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New Discovery Foundation at a glance

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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
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% 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
02FY2023 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$20k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PASADENA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$5,000
DAY ONE$5,000
FLINTRIDGE CENTER$5,000
DORIS DANN KIDS CAMPUS$2,000
EL MONTE POLICE DEPT$2,000
OUR SAVIOUR CENTER$500
INLAND VALLEY HOPE PARTNERS$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%PEPPERMINT RIDGE: $500 → 11%FOOTHILL FAMILY: $500 → 14%FOOTHILL FAMILY: $500 → 14%ABILITYFIRST: $500 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$56k · 16 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +2% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
15

Total granted

$56k
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+2%

Still filing today

31%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
PhilanthropyHuman ServicesHealthFood & NutritionEducationOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • FC
    Flintridge Center
    3× · 2021–2023 · $11k · revenue +50%
  • DO
    DAY ONE
    2× · 2022–2023 · $10k · revenue +70%
  • GP
    GOD PROVIDES MINISTRY
    2× · 2020–2021 · $1k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • PC
    PASADENA COMMUNITY COALITION
    one grant, 2021 · $3k
  • TG
    THE GOODEN CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +2%
  • SO
    SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL
    one grant, 2021 · $1k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Fid Group Friends in Deed

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.

Religion
2
Family Promise of San Gabriel Valley

To help families challenged with homelessness and low income achieve sustainable independence through a community-based approach.

Human Services
3
Pasadena Community Ministries Inc

City food pantry

Human Services
4
Candela Group

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…

Health
5
Oxnard Homeless Prevntion
Human Services
6
Union Station Homeless Services

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.

Human Services
7
Family Promise of Sacramento

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…

Education
8
Dorothys Daugther

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…

Human Services
9
La Paloma Family Services Inc

We build relationships that enhance the development of skills, foster a sense of worth and enhance a belief in each child's individual potential.

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10
Open Arms Food Pantry & Resource Center

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.

Food & Nutrition
11
Wayfinder Family Services

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…

Human Services
12
Positive Outlook Housing Corp

General upkeep of facility for housing

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foothill Family Service; 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.
04the grantee network

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
11/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PASADENA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $10,500 · OtherPASADENA CHAMBER OF COMMERCEDAY ONE: $10,000 · OtherDAY ONEEL MONTE POLICE DEPT: $6,000 · OtherEL MONTE POLICE DEPTELIZABETH HOUSE: $5,500 · OtherELIZABETH HOUSEPASADENA COMMUNITY COALITION: $2,500 · OtherDORRIS DANN KIDS CAMPUS: $2,000 · OtherDORIS DANN KIDS CAMPUS: $2,000 · Other+15 more: $12,500 · Other+15 moreFlintridge Center: $10,500 · PhilanthropyFlintridge CenterPASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $500 · PhilanthropyCORONA NORCO UNITED WAY: $500 · PhilanthropyPasadena Community Foundation: $500 · PhilanthropyTHE GOODEN CENTER: $1,500 · HealthDESTROY DUCHENNE: $500 · HealthFoothill Family Service: $1,000 · Human ServicesABILITYFIRST: $500 · Human ServicesPEPPERMINT RIDGE: $500 · Human ServicesGOD PROVIDES MINISTRY: $1,000 · Food & NutritionPOMONA HOPE: $1,000 · Education
Other$51,000Philanthropy$12,000Health$2,000Human Services$2,000Food & Nutrition$1,000Education$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetPasadena Community Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization New Discovery Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from New Discovery Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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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