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Physicians for Social Responsibility
Psr-la is a physician and health advocate membership organization working to protect public health from nuclear threats and environmental toxins.
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.
The 16 grants below total $596,539 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $627,989 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $31,450 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k13 grants · $343k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $253k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS | $140,333 |
| CENTER ON RACE POVERTY & ENVIRONMENT | $60,000 |
| SCOPE | $52,833 |
| ESPERANZA COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION | $47,083 |
| SIERRA HEALTH FOUNDATIONCENTER FOR HEALTH PROGRAM MANAGEMENT | $44,833 |
| CENTRAL CALIFORNIA ASTHMA COLLABORATIVE | $40,000 |
| EMERALD CITIES COLLABORATIVE INC-1 | $40,000 |
| BLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESS | $35,000 |
| PACOIMA BEAUTIFUL | $27,833 |
| COMMUNITIES FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENT | $27,833 |
| WATTS CLEAN AIR AND ENERGY COMMITTEEWATTSKANDA | $21,875 |
| PUBLIC EMPLOYEES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY | $18,000 |
| TIDES CENTER (PODER) | $10,666 |
| THEWORKSLA | $10,250 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CA | $10,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $439k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 48% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +75% since the first grant, against +63% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 5 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k 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
- PAPesticide Action Network North America6× · 2017–2022 · $830k · revenue +14%
- SASOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC3× · 2022–2024 · $280k · revenue +53%
- COCENTER ON RACE POVERTY & THE ENVIRONMENT6× · 2019–2024 · $230k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- SESelf-Help Enterprisesgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +63%
- LCLEADERSHIP COUNSEL FOR JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITYone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +19%
- LCLABOR COMMUNITY STRATEGY CENTERone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -32%
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.
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The Environmental Health Coalition is dedicated to achieving environmental and social justice. We believe that justice is accomplished by empowered communities acting together to make social change. We organize and advocate to protect…
To uplift low-income communities of color in the San Joaquin Valley by ensuring access to clean air, water, land, and food sovereignty.
Active San Gabriel Valley (ActiveSGV) is a community-based environmental advocacy and public health non-profit organization. Our mission is to promote a more sustainable, equitable, and livable San Gabriel Valley.
The L.A. Co-op Lab is a collective that builds capacity for worker ownership in Los Angeles as a pathway toward a more equitable and democratic economy.
CAUSE's mission is to build grassroots power to realize social, economic and environmental justice for the people of the Central Coast Region through policy research, leadership development, organizing and advocacy.
To safeguard the public from health hazards that impact families, workers, and the environment
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sierra Health Foundation. 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 29 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 24 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 Pesticide Action Network North America ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER ON RACE POVERTY & THE ENVIRONMENT ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds Strategic Concepts In Organizing & Policy Education ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENT ↗
- Who funds ESPERANZA COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESS ↗
- Who funds PACOIMA BEAUTIFUL ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTO DE EDUCACION POPULAR DEL SUR DE CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds SIERRA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EAST YARD COMMUNITIES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CALIFORNIA ASTHMA COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds Emerald Cities Collaborative Inc ↗
- Who funds JUST TRANSITION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Self-Help Enterprises ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP COUNSEL FOR JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC EMPLOYEES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds LABOR COMMUNITY STRATEGY CENTER ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE HEALTH ALLIANCE ↗
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: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The California Endowment · Natural Resources Defense Council Inc · The Schmidt Family Foundation · United States Energy Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · The Marisla Foundation · Movement Strategy Center · Resources Legacy Fund · The California Wellness 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 Physicians for Social Responsibility 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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