How much did SAMUELSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 47% of SAMUELSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

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2019

supportgeneral

2020

supportgeneral

2021

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2022

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2023

pasadena

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 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

States reached

$26M

Total assets

Largest grants

CALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY$250,000
OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE$250,000
CONNECT 2 MINISTRIES$29,500
BEACON HOUSING INC$29,500
BRIDGES$20,000
DOOR OF HOPE$20,000
CROSSROADS COMMUNITY CHURCH$18,500
CHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH$14,000
THE MADELEINE CHOIR SCHOOL$10,000
YMCA OF THE FOOTHILL$10,000
NEW HOPE LUTHERAN CHURCH$7,500
ROSE DRIVE FRIENDS CHURCH$7,000
HOLLYWOOD CHURCH OF CHRIST$7,000
THE CHURCH AT RANCHO BERNARDO$5,000
SANTA CLARITA VALLEY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB$5,000

02The need

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% — the area typically sits at 10%. 75% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — 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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.0M · 27 repeat orgs$342k to everyone else

27 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.0M

$68k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%

+31%

Still filing today

26%

38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterInternationalOther

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 +13%
BH
BEACON HOUSING INC
7× · 2018–2024 · $150k · revenue +97%
DO
DOOR OF HOPE
6× · 2018–2024 · $128k · revenue +183%

Funded once

MH
MOUNT HERMON ASSOCIATION INC
one grant, 2020 · $20k
MH
MOUNT HERMON
one grant, 2021 · $10k
FS
FULLER SEMINARY
one grant, 2021 · $10k

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.

California College of the Arts

To educate students of diverse backgrounds in areas of fine arts, architecture, design, & writing.

Education

Pasadena Bio Collaborative Incubator

Pasadena bio collaborative incubator is a nonprofit organization focused on economic development and job creation in southern california. we encourage the growth of an innovative biotechnology industry by providing educational/training…

Science & Tech

Bosque School

Bosque School is a coeducational college preparatory school creating transformative learning experiences that empower a diverse community of students to lead lives of intellectual curiosity, personal integrity, and compassionate…

Education

Los Angeles Business Council

The los angeles business council uniting the power of business with the power of government for education and advocacy to promote environmental and economic sustainability.

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California Historical Society

To collect, share, and honor the extraordinarily diverse stories throughout our state so that Californians may utilize historys lessons to create a brighter tomorrow for everyone.

Arts & Culture

Hills to Climb

Hills to Climb supports organizations serving urban youth populations, by providing inspirational, immersive and high quality outdoor experiences in a camp setting.

Youth Development

Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden

Rsabg aims to inspire, inform and educate the public and scientific community about california's native flora.

Environment

Green Hedges School Inc

Green Hedges inspires young people of talent and promise to develop clear values, a desire for wisdom, and an appreciation for all endeavors which broaden the mind and enlighten the spirit.

Education

Balboa Park Conservancy

Balboa Park Conservancy provided expertise, advocacy and resources to envision, enhance and sustain Balboa Park (the "Park") for all visitors in partnership with the City of San Diego and in collaboration with other organizations in the…

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California Water Data Consortium

The California Water Data Consortium is an independent, nonprofit organization created by a partnership of state agencies and others to ensure that Californians have access to the best possible water and ecological information to make…

Science & Tech

Los Angeles Sports Council

To drive positive impact in the greater los angeles area through the transformational powers of the sports industry.

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California Competes

California Competes: Higher Education for a Strong Economy is a nonpartisan policy and research organization focused on identifying solutions to the states most critical challenges at the intersection of higher education, equity, and the…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Get Lit - Words Ignite Inc and the most unlike its peers is Occidental College. 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 35 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% 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 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/27

the rest of the field

13%

8,864/68,037

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

18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

18/18

Grantees still filing

11/18

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$648,202Education$521,500Housing & Shelter$150,100Religion$47,500Youth Development$6,500Arts & Culture$4,050Environment$3,022

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.

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.

Pasadena Community FoundationCA17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pasadena Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Sempra Foundation · California Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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 organisation 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

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: CONNECT 2 MINISTRIES.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~10 months of operating runway; revenue held over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 264365043 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on CONNECT 2 MINISTRIES, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 10 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 6% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Samuelson Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Samuelson Charitable Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

SAMUELSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Samuelson Charitable Foundation?

More from the funding graph

SAMUELSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Samuelson Charitable Foundation?

More from the funding graph