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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FLINTRIDGE CENTER | $5,000 |
| DAY ONE | $5,000 |
| PASADENA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $5,000 |
| EL MONTE POLICE DEPT | $2,000 |
| DORIS DANN KIDS CAMPUS | $2,000 |
| INLAND VALLEY HOPE PARTNERS | $500 |
| OUR SAVIOUR CENTER | $500 |
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 (FY20–21, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 75% 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 +32% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2023, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- FCFlintridge Center3× · 2021–2023 · $11k · revenue +50%
- DODAY ONE2× · 2022–2023 · $10k · revenue +70%
- GPGOD PROVIDES MINISTRY2× · 2020–2021 · $1k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- PCPASADENA COMMUNITY COALITIONone grant, 2021 · $3k
- TGTHE GOODEN CENTERone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +2%
- SOSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAULone grant, 2021 · $1k
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 fid group is a not-for-profit that delivers social services to people in the greater pasadena area who are experiencing homelessness, food vulnerabilities, and poverty.
To help families challenged with homelessness and low income achieve sustainable independence through a community-based approach.
City food pantry
The mission of the Candela Group is to bring stability and an improved quality of life to our clients and their loved ones affected by mental illness by uniting them with public and private mental health services Our lived experience as…
We work to end homelessness through housing solutions, supportive services, and connection to community. we advocate for equitable and just systems that ensure all individuals and families will have a safe place they can call home.
To provide temporary shelter and assistance to homeless families, and also to provide rental assistance in an effort to prevent families from becoming homeless. Program goal is to assist the families in their efforts to become…
We enhance the lives of individuals in our community especially our youth and seniors. We focus on building strong relationships and providing essential support services that foster personal growth and community well-being. We primarily…
We build relationships that enhance the development of skills, foster a sense of worth and enhance a belief in each child's individual potential.
Our mission is to provide nutritional meal and food support, food equity programming to local communities and provide infant needs to eradicate infant mortality and abuse rates in LA County and City.
The mission of Wayfinder Family Services is to ensure that children, youth and adults facing challenges always have a place to turn. Founded in 1953 as the Foundation for the Junior Blind, the organization initially enabled visually…
General upkeep of facility for housing
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foothill Family Service and the most unlike its peers is God Provides Ministry. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 33 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 Flintridge Center ↗
- Who funds DAY ONE ↗
- Who funds THE GOODEN CENTER ↗
- Who funds Foothill Family Service ↗
- Who funds GOD PROVIDES MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds POMONA HOPE ↗
- Who funds Pasadena Police Foundation ↗
- Who funds CORONA-NORCO SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds PASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CORONA NORCO UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds Pasadena Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds ABILITYFIRST ↗
- Who funds DOOR OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds DESTROY DUCHENNE ↗
- Who funds Corona Chamber of Commerce ↗
- Who funds PEPPERMINT RIDGE ↗
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 · 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
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 New Discovery 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.