· Private foundation
Service Station Foundation F/K/A the Chernin Family Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $500
- $10k–50k4 grants · $95k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $328k
- $250k+4 grants · $4.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION | $2,000,000 |
| LA PROMISE FUND | $1,568,165 |
| MALARIA NO MORE | $350,000 |
| ACLU | $250,000 |
| EVERY TOWN FOR GUN SAFETY | $150,000 |
| THE GETTY TRUST | $128,000 |
| HARBOR HOMES OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD | $50,000 |
| KOUNKUEY DESIGN INITIATIVE | $25,000 |
| MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION- RON RAPPAPORT FUND | $25,000 |
| 7TH GENERATION ADVISORS FRIENDS OF KBLA | $25,000 |
| MARTH'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–21, $614) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- LPLA PROMISE FUND7× · 2017–2024 · $6.2M · revenue +287%
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC4× · 2021–2024 · $400k · revenue +28%- MYMV YOUTH INC6× · 2017–2023 · $161k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- SMSHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +135%
- UFUS FUND FOR THE GLOBone grant, 2023 · $28k
- NRNEW ROADS SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +29%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.
The university of la verne offers a distinctive and relevant educational experience to a diverse population of traditional-age, adult, and graduate learners, preparing them for successful careers and a commitment to lifelong learning…
Vistamar school empowers students, preparing them to contribute and excel in higher education and in life, and commits to: a broad and balanced program that challenges and engages students, building their individual skills and inspiring a…
The martha's vineyard agricultural society supports a resilient and sustainable agricultural community on martha's vineyard. we do this by:- offering services, education, marketing, and technical support for farmers and farmworkers on the…
For more than five decades, public advocates has challenged the systemic causes of poverty and racial discrimination by strengthening community voices in public policy and achieving tangible legal victories advancing education, housing,…
The los angeles conservancy is a nonprofit membership organization that works through education and advocacy to recognize, preserve, and revitalize the historic architectural and cultural resources of los angeles county.
Our mission is to support the naval postgraduate school by providing funding and programmatic support for education, research, technology development, institutional initiatives, and community programs that advance national security and…
The hammer museum at ucla believes in the promise of art and ideas to illuminate our lives and build a more just world.
Mills college is an independent liberal arts college for women and gender nonbinary students, with graduate programs for all genders. the college educates students to think critically and communicate responsibly and effectively, to accept…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sheriff's Meadow Foundation and the most unlike its peers is National Asian American Pacific Islander Mental Health Association. 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 24 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
27 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. 27 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds LA PROMISE FUND ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MV YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds HARBOR HOMES OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC ↗
- Who funds SHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRANSFORMATIVE ARTS ↗
- Who funds NEW ROADS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds KOUNKUEY DESIGN INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT PUBLIC SCHOOLS NOW ↗
- Who funds THE LOS ANGELES FREE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds POLLY HILL ARBORETUM INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VINEYARD CONSERVATION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BLACK JUSTICE COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds FIGURE SKATING IN HARLEM INC ↗
- Who funds PHASE ONE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EVERYBODY DANCE LA ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Joseph Drown Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · California Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · South Mountain Company Foundation · Gretchen V & Samuel M Feldman Private Foundation Inc · Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The California Endowment · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Service Station Foundation F/K/A the Chernin Family Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- National Black Justice Coalition Inc — 17% of income from government
- Sheriff's Meadow Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Harbor Homes of Martha's Vineyard Inc — 1% of income from government
- Friends of Mvyradio Inc — 1% of income from government
- Island Grown Initiative Ltd — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
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.