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New Discovery 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 FY2023
7
Grants FY2023
7
Organizations funded FY2023
14%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 30
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$20k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 14% of the organizations New Discovery Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
PhilanthropyHealthHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20237$20k14%
FY20224$20k25%
FY202130$21k60%
FY202012$8kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.

Community Improvement$14kPhilanthropy$12kYouth Development$11kEducation$8kPublic Safety & Disaster$7kHousing & Shelter$6kHuman Services$5kHealth$4kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Flintridge Center$10,50030%
Day One$10,00020%
Pasadena Community Coalition$2,5001n/a
Inland Valley Council of Churches$1,5003n/a
The Gooden Center$1,50010%
Foothill Family Service$1,00020%
Learn$1,0002n/a
God Provides Ministry$1,00020%
Pomona Hope$1,00020%
Pasadena Police Foundation$50010%
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All grantees of New Discovery Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Flintridge Center$10,50030%
Day One$10,00020%
Pasadena Community Coalition$2,5001n/a
Inland Valley Council of Churches$1,5003n/a
The Gooden Center$1,50010%
Foothill Family Service$1,00020%
Learn$1,0002n/a
God Provides Ministry$1,00020%
Pomona Hope$1,00020%
Pasadena Police Foundation$50010%
Corona-Norco Settlement House Inc$50010%
City Net$5001n/a
Pasadena Educational Foundation$50010%
Corona Norco United Way$50010%
Abilityfirst$50010%
Door of Hope$50010%
Destroy Duchenne$50012%
Corona Chamber of Commerce$50010%
Peppermint Ridge$50010%

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($34k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget New Discovery Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFlintridge Center: $10,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDay One: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Gooden Center: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFoothill Family Service: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGod Provides Ministry: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPomona Hope: $1,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPasadena Police Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCorona-Norco Settlement House Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPasadena Educational Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCorona Norco United Way: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAbilityfirst: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDoor of Hope: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDestroy Duchenne: $500 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCorona Chamber of Commerce: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPeppermint Ridge: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

California Community …Inland Empire Communi…Pasadena Community Fo…Weingart FoundationSempra FoundationThe Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
California Community FoundationCA17.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Inland Empire Community Foundation · Pasadena Community Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About New Discovery Foundation

How much does New Discovery Foundation give?
New Discovery Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $20,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 30 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does New Discovery Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2023, its largest causes are Community Improvement (20%), Philanthropy (17%), Youth Development (16%).
Who are New Discovery Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2023: Flintridge Center ($11k), Day One ($10k), Pasadena Community Coalition ($3k).
Does New Discovery Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does New Discovery Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as New Discovery Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, Inland Empire Community Foundation, Pasadena Community Foundation.
Where is New Discovery Foundation based?
New Discovery Foundation is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 33 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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