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Squid & Squash 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.
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 $10k4 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ONE VOICE | $34,700 |
| EDUCATION FDN SANTA MONICA | $5,000 |
| MARYVALE | $5,000 |
| LOS ANGELES BALLET | $2,500 |
| HOLLYWOOD INDIES LITTLE LEAGUE | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $463k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +44% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 3 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- OVOne Voice7× · 2017–2024 · $419k · revenue +39%
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC5× · 2017–2021 · $177k · revenue +102%- CCLAREMATRIX5× · 2017–2021 · $47k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- UCUNIVERSAL COMMUNITY HEALTH CAREone grant, 2023 · $25k
- GGIVEORGone grant, 2020 · $20k
- LWLEARNING WORKS CHARTERone grant, 2017 · $15k
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.
La's best provides free supervised before and after-school activities to over 15,000 children at 200 schools in los angeles unified school district (lausd).
To help each child reach his/her full potential by cultivating an active village of parents, community members, and stakeholders involved in providing an individual, personal, and conceptual learning environment for each student.
Youth policy institute (ypi) transforms los angeles neighborhoods, reducing poverty by offering cradle to college & career services.
Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…
To advance educational equity. together with families, schools and the community, facilitate access to and opportunities for quality educational and wellness practices so that children thrive from diapers to diplomas.
Los angeles neighborhood initiative was formed in 1994 as an agency designed to be a catalytic program that initiates and encourages neighborhood revitalization in transit-dependent urban neighborhoods.
Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.
To make positive interventions in the lives of young people by offering alternatives to gangs and violence. legacy la builds the capacity of youth to reach their full potential and equips them with tools to transform their lives and…
Community organizing, education, advocacy, leadership development, direct services and organizational development for communities faced with immense poverty.
The los angeles leadership academy prepares urban elementary and secondary students to succeed in college or on chosen career paths, to live fulfilling, self-directed lives, and to be effective in creating a just and humane world.
Hunger action los angeles ends hunger and promotes healthy eating through advocacy, education, and appropriate direct service. the chief program area currently is the market match prgram operated by hala at 22 farmers markets in la county…
To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. we work with public school systems, establishing relationship with superintendents, principals, educators, and community partners to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maryvale and the most unlike its peers is Legal Education Access Pipeline Inc. 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 25 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 73 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 One Voice ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CLAREMATRIX ↗
- Who funds PS Science ↗
- Who funds TREE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds BETTER ANGELS INC ↗
- Who funds A PLACE CALLED HOME ↗
- Who funds FA-MLI INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN WHEELCHAIR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STREET POETS INC ↗
- Who funds THE WALDEN WOODS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds A SENSE OF HOME ↗
- Who funds LA SENORA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE OJAI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARYVALE ↗
- Who funds OPEN ROADS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds SHAKESPEARE CENTER OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CATERINAS CLUB ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JUSTIN J WATT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VENICE COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Go Campaign ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL ON WHEELS 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: California Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Strauss Foundation Td · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Green Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Harry and Barbara Goldman Foundation Co Lynne G Silbert President · The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert 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 Squid & Squash 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- The Walden Woods Project — 6% of income from government
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.