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Pfaffinger Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k25 grants · $957k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $558k
- $250k+4 grants · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $643,975 |
| Individual grant recipient | $407,209 |
| Individual grant recipient | $383,651 |
| Individual grant recipient | $305,928 |
| Individual grant recipient | $178,088 |
| Individual grant recipient | $173,590 |
| Individual grant recipient | $111,342 |
| FAMILY SELF SUFFICIENCY PROGRAM | $94,888 |
| INDIVIDUAL ASSISTANCE-HOLIDAY GIFTS | $44,000 |
| ALL PEOPLES COMMUNITY CENTER | $40,000 |
| LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK | $40,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF LONG BEACH | $40,000 |
| SAFE PARKING LA | $40,000 |
| CHRYSALIS CENTER | $40,000 |
| UPWARD BOUND HOUSE | $40,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% 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 +96% since the first grant, against +46% for the ones you funded once.
57 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 2 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k 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
- DWDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER6× · 2017–2024 · $215k · revenue +285%
- HYHelpline Youth Counseling Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $195k · revenue +201%
- LALOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK7× · 2017–2024 · $190k · revenue +205%
Funded once
- IAINDIVIDUAL ASSISTANCE-REST AND CONVone grant, 2017 · $360k
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $210k · revenue +46%
- IAINDIVIDUAL ASSISTANCE-RETIREES MONTone grant, 2017 · $197k
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.
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.
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…
Community organizing, education, advocacy, leadership development, direct services and organizational development for communities faced with immense poverty.
Jfsla's mission is to provide life-improving services that help the people of los angeles live with dignity and exercise self-determination. we believe in and strive for a more compassionate los angeles where no one has to navigate life…
Lafh permanent housing corp. i (casa central) has been established to own a 6-unit complex located in los angeles, california, which provides permanent housing for families with low income.
Neighborhood housing services of los angeles county (nhs) serves as a catalyst for local residents, business and government representatives to work together to build stronger neighborhoods, improve the quality of life for families of…
South central los angeles regional center, (sclarc), believes special needs deserve special attention. we are committed to the provision of culturally sensitive services which enhance the inherent strengths of the family and enable…
The organization develops and operates high quality affordable housing and provides resident services for low-income families, seniors and people with special needs.
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.
Family promise of the south bay assists families experiencing housing insecurity with short-term shelter, case management, and navigation with the goal of creating a sustainable solution for their family.
Hollywood food coalition welcomes people to dinner each night. we rescue and redistribute food daily to other organizations. we care for our immediate community through our wellness program. we build community with and through our…
The fair housing foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to the elimination of discrimination in housing and promoting equal access to housing choices for everyone.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Families Forward and the most unlike its peers is 8 Ball Emergency Fund for Journalists. 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 41 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
53 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. 53 of the 86 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 DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Helpline Youth Counseling Inc ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES ↗
- Who funds Jenesse Center Inc ↗
- Who funds CHRYSALIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds MEND - Meet Each Need With Dignity ↗
- Who funds PARA LOS NINOS ↗
- Who funds UPWARD BOUND HOUSE ↗
- Who funds JVS SOCAL ↗
- Who funds ONEGENERATION ↗
- Who funds One Voice ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH CENTER ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY CONSERVATION CORPS ↗
- Who funds MAPS Charities ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR RESPONSIBLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds ST BARNABAS SENIOR CENTER OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds YOUNG & HEALTHY ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FORWARD ↗
- Who funds UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES ↗
- Who funds LTSC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds DOOR OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels of Long Beach 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: The Rose Hills Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · United Way Inc · S Mark Taper Foundation · The Green Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Cedars-Sinai Medical Center · Shelter Partnership 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 Pfaffinger 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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