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John & Beverly Stauffer Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $126k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $85k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY SAN DIEGO | $25,000 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| HELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER | $20,000 |
| CALIFORNIA MISSIONS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SHAKESPEARE-WILL POWER TO YOUTH | $10,000 |
| PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY | $7,500 |
| COLBURN SCHOOL PERFORMING ARTS | $6,500 |
| LOS ANGELES OPERA | $6,500 |
| COACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION | $6,000 |
| CALIF STATE SUMMER SCHOOL FOR ARTS FNDTN | $6,000 |
| LOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE | $6,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA CLARA | $6,000 |
| LAS PATRONAS | $5,500 |
| SANTA BARBARA MISSION ARCHIVE LIBRA | $5,000 |
| VENTURA EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $150k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% 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.
47 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- HWHELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER8× · 2017–2025 · $140k · revenue +84%
- CMCALIFORNIA MISSIONS FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +216%
- FOFRIENDS OF BIRDLIFE INTERNATIONAL INC5× · 2017–2021 · $75k · revenue +311%
Funded once
- SCSHAKESPEARE CENTER OF LOS ANGELESgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +45%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBone grant, 2017 · $6k
- CSCALIFORNIA SUMMER SCHOOL ARTSone grant, 2017 · $6k
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.
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…
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
The institute is dedicated to scientific research, the results of which are used to promote public awareness and education in the areas of conservation biology and ecology,including the wise use of natural resources.
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
To advance the educational, cultural, scholarly, and creative activities and the role of community service of csula by increasing private funding, responsibly managing donated resources and supporting the university and its diverse and…
See schedule 0founded in 1994, opera santa barbara is the signature provider of professional opera on the california central coast. we aspire to be a cultural leader in the santa barbara region, voicing and advancing our community's spirit…
The California-Mexico Studies Centers mission is to establish programs between higher education institutions and cultural organizations that will enhance the teaching and exchange of faculty and students between California and Mexico and…
To harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…
The los angeles conservancy is a nonprofit membership organization that works through education and advocacy to recognize, preserve, and revitalize the historic architectural and cultural resources of los angeles county.
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,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of Los Angeles Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Birdlife International Inc. 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 32 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) — 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 15% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 68 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 HELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA MISSIONS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BIRDLIFE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds OJAI FESTIVALS LTD ↗
- Who funds LAS PATRONAS ↗
- Who funds COACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds THE MIDNIGHT MISSION ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA MISSION ARCHIVE-LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds ONEGENERATION ↗
- Who funds THE LOS ANGELES CHAMBER ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC ↗
- Who funds VISTA HILL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VENTURA COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE OF WILDWORKS ↗
- Who funds EASTERN SIERRA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Winter Nights Family Shelter Inc ↗
- Who funds SEEDS OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds LA COSTA CANYON HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SKY DOG SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds VENTURA EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP ↗
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: The Annenberg Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Kelly Charitable Remainder Ann Tr · California Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Cushman Foundation · The J Paul Getty Trust · Sempra Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management 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 John & Beverly Stauffer 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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