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Reissa 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k35 grants · $126k
- $10k–50k48 grants · $1.0M
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+1 grant · $525k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHICAGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $525,000 |
| YOUTH AND FAMILY ALLIANCE | $200,000 |
| EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC | $150,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $150,000 |
| SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS | $75,000 |
| CHILDREN NOW | $75,000 |
| CHILDRENS LAW CENTER OF CALIFORNIA | $50,000 |
| LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| TEXAS NETWORK OF YOUTH SERVICES INCORPORATED | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $50,000 |
| THE UCLA FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS | $50,000 |
| CASA OF LOS ANGELES | $50,000 |
| FOSTERING MEDIA CONNECTIONS | $50,000 |
| OUR LADY QUEEN OF ANGELS HOUSING ALLIANCE | $50,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $2.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 45% 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of Reissa Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +39% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
113 repeat relationships — 58 still active in FY2024, 55 since wound down; 21 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $301k 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
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS5× · 2020–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +301%
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC5× · 2020–2024 · $699k · revenue +37%- YAYOUTH AND FAMILY ALLIANCE5× · 2020–2024 · $400k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- GNGuadalupe Neighborhood Development Corporationone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -17%
CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +25%- CICAPITAL IMPACT PARTNERSgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +66%
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.
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
California Alliance of Caregivers represents the voices of relative and non-relative caregivers to promote the well-being of children in foster care. California Alliance of Caregivers provides training information support and advocacy for…
Youth policy institute (ypi) transforms los angeles neighborhoods, reducing poverty by offering cradle to college & career services.
California Donor Table anchors a hub of donors, foundations, and community leaders. We pool together our resources to shape California into a truly democratic state that works for the people, not the powerful. Rooted in our commitment to…
San Francisco CASA transforms the lives of children and youth traumatized and displaced in the foster care and related systems by providing one consistent, caring volunteer advocate, trained to address each childs needs in the court and…
The la conservation corps creates equitable opportunities for young people to build resilience in themselves, their communities and the environment through a program of work, education and support.
California casa was founded in 1987. its mission is to ensure that children and youth in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems have both a voice and the services they need to thrive. we achieve this by strengthening and empowering…
Community organizing, education, advocacy, leadership development, direct services and organizational development for communities faced with immense poverty.
Youth Emerging Stronger (YES) empowers young people, between ages of 12 and 24 within Los Angeles County, including but not limited to run-away and homeless youth. YES mission is to end homelessness one youth at a time to become…
At catalyst family, inc., we believe that strong families build strong communities. we are committed to nurturing vibrant communities where children thrive and families succeed, creating lasting change.
Transform local communities into places that are fair and flourishing for everyone through education, community organization, and coalition-building.
Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is Polos Pantry. 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 15 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
155 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. 155 of the 185 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 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH AND FAMILY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds FOSTERING MEDIA CONNECTIONS ↗
- Who funds Imagine Los Angeles Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN NOW ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Pop-Up Birthday Foundation ↗
- Who funds I LIVE HERE I GIVE HERE ↗
- Who funds UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds W HAYWOOD BURNS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds Los Angeles Room & Board ↗
- Who funds Los Angeles Metropolitan Churches ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE SOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL JUSTICE LEARNING INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds FOTC - LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TRIBUNE INC ↗
- Who funds Texas Network of Youth Services Inc ↗
- Who funds BLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESS ↗
- Who funds TEXAS CASA INC ↗
- Who funds California Youth Connection ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIPS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds SUPRSEED Inc ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds JOVENES INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING ↗
- Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Guadalupe Neighborhood Development Corporation ↗
- Who funds BVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE 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: California Community Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · St David's Foundation · The California Endowment · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Austin Community Foundation Inc · The California Wellness Foundation · United Way Inc · Community Partners · The Rose Hills 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 Reissa 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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