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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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Health$1.7MEnvironment$759kArts & Culture$655kPhilanthropy$470kPublic Safety & Disaster$410kHuman Services$325kHousing & Shelter$260kYouth Development$195kOther$0
02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k18 grants · $235k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $870k
$20,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$50,000
CLARE MATRIX$50,000
BEVERLY HILLS ROTARY CLUB COMMUNITY$50,000
CEDARS-SINAI$50,000
CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH FOUNDATION$50,000
PATH$50,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$25,000
BEVERLY HILLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY$25,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$25,000
NEW BEGINNINGS$20,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%PAWS WITH A CAUSE: $5k → 10%HOUSING CONSORTIUM OF THE EAST BAY: $5k → 10%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $15k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $75k → 14%HOUSING CONSORTIUM OF THE EAST BAY: $5k → 10%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $10k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $25k → 14%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $5k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $15k → 14%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $5k → 10%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $5k → 10%LOS ANGELES MARYVALE GUILD: $5k → 14%HOMELESS HEALTH CARE LOS ANGELES: $5k → 14%THE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $25k → 14%THE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $10k → 14%ST JOSEPH CENTER: $10k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MI
NY
OR
IA
CT
CA
MD
DC
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.7M · 52 repeat orgs$773k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +38% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
34

Total granted

$4.7M
$393k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+38%

Still filing today

65%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $380k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentHuman ServicesHealthEducationInternationalHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF ROBINSON GARDENS INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $374k · revenue +5%
  • CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER
    5× · 2020–2024 · $275k · revenue +55%
  • GW
    GANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND
    3× · 2022–2024 · $220k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • CH
    Cottage Health
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +18%
  • PA
    PETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +3%
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD CALIFORNIA CENTR
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
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
Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.

Health
2
South Central Family Health Center

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.

Health
3
California Healthcare Foundation

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…

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4
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
5
Burbank Housingsr Corporation

To own and operate affordable rental housing.

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6
The California Channel

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…

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7
Altamed Health Services Corporation

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.

Health
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
Behavioral Health Services Inc

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.

Health
10
Community Medical Centers Inc

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.

Health
11
Los Angeles General Medical Center Foundation Inc

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…

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12
California Housing Partner Corporation

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.

Unclassified
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of the Los Angeles River; 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.
04the grantee network

64 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/64
Grantees still filing
49/64
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BEVERLY HILLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $480,000 · OtherBEVERLY HILLS HISTORICAL SOCIETYTHE BEVERLY HILLS ROTARY CHARITABLE: $470,000 · OtherTHE BEVERLY HILLS ROTARY CHARITABLECARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $250,000 · OtherCARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH FOUNDATIONGANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND: $220,000 · OtherGANNA WALSKA LOTUSLANDUCSF BENIOFF CHILDREN'S HOSPITALS: $200,000 · OtherUCSF BENIOFF CHILDREN'S HOSPITALSSANTA BARBARA COTTAGE HOSPITAL FOUN: $200,000 · OtherSANTA BARBARA COTTAGE HOSPITAL FOUNTHE SALVATION ARMY: $140,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $140,000 · OtherBEVERLY HILLS FIREMEN'S RELIEF FUND: $125,000 · OtherBEVERLY HILLS POLICE OFFICERS BENEV: $125,000 · Other+49 more: $1,331,250 · Other+49 moreCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $275,000 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI…CLAREMATRIX: $145,000 · HealthCLAREMATRIXCANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA: $100,000 · HealthCANCER FOUND…Homeless Prenatal Program Inc: $30,000 · Health+4 more: $37,500 · Health+4 moreFRIENDS OF ROBINSON GARDENS INC: $374,475 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF …THE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC: $50,000 · EnvironmentTHE GARDEN …HEAL THE OCEAN INC: $40,000 · EnvironmentHEAL THE OC…LOS ANGELES ARBORETUM FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · EnvironmentSANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN: $20,000 · Environment+3 more: $25,000 · EnvironmentAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $115,000 · Human ServicesLarkin Street Youth Services: $40,000 · Human ServicesTHE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $35,000 · Human ServicesHOUSING CONSORTIUM OF THE EAST BAY: $10,000 · Human ServicesST JOSEPH CENTER: $10,000 · Human Services+3 more: $15,000 · Human ServicesPATH: $85,000 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEF: $50,000 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $10,000 · InternationalBHFA SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $60,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA FARMWORKER FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationWINDWARD SCHOOL: $20,000 · EducationKHAN ACADEMY INC: $10,000 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationCHP 11-99 FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Membership Benefit
Other$3,681,250Health$587,500Environment$529,475Human Services$225,000International$160,000Education$145,000Membership Benefit$100,000

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 budgetBEVERLY HILLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $480,000 over 6y, 100% of budgetFRIENDS OF ROBINSON GARDENS INC: $374,475 over 6y, 23% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $275,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND: $220,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetCLAREMATRIX: $145,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBEVERLY HILLS FIREMEN'S RELIEF FUND: $125,000 over 4y, 43% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $115,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA: $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCHP 11-99 FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPATH: $85,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MAPLE COUNSELING CENTER: $75,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $65,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBHFA SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $60,000 over 3y, 62% of budgetThe Good Shepherd Gracenter of San Francisco: $55,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetTHE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetWEST HOLLYWOOD RECOVERY CENTER: $50,000 over 2y, 42% of budgetCALIFORNIA FARMWORKER FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetBEVERLY HILLS POLICE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 43% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCottage Health: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKCRW FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYUKAHOLICS INC: $40,000 over 2y, 84% of budgetHEAL THE OCEAN INC: $40,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetLarkin Street Youth Services: $40,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEL NIDO FAMILY CENTERS: $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHomeless Prenatal Program Inc: $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetONE805 INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetLOS ANGELES ARBORETUM FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIMMACULATE HEART COMMUNITY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWINDWARD SCHOOL: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTREEPEOPLE INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES INC: $15,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBOSS Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetVILLA MAJELLA OF SANTA BARBARA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetHOUSING CONSORTIUM OF THE EAST BAY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Rona Barrett Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetOREGON FOOD BANK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE OF SANTA BARBARA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetST JOSEPH CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTURN 2 U INC dba THE LAST MILE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSTORYTELLER CHILDRENS CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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 WEST HOLLYWOOD RECOVERY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA FARMWORKER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BEVERLY HILLS POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
  • Who funds Cottage Health ↗
  • Who funds KCRW FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds YUKAHOLICS INC ↗
  • Who funds HEAL THE OCEAN INC ↗
  • Who funds Larkin Street Youth Services ↗
  • Who funds THE MIDNIGHT MISSION ↗

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.

California Community …The Annenberg Foundat…Santa Barbara Foundat…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Hutton Foundation Dba…The Rose Hills Founda…The Ralph M Parsons F…Mosher FoundationAnn Jackson Family Fo…Cedars-Sinai Medical …The Ahmanson Foundati…Gs Donor Advised Phil…
California Community FoundationCA30.2× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 21%
  • Oregon Food Bank: 21% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 93 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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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home