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Pfaffinger Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
33
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$644k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$13MHealth$6.9MHousing & Shelter$950kReligion$856kEmployment$650kFood & Nutrition$530kCommunity Improvement$335kPublic Safety & Disaster$330kOther$0
02FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k25 grants · $957k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $558k
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.7M
$40,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$91M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
DOWNTOWN WOMENS CENTER$40,000
PARA LOS NINOS$40,000
EPIDAURUS DBA AMITY FOUNDATION$40,000
ALL PEOPLES COMMUNITY CENTER$40,000
JVS SOCAL$40,000
ONEGENERATION$40,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%IMAGINE LA: $30k → 14%IMAGINE LOS ANGELES INC: $25k → 14%IMAGINE LA: $20k → 14%PARA LOS NINOS: $40k → 14%PARA LOS NINOS: $20k → 14%JENESSE CENTER INC: $40k → 14%JENESSE CENTER INC: $40k → 14%JENESSE CENTER: $40k → 14%JENESSE CENTER: $20k → 14%JENESSE CENTER INC: $20k → 14%JENESSE CENTER: $20k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVIC: $30k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $25k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $25k → 14%PARA LOS NINOS: $20k → 14%ALL PEOPLES COMMUNITY CENTER: $40k → 14%MAPS CHARITIES: $40k → 14%MAPS CHARITIES: $30k → 14%MAPS CHARITIES: $20k → 14%MAPS CHARITIES: $20k → 14%AGING NEXT: $15k → 14%MEND - MEET EACH NEED WITH DIGNITY: $40k → 14%MEET EACH NEED WITH DIGNITY: $40k → 14%MEET EACH NEED WITH DIGNITY: $40k → 14%MEET EACH NEED WITH DIGNITY: $40k → 14%MEND-MEET EACH NEED WITH DIGNITY: $15k → 14%ONE VOICE: $40k → 14%ONE VOICE: $40k → 14%ONE VOICE: $30k → 14%ST JOSEPH CENTER: $40k → 14%PARA LOS NINOS: $40k → 14%ST JOSEPH CENTER: $40k → 14%PARA LOS NINOS: $30k → 14%ST JOSEPH CENTER: $25k → 14%PARA LOS NINOS: $20k → 14%ONE VOICE: $20k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN LOS ANGELES: $50k → 14%ST JOSEPH CENTER: $15k → 14%ONE VOICE: $15k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN LOS ANGELES: $25k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $210k → 14%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $50k → 14%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $50k → 14%DOWNTOWN WOMENS CENTER: $40k → 14%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $40k → 14%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $25k → 14%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $20k → 14%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $20k → 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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$23M · 57 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +96% since the first grant, against +46% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
25

Total granted

$23M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+96%
+46%

Still filing today

70%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterEmploymentYouth DevelopmentHealthFood & NutritionOther
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

  • DW
    DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER
    6× · 2017–2024 · $215k · revenue +285%
  • HY
    Helpline Youth Counseling Inc
    7× · 2017–2024 · $195k · revenue +201%
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK
    7× · 2017–2024 · $190k · revenue +315%

Funded once

  • IA
    INDIVIDUAL ASSISTANCE-REST AND CONV
    one grant, 2017 · $360k
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $210k · revenue +46%
  • IA
    INDIVIDUAL ASSISTANCE-RETIREES MONT
    one grant, 2017 · $197k
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
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
2
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
3
Cangress Dba Los Angeles Community Action Network

Community organizing, education, advocacy, leadership development, direct services and organizational development for communities faced with immense poverty.

Community Improvement
4
Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles

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…

Human Services
5
Lafh Permanent Housing Corp

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.

Housing & Shelter
6
Neighborhood Housing Services of Los Angeles County

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…

Housing & Shelter
7
South Central Los Angeles Regional Center for Dev Disabled Persons Inc

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…

Human Services
8
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
9
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
10
Family Promise of Los Angeles

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.

Human Services
11
Hollywood Food Coalition

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…

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12
Fair Housing Foundation

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.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Families Forward; 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.
04the grantee network

53 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/53
Grantees still filing
44/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $5,091,163 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $3,321,934 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $3,222,970 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $1,810,612 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $1,445,192 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $1,281,776 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFAMILY SELF SUFFICIENCY PROGRAM: $1,076,443 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $805,973 · Other+46 more: $3,522,520 · Other+46 moreDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $215,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $210,000 · Human ServicesJenesse Center Inc: $180,000 · Human ServicesMEND - Meet Each Need With Dignity: $175,000 · Human ServicesPARA LOS NINOS: $170,000 · Human ServicesOne Voice: $145,000 · Human ServicesST JOSEPH CENTER: $135,000 · Human ServicesMAPS Charities: $120,000 · Human ServicesUNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $100,000 · Human ServicesImagine Los Angeles Inc: $85,000 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Los Angeles: $75,000 · Human Services+6 more: $140,000 · Human ServicesJVS SOCAL: $160,000 · EmploymentORANGE COUNTY CONSERVATION CORPS: $130,000 · EmploymentWOMEN IN NON TRADITIONAL EMPLOYMENT ROLES: $75,000 · EmploymentLIFT INC: $35,000 · EmploymentHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $185,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOALITION FOR RESPONSIBLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $120,000 · Youth DevelopmentCONSERVATION CORPS OF LONG BEACH: $70,000 · Youth DevelopmentLTSC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $95,000 · Housing & ShelterSafe Parking LA: $80,000 · Housing & ShelterMEND I INC: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterAFFORDABLE LIVING FOR THE AGING: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterWEINGART CENTER ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterWESTSIDE FOOD BANK: $115,000 · Food & NutritionMeals on Wheels of Long Beach Inc: $90,000 · Food & NutritionHelpline Youth Counseling Inc: $195,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$21,578,583Human Services$1,750,000Employment$400,000Youth Development$375,000Housing & Shelter$215,000Food & Nutrition$205,000Crime & Legal$195,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $215,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $210,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHelpline Youth Counseling Inc: $195,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $190,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $185,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCHRYSALIS CENTER: $180,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJenesse Center Inc: $180,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetMEND - Meet Each Need With Dignity: $175,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetPARA LOS NINOS: $170,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUPWARD BOUND HOUSE: $170,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetJVS SOCAL: $160,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetONEGENERATION: $155,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetOne Voice: $145,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetST JOSEPH CENTER: $135,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetORANGE COUNTY CONSERVATION CORPS: $130,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetMAPS Charities: $120,000 over 5y, 8.8% of budgetCOALITION FOR RESPONSIBLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $120,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWESTSIDE FOOD BANK: $115,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetST BARNABAS SENIOR CENTER OF LOS ANGELES: $105,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetYOUNG & HEALTHY: $102,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetUNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $100,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILIES FORWARD: $100,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: $95,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetDOOR OF HOPE: $95,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetLTSC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $95,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMeals on Wheels of Long Beach Inc: $90,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetImagine Los Angeles Inc: $85,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budget1979 LEGACY CORP: $80,000 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetSafe Parking LA: $80,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Los Angeles: $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN IN NON TRADITIONAL EMPLOYMENT ROLES: $75,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetCONSERVATION CORPS OF LONG BEACH: $70,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWISE AND HEALTHY AGING: $70,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetA PLACE CALLED HOME: $60,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNEW DIRECTIONS INC: $50,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLIONS SIGHT AND HEARING FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $45,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetUNION RESCUE MISSION: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFVO SOLUTIONS INC: $40,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetPUENTE LEARNING CENTER: $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetALL PEOPLES COMMUNITY CENTER: $40,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetLIFT INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budget8 BALL EMERGENCY FUND FOR JOURNALISTS: $34,000 over 4y, 30% of budgetST VINCENT SENIOR CITIZEN NUTRITION PROGRAM INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAGINGNEXT INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MIGUEL CONTRERAS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMEND I INC: $15,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetAFFORDABLE LIVING FOR THE AGING: $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% 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 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 CHRYSALIS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Jenesse Center Inc ↗
  • 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 UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds FAMILIES FORWARD ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ↗
  • Who funds DOOR OF HOPE ↗
  • Who funds LTSC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗

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.

The Rose Hills Founda…California Community …The Ralph M Parsons F…Weingart FoundationThe Annenberg Foundat…The Ahmanson Foundati…United Way IncS Mark Taper Foundati…The Green FoundationKaiser Foundation Hos…Cedars-Sinai Medical …Shelter Partnership I…
The Rose Hills FoundationCA48.4× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Pfaffinger Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pfaffinger Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    25report 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
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Pfaffinger Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Pfaffinger 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 86 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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