· Private foundation
Proper Giving
Its FY2025 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $28k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE PEOPLE CONCERN | $15,965 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $12,392 |
| CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES | $6,338 |
| CANINE RESCUE CLUB | $4,828 |
| ASIAN FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES | $2,500 |
| FIND FOOD BANK | $2,366 |
| PALM SPRINGS ANIMAL SOCIETY | $2,170 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CENTER OF PALM SPRINGS | $1,494 |
| LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES | $1,390 |
| ST ANTHONY'S FOUNDATION | $1,181 |
| SAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH | $1,036 |
| PARTNERSHIPS FOR CHILDREN | $1,000 |
| AUSTIN PETS ALIVE | $630 |
| CONCERNED CITIZENS OF MONTAUK | $426 |
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 (FY20–25, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
19 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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
- TPTHE PEOPLE CONCERN3× · 2023–2025 · $35k · revenue +41%
- PPATH3× · 2021–2023 · $33k · revenue +3%
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY5× · 2020–2024 · $29k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- URUKRAINE RELIEFone grant, 2022 · $143k
- CCCIVIC CENTER COMMUNITY BENEFIT DISTRICTgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +252%
- SCShoal Creek Conservancygraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +39%
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 mission of the st. vincent de paul society of san francisco (svdp-sf) is to offer hope and service on a direct person-to-person basis, working to break the cycles of homelessness and domestic violence.
To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
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.
To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
The anti-recidivism coalition (arc) works to end mass incarceration in california. to ensure our communities are safe, healthy, and whole, arc empowers formerly and currently incarcerated people to thrive by providing a support network,…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
To build capacity and community engagement to better serve the most vulnerable population suffering poverty and the homeless crisis.
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.
The mission of the organization is to ensure safety and stability for people who are battered, abused, homeless or at risk; to create public awareness about the epidemic of violence; and to mobilize the community to prevent violence and…
Youth and family alliance (dba lifeworks) is a fearless advocate for youth and young adults pursuing a life they love and a stable future for themselves and their families. we strive to break cycles of instability by providing support and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Safe Place for Youth Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 40 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 THE PEOPLE CONCERN ↗
- Who funds PATH ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE MISSION LA ↗
- Who funds MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Larkin Street Youth Services ↗
- Who funds CARITAS OF AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC ↗
- Who funds CIVIC CENTER COMMUNITY BENEFIT DISTRICT ↗
- Who funds FOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC ↗
- Who funds Shoal Creek Conservancy ↗
- Who funds ALONZO KING LINES BALLET ↗
- Who funds THE RICHMOND ERMET AID FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UPWARD BOUND HOUSE ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA MONICA INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIPS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONCERNED CITIZENS OF MONTAUK ↗
- Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHANGE THE REF 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: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Proper Giving 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.