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Roy and Patricia Disney Family Foundation at a glance

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Roy and Patricia Disney Family 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.

$4.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
164
Grants FY2024still arriving
20
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Community Improvement$6.5MPhilanthropy$4.8MCrime & Legal$3.9MCivil Rights$3.1MArts & Culture$2.3MHuman Services$1.9MInternational$1.6MEnvironment$1.5MOther$0
02FY2024 · 164 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k74 grants · $118k
  • $10k–50k43 grants · $565k
  • $50k–250k45 grants · $3.4M
  • $250k+2 grants · $800k
$10,000
Median grant
20
States reached
$151M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Movement Strategy Center$500,000
Liberty Hill Foundation$300,000
Common Counsel Foundation$200,000
Social Good Fund$100,000
Youth Justice Coalition$100,000
Frontline Women's Fund Dba Sisterhood Is Global$100,000
National Urban Fellows Inc$93,150
La-mas Inc$75,000
Shahid Afridi Foundation$75,000
Southeast Asian Community Alliance$75,000
Forward Impact Aka Represent Justice$75,000
People's Housing Inc$75,000
Front And Centered$75,000
Fideicomiso Comunitario Tierra Libre$75,000
Earth Island Institute$75,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HEALTH EQUITY INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 8%YWCA SILICON VALLEY: $10k → 8%Young Women's Freedom Center: $50k → 10%COALITION TO STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST NATIVE WOMEN: $50k → 14%PUBLIC ALLIES INC: $50k → 17%El Pueblo Inc: $10k → 8%ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - ATLANTA: $10k → 9%Young Women's Freedom Center: $10k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $75k → 10%Acevedo Foundation: $100k → 14%Arms Around You Foundation: $50k → 9%The People Concern: $10k → 14%The People Concern: $10k → 14%The People Concern: $10k → 14%KOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $20k → 14%Operation Restoration: $100k → 23%OPERATION RESTORATION: $75k → 23%OPERATION RESTORATION: $75k → 23%OPERATION RESTORATION: $10k → 23%HUMAN SERVICES ASSOCIATION: $20k → 14%ASIAN AMERICAN FEDERATION: $10k → 17%FREEFROM: $35k → 14%INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $10k → 17%Innocence Project Inc: $10k → 17%AL OTRO LADO INC: $25k → 14%Acevedo Foundation: $100k → 14%THAI COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $20k → 14%Southeast Asian Community Alliance: $75k → 14%SOUTHEAST ASIAN COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $20k → 14%CONSEJO DE FEDERACIONES MEXIANAS EN NORTE AMERICA: $10k → 14%Strategic Concepts in Organizing & Policy Educatio: $25k → 14%Pasadena-altadena Coalition Of Transformative Lead: $25k → 14%Innercity Struggle: $125k → 14%ASIAN PACIFIC POLICY AND PLANNING COUNCIL: $10k → 14%Tides Center: $75k → 14%InnerCity Struggle: $125k → 14%INNERCITY STRUGGLE: $123k → 14%INNERCITY STRUGGLE: $100k → 14%INNERCITY STRUGGLE: $100k → 14%Innercity Struggle: $75k → 14%Innercity Struggle: $50k → 14%Innercity Struggle: $25k → 14%INNERCITY STRUGGLE: $20k → 14%INNERCITY STRUGGLE: $20k → 14%INNERCITY STRUGGLE: $13k → 14%GROWGOOD: $50k → 14%GROWGOOD: $35k → 14%EXCEPTIONAL MINDS: $35k → 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

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NY
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OR
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PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
DE
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NC
DC
HI
LA
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AL
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FL
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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$17M · 101 repeat orgs$11M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.

101 repeat relationships: 61 still active in FY2024, 40 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

101
273

Total granted

$17M
$10M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+4%

Still filing today

89%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $642k 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
Civil RightsHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementInternationalCrime & LegalArts & CultureOther
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

  • FOUNDATION FOR LOUISIANA
    5× · 2019–2023 · $869k · revenue +29%
  • IS
    INNERCITY STRUGGLE
    6× · 2019–2024 · $803k · revenue +14%
  • TA
    THE ANTI-RECIDIVISM COALITION
    5× · 2019–2024 · $695k · revenue +189%

Funded once

  • CI
    CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTSgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $1.5M · revenue +27%
  • CC
    Common Counsel Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · $200k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $150k
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
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
2
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
3
Asian Law Caucus

The Asian Law Caucus's mission is to promote, advance, and represent the legal and civil rights of Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities, recognizing that social, economic, political and racial inequalities continue to exist…

Crime & Legal
4
California Forward

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,…

Public Benefit
5
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
6
Cooperation L a

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.

Arts & Culture
7
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
8
Indigenous Peoples Rights Inc

To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.

Human Services
9
South Asian Americans Leading Together

South Asian Americans Leading Together is a national movement strategy and advocacy organization committed to racial justice through structural change.

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10
The Alliance for Collective Action

The Alliance for Collective Action convenes leaders of environmental and social movements to advance solutions for a thriving planet. We advance our mission through the Alliance Center building and community, as well as through Collective…

Environment
11
Asian Immigrant Women Advocates Inc

Asian Immigrant Women Advocates empowers low-income, limited English speaking immigrant women and youth through education, leadership development and civic participation programs.

Human Services
12
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Policylink; 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.
04the grantee network

313 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. 313 of the 424 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
62
Early backer (in before they grew)
309/313
Grantees still filing
172/313
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

A NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT: $555,250 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR LOUISIANA: $869,000 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR LOUISIANA+124 more: $13,141,119 · Other+124 moreMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER: $901,000 · Community ImprovementMOVEMENT STRATEGY …COMMUNITY COALITION FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT: $513,500 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY COALITIO…INCLUSIVE ACTION FOR THE CITY: $482,500 · Community ImprovementINCLUSIVE ACTION F…COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TECHNOLOGIES CENTER: $472,500 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY DEVELOPM…COMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION: $471,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMON COUNSEL FOU…MUJERES DE LA TIERRA: $229,500 · Community ImprovementTHE WORKING WORLD INC: $228,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $193,700 · Community ImprovementPOWERSWITCH ACTION: $160,000 · Community Improvement+16 more: $997,500 · Community Improvement+16 moreLIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION: $1,038,000 · PhilanthropySOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS: $231,000 · PhilanthropyIMPACTASSETSINC: $227,500 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $200,000 · PhilanthropyShahid Afridi Foundation: $175,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATION: $124,500 · Philanthropy+4 more: $207,775 · PhilanthropyINNERCITY STRUGGLE: $802,500 · Human ServicesOPERATION RESTORATION: $347,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTER: $247,500 · Human ServicesACEVEDO FOUNDATION: $200,000 · Human ServicesSOUTHEAST ASIAN COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $97,000 · Human ServicesGROWGOOD INC: $85,000 · Human Services+8 more: $338,000 · Human ServicesTHE ANTI-RECIDIVISM COALITION: $695,000 · Crime & LegalINITIATE JUSTICE: $262,000 · Crime & LegalVOICE OF THE EXPERIENCED VOTE: $235,000 · Crime & LegalTHE CONNIE RICE INSTITUTE FOR URBAN PEACE: $175,000 · Crime & LegalINSIDEOUT WRITERS INC: $174,000 · Crime & LegalVERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC: $76,000 · Crime & Legal+3 more: $125,000 · Crime & LegalCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS: $1,517,500 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $190,000 · Arts & CultureEAST LA COMMUNITY CORPORATION: $443,000 · Housing & ShelterJANE PLACE NEIGHBORHOOD SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVE: $203,000 · Housing & ShelterESPERANZA COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION: $159,500 · Housing & ShelterTENEMOS QUE RECLAMAR Y UNIDOS SALVAR LA TIERRA-SOUTH LA: $156,000 · Housing & ShelterPEOPLES HOUSING INC: $153,000 · Housing & ShelterSOCIAL JUSTICE LEARNING INSTITUTE: $136,000 · Housing & ShelterEL SERENO COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $106,000 · Housing & ShelterFIDEICOMISO COMUNITARIO TIERRA LIBRE: $99,500 · Housing & Shelter+3 more: $131,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$14,565,369Community Improvement$4,649,200Philanthropy$2,203,775Human Services$2,117,000Crime & Legal$1,742,000Arts & Culture$1,707,500Housing & Shelter$1,587,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS: $1,517,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetLIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION: $1,038,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER: $901,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR LOUISIANA: $869,000 over 5y, 7.5% of budgetINNERCITY STRUGGLE: $802,500 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetTHE ANTI-RECIDIVISM COALITION: $695,000 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetA NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT: $555,250 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY COALITION FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT: $513,500 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetINCLUSIVE ACTION FOR THE CITY: $482,500 over 5y, 6.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TECHNOLOGIES CENTER: $472,500 over 5y, 8.0% of budgetCOMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION: $471,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetYOUTH JUSTICE COALITION INC: $466,500 over 5y, 7.2% of budgetSAJE: $451,500 over 6y, 8.9% of budgetPHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: $447,000 over 6y, 7.9% of budgetEAST LA COMMUNITY CORPORATION: $443,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetCOALITION FOR RESPONSIBLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $402,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INC: $365,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetOPERATION RESTORATION: $347,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $326,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetEAST YARD COMMUNITIES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE: $322,269 over 5y, 6.9% of budgetPACOIMA BEAUTIFUL: $315,500 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetACCE Institute: $305,500 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $271,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetINITIATE JUSTICE: $262,000 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetFIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $250,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESS: $249,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $247,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVOICE OF THE EXPERIENCED VOTE: $235,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetRIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE: $234,100 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS: $231,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMUJERES DE LA TIERRA: $229,500 over 3y, 14% of budgetTHE WORKING WORLD INC: $228,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetIMPACTASSETSINC: $227,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJANE PLACE NEIGHBORHOOD SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVE: $203,000 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetACEVEDO FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $193,700 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL URBAN FELLOWS INC: $189,150 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetVietnamese American Young Leaders Association of New Orleans: $181,500 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetShahid Afridi Foundation: $175,000 over 3y, 28% of budgetTHE CONNIE RICE INSTITUTE FOR URBAN PEACE: $175,000 over 4y, 29% of budgetINSIDEOUT WRITERS INC: $174,000 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetPOWERSWITCH ACTION: $160,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetESPERANZA COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION: $159,500 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetFront and Centered: $156,500 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetTENEMOS QUE RECLAMAR Y UNIDOS SALVAR LA TIERRA-SOUTH LA: $156,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetBROAD COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS INC: $153,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc: $153,000 over 2y, 0.3% 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.

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.

Liberty Hill Foundati…Weingart FoundationThe California Endowm…Amalgamated Charitabl…The California Wellne…The Annenberg Foundat…Common Counsel Founda…California Community …The James Irvine Foun…United Way IncSurdna Foundation IncProteus Fund Inc
Liberty Hill FoundationCA88.3× affinity53 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Liberty Hill Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The California Endowment · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The California Wellness Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Common Counsel Foundation · California Community Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · United Way Inc · Surdna Foundation Inc · Proteus Fund 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 Roy and Patricia Disney Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Roy and Patricia Disney Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Ibis Reproductive Health Inc: 9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
63report 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.
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Find your warmest path to Roy and Patricia Disney Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 424 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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