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Specialty Family Foundation
Its FY2020 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 FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k21 grants · $81k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $444k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.0M
- $250k+2 grants · $683k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $348,133 |
| Individual grant recipient | $335,000 |
| PROTOTYPES | $200,000 |
| SHIELDS FOR FAMILIES | $200,000 |
| CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $127,500 |
| SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS | $90,000 |
| SAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH | $80,000 |
| ST FRANCIS CENTER | $68,300 |
| HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES | $60,000 |
| CATHOLIC SCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE | $57,500 |
| ST VINCENT SENIOR CITIZEN PROGRAM INC | $50,000 |
| VENICE FAMILY CLINIC | $50,000 |
| NATIONAL CATHOLIC EDUCATION ASSOC | $50,000 |
| THE PEOPLE CONCERN | $45,000 |
| ST JOSEPH CENTER | $44,000 |
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 (FY17–20, $692k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +110% since the first grant, against +55% for the ones you funded once.
51 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2020, 14 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $214k 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
- CSCATHOLIC SCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE3× · 2017–2020 · $349k · revenue +219% · 51% of their budget
- TPTHE PEOPLE CONCERN3× · 2017–2020 · $225k · revenue +696%
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS3× · 2017–2020 · $193k · revenue +351%
Funded once
- SGST GERTRUDE THE GREATone grant, 2017 · $55k
- SCST COLUMBKILLE SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $48k
- SPST PATRICK'S CATHOLIC SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $45k
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.
To improve the quality of life for the diverse communities we serve providing affordable and comprehensive healthcare and education in a welcoming multi-cultural environment.
Our mission is to create housing and service options that model, with respect and dignity, sustainable, environmentally sensitive, affordable communities for people of limited resources.
The anti-recidivism coalition (arc) works to end mass incarceration in california. to ensure our communities are safe, healthy, and whole, arc empowers formerly and currently incarcerated people to thrive by providing a support network,…
The mission of the organization is to ensure safety and stability for people who are battered, abused, homeless or at risk; to create public awareness about the epidemic of violence; and to mobilize the community to prevent violence and…
The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…
The roots of the los angeles didi hirsch psychiatric service dba didi hirsch mental health services ("dhmhs") extend back to the 1930s, when a group of women funded psychiatric care for people whose lives were devastated by the depression.…
The mission of the st. vincent de paul society of san francisco (svdp-sf) is to offer hope and service on a direct person-to-person basis, working to break the cycles of homelessness and domestic violence.
We work to end homelessness through housing solutions, supportive services, and connection to community. we advocate for equitable and just systems that ensure all individuals and families will have a safe place they can call home.
Family promise of the south bay assists families experiencing housing insecurity with short-term shelter, case management, and navigation with the goal of creating a sustainable solution for their family.
Through a holistic approach to emotional well-being, Wellnest offers hope, healing, and opportunity to the children, young adults, families, and communities we serve. Our commitment remains steadfast as we enter our second century of…
The center provides a place of community to end isolation, build relationships, and introduce housing, health and wellness services to adult individuals experiencing homelessness in hollywood. it contracts with public and non-profit grant…
Mercy house's most significant exempt activities focus on ending homelessness and providing comprehensive housing and support services. the organization offers homeless prevention, rapid rehousing, permanent supportive housing, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Safe Place for Youth Inc and the most unlike its peers is LA84 Foundation. 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 49 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
44 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. 44 of the 111 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 SHIELDS FOR FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC SCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE PEOPLE CONCERN ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES ↗
- Who funds SAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds St Francis Center ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH CENTER ↗
- Who funds HEALTHRIGHT 360 ↗
- Who funds VENICE FAMILY CLINIC ↗
- Who funds SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE MIDNIGHT MISSION ↗
- Who funds STEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC ↗
- Who funds THE ASSOCIATION OF CATHOLIC STUDENT COUNCILS ↗
- Who funds ART TREK INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COALITION TO ABOLISH SLAVERY & TRAFFICKING ↗
- Who funds Harvest Home Inc ↗
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: Specialty Family Foundation · Carrie Estelle Doheny Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · California Community Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The Green Foundation · Shelter Partnership 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 organization Specialty Family 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.
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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