25,000
Vermont Studio Center$25,000
UNITED STATES ADULT CYSTIC FIBROSIS ASSOCIATION$20,000
The Center for Action and Contemplation$20,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
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 (FY20–24, $325k) 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.

area typical 10%ASIAN YOUTH CENTER: $25k → 14%Proyetco Pastoral: $150k → 14%Proyetco Pastoral: $100k → 14%Proyetco Pastoral: $50k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

VT
NH
NY
MA
OR
SD
RI
CA
CO
MD
NM
NC
FL

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.6M · 29 repeat orgs$582k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.

29 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
19

Total granted

$3.6M
$397k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
-4%

Still filing today

79%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $185k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentPublic BenefitOther

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

  • MM
    MARYCREST MANOR
    6× · 2019–2024 · $425k · revenue +30%
  • PW
    PASADENA WALDORF SCHOOL
    3× · 2019–2022 · $400k · revenue +117%
  • 1S
    18TH STREET ARTS COMPLEX
    5× · 2020–2024 · $190k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • SC
    SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -4%
  • AO
    ALLIANCE OF ARTISTS COMMUNITIES ARCATHENS
    one grant, 2019 · $40k
  • CV
    CREATIVE VISIONS
    one grant, 2020 · $25k

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
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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2
University of Southern California

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…

Education
3
Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles

Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles (Carla) is a Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization and publishing platform that is dedicated to providing inclusive perspectives on contemporary art. Publishing in both print and online, Carla is an…

Arts & Culture
4
California Institute of Integral Studies

Ciis is an institution of higher education that encourages an interdisciplinary approach to learning. over 1,700 students are enrolled in masters, doctoral, bachelor of arts completion programs, and certifications. ours is a mosaic of…

Education
5
California College of the Arts

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…

Education
6
California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy

To harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…

Health
7
California Institute of the Arts

Calarts is a multidisciplinary community of artists. our ongoing educational endeavor is grounded in openness, experimentation, critical engagement, and creative freedom. through artistic practice, we transform ourselves, each other, and…

Arts & Culture
8
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
9
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
10
California Lutheran University

The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.

Education
11
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
12
Vermont College of Fine Arts Inc

Vcfa is a global community of artists continually redefining what it means to be an arts college. we measure our success by our ability to foster the excellence of emerging and established practitioners. we believe that the arts are…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Mayor's Fund for Los Angeles and the most unlike its peers is Access Books. 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 backsteadySenior Support ServicesCommunity FoundationsAddiction Recovery ServicesCommunity Arts CentersDevelopmental Disabilities …Cancer Support ServicesEnvironmental Conservation …Elementary Literacy TutoringOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Food Banks and PantriesIndependent K-12 Schools
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 32 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%2%<5yr15%10%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr17%24%20–35yr11%26%35–55yr13%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%7%<5yr15%3%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr17%12%20–35yr11%36%35–55yr13%27%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/42
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,936

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

39 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 39 of the 55 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/39
Grantees still filing
17/39
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PASADENA WALDORF SCHOOL — $400,000 · OtherPASADENA WALDORF SCHOOLST MONICAS CATHOLIC CHURCH — $275,000 · OtherST MONICAS CATHOLIC CHURCHUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES — $275,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELESPORTSMOUTH ABBEY SCHOOL — $140,000 · OtherPORTSMOUTH ABBEY SCHOOLVERMONT STUDIO CENTER INC — $125,000 · OtherVERMONT STUDIO CENTER INCUC REGENTS JEFFREY SUH'S FUND — $125,000 · OtherUC REGENTS JEFFREY SUH'S FUNDOREGON INSTITUTE FOR CREATIVE RESEARCH — $100,000 · OtherUNITED STATES ADULT CYSTIC FIBROSIS ASSOCIATION — $100,000 · OtherHOLLYWOOD FOOD COALITION — $100,000 · Other+20 more — $566,000 · Other+20 moreMARYCREST MANOR — $425,000 · HealthMARYCREST MANORANGEL FLIGHT WEST INC — $50,000 · HealthANGEL FLIGHT WE…CLAREMATRIX — $25,000 · HealthMARION WOODMAN FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · HealthBETTERHUMANS INC — $20,000 · HealthNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH — $20,000 · Health+2 more — $10,000 · HealthWESTSIDE WALDORF SCHOOL — $245,000 · EducationWESTSIDE WALD…MOUNT SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY — $150,000 · EducationMOUNT SAINT M…SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE — $50,000 · EducationSOUTHERN CALI…THE RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR WALDORF EDUCATION INC — $30,000 · EducationTHE RESEARCH …ACCESS BOOKS — $20,000 · Education18TH STREET ARTS COMPLEX — $190,000 · Arts & Culture18TH STREE…Art Division — $75,000 · Arts & CultureArt Divisi…CENTER FOR ACTION AND CONTEMPLATION — $40,000 · Arts & CultureCENTER FOR…CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Arts & CultureCREATIVE V…SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO — $20,000 · Arts & CultureProject X Foundation for Art and Criticism — $20,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $10,906 · Arts & CultureProyecto Pastoral — $300,000 · Human ServicesProyecto …ASIAN YOUTH CENTER — $25,000 · Human ServicesASIAN YOU…MESA INDEPENDENT LIVING — $25,000 · Human ServicesMESA INDE…HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES — $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentSOUNDS TRUE FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Public Benefit
Other$2,206,000Health$570,000Education$495,000Arts & Culture$380,906Human Services$350,000Youth Development$150,000Public Benefit$50,000

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 budgetMARYCREST MANOR — $425,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetPASADENA WALDORF SCHOOL — $400,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetProyecto Pastoral — $300,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetWESTSIDE WALDORF SCHOOL — $245,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budget18TH STREET ARTS COMPLEX — $190,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES — $150,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMOUNT SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY — $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVERMONT STUDIO CENTER INC — $125,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetOREGON INSTITUTE FOR CREATIVE RESEARCH — $100,000 over 4y, 65% of budgetUNITED STATES ADULT CYSTIC FIBROSIS ASSOCIATION — $100,000 over 5y, 25% of budgetHOLLYWOOD FOOD COALITION — $100,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetArt Division — $75,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetMUSIC MENDS MINDS INC — $60,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetSOUNDS TRUE FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetBELOVED ASHEVILLE — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetANGEL FLIGHT WEST INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCRI-HELP INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR ACTION AND CONTEMPLATION — $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWESTRIDGE SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFREEDOM FOR GREAT APES INC — $40,000 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetTHE RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR WALDORF EDUCATION INC — $30,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetASIAN YOUTH CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMESA INDEPENDENT LIVING — $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCLAREMATRIX — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARION WOODMAN FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 74% of budgetACCESS BOOKS — $20,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetBETTERHUMANS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetA PLACE CALLED HOME — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProject X Foundation for Art and Criticism — $20,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetSOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF MYTH AND TRADITION INC — $15,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetANYONE CORPORATION — $10,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetBOOMER ESIASON FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGENERAL SERVICE BOARD OF ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC — $906 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

California Community …The Ahmanson Foundati…The Ralph M Parsons F…Willametta K Day Foun…The Beall Family Foun…Klm FoundationWeingart FoundationRsf Social Finance IncThe Annenberg Foundat…Greater HorizonsSempra FoundationThe Ayco Charitable F…
California Community FoundationCA27.3× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Willametta K Day Foundation · The Beall Family Foundation · Klm Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Rsf Social Finance Inc · The Annenberg Foundation · Greater Horizons · Sempra Foundation · The Ayco Charitable 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 Marshall and Margherite McComb 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Vermont Studio Center Inc — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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 55 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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