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Symonds 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 $10k23 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $21k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DAMON RUNYON CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDA | $10,500 |
| THE DYSTONIA MEDICAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CALVARY COMMUNITY CHURCH | $9,000 |
| JAMES STOREHOUSE | $8,000 |
| FRIENDS IN DEED | $6,500 |
| DIRECT RELIEF | $4,250 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $4,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $4,000 |
| THE JED FOUNDATION | $3,750 |
| HOMES 4 FAMILIES | $2,500 |
| UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| PASADENA HUMANE SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| AMERICARES | $2,250 |
| UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS | $2,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% 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.
28 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 6 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches7× · 2018–2024 · $37k · revenue +9%
- ADALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $37k · revenue +40%
- USUNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES6× · 2019–2024 · $26k · revenue +158%
Funded once
- VEVILLA ESPERANZA SERVICESgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +32%
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2017 · $4k
- AAMERICASone grant, 2022 · $2k
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 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…
(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
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,…
The roots of the los angeles didi hirsch psychiatric service dba didi hirsch mental health services ("dhmhs") extend back to the 1930s, when a group of women funded psychiatric care for people whose lives were devastated by the depression.…
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
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…
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,…
At zero to three we provide parents, professionals, and policymakers the knowledge and know-how to nurture early development. we envision a society that has the knowledge and will to support all infants and toddlers in reaching their full…
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…
To enhance the health, wellness, and resilience of every community we serve - see schedule o for more details
Crf, in partnership with our clients and stakeholders, designs, delivers and evaluates innovative and exemplary behavioral health and social services in a manner that is both culturally and trauma competent, providing these services with…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Villa Esperanza Services and the most unlike its peers is Community Trust Fund of Volunteer League of San Fernando Valley. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 37 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 American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE JAMES STOREHOUSE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds HOMES FOR FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY TRUST FUND OF VOLUNTEER LEAGUE OF SAN FERNANDO VALLEY ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE JED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PASADENA HUMANE ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds VILLA ESPERANZA SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TETON LITERACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds JACKSON HOLE THERAPEUTIC RIDING ↗
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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Symonds 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.
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% 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.
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