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Samuelson Charitable 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.

$699k
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182024.

Education$530kReligion$404kHousing & Shelter$278kCrime & Legal$62kHuman Services$33kRecreation & Sports$22kEnvironment$13kArts & Culture$12kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $48k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $152k
  • $250k+2 grants · $500k
$7,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY$250,000
OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE$250,000
BEACON HOUSING INC$29,500
CONNECT 2 MINISTRIES$29,500
BRIDGES$20,000
DOOR OF HOPE$20,000
CROSSROADS COMMUNITY CHURCH$18,500
CHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH$14,000
YMCA OF THE FOOTHILL$10,000
THE MADELEINE CHOIR SCHOOL$10,000
NEW HOPE LUTHERAN CHURCH$7,500
ROSE DRIVE FRIENDS CHURCH$7,000
HOLLYWOOD CHURCH OF CHRIST$7,000
MARIN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL$5,000
THE CHURCH AT RANCHO BERNARDO$5,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%COMMUNITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $3k → 18%MARIN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $5k → 8%CONNECT 2 MINISTRIES: $30k → 10%ROSE DRIVE FRIENDS CHURCH: $7k → 10%MOUNT HERMON ASSOCIATION INC: $20k → 13%THE MADELEINE CHOIR SCHOOL: $10k → 8%CHRIST THE SERVANT LUTHERAN CHURCH: $28k → 12%CONNECT 2 MINISTRIES: $18k → 10%ROSE DRIVE FRIENDS CHURCH: $5k → 10%MOUNT HERMON: $10k → 13%CHRIST THE SERVANT LUTHERAN CHURCH: $5k → 12%CONNECT2MINISTRIES: $3k → 10%ROSE DRIVE FRIENDS CHURCH: $5k → 10%CHRIST THE SERVANT LUTHERAN CHURCH: $3k → 12%ROSE DRIVE FRIENDS CHURCH: $3k → 10%CALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY: $250k → 10%CROSSROADS COMMUNITY CHURCH: $19k → 14%CHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH: $14k → 14%CHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH: $5k → 14%CHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH: $5k → 14%HOLLYWOOD CHURCH OF CHRIST: $7k → 14%THE CHURCH AT RANCHO BERNARDO: $5k → 11%HOLLYWOOD CHURCH OF CHRIST: $5k → 14%HOLLYWOOD CHURCH OF CHRIST: $5k → 14%SANTA CLARITA VALLEY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $5k → 14%BRIDGES: $6k → 14%NEW HOPE LUTHERAN CHURCH: $8k → 14%BEACON HOUSING INC: $52k → 14%NEW HOPE LUTHERAN CHURCH: $5k → 14%BEACON HOUSING INC: $36k → 14%NEW HOPE LUTHERAN CHURCH: $5k → 14%BEACON HOUSING INC: $30k → 14%BEACON HOUSING INC: $29k → 14%OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE: $250k → 14%OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE: $20k → 14%LA CANADA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $55k → 14%LA CANADA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $29k → 14%BRIDGES: $20k → 14%YMCA OF THE FOOTHILL: $17k → 14%BRIDGES: $16k → 14%BRIDGES: $12k → 14%YMCA OF THE FOOTHILL: $10k → 14%BRIDGES: $9k → 14%CRESCENTA CANADA FAMILY YMCA: $5k → 14%FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH LA CRESCENTA: $6k → 14%DOOR OF HOPE: $25k → 14%DOOR OF HOPE: $20k → 14%FULLER SEMINARY: $10k → 14%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.

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 26 repeat orgs$310k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +94% since the first grant, against +45% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
20

Total granted

$1.1M
$36k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+94%
+45%

Still filing today

38%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $274k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationYouth DevelopmentArts & CulturePhilanthropyHousing & ShelterReligionOther

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

  • OC
    OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE
    2× · 2020–2024 · $270k · revenue +25%
  • BH
    BEACON HOUSINGINC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $150k · revenue +94%
  • DO
    DOOR OF HOPE
    6× · 2018–2024 · $128k · revenue +183%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • CC
    CRESCENTA CANADA FAMILY YMCA
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • CL
    COMMUNITY LIFE CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $3k

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
Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences

Crossroads is an independent school for approximately 1,200 students.

Education
2
La's Best

La's best provides free supervised before and after-school activities to over 15,000 children at 200 schools in los angeles unified school district (lausd).

Education
3
Boys and Girls Club of Santa Monica Inc

To inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as caring, responsible, productive citizens.

Youth Development
4
Boys & Girls Clubs of Northwest San Diego County Inc

The mission of Boys & Girls Clubs of Northwest San Diego is to inspire, develop, and enrich young people to reach their fullest potential as confident, responsible, caring members of society. SINCE OUR DOORS OPENED IN 1952, OUR PROGRAMS…

Youth Development
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.

6
The Buckley School

The buckley school is a dynamic, nurturing learning community committed to equity and inclusion. our innovative teachers and challenging programs inspire creativity, courage, and collaboration. by promoting a balanced development of mind,…

7
Boys & Girls Club of La Plata County Inc

To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.

Youth Development
8
The Los Angeles County Alliance for Boys and Girls Clubs

The alliance was established to support the 23 clubs in the los angeles county by securing resources and marketing the boys and girls clubs to support the efforts of each individual club to increase their impact and outreach.

9
California College of the Arts

California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…

Education
10
Boys & Girls Clubs of Los Angeles Harbor

The mission is to help all young people reach their full potential as productive, caring and responsible citizens. this is achieved through a commitment to quality programs and services in a place that is safe, nurturing and inspiring.

Youth Development
11
Boys & Girls Club of Laguna Beach

To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as healthy, caring, and responsible adults.

Youth Development
12
Boys & Girls Club of Pasadena

We enable children and youth in the community, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, healthy, and responsible citizens.

Youth Development

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater San Diego and the most unlike its peers is Blue Water Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%6%<5yr15%3%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr17%22%20–35yr11%19%35–55yr13%34%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%6%10–20yr17%19%20–35yr11%40%35–55yr13%35%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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%0/38
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,940

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.

04the grantee network

21 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 53 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
17/21
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DOOR OF HOPE — $127,500 · OtherDOOR OF HOPELA CANADA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — $95,500 · OtherLA CANADA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHBRIDGES — $61,500 · OtherBRIDGESCHRIST THE SERVANT LUTHERAN CHURCH — $40,500 · OtherCHRIST THE SERVANT LUTHERAN CHURCHCHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH — $36,000 · OtherCHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCHMOUNT HERMON ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED — $30,000 · OtherNEW HOPE LUTHERAN CHURCH — $29,500 · OtherHOLLYWOOD CHURCH OF CHRIST — $29,000 · OtherROSE DRIVE FRIENDS CHURCH — $29,000 · OtherYMCA OF THE FOOTHILLS — $28,000 · Other+30 more — $125,602 · Other+30 moreOCCIDENTAL COLLEGE — $270,000 · EducationOCCIDENTAL COLLEGECALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY — $250,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY+2 more — $5,500 · EducationBEACON HOUSINGINC — $150,100 · Housing & ShelterBEACON HOUSI…Connect 2 Ministries — $56,500 · ReligionSANTA CLARITA VALLEY BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CARLSBAD — $1,500 · Youth Development+1 more — $100 · Youth DevelopmentArlington Garden in Pasadena — $6,022 · EnvironmentBLUE WATER INSTITUTE — $2,500 · Arts & CultureGET LIT - WORDS IGNITE INC — $1,000 · Arts & CultureHistorical Society of West Point Inc — $550 · Arts & Culture
Other$632,102Education$525,500Housing & Shelter$150,100Religion$56,500Youth Development$6,600Environment$6,022Arts & Culture$4,050

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetOCCIDENTAL COLLEGE — $270,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY — $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBEACON HOUSINGINC — $150,100 over 7y, 5.5% of budgetDOOR OF HOPE — $127,500 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetConnect 2 Ministries — $56,500 over 7y, 5.5% of budgetYMCA OF THE FOOTHILLS — $28,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetArlington Garden in Pasadena — $6,022 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetSANTA CLARITA VALLEY BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFIRESIDE ELEMENTARY PTO — $4,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetBLUE WATER INSTITUTE — $2,500 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetLOS ANGELES CONSERVATION CORPS — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE WISHES — $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CARLSBAD — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN MARCOS HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC BOOSTERS CLUB — $1,500 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE — $1,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGET LIT - WORDS IGNITE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHistorical Society of West Point Inc — $550 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetGIVE2ASIA — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC — $102 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SAN DIEGO — $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds BEACON HOUSINGINC
  • Who funds DOOR OF HOPE
  • Who funds Connect 2 Ministries
  • Who funds YMCA OF THE FOOTHILLS
  • Who funds Arlington Garden in Pasadena
  • Who funds SANTA CLARITA VALLEY BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB
  • Who funds FIRESIDE ELEMENTARY PTO
  • Who funds BLUE WATER INSTITUTE
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES CONSERVATION CORPS
  • Who funds LITTLE WISHES
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CARLSBAD
  • Who funds SAN MARCOS HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC BOOSTERS CLUB
  • Who funds ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE
  • Who funds PASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION

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.

California Community FoundationCA18.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Pasadena Community Foundation · Samuelson Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Sempra Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 Samuelson Charitable 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 Samuelson Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Samuelson Charitable 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 53 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.

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