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Matt & Judy Cullen 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $92k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $142k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 5ROCK RANCH | $82,000 |
| LONG BEACH RESCUE MISSION | $60,081 |
| ST JOSEPH CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $42,500 |
| FUEL RELIEF FUND | $23,380 |
| CARE CLOSET LBC | $15,000 |
| LONG BEACH RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $11,000 |
| TOGETHER IN MISSION | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF LONG BEACH | $5,000 |
| LONG BEACH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $2,750 |
| LOS ANGELES RESCUE MISSION | $2,530 |
| WBALB | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,250 |
| FOR THE NEED FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $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 (FY21–24, $63k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.
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 +104% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- LBLONG BEACH RESCUE MISSION3× · 2022–2024 · $93k · revenue +104%
- FRFUEL RELIEF FUND2× · 2023–2024 · $30k · revenue +203%
- CCCARE CLOSET LBC4× · 2021–2024 · $28k · revenue +410%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $5k
- AHASHLEES HOMELESS FUNDone grant, 2021 · $3k
- SOSCHOOL ON WHEELS INCone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +11%
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 long beach public library foundation provides support to enhance the long beach public library and encourages literacy and education for all members of the community.
Advocacy for a strong library system in Long Beach
Books from Birth provides free books to impoverished children in Texas's Brazos Valley in order to boost early literacy skills and narrow the opportunity gap for underprivileged children before they enter school.
Street Books is a street library that provides community resources and advocacy for people living outside or at the margins in Portland Oregon. We cultivate mutual relationships rooted in dignity and autonomy by showing up every week year…
Book harvest provides books to children who need them and engages families and communities to promote children's lifelong literacy and academic success.
Between the pages empowers children to discover a life-long love of reading using books as tools to immerse economically disadvantaged and avid readers in an engaging recreation of their favorite books, fostering literacy, creative play,…
Student LunchBox, Inc. (SLB) is a charitable organization established in 2020 to empower college excellence through comprehensive basic needs support. Using innovative resource recovery initiatives, SLB addresses food insecurity and hunger…
To create a healthy long beach with low-income communities of color by building community knowledge, leadership, and power.
To collect books and distribute them to less privileged children.
We are a catalyst that informs, activates, and connects community leaders to more meaningfully serve Long Beach.
To improve academic and personal success for at-promise youth through collaboration and innovative approaches to mentoring and learning.
The mission of the organization is to own the south campus of l.a. family housing, a real estate property leased to l.a. family housing for the purpose of operatingtwo essential programs: bridge housing (bh) and the family solutions center…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Long Beach Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Ashlees Homeless Fund. 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 25 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 LONG BEACH RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds FUEL RELIEF FUND ↗
- Who funds CARE CLOSET LBC ↗
- Who funds Assistance League of Long Beach ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LONG BEACH ↗
- Who funds LONG BEACH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOR THE NEED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASHLEES HOMELESS FUND ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds PAGE AHEAD CHILDRENS LITERACY PRGM ↗
- Who funds Make Way For Books ↗
- Who funds NEWCOMB ACADEMY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FERST READERS INC ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
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: California Community Foundation · Keesal Young & Logan Charitable Foundation · Earl B & Loraine H Miller Foundation · The Rudolph J & Daphne a Munzer Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Network for Good · Charities Aid Foundation America · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Matt & Judy Cullen 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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