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Southern California Grantmakers

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS (scg) is the regional association for philanthropists and grantmakers working to make a difference in our communities and around the world.

$5.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
133
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$165k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$2.4MCivil Rights$1.6MCommunity Improvement$1.6MHealth$1.5MYouth Development$1.1MPublic Benefit$825kHousing & Shelter$705kCrime & Legal$696kOther$0
02FY2024 · 133 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $62k
  • $10k–50k91 grants · $2.4M
  • $50k–250k34 grants · $3.0M
$30,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$35M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
A NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT (ANWOL)$165,000
TIMELIST GROUP INC$140,000
BLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESS$125,000
COMMUNITY PARTNERSV$124,500
CONGREGATIONS ORGANIZED FOR PROPHETIC ENGAGEMENT (COPE)$122,500
ANTELOPE VALLEY DOMESTIC VIOLENCE COUNCIL$120,000
SEED HOUSE PROJECT$115,400
DELTA RESEARCH AND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$110,000
ELITE SKILLS DEVELOPMENT INC$110,000
INGLEWOOD WRAPPING ARMS AROUND THE COMMUNITY$110,000
COMMUNITY NOW$110,000
SAN BERNARDINO FATHERHOOD$110,000
WATTS LABOR COMMUNITY ACTION COMMUNITY$110,000
MOMSHOUSE$110,000
TINY'S VILLAGE INC$105,000
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 (FY21–24, $2.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%EPIPTIDES CENTER: $8k → 10%BLACK BEING: $110k → 14%COLEMAN CHILDREN & YOUTH SERVICES: $110k → 10%INGLEWOOD WRAPPING ARMS AROUND THE COMMUNITY: $110k → 14%TIDES FOUNDATIONINLAND EMPOWERMENT: $125k → 10%UNIDOS POR LA MUSICA: $8k → 14%INLAND EMPIRE IMMIGRANT YOUTH COLLECTIVE (IEIYC): $10k → 11%CENTRO CHA INC: $28k → 14%WE ARE ONE UNITED: $10k → 11%INLAND EMPIRE REBOUND: $10k → 14%TODEC LEGAL CENTER PERRIS: $40k → 11%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN LOS ANGELES: $30k → 14%SUNRISE COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER INC: $30k → 14%SAN BERNARDINO FATHERHOOD: $110k → 14%RAISE A CHILD INC: $50k → 14%LIFE BUILDERS INCORPORATED: $28k → 14%WATTS LABOR COMMUNITY ACTION COMMUNITY: $110k → 14%SISTAHFRIENDS: $20k → 14%THE COMMUNITY ACTION LEAGUE: $120k → 14%OHANA CENTER: $110k → 14%THE COMMUNITY ACTION LEAGUE: $100k → 14%SEED HOUSE PROJECT: $115k → 14%THE COMMUNITY ACTION LEAGUE: $40k → 14%FAMILIES UNITING FAMILIES: $30k → 14%SOUTH ASIAN NETWORK: $30k → 14%HAVEN NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES: $10k → 14%PATHWAYS TO KINSHIP INC: $30k → 14%TEN TOES IN: $40k → 14%NEW REFLECTIONS: $10k → 14%JUST US 4 YOUTH: $10k → 14%THERAPEUTIC PLAY FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%THERAPEUTIC PLAY FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%THERAPEUTIC PLAY FOUNDATION: $30k → 14%THERAPEUTIC PLAY FOUNDATION: $9k → 14%NOHO HOME ALLIANCE: $20k → 14%CHILDREN'S BUREAU OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $60k → 14%THE VILLAGE FAMILY SERVICES: $100k → 14%PSYCHES OF COLOR INC: $110k → 14%YOUTH EMERGING STRONGER: $100k → 14%PSYCHES OF COLOR INC: $60k → 14%LOS ANGELES YOUTH NETWORK: $40k → 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.
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.

40%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.1M · 30 repeat orgs$7.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +84% since the first grant, against +39% for those funded once.

30 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 117 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
33

Total granted

$5.1M
$3.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+84%
+39%

Still filing today

100%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.6M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementHealthEducationArts & CultureYouth 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

  • CP
    COMMUNITY PARTNERS
    3× · 2020–2024 · $378k · revenue +111%
  • NC
    NEHEMIAH CHARITABLE FUND
    3× · 2022–2024 · $315k · revenue +190%
  • TC
    The Community Action League
    3× · 2022–2024 · $260k · revenue +84%

Funded once

  • AA
    ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $350k · revenue +102%
  • MM
    MALDEF - MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $315k · revenue -19%
  • NE
    NALEO EDUCATIONAL FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $300k · revenue +13%
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
Trauma Informed La
Civil Rights
2
Black Los Angeles County Client Coalition Inc

Mental health services advocacy

Human Services
3
The Latino Coalition for Community Leadership

The LCCL seeks to advance resource equity and the well-being of community through its mission to find, fund, form, and feature nonprofits in marginalized communities meeting the needs of individuals and families. As a community-facing…

Community Improvement
4
Project Lift La

Provider of human services

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5
African Com Public Health Coalition

To improve personal and community health and wellness within the african community by increasing the availability of culturally relevant physical and mental health services.

Health
6
Legal Link

Legal Link removes legal barriers that prolong poverty by adding critically needed capacity to the legal ecosystem.

Crime & Legal
7
The Miracle House Foundation

Mentorship and housing assistant for women returning from incarceration

Human Services
8
California Pan-Ethnic Health Network

To promote health equity by advocating for public policies and sufficient resources to address the health needs of communities of color.

Health
9
Community Justice Center

Cultivating individual and collective well-being, shared accountability, and healing through community-driven research and evidence-based restorative processes.

Crime & Legal
10
ExpresArte Cultural Wellness Collective

ExpresArte Cultural Wellness Collective is dedicated to centering the voices of people of color, co-creating programs and experiences that infuse healing and hope into our organizing and advocacy spaces. We address the root causes of…

Health
11
California Urban Partnership

The California Urban Partnership's (CUP) mission is to build economic security in communities of color through policy research, education and organizing community action. We advocate for systems changes that increase investments to improve…

Community Improvement
12
Consejo Counseling & Referral Service

Consejo brings healing, health, and hope to communities through holistic, culturally, and linguistically competent behavioral health services and advocacy.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Partners; the most unlike its peers is Women Achieving Success. 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

166 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 166 of the 183 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.

19
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
38
Early backer (in before they grew)
165/166
Grantees still filing
85/166
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Community Action League: $260,000 · Human ServicesThe Community Action…THE THERAPEUTIC PLAY FOUNDATION INC: $189,000 · Human ServicesTHE THERAPEUTIC PLAY…PSYCHES OF COLOR: $170,000 · Human ServicesPSYCHES OF COLORLos Angeles Youth Network: $140,000 · Human ServicesLos Angeles Youth Ne…TIDES CENTER: $133,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTERAntelope Valley Domestic Violence Council: $120,000 · Human ServicesSeed House Project: $115,400 · Human ServicesColeman Children and Youth Services dba Coleman Advocates for Children & Youth: $110,000 · Human ServicesINGLEWOOD WRAPPING: $110,000 · Human ServicesWATTS LABOR COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE: $110,000 · Human ServicesOhana Center: $110,000 · Human ServicesSAN BERNARDINO FATHERHOOD: $110,000 · Human ServicesBLACK BEING: $110,000 · Human ServicesThe Village Family Services Inc: $100,000 · Human Services+21 more: $510,400 · Human Services+21 moreNALEO EDUCATIONAL FUND: $300,000 · OtherNALEO EDUCATIONAL FUNDASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $350,000 · OtherASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE SOUTHERN…NEHEMIAH CHARITABLE FUND: $315,000 · OtherNEHEMIAH CHARITABLE FUNDCONGREGATIONS ORGANIZED FOR PROPHETIC ENGAGEMENT: $252,500 · OtherEMPOWERTHEM COLLECTIVE: $230,000 · Other+79 more: $3,427,425 · Other+79 moreCommunity Health Action Network: $229,000 · HealthCommunity H…ORANGE COUNTY ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER: $175,000 · HealthORANGE COUN…A NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT: $165,000 · HealthA NEW WAY O…MIGHTY LITTLE GIANTS INC: $159,000 · HealthMIGHTY LITT…BLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESS: $125,000 · HealthBLACK WOMEN…HEALTHY BLACK FAMILIES INC: $110,000 · HealthHEALTHY BLA…California Black Womens Health Project: $50,000 · HealthAMANECER COMMUNITY COUNSELING SERVICE A NON-PROFIT CORPORATION: $50,000 · Health+7 more: $210,000 · Health+7 moreCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $377,500 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY …COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS INC: $159,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY …INQUIRING SYSTEMS INC: $114,000 · Community ImprovementINQUIRING …FRESNO METRO BLACK CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $110,000 · Community ImprovementFRESNO MET…Concerned Citizens Community Involvement New Focus Children Cen: $110,000 · Community ImprovementConcerned …COMMUNITY COALITION FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT: $100,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY …Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy: $50,000 · Community ImprovementGOLDEN PATH: $40,000 · Community Improvement+7 more: $121,200 · Community Improvement+7 moreMagdalenas Daughters: $165,000 · Youth DevelopmentMagdalenas…CURLS COILS & CROWNS: $159,000 · Youth DevelopmentCURLS COIL…PROJECT JOY: $159,000 · Youth DevelopmentPROJECT JO…Elite Skills Development: $110,000 · Youth DevelopmentElite Skil…G Irl: $110,000 · Youth DevelopmentG IrlACCESS NONPROFIT CENTER: $110,000 · Youth DevelopmentACCESS NON…TINYS VILLAGE: $105,000 · Youth DevelopmentTINYS VILL…COALITION FOR RESPONSIBLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOALITION …RESILIENT AGENCY: $40,000 · Youth Development+4 more: $98,200 · Youth Development+4 moreEmpower You Edutainment: $180,000 · EducationEmpower Y…STEM TO THE FUTURE: $159,000 · EducationSTEM TO T…GAILEN & CATHY REEVERS CENTER FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT INC: $159,000 · EducationGAILEN & …BLU Educational Foundation: $110,000 · EducationBLU Educa…SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $110,000 · EducationSOCIAL GO…Communities For A New California Education Fund: $75,000 · EducationCommuniti…EDUCATING STUDENTS TOGETHER INC: $59,000 · EducationEDUCATING…READY TO SUCCEED: $50,000 · EducationDEFY VENTURES INC: $40,000 · Education+6 more: $125,000 · Education+6 moreCALIFORNIA CALLS EDUCATION FUND: $400,000 · Civil RightsMALDEF - MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND: $315,000 · Civil RightsEQUALITY ALLIANCE OF SAN DIEGO: $125,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND: $75,000 · Civil RightsSTARTING OVER STRONG: $65,000 · Civil Rights+1 more: $20,000 · Civil Rights
Human Services$2,397,800Other$4,874,925Health$1,273,000Community Improvement$1,181,700Youth Development$1,156,200Education$1,067,000Civil Rights$1,000,000

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 budgetCALIFORNIA CALLS EDUCATION FUND: $400,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $377,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $350,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetMALDEF - MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND: $315,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetNEHEMIAH CHARITABLE FUND: $315,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetNALEO EDUCATIONAL FUND: $300,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetThe Community Action League: $260,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetCONGREGATIONS ORGANIZED FOR PROPHETIC ENGAGEMENT: $252,500 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetCommunity Health Action Network: $229,000 over 4y, 30% of budgetTHE THERAPEUTIC PLAY FOUNDATION INC: $189,000 over 4y, 29% of budgetEmpower You Edutainment: $180,000 over 2y, 37% of budgetORANGE COUNTY ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER: $175,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetPSYCHES OF COLOR: $170,000 over 2y, 95% of budgetA NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT: $165,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMagdalenas Daughters: $165,000 over 2y, 63% of budgetMIGHTY LITTLE GIANTS INC: $159,000 over 3y, 27% of budgetCURLS COILS & CROWNS: $159,000 over 3y, 25% of budgetPROJECT JOY: $159,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetSTEM TO THE FUTURE: $159,000 over 3y, 31% of budgetCOMMUNITY REFLECTIONS INC: $159,000 over 3y, 73% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $159,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGROWURPOTENTIAL: $159,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetGAILEN & CATHY REEVERS CENTER FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT INC: $159,000 over 3y, 29% of budgetLos Angeles Metropolitan Churches: $154,375 over 2y, 13% of budgetTIMELIST GROUP INC: $140,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetLos Angeles Youth Network: $140,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $133,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEQUALITY ALLIANCE OF SAN DIEGO: $125,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetBLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESS: $125,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetAntelope Valley Domestic Violence Council: $120,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSeed House Project: $115,400 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetINQUIRING SYSTEMS INC: $114,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetColeman Children and Youth Services dba Coleman Advocates for Children & Youth: $110,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetBLACK ALLIANCE FOR JUST IMMIGRATION: $110,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetDELTA RESEARCH & EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $110,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY NOW: $110,000 over 1y, 77% of budgetBLU Educational Foundation: $110,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetWATTS LABOR COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE: $110,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetElite Skills Development: $110,000 over 1y, 94% of budgetOhana Center: $110,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetHEALTHY BLACK FAMILIES INC: $110,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetBUILDING OPP FOR SELF-SUFFICIENCY: $110,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetG Irl: $110,000 over 1y, 52% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $110,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAN BERNARDINO FATHERHOOD: $110,000 over 1y, 54% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY: $110,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetBLACK BEING: $110,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetACCESS NONPROFIT CENTER: $110,000 over 2y, 55% 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.

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.

Weingart FoundationLiberty Hill Foundati…California Community …The California Endowm…Inland Empire Communi…The California Wellne…United Way IncThe James Irvine Foun…The Ralph M Parsons F…Community PartnersThe Annenberg Foundat…The Ahmanson Foundati…
Weingart FoundationCA97.5× affinity60 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Weingart Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · California Community Foundation · The California Endowment · Inland Empire Community Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · United Way Inc · The James Irvine Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Community Partners · The Annenberg Foundation · The Ahmanson 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 Southern California Grantmakers funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Southern California Grantmakers. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    67report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 183 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 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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