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Samueli 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.

$81M
Granted FY2024still arriving
366
Grants FY2024still arriving
21
States reached
$9.7M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$35MInternational$24MPhilanthropy$20MHealth$9.8MCommunity Improvement$8.8MEnvironment$8.0MHuman Services$6.7MArts & Culture$5.8MOther$0
02FY2024 · 366 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k103 grants · $460k
  • $10k–50k81 grants · $1.6M
  • $50k–250k93 grants · $11M
  • $250k+89 grants · $68M
$41,440
Median grant
21
States reached
$62M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION$9,698,874
GLOBAL IMPACT$4,800,000
ORANGE COUNTY UNITED WAY$2,500,000
DREAM MACHINE INNOVATION SO INC$2,000,000
ABOUND FOOD CARE$1,550,000
FRIENDS OF IR DAVID INC$1,500,000
THE RINKS FOUNDATION$1,500,000
THE AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE TEL AVIV FOUNDATION$1,500,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION$1,400,000
FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMP$1,200,000
SIXPOINT INC$1,200,000
GOLDEN WEST COLLEGE FOUNDATION$1,170,000
ORANGE COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS$1,100,000
QUAD PROJECT INC$1,000,000
BOARD OF JEWISH EDUCATION INC$1,000,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $7.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WOODSTOCK TIMEBANK: $200k → 10%I-5 FREEDOM NETWORK: $30k → 11%GREAT LAKES BAY FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%CROSSOVER OUTREACH: $30k → 16%OHIO'S HOSPICE OF DAYTON: $190k → 14%CENTER FOR INNOVATION IN FAMILY MEDICINE INC: $36k → 8%WOODSTOCK TIMEBANK: $100k → 10%I-5 FREEDOM NETWORK: $25k → 11%CROSSOVER OUTREACH: $25k → 16%OHIO'S HOSPICE OF DAYTON: $190k → 14%I-5 FREEDOM NETWORK: $15k → 11%WOODSTOCK TIME BANK: $100k → 10%STARS AND STRIPES CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%OHIO'S HOSPICE OF DAYTON: $190k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA: $250k → 17%USA WARRIORS ICE HOCKEY PROGRAM: $27k → 8%CHILDREN NOW: $75k → 10%POWER TO DECIDE: $450k → 14%CHILDREN NOW: $25k → 10%CHILDREN NOW: $25k → 10%MISSION EDGE SAN DIEGO: $200k → 11%WAYOUT LGBT FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%ONE WARM COAT: $38k → 10%CHILDREN NOW: $150k → 10%FUND FOR GUARANTEED INCOME: $100k → 14%FUND FOR GUARANTEED INCOME: $100k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $20k → 14%FUND FOR GUARANTEED INCOME: $100k → 14%ACCESS CALIFORNIA SERVICES: $25k → 10%ANAHEIM FAMILY YMCA: $400k → 10%MIND OC: $1.5M → 10%MIND OC: $92k → 10%OMID MULTICULTURAL INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENT: $25k → 10%STARS & STRIPES CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $50k → 10%STARS & STRIPES CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%STARS & STRIPES CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%STARS & STRIPES CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%STARS & STRIPES CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%VIET RAINBOW OF ORANGE COUNTY: $58k → 10%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ORANGE COUNTY: $600k → 10%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ORANGE COUNTY: $500k → 10%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ORANGE COUNTY: $250k → 10%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ORANGE COUNTY: $250k → 10%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ORANGE COUNTY: $250k → 10%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ORANGE COUNTY: $150k → 10%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ORANGE COUNTY: $125k → 10%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ORANGE COUNTY: $50k → 10%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ORANGE COUNTY: $50k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

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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 Samueli 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.

Samueli Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.5% directed abroad (not shown)

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$85M · 184 repeat orgs$30M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

184 repeat relationships — 104 still active in FY2024, 80 since wound down; 151 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

184
182

Total granted

$85M
$6.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+12%

Still filing today

83%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23M 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
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureInternationalPhilanthropyOther

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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $15M · revenue +95%
  • FL
    Fuente Latina Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +242%
  • OC
    Orange Coast College Foundation
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M
  • JP
    JTP PROFESSIONAL SERVICE CORPORATION
    one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue -78%
  • CL
    CONNECTED LEARNING ALLIANCE
    one grant, 2020 · $406k · revenue +12%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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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2
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
3
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
4
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
5
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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6
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
7
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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8
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
9
Uc Riverside Foundation

To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.

Education
10
California Dental Association Foundation

The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.

Science & Tech
11
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
12
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oneoc and the most unlike its peers is Open Gate International. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsFood Banks and PantriesPolicy Research and AdvocacyCommunity College Foundatio…Environmental Conservation …Independent K-12 SchoolsLocal History MuseumsAffordable Housing Developm…Community Arts CentersYouth Development CentersOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Lgbtq+ Community SupportSchool District FoundationsMilitary Veterans SupportLocal Food System Organizat…Senior Support ServicesPublic Library OperationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Faith-Based Social ServicesYouth Mentoring ProgramsDomestic Violence ServicesSchool Parent OrganizationsDevelopmental Disabilities …Animal Rescue and ShelterEquine Therapy ProgramsAddiction Recovery ServicesYouth Development ServicesVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Women & Girls Leadership De…Cancer Support ServicesPregnancy Support ServicesImmigrant Worker SupportHealth Access Advocacy and …Youth Sports ProgramsJewish Community Organizati…Community Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 27 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%6%<5yr15%10%5–10yr20%21%10–20yr17%29%20–35yr11%17%35–55yr13%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%11%<5yr15%8%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr17%17%20–35yr11%28%35–55yr13%25%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 11% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/474
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,504

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.

05the grantee network

428 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. 428 of the 545 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
424/428
Grantees still filing
234/428
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION — $14,786,334 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORN…UCLA FOUNDATION — $1,804,218 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIONOrange Coast College Foundation — $1,651,625 · EducationOrange Coast College F…SIXPOINT INC — $1,200,000 · EducationGolden West College Foundation — $1,170,000 · EducationSTEM NEXT OPPORTUNITY FUND — $1,075,000 · Education+15 more — $7,110,963 · Education+15 moreGlobal Impact — $9,724,420 · InternationalGlobal ImpactFRIENDS OF IR DAVID INC — $2,675,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF IR DAV…WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE — $2,650,000 · InternationalWORLD RESOURCES I…THE AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE TEL AVIV FOUNDATION INC — $2,500,000 · InternationalTHE AMERICAN COMM…Fuente Latina Inc — $2,250,000 · InternationalFuente Latina IncAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv Univ — $763,000 · International+5 more — $1,320,000 · International+5 morePEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $5,830,746 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOW…ORANGE COUNTY'S UNITED WAY — $4,125,000 · PhilanthropyORANGE COUNTY'S …ANAHEIM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $2,819,145 · PhilanthropyANAHEIM COMMUNIT…JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES — $2,350,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY…JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK — $1,647,575 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FUNDERS N…TIDES FOUNDATION — $1,620,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATIONHOPEWELL FUND — $800,000 · Philanthropy+9 more — $2,264,892 · Philanthropy+9 moreORANGE COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS — $1,900,000 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMP INC — $1,850,000 · OtherTHE RINKS FOUNDATION — $2,398,875 · OtherORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION — $1,884,130 · OtherABOUND FOOD CARE — $2,600,000 · Other+109 more — $40,260,008 · Other+109 moreJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ORANGE COUNTY — $2,231,000 · Human ServicesMIND OC — $1,592,050 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTER — $930,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE OF DAYTON INC — $570,000 · Human ServicesPOWER TO DECIDE — $450,000 · Human ServicesWoodstock Timebank Inc — $410,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ANA — $400,000 · Human ServicesFund for Guaranteed Income — $300,000 · Human Services+9 more — $1,434,500 · Human ServicesDREAM MACHINE INNOVATION SO INC — $2,000,000 · Community ImprovementCHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE COUNTY — $1,046,000 · Community ImprovementOCTANE FOUNDATION FOR INNOVATION — $1,000,000 · Community ImprovementTHE BRIDGESPAN GROUP INC — $975,000 · Community ImprovementJMH-ANAHEIM FOUNDATION INC — $736,000 · Community ImprovementCEO LEADERSHIP ALLIANCE ORANGE COUNTY — $650,000 · Community Improvement+5 more — $685,706 · Community ImprovementCanopy Planet Foundation — $1,450,000 · EnvironmentNEW VENTURE FUND — $1,000,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC — $875,000 · EnvironmentECOLOGY CENTER — $740,000 · EnvironmentSHERMAN FOUNDATION — $505,000 · EnvironmentRAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC — $420,000 · EnvironmentSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC — $400,000 · EnvironmentSOGOREA TE LAND TRUST — $275,000 · EnvironmentFUNGI FOUNDATION INC — $225,000 · Environment+1 more — $63,500 · Environment
Education$28,798,140International$21,882,420Philanthropy$21,457,358Other$50,893,013Human Services$8,317,550Community Improvement$7,092,706Environment$5,953,500

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION — $14,786,334 over 5y, 9.7% of budgetGlobal Impact — $9,724,420 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $5,830,746 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetORANGE COUNTY'S UNITED WAY — $4,125,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetANAHEIM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $2,819,145 over 6y, 35% of budgetFRIENDS OF IR DAVID INC — $2,675,000 over 5y, 9.6% of budgetWORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE — $2,650,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetABOUND FOOD CARE — $2,600,000 over 2y, 75% of budgetTHE AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE TEL AVIV FOUNDATION INC — $2,500,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetTHE RINKS FOUNDATION — $2,398,875 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES — $2,350,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetFuente Latina Inc — $2,250,000 over 5y, 24% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ORANGE COUNTY — $2,231,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetDREAM MACHINE INNOVATION SO INC — $2,000,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION — $1,884,130 over 6y, 6.2% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMP INC — $1,850,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $1,804,218 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOrange Coast College Foundation — $1,651,625 over 3y, 13% of budgetJEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK — $1,647,575 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $1,620,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMIND OC — $1,592,050 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetBOARD OF JEWISH EDUCATION INC — $1,500,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetCanopy Planet Foundation — $1,450,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetUpstream USA Inc — $1,450,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetANAHEIM DUCKS FOUNDATION — $1,250,000 over 2y, 33% of budgetSIXPOINT INC — $1,200,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetSTEM NEXT OPPORTUNITY FUND — $1,075,000 over 4y, 6.4% of budgetCHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE COUNTY — $1,046,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — $1,035,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPRETEND CITY THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ORANGE COUNTY — $1,005,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND — $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOCTANE FOUNDATION FOR INNOVATION — $1,000,000 over 3y, 37% of budgetThe Quad Project Inc — $1,000,000 over 1y, 49% of budgetRESETTING THE TABLE INC — $1,000,000 over 1y, 77% of budgetCENTER FOR COUNTERING DIGITAL HATE INC — $1,000,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetTHE BRIDGESPAN GROUP INC — $975,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetORANGE COUNTY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS FOUNDATION — $958,500 over 5y, 12% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $930,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetORANGE COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART — $900,000 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetSAMUELI ACADEMY — $878,144 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $876,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC — $875,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY — $870,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND — $800,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv Univ — $763,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetECOLOGY CENTER — $740,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetJMH-ANAHEIM FOUNDATION INC — $736,000 over 2y, 37% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER INC — $675,135 over 2y, 8.6% of budget
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.

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.

Jewish Community Foun…Orange County Communi…Orange County's Unite…Hoag Memorial Hospita…Edwards Lifesciences …OneocSisters of St Joseph …Argyros Family Founda…The Devto Support Fou…O L Halsell FoundationCharitable Ventures o…Weingart Foundation
Jewish Community Foundation of Orange CountyCA88.3× affinity46 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of Orange County · Orange County Community Foundation · Orange County's United Way · Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · Oneoc · Sisters of St Joseph Healthcare Foundation · Argyros Family Foundation · The Devto Support Foundation · O L Halsell Foundation · Charitable Ventures of Orange County · Weingart 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 Samueli 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Usa Warriors Ice Hockey Program Inc Usawihp — 37% of income from government
  • Adamah Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
  • Upstream Usa Inc — 4% of income from government
  • University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc — 3% of income from government
  • American Academy of Arts & Sciences — 3% of income from government
  • Academic Consortium for Integrative Medicine and Health Inc — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
49report 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

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Samueli Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Samueli 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 545 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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