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Silent Partner Grants
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 $10k15 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $66k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $716k
- $250k+4 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SEMESTER AT SEA | $501,075 |
| DAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION | $330,000 |
| WORLD PEDIATRIC PROJECT | $315,000 |
| HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES | $150,000 |
| LITTLE SISTERS FUND | $115,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $110,000 |
| FLINTRIDGE PREPARATORY | $101,700 |
| CORELIGHT | $72,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC | $67,300 |
| EISENHOWER HEALTH | $50,000 |
| TAKING THE REINS | $50,000 |
| TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY | $20,500 |
| NUVASIVE SPINE FDN | $15,000 |
| YOUNG AND HEALTHY | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $293k) 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +24% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
43 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 10 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k 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
- IFINSTITUTE FOR SHIPBOARD EDUCATION8× · 2017–2024 · $3.8M · revenue +6%
NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC7× · 2018–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +26%- LSLITTLE SISTERS FUND INC7× · 2017–2024 · $900k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- CECATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELESone grant, 2023 · $50k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $40k
- EPEL PASO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOC INCone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +18%
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.
Our institutional mission is to educate and prepare students to be ethical leaders and socially responsible global citizens who incorporate the dominican values of study, reflection, community and service into their lives.
Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.
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.
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 organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
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.
Claremont Graduate University prepares individuals to be leaders for positive change in the world. Unique in its transdisciplinary approach, the University is dedicated to the creation, dissemination, and application of new knowledge and…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
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 california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.
Los angeles pacific university exists to deliver high quality, accessible christ-centered education to learners everywhere.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young & Healthy and the most unlike its peers is Globus Cares. 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.
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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
64 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. 64 of the 109 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 DAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION FOR CONSCIOUSNESS -BASED EDUCATION AND WORLD PEACE ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR SHIPBOARD EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE SISTERS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL PROJECTS FOR PEACE ↗
- Who funds MAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FLINTRIDGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WORLD PEDIATRICS ↗
- Who funds CHAPMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TAKING THE REINS ↗
- Who funds Eisenhower Medical Center ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds YOUNG & HEALTHY ↗
- Who funds TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PATRA PUBLIC CHARITY ↗
- Who funds ONCE UPON A ROOM INC ↗
- Who funds UNION RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd ↗
- Who funds Rocky Mountain Youth Medical and Nursing ↗
- Who funds HEFFERNAN GROUP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EL PASO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds VISIONARIA NETWORK ↗
- Who funds HATCH INC ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GLOBUS CARES ↗
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: Chapman Family Foundation · California Community Foundation · Gail G Ellis Foundation Inc · Orange County Community Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · Pasadena Community Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Fishbein Family Foundation Inc · The San Diego Foundation · Western Asset Management Company Charitable Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · 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 Silent Partner Grants 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.
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.
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