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Morley Builders 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.

$20k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$19k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Housing & Shelter$41kYouth Development$26kHealth$12kHuman Services$11kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kFood & Nutrition$5kRecreation & Sports$5kPhilanthropy$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $500
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $19k
$19,150
Median grant
1
States reached
$121k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER$19,150
COMPTON JUNIOR EQUESTRIANS$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 (FY17–24, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $19k → 14%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $10k → 11%THE ELI HOME: $500 → 10%Povertees: $500 → 10%Venice Parents Daycare and Preschool: $1k → 14%JENESSE CENTER INC: $500 → 14%JENESSE CENTER INC: $500 → 14%JENESSE CENTER INC: $500 → 14%Jenesse Center Inc: $500 → 14%STEP UP ON SECOND STREET: $500 → 14%PATH: $500 → 14%PATH: $500 → 14%PATH: $500 → 14%American Red Cross: $3k → 14%STEP UP ON SECOND: $250 → 14%CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE: $500 → 14%MEALS-ON-WHEELS-WEST: $1k → 14%MEALS-ON-WHEELS-WEST: $500 → 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

WA
NY
MA
CA
KY
VA
MD
KS
DC

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.

43%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$63k · 19 repeat orgs$84k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +78% since the first grant, against +49% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
60

Total granted

$63k
$84k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+78%
+49%

Still filing today

79%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsArts & CultureOther

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

  • DW
    DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER
    2× · 2023–2024 · $29k · revenue +27%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    2× · 2017–2023 · $8k · revenue +46%
  • EN
    EL NIDO FAMILY CENTERS
    4× · 2017–2020 · $2k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
  • HF
    Habitat for Humanity-LA
    one grant, 2017 · $5k

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
West Hollywood Community Housing Corp

The organization develops and operates high quality affordable housing and provides resident services for low-income families, seniors and people with special needs.

Housing & Shelter
2
Housing Works

Our mission is to create housing and service options that model, with respect and dignity, sustainable, environmentally sensitive, affordable communities for people of limited resources.

Housing & Shelter
3
South Central Family Health Center

To improve the quality of life for the diverse communities we serve providing affordable and comprehensive healthcare and education in a welcoming multi-cultural environment.

Health
4
Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.

Health
5
Westcare California Inc

To provide substance abuse prevention & treatment.

Health
6
United Friends of the Children

United friends of the children empowers current and former foster youth on their journey to self-sufficiency through service-enriched education and housing programs, advocacy and consistent relationships with a community of people who care.

Human Services
7
Waymakers

Waymakers builds safer communities by helping individuals make their way through conflict and crisis to a place of strength and stability. we redirect youthful offenders, stabilize children dealing with mental health concerns, counsel…

Crime & Legal
8
Vip Community Mental Health Center Inc

Intervening to protect and treat all victims of violence

Health
9
Mercy House Living Centers

Mercy house's most significant exempt activities focus on ending homelessness and providing comprehensive housing and support services. the organization offers homeless prevention, rapid rehousing, permanent supportive housing, and…

Housing & Shelter
10
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
11
West Valley Community Services of Santa Clara County Inc

Our mission is to unite the community to fight hunger and homelessness. our vision is a community where every person has food on the table and every person has a roof over their head.

Housing & Shelter
12
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. 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 30 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%2%<5yr16%7%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr17%29%20–35yr10%27%35–55yr12%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%2%<5yr16%4%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr17%15%20–35yr10%52%35–55yr12%16%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/58
the rest of the field
15%
12,085/79,817

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

55 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. 55 of the 82 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)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/55
Grantees still filing
47/55
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHabitat for Humanity-LA — $5,000 · OtherHabitat for Humanity-LAIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+38 more — $32,900 · Other+38 moreDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER — $29,150 · Human ServicesDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTERAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $7,500 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its…Jenesse Center Inc — $2,000 · Human Services+8 more — $6,500 · Human Services+8 moreWESTSIDE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER — $2,000 · HealthEPILEPSY SUPPORT NETWORK OF ORANGE COUNTY — $1,500 · HealthVENICE FAMILY CLINIC — $1,500 · HealthWISE AND HEALTHY AGING — $1,000 · HealthORGANIZATION FOR AUTISM RESEARCH — $1,000 · HealthCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $500 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $500 · Health+1 more — $200 · HealthCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $2,500 · PhilanthropyENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION — $1,000 · PhilanthropyVENICE FAMILY CLINIC FOUNDATION — $750 · PhilanthropyFlintridge Center — $500 · PhilanthropyMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION — $500 · PhilanthropySKID ROW HOUSING TRUST — $500 · PhilanthropyTHE WEST COAST CARE FOUNDATION INC — $500 · Philanthropy+1 more — $100 · PhilanthropyREACH CENTER — $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC — $500 · Youth DevelopmentHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES — $500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA MONICA INC — $500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF VENICE — $500 · Youth DevelopmentThe Blue Heart Foundation — $500 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG STORYTELLERS — $500 · Youth DevelopmentTyler Skaggs Foundation — $2,500 · Recreation & SportsLegacy Connections — $1,000 · Recreation & SportsCOMPTON JUNIOR EQUESTRIANS — $500 · Recreation & SportsA WINDOW BETWEEN WORLDS — $2,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF FLYING — $1,000 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION — $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$77,900Human Services$45,150Health$8,200Philanthropy$6,350Youth Development$5,500Recreation & Sports$4,000Arts & Culture$4,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER — $29,150 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTyler Skaggs Foundation — $2,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetREACH CENTER — $2,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetEL NIDO FAMILY CENTERS — $2,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWESTSIDE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER — $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJenesse Center Inc — $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetA WINDOW BETWEEN WORLDS — $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEPILEPSY SUPPORT NETWORK OF ORANGE COUNTY — $1,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPATH — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVENICE FAMILY CLINIC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS WEST — $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVENICE COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION — $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVENICE PARENTS DAYCARE AND PRESCHOOL DBA DIG CHILDHOOD CENTER — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLegacy Connections — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWISE AND HEALTHY AGING — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTSIDE COALITION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORGANIZATION FOR AUTISM RESEARCH — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION GRATITUDE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA COMMUNITY OF FRIENDS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTALLER SAN JOSE HOPE BUILDERS — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC — $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVENICE FAMILY CLINIC FOUNDATION — $750 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA MONICA POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE — $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ELI HOME INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA MONICA INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF VENICE — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSKID ROW HOUSING TRUST — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WEST COAST CARE FOUNDATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG STORYTELLERS — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWISEBURN EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRESIDENCY — $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDisabled American Veterans — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S SAN DIEGO — $200 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.

The Ralph M Parsons F…California Community …Weingart FoundationThe Rose Hills Founda…United Way IncLiberty Hill Foundati…Cedars-Sinai Medical …Kaiser Foundation Hos…Kiwanis Charities of …The Annenberg Foundat…Elbridge Stuart Found…The Ahmanson Foundati…
The Ralph M Parsons FoundationCA35.1× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · California Community Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · United Way Inc · Liberty Hill Foundation · Cedars-Sinai Medical Center · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Kiwanis Charities of Santa Monica Inc · The Annenberg Foundation · Elbridge Stuart Foundation Dba Stuart Foundation · The Ahmanson 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 Morley Builders 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 · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Morley Builders Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Morley Builders Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 82 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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