· Private foundation
Stanley W Ekstrom Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k82 grants · $204k
- $10k–50k51 grants · $970k
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+1 grant · $265k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST JOSEPH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $265,000 |
| LUNDQUIST INSTITUTE | $200,000 |
| CITY OF HOPE | $174,167 |
| YOU WERE WORTH IT FOUNDATION | $135,690 |
| MOB MUSEUM | $125,044 |
| VETERAN'S LEGAL INSTITUTE | $87,000 |
| HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $77,500 |
| HONOR FLIGHT SOUTHLAND | $75,000 |
| CHOC FOUNDATION | $70,000 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION | $65,000 |
| FUNDACION ECOLOGICA BIOMAR | $60,000 |
| CHABAD CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE | $60,000 |
| ARMED SERVICES YMCA CAMP PENDLETON | $60,000 |
| DANA POINT 5TH MARINE REGIMENT SUPPORT GROUP | $56,000 |
| MEMORIAL CARE SADDLEBACK MED CENTER FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
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, $316k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% 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.
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 +33% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
134 repeat relationships — 71 still active in FY2024, 63 since wound down; 77 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $624k 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
- TPTHE PET ADOPTION CENTER OF O C6× · 2017–2022 · $770k · revenue +53% · 65% of their budget
- LILUNDQUIST INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL INNOVATION AT HARBOR-UCLA MEDICAL CENTER3× · 2022–2024 · $600k · revenue +11%
- CHChildren's Hospital Los Angeles6× · 2017–2022 · $520k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- CPCAL POLY SAN LUIS OBISPOone grant, 2017 · $250k
- CPCAL POLY WCTC EXPANSION PROJECTone grant, 2019 · $250k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $50k
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.
In addition to rescue and adoption, pet orphans provides a wide range of services including education, medical/financial, spay/neuter, and training assistance.
Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training…
The california wildlife center (cwc) takes responsibility for the protection of all native wildlife through rehabilitiation, education and conservation. as the los angeles area's premier wildlife medical care and rehabilitation facility,…
Conduct animal rescues, rehabilitation and rehome senior animals abandoned to the shelter's system.
The SPCA Monterey County's Mission is assuring compassionate treatment of all animals through rescue, rehabilitation, protection and education. The SPCA shelters homeless, neglected, and abused pets, including dogs, cats, horses, exotic…
Onelegacy saves and heals lives through organ, eye and tissue donation, comforts the families we serve, and inspires our communities to donate life.
See schedule orancho coastal is dedicated to the rescue and shelter of abandoned companion animals. it encourages adoptions into loving homes and provides educational and community outreach programs designed to enhance the human-animal…
Proudly serves veterans and their families in your community through service programs such as service officers, welcome home program to our homeless veterans, and grants used for various other veteran programs.
Our organization's mission is to raise awareness for and provide physical aid and support to disabled us military veterans. our program covers a crucial gap in the industry-a veteran operated organization, that can assist veterans with…
To inspire ocean conservation through marine mammal rescue, rehabilitation, education, and research.
Dog rescue and adoption
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oneoc and the most unlike its peers is Sweet Geeks Foundation. 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
124 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. 124 of the 321 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 THE PET ADOPTION CENTER OF O C ↗
- Who funds LUNDQUIST INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL INNOVATION AT HARBOR-UCLA MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds 300 STEWART AVENUE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds VETERANS LEGAL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ONEOC ↗
- Who funds DANA POINT 5TH MARINE REGIMENT SUPPORT GROUP ↗
- Who funds HONOR FLIGHT SOUTHLAND ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE WAYSTATION ↗
- Who funds HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM COMMITTEE OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds KITTEN RESCUE ↗
- Who funds CHOC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHANNEL ISLANDS MARINE & WILDLIFE INST ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN TRANING CENTER AND REHABILITATION WORKSHOP ↗
- Who funds Mentoring and Partnership for Youth Development ↗
- Who funds HELPING HAND WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SANTA ANA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SAMMIES FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds Soaring Spirits International ↗
- Who funds HONORING OUR FALLEN ↗
- Who funds ATHLETES FOR LIFE FOUNDATION ↗
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: O L Halsell Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · Thornton S Jr and Katrina D Glide Foundation · Samueli Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Argyros Family Foundation · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · Croul Family Foundation · The Winnick Family Foundation Inc · The Ahmanson Foundation · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · The Rose Hills 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 Stanley W Ekstrom Foundation Inc 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.