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Silent Partner Grants at a glance

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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.

$2.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
32
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$501k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$6.6MEducation$5.3MArts & Culture$1.8MInternational$1.6MYouth Development$1.1MReligion$913kPhilanthropy$370kPublic Benefit$61kOther$0
02FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k15 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $66k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $716k
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.6M
$10,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$51M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
TAKING THE REINS$50,000
EISENHOWER HEALTH$50,000
TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY$20,500
NUVASIVE SPINE FDN$15,000
ABILITY CONNECTION$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $25k → 14%VISION ARIA NETWORK: $15k → 12%CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY - GREATER CINCINNATINORTHERN KENTUCKY: $10k → 16%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $10k → 14%VISION ARIA NETWORK: $5k → 12%FOOTHILL FAMILY: $1k → 14%FOOTHILL FAMILY: $500 → 14%FOOTHILL FAMILY: $500 → 14%FOOTHILL FAMILY: $500 → 14%TAKING THE REINS: $100k → 14%TAKING THE REINS: $75k → 14%TAKING THE REINS: $50k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
IL
MI
NY
OR
NV
IA
IN
OH
PA
CA
CO
VA
AZ
NM
TN
NC
DC
OK
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$18M · 43 repeat orgs$399k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +21% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
52

Total granted

$18M
$358k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+21%

Still filing today

67%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyHealthHuman ServicesInternationalYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR SHIPBOARD EDUCATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $3.8M · revenue +6%
  • NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +26%
  • LS
    LITTLE SISTERS FUND INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $900k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • CE
    CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $40k
  • EP
    EL PASO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOC INC
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +18%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Dominican University of California

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.

Education
2
Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.

Health
3
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
4
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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5
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
6
The Uc Davis Foundation

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

Education
7
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
8
Claremont Graduate University

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…

Education
9
University of New Haven

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…

Education
10
Ucla Foundation

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…

Education
11
California Dental Association

The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.

Community Improvement
12
Los Angeles Pacific University

Los angeles pacific university exists to deliver high quality, accessible christ-centered education to learners everywhere.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young & Healthy; 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.
04the grantee network

64 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/64
Grantees still filing
45/64
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION FOR CONSCIOUSNESS -BASED EDUCATION AND WORLD PEACE: $4,600,000 · PhilanthropyDAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION FOR CONSCIOU…GLOBAL PROJECTS FOR PEACE: $686,500 · PhilanthropyGLOBAL PROJECTS FOR PEACECHAPMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION: $330,000 · PhilanthropyCHAPMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION+7 more: $77,000 · PhilanthropyINSTITUTE FOR SHIPBOARD EDUCATION: $3,849,272 · EducationINSTITUTE FOR SHIPBOARD EDUCATI…MAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY: $600,000 · EducationMAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERS…FLINTRIDGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $431,750 · EducationFLINTRIDGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL+8 more: $220,759 · EducationMAHARISHI UNIVERSITY OF MGMT: $1,550,000 · OtherMAHARISHI UNIVERSI…CORE LIGHT: $576,000 · OtherCORE LIGHTTAKING THE REINS: $225,000 · OtherTAKING THE REINS+65 more: $659,263 · Other+65 moreNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $1,737,500 · Arts & CultureNAVY SEAL F…+1 more: $25,000 · Arts & CultureLITTLE SISTERS FUND INC: $900,461 · InternationalWORLD PEDIATRICS: $350,000 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $127,900 · International+2 more: $11,000 · InternationalHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $751,000 · Youth DevelopmentONCE UPON A ROOM INC: $40,000 · Youth Development+2 more: $10,263 · Youth DevelopmentEisenhower Medical Center: $200,000 · HealthYOUNG & HEALTHY: $80,000 · HealthPasadena Hospital Association Ltd: $35,000 · HealthRocky Mountain Youth Medical and Nursing: $30,000 · Health+5 more: $11,260 · Health
Philanthropy$5,693,500Education$5,101,781Other$3,010,263Arts & Culture$1,762,500International$1,389,361Youth Development$801,263Health$356,260

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION FOR CONSCIOUSNESS -BASED EDUCATION AND WORLD PEACE: $4,600,000 over 8y, 13% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR SHIPBOARD EDUCATION: $3,849,272 over 8y, 18% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $1,737,500 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetLITTLE SISTERS FUND INC: $900,461 over 7y, 23% of budgetHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $751,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetGLOBAL PROJECTS FOR PEACE: $686,500 over 7y, 13% of budgetMAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY: $600,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFLINTRIDGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $431,750 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetWORLD PEDIATRICS: $350,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetCHAPMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION: $330,000 over 2y, 40% of budgetTAKING THE REINS: $225,000 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetEisenhower Medical Center: $200,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $127,900 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $120,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG & HEALTHY: $80,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $61,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPATRA PUBLIC CHARITY: $60,000 over 5y, 21% of budgetONCE UPON A ROOM INC: $40,000 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetUNION RESCUE MISSION: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPasadena Hospital Association Ltd: $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRocky Mountain Youth Medical and Nursing: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHEFFERNAN GROUP FOUNDATION: $29,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetEL PASO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOC INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetVISIONARIA NETWORK: $20,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetHATCH INC: $17,100 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetLOYOLA HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetGLOBUS CARES: $15,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLoma Linda University Health Care: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY - GREATER CINCINNATI/NORTHERN KENTUCKY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCARBONDALE COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT 165 EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetPOSITIVE TOMORROWS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPROVIDING FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetSan Marino Schools Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNAVY-MARINE CORPS RELIEF SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFive Acres The Boys and Girls' Aid Society of Los Angeles County: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLA JOLLA COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $6,057 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBACK ON MY FEET: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALPHA DELTA PI FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALTADENA NURSERY SCHOOL INC: $4,160 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $3,099 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPET PROJECT FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Chapman Family Founda…California Community …Gail G Ellis Foundati…Orange County Communi…The Rose Hills Founda…Pasadena Community Fo…The Ralph M Parsons F…The Fishbein Family F…The San Diego Foundat…Western Asset Managem…The Ahmanson Foundati…Weingart Foundation
Chapman Family FoundationCA26.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Silent Partner Grants funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Silent Partner Grants. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Silent Partner Grants?

    Find your warmest path to Silent Partner Grants 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 109 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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