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Stanley W Ekstrom Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
149
Grants FY2024still arriving
15
States reached
$265k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$5.2MAnimals$2.5MHuman Services$2.2MEducation$1.6MPhilanthropy$1.3MArts & Culture$1.2MCrime & Legal$790kReligion$722kOther$0
02FY2024 · 149 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k82 grants · $204k
  • $10k–50k51 grants · $970k
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+1 grant · $265k
$6,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$56M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
CHABAD CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE$60,000
ARMED SERVICES YMCA CAMP PENDLETON$60,000
FUNDACION ECOLOGICA BIOMAR$60,000
DANA POINT 5TH MARINE REGIMENT SUPPORT GROUP$56,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%RAQUEL'S WINGS FOR LIFE: $10k → 8%WISE COUNTY COMMITTEE ON AGING: $5k → 8%RAQUEL'S WINGS FOR LIFE: $5k → 8%WISE COUNTY COMMITTEE ON AGING: $5k → 8%RAQUEL'S WINGS FOR LIFE: $5k → 8%WISE COUNTY COMMITTEE ON AGING: $5k → 8%RAQUEL'S WINGS FOR LIFE: $5k → 8%POMONA VALLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 14%RIGHT AT HOME: $4k → 10%HELPING HAND WORLDWIDE: $45k → 10%HELPING HAND WORLDWIDE: $35k → 10%HELPING HAND WORLDWIDE: $35k → 10%MARYVALE: $7k → 14%HELPING HAND WORLDWIDE: $30k → 10%RIGHT AT HOME: $497 → 10%HELPING HAND WORLDWIDE: $25k → 10%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF FULLERTON: $5k → 10%MCPHERSON EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $13k → 10%MCPHERSON EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%MCPHERSON EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $8k → 10%HERITAGE POINTE: $15k → 10%HERITAGE POINTE: $10k → 10%HERITAGE POINTE: $9k → 10%HERITAGE POINTE: $8k → 10%HERITAGE POINTE: $8k → 10%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

AK
MT
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
MO
KY
VA
AZ
KS
TN
NC
GA
TX
FL
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$16M · 134 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +21% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

134
108

Total granted

$16M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+21%

Still filing today

46%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $624k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationAnimalsHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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

  • TP
    THE PET ADOPTION CENTER OF O C
    6× · 2017–2022 · $770k · revenue +53% · 65% of their budget
  • LI
    LUNDQUIST INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL INNOVATION AT HARBOR-UCLA MEDICAL CENTER
    3× · 2022–2024 · $600k · revenue +11%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Los Angeles
    6× · 2017–2022 · $520k · revenue +78%

Funded once

  • CP
    CAL POLY WCTC EXPANSION PROJECT
    one grant, 2019 · $250k
  • CP
    CAL POLY SAN LUIS OBISPO
    one grant, 2017 · $250k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
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
Pet Orphans of Southern California

In addition to rescue and adoption, pet orphans provides a wide range of services including education, medical/financial, spay/neuter, and training assistance.

Animals
2
Santa Barbara Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

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…

Animals
3
The California Wildlife Center

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,…

Health
4
Leave No Paws Behind Inc

Conduct animal rescues, rehabilitation and rehome senior animals abandoned to the shelter's system.

Animals
5
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for Monterey County

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…

Animals
6
Onelegacy

Onelegacy saves and heals lives through organ, eye and tissue donation, comforts the families we serve, and inspires our communities to donate life.

Health
7
Rancho Coastal Humane Society

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…

Animals
8
Amvets Department of California Service Foundation

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.

Public Benefit
9
Leashes of Valor

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…

Public Benefit
10
Marine Mammal Care Center Los Angeles

To inspire ocean conservation through marine mammal rescue, rehabilitation, education, and research.

Animals
11
Central California Labrador Retriever Rescue

Dog rescue and adoption

Animals
12
Ucla Foundation

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oneoc; 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.
04the grantee network

124 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. 124 of the 321 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
122/124
Grantees still filing
82/124
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF HOPE: $1,127,502 · OtherCITY OF HOPEPACIFIC YOUTH BOATING ASSOCIATION: $986,517 · OtherPACIFIC YOUTH BOATING ASSOCIATIONST JOSEPH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $710,000 · OtherST JOSEPH HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONARMED SERVICES YMCA CAMP PENDLETON: $461,000 · OtherFUNDACION ECOLOGICA BIOMAR: $420,000 · OtherCHABAD CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE: $410,000 · OtherMAKE A WISH FOUNDATION: $366,139 · OtherVETERANS LEGAL INSTITUTE: $439,000 · Other+137 more: $5,926,875 · Other+137 moreTHE PET ADOPTION CENTER OF O C: $769,930 · AnimalsTHE PET ADOP…WILDLIFE WAYSTATION: $351,950 · AnimalsWILDLIFE WAY…KITTEN RESCUE: $220,000 · AnimalsKITTEN RESCU…CHANNEL ISLANDS MARINE & WILDLIFE INST: $220,000 · AnimalsCHANNEL ISLA…SAMMIES FRIENDS: $140,000 · AnimalsSAMMIES FRIE…VILLA CHARDONNAY HORSES WITH WINGS: $67,487 · Animals+7 more: $145,525 · Animals+7 moreLUNDQUIST INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL INNOVATION AT HARBOR-UCLA MEDICAL CENTER: $600,000 · HealthLUNDQUIST I…Children's Hospital Los Angeles: $520,000 · HealthChildren's …HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $277,850 · HealthHOAG HOSPIT…CHOC FOUNDATION: $220,000 · HealthCHOC FOUNDA…Emanate Health Foundation: $90,000 · Health+4 more: $117,500 · Health+4 more300 STEWART AVENUE CORPORATION: $592,607 · Arts & CultureFREEDOM COMMITTEE OF ORANGE COUNTY: $252,850 · Arts & CultureREADING IN MOTION: $102,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $29,000 · Arts & CultureDANA POINT 5TH MARINE REGIMENT SUPPORT GROUP: $378,227 · Public BenefitHONOR FLIGHT SOUTHLAND: $375,000 · Public BenefitHONORING OUR FALLEN: $131,000 · Public Benefit+1 more: $30,000 · Public BenefitONEOC: $400,750 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF ORANGE COUNTY: $154,129 · PhilanthropySoaring Spirits International: $137,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF WISE COUNTY INC: $86,481 · PhilanthropyOPERATION RESILIENCE: $30,200 · Philanthropy+3 more: $55,500 · PhilanthropySANTA ANA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $148,500 · EducationAMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY: $142,646 · EducationCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY: $121,000 · EducationPOINT LOMA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY: $78,067 · EducationINSTITUTE OF ARTS MUSIC & SCIENCE: $65,000 · EducationThe University Foundation California State University Chico: $30,000 · EducationALLEGHENY COLLEGE: $26,764 · Education+9 more: $115,619 · Education
Other$10,847,033Animals$1,914,892Health$1,825,350Arts & Culture$976,457Public Benefit$914,227Philanthropy$864,060Education$727,596

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetTHE PET ADOPTION CENTER OF O C: $769,930 over 6y, 65% of budgetLUNDQUIST INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL INNOVATION AT HARBOR-UCLA MEDICAL CENTER: $600,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budget300 STEWART AVENUE CORPORATION: $592,607 over 7y, 7.8% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $520,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVETERANS LEGAL INSTITUTE: $439,000 over 6y, 6.0% of budgetONEOC: $400,750 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetDANA POINT 5TH MARINE REGIMENT SUPPORT GROUP: $378,227 over 7y, 31% of budgetHONOR FLIGHT SOUTHLAND: $375,000 over 5y, 79% of budgetWILDLIFE WAYSTATION: $351,950 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetHOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $277,850 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFREEDOM COMMITTEE OF ORANGE COUNTY: $252,850 over 7y, 71% of budgetKITTEN RESCUE: $220,000 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetCHOC FOUNDATION: $220,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCHANNEL ISLANDS MARINE & WILDLIFE INST: $220,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetLINCOLN TRANING CENTER AND REHABILITATION WORKSHOP: $210,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetMentoring and Partnership for Youth Development: $197,721 over 6y, 23% of budgetHELPING HAND WORLDWIDE: $170,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF ORANGE COUNTY: $154,129 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetSANTA ANA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $148,500 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY: $142,646 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSAMMIES FRIENDS: $140,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetSoaring Spirits International: $137,000 over 5y, 6.9% of budgetHONORING OUR FALLEN: $131,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetATHLETES FOR LIFE FOUNDATION: $130,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY: $121,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSTRENGTH IN SUPPORT: $120,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetREADING IN MOTION: $102,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetEmanate Health Foundation: $90,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WISE COUNTY INC: $86,481 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetBLUE LINE BEARS INC: $86,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $80,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPOINT LOMA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY: $78,067 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRM PYLES BOYS CAMP: $75,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetINSTITUTE OF ARTS MUSIC & SCIENCE: $65,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetCHP 11-99 FOUNDATION: $64,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTyler Skaggs Foundation: $57,625 over 2y, 49% of budgetWise Health Foundation: $57,500 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetAssistance League of Saddleback Valley: $50,000 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetJEWISH HOME FOR THE AGING OF ORANGE COUNTY: $48,315 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNEWPORT HARBOR POST 291 OF THE AMERICAN LEGION INC: $42,060 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetEDWARD KLINE MEM HOMELESS VETERANS FUND INC: $41,750 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetLockwood Animal Rescue Center: $40,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetMcPherson Education Foundation: $31,174 over 3y, 19% of budgetNEWPORT BEACH POLICE FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetBREAST CANCER ANGELS: $30,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetThe University Foundation California State University Chico: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSAVING HORSES INC: $27,500 over 5y, 7.5% of budgetALLEGHENY COLLEGE: $26,764 over 4y, 0.0% 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 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 ↗

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.

O L Halsell FoundationOrange County Communi…Thornton S Jr and Kat…Samueli FoundationSempra FoundationArgyros Family Founda…Edwards Lifesciences …Croul Family Foundati…The Winnick Family Fo…The Ahmanson Foundati…Farmers & Merchants B…The Rose Hills Founda…
O L Halsell FoundationCA29.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Stanley W Ekstrom Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stanley W Ekstrom Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%23%51%90%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
    3get no government money at all
    27report 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 321 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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