· Private foundation
Rja 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k18 grants · $235k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $870k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UCSF BENIOFF CHILDREN'S HOSPITALS | $200,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA COTTAGE HOSPITAL FOUN | $150,000 |
| CANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA | $100,000 |
| GANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND | $60,000 |
| FRIENDS OF ROBINSONS GARDEN | $60,000 |
| CLARE MATRIX | $50,000 |
| PATH | $50,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $50,000 |
| CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CEDARS-SINAI | $50,000 |
| BEVERLY HILLS ROTARY CLUB COMMUNITY | $50,000 |
| BEVERLY HILLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $25,000 |
| NEW BEGINNINGS | $20,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $225k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.
52 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 6 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $380k 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
- FOFRIENDS OF ROBINSON GARDENS INC6× · 2019–2024 · $374k · revenue +5%
CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER5× · 2020–2024 · $275k · revenue +55%- GWGANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND3× · 2022–2024 · $220k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- CHCottage Healthone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +18%
- PAPETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +3%
- OIONE805 INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +45%
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.
Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.
To improve the quality of life for the diverse communities we serve providing affordable and comprehensive healthcare and education in a welcoming multi-cultural environment.
Chcf is dedicated to advancing meaningful, measurable improvements in the way the health care delivery system provides care to the people of california, particularly those with low incomes and those whose needs are not well served by the…
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 own and operate affordable rental housing.
To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…
To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.
The organization develops and operates high quality affordable housing and provides resident services for low-income families, seniors and people with special needs.
Providing treatment for substance abuse, mental health, drug-free transitional living, older adult services, hiv/aids education and prevention, and other related health services to the residents of southern california.
The organization provides primary medical, behavior health, and dental care to the population of san joaquin, and solano counties without regard to patients' ability to pay.
To support and enhance the mission of the los angeles general medical center (formerly the lac+usc medical center) and ensure it maintains its status as a leader in medicine, education and research, and continues to provide the highest…
The California Housing Partnership Corporation creates and preserves affordable and sustainable homes for Californians with low incomes by providing expert financial and policy solutions to nonprofit and public partners.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of the Los Angeles River and the most unlike its peers is The Rona Barrett Foundation. 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 42 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% 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.
64 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. 64 of the 93 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 BEVERLY HILLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ROBINSON GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds GANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND ↗
- Who funds CLAREMATRIX ↗
- Who funds BEVERLY HILLS FIREMEN'S RELIEF FUND ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds CANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds CHP 11-99 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PATH ↗
- Who funds THE MAPLE COUNSELING CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds BHFA SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds The Good Shepherd Gracenter of San Francisco ↗
- Who funds THE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds Cottage Health ↗
- Who funds WEST HOLLYWOOD RECOVERY CENTER ↗
- Who funds BEVERLY HILLS POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA FARMWORKER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KCRW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YUKAHOLICS INC ↗
- Who funds Larkin Street Youth Services ↗
- Who funds HEAL THE OCEAN INC ↗
- Who funds THE MIDNIGHT MISSION ↗
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 · The Annenberg Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Mosher Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Cedars-Sinai Medical Center · The Ahmanson Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management 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 Rja 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.
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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.