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Specialty Family Foundation

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.

$2.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
56
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$468k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Education$1.8MHousing & Shelter$1.7MHuman Services$1.5MPhilanthropy$1.5MCommunity Improvement$281kHealth$261kYouth Development$226kArts & Culture$215kOther$0
02FY2024 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $81k
  • $10k–50k26 grants · $498k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $789k
  • $250k+2 grants · $918k
$15,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$79M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$468,000
OUR LADY QUEEN OF ANGELS HOUSING ALLIANCE$450,000
ST JOSEPH CENTER$130,500
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS$115,000
ST FRANCIS CENTER$80,000
PARTNERS FOR CHILDREN SOUTH LA$80,000
SEED HOUSE PROJECT$75,000
A SENSE OF HOME$58,000
THE PEOPLE CONCERN$50,000
DOMINICAN SISTERS VISION OF HOPE SCHOOLS$50,000
MOUNT SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY$50,000
FADICA INC$50,000
SAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH$50,000
SHIELDS FOR FAMILIES$43,000
ART TREK INC$40,000
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, $1.7M) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PARTNERS FOR CHILDREN SOUTH LA: $125k → 14%PARTNERS FOR CHILDREN SOUTH LA: $115k → 14%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $3k → 14%PARTNERS FOR CHILDREN SOUTH LA: $80k → 14%A SENSE OF HOME: $58k → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $160k → 14%A SENSE OF HOME: $12k → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $50k → 14%A SENSE OF HOME: $3k → 14%IMAGINE LA: $150k → 14%IMAGINE LA: $20k → 14%PARA LOS NINOS: $20k → 14%IMAGINE LA: $30k → 14%PARTNERS FOR CHILDREN SOUTH LA: $100k → 14%ST JOSEPH CENTER: $131k → 14%SEED HOUSE PROJECT: $80k → 14%ST JOSEPH CENTER: $19k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $25k → 14%SEED HOUSE PROJECT: $75k → 14%ST JOSEPH CENTER: $5k → 14%SEED HOUSE PROJECT: $15k → 14%STEP UP ON SECOND: $25k → 14%CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE: $20k → 14%ALL PEOPLES COMMUNITY CENTER: $30k → 14%JOVENES INC: $60k → 14%SOFESA: $10k → 14%SAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH: $66k → 14%SOFESA: $10k → 14%SAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH: $50k → 14%SAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH: $40k → 14%SAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH: $85k → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $10k → 14%ST JOSEPH CENTER: $25k → 14%THE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $10k → 14%HAVEN NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES: $15k → 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

IL
NY
IN
CT
CA
CO
NE
KY
VA
DC
GA
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.6M · 50 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.

50 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
51

Total granted

$7.6M
$777k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+32%

Still filing today

58%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $790k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyReligionOther
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

  • PF
    PARTNERS FOR CHILDREN SOUTH LA
    4× · 2021–2024 · $420k · revenue +161%
  • CS
    CATHOLIC SCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE
    3× · 2021–2023 · $248k · revenue +23%
  • SP
    SAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $241k · revenue +173%

Funded once

  • JI
    JOVENES INC CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $80k
  • P
    PROTOTYPES
    one grant, 2021 · $75k
  • JI
    JOVENES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $60k · revenue +69%
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
The Anti-Recidivism Coalition

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,…

Crime & Legal
2
Interval House

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…

Human Services
3
Housing Works

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.

Housing & Shelter
4
Beyond Us & Them

To offer programs and training that resource individuals and organizations in self-awareness, self-regulation, effective communication and to promote structures of belonging, utilizing council and other practices, to encourage social…

Human Services
5
Wellnest Emotional Health & Wellness

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…

Human Services
6
End Homelessness California

To build capacity and community engagement to better serve the most vulnerable population suffering poverty and the homeless crisis.

Human Services
7
Family Promise of Los Angeles

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.

Human Services
8
Los Angeles Youth Network

Youth Emerging Stronger (YES) empowers young people, between ages of 12 and 24 within Los Angeles County, including but not limited to run-away and homeless youth. YES mission is to end homelessness one youth at a time to become…

Human Services
9
Trauma Informed La
Civil Rights
10
Cangress Dba Los Angeles Community Action Network

Community organizing, education, advocacy, leadership development, direct services and organizational development for communities faced with immense poverty.

Community Improvement
11
Southern California University of Health Sciences

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,…

Education
12
Ascencia

To lift people of out homelessness, one person, one family at a time.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Safe Place for Youth Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

70 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. 70 of the 130 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/70
Grantees still filing
43/70
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $2,225,850 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $446,618 · OtherCATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATIONSt Francis Center: $218,500 · OtherDOMINICAN SISTERS VISION OF HOPE SCHOOLS: $200,000 · OtherFADICA INC: $200,000 · OtherLos Angeles Room & Board: $165,150 · Other+77 more: $1,439,319 · Other+77 moreCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $855,000 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY …SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS: $601,500 · PhilanthropySOUTHERN CALIFORNIA G…OUR LADY QUEEN OF ANGELS HOUSING ALLIANCE: $450,000 · PhilanthropyOUR LADY QUEEN OF ANG…+3 more: $20,000 · PhilanthropyPARTNERS FOR CHILDREN SOUTH LA: $420,000 · Human ServicesPARTNERS FOR CHILDR…SAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH INC: $241,375 · Human ServicesSAFE PLACE FOR YOUT…THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $220,000 · Human ServicesTHE PEOPLE CONCERNImagine Los Angeles Inc: $200,000 · Human ServicesImagine Los Angeles…ST JOSEPH CENTER: $179,600 · Human ServicesST JOSEPH CENTERSeed House Project: $170,000 · Human ServicesSeed House ProjectA SENSE OF HOME: $72,500 · Human ServicesJOVENES INC: $60,000 · Human Services+9 more: $167,500 · Human Services+9 moreSHIELDS FOR FAMILIES: $393,000 · HealthVENICE FAMILY CLINIC: $190,000 · HealthAWAKENING RECOVERY INC: $25,000 · Health+3 more: $31,000 · HealthLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $237,500 · EducationMOUNT SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · EducationSCHOOL ON WHEELS INC: $25,000 · EducationWATTS OF POWER FOUNDATION CORPORATION: $25,000 · EducationOAK ROSE FUND: $22,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $20,000 · Education+3 more: $29,000 · EducationCATHOLIC SCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE: $247,500 · ReligionGABRIELENO TONGVA TRIBAL COUNCIL: $25,000 · Religion+2 more: $3,510 · ReligionART TREK INC: $95,000 · Arts & CultureSKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER: $60,000 · Arts & CultureLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION: $45,000 · Arts & CultureALL STARS PROJECT INC: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $2,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$4,895,437Philanthropy$1,926,500Human Services$1,730,975Health$639,000Education$409,000Religion$276,010Arts & Culture$212,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $855,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS: $601,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetOUR LADY QUEEN OF ANGELS HOUSING ALLIANCE: $450,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetPARTNERS FOR CHILDREN SOUTH LA: $420,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetSHIELDS FOR FAMILIES: $393,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCATHOLIC SCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE: $247,500 over 3y, 10% of budgetSAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH INC: $241,375 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $237,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PEOPLE CONCERN: $220,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSt Francis Center: $218,500 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetImagine Los Angeles Inc: $200,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetVENICE FAMILY CLINIC: $190,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetST JOSEPH CENTER: $179,600 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSeed House Project: $170,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetLos Angeles Room & Board: $165,150 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $115,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetART TREK INC: $95,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetA SENSE OF HOME: $72,500 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetSKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER: $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJOVENES INC: $60,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUPWARD BOUND HOUSE: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMOUNT SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSUNNYSIDE BAPTIST CHURCH: $32,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAL WOOTEN JR YOUTH CENTER: $30,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetALL PEOPLES COMMUNITY CENTER: $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSTRIVE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAWAKENING RECOVERY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetSCHOOL ON WHEELS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSTEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGABRIELENO TONGVA TRIBAL COUNCIL: $25,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetWATTS OF POWER FOUNDATION CORPORATION: $25,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetGENESIS LA ECONOMIC GROWTH CORPORATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWESTSIDE FOOD BANK: $22,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOAK ROSE FUND: $22,500 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetTHE ASSOCIATION OF CATHOLIC STUDENT COUNCILS: $21,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetSOFESA: $20,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetPARA LOS NINOS: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Whole Child - Mental Health & Housing Services: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAVEN SERVICES: $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFUNDACION SCHOLAS OCCURRENTES - USA: $15,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetVENICE COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLA84 FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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 CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS ↗
  • Who funds OUR LADY QUEEN OF ANGELS HOUSING ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS FOR CHILDREN SOUTH LA ↗
  • Who funds SHIELDS FOR FAMILIES ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC SCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE ↗
  • Who funds SAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH INC ↗
  • Who funds LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE PEOPLE CONCERN ↗
  • Who funds St Francis Center ↗
  • Who funds Imagine Los Angeles Inc ↗
  • Who funds VENICE FAMILY CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds ST JOSEPH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Seed House Project ↗
  • Who funds Los Angeles Room & Board ↗
  • Who funds HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES ↗
  • Who funds ART TREK INC ↗
  • Who funds A SENSE OF HOME ↗
  • Who funds SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds JOVENES INC ↗
  • Who funds UPWARD BOUND HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds MOUNT SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds SUNNYSIDE BAPTIST CHURCH ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds AL WOOTEN JR YOUTH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ALL PEOPLES COMMUNITY CENTER ↗

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.

California Community …Weingart FoundationSpecialty Family Foun…Carrie Estelle Doheny…The Ralph M Parsons F…Conrad N Hilton Found…The Rose Hills Founda…United Way IncThe Ahmanson Foundati…Reissa FoundationKaiser Foundation Hos…Baby2baby
California Community FoundationCA40× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Specialty Family Foundation · Carrie Estelle Doheny Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · United Way Inc · The Ahmanson Foundation · Reissa Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Baby2baby

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 Specialty Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Specialty Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.
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    How do I get to Specialty Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Specialty Family Foundation 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 130 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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