How much does The Ac and Shaughne S Warnack Foundation give?

The Ac and Shaughne S Warnack Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $234,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Ac and Shaughne S Warnack Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (40%), Health (17%), Animals (11%).

Who are The Ac and Shaughne S Warnack Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Painted Turtle ($115k), K9s for Warriors Inc ($100k), Palmdale Community Foundation ($79k).

Does The Ac and Shaughne S Warnack Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Ac and Shaughne S Warnack Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Ac and Shaughne S Warnack Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Charity Works, Anderson Childrens Foundation, Inland Empire Community Foundation.

Where is The Ac and Shaughne S Warnack Foundation based?

The Ac and Shaughne S Warnack Foundation is based in CA.

The Ac and Shaughne S Warnack Foundation

The Ac and Shaughne S Warnack Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Ac and Shaughne S Warnack 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.

$235k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$25k

Largest

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 2025.

Human Services$633kHealth$267kAnimals$181kYouth Development$125kArts & Culture$79kPhilanthropy$65kPublic Benefit$57kHousing & Shelter$57kOther$0

02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k17 grants · $72k
$10k–50k10 grants · $163k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.2M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Injured Marine Semper Fi FundWounde	$25,000
The Painted Turtle	$25,000
Support the Enlisted Project STEP	$25,000
Armed Services YMCA	$20,000
K9's for Warriors	$17,500
Grace Resource Center	$10,000
Turning Point USA	$10,000
Angel View	$10,000
The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens	$10,000
St Johns Health Center Foundation	$10,000
CHP 11-99 Foundation	$6,500
ALS Golden West	$5,000
Operation Safe House	$5,000
COD Foundation	$5,000
Marine Toys for Tots Foundation	$5,000

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.3M · 32 repeat orgs$225k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

32 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.3M

$205k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%

+10%

Still filing today

66%

31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyInternationalAnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther

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

K9S FOR WARRIORS INC
7× · 2019–2025 · $100k · revenue +85%
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SUPPORT THE ENLISTED PROJECT INC
3× · 2023–2025 · $75k · revenue +75%
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CHP 11-99 FOUNDATION
8× · 2018–2025 · $52k · revenue +36%

Funded once

MU
Malibu Urgent Care Center
one grant, 2017 · $100k
AC
ALDS Cares LASD Special Operations
one grant, 2020 · $50k
DW
DIVE WARRIORS
one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -92%

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.

Rescue Mission Alliance

The rescue mission alliance's primary purpose is to establish and operate rescue missions to reach the less fortunate with the gospel of jesus christ and to assist in the feeding, clothing, and lodging of those who are destitute or…

Human Services

Mercy House Living Centers

Mercy house's most significant exempt activities focus on ending homelessness and providing comprehensive housing and support services. the organization offers homeless prevention, rapid rehousing, permanent supportive housing, and…

Housing & Shelter

Animal Rescue Mission

To rescue and rehabilitate dogs and cats and place them in forever homes.

Animals

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

Project Angel Food

Project angel food (the organization) improves health and fights food insecurity for critically ill individuals in los angeles county through its medically tailored meal program and nutrition counseling. for over 35 years, they have served…

Health

Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition

Las Vegas Rescue Mission

Through feeding the hungry, support, and care, we provide redemption, recovery, and re-entry to the homeless, addicted, and those in need.

Human Services

Friends of the Palm SpringsAnimal Shelter

We are dedicated to building a community responsible for pet stewardship and humane treatment of animals.

Animals

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

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

Aerial Recovery

Aerial recovery's mission is to save lives and stop evil. through the creation and deployment of humanitarian special operators, aerial recovery brings together selected veterans, first responders, and mission-qualified civilians who,…

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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

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint John's Health Center Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Grace Resource Center Inc. 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

30 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. 30 of the 52 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

29/30

Grantees still filing

21/30

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,008,296Animals$120,000Youth Development$115,000Health$110,000Philanthropy$90,235Arts & Culture$78,700Public Benefit$75,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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.

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.

Charity WorksCA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charity Works · Anderson Childrens Foundation · Inland Empire Community Foundation · Houston Family Foundation · The Champions Volunteer Foundation · The Auen Foundation · The Coeta and Donald Barker Foundation · Bighorn Golf Club Charities Inc · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Sempra Foundation · California Community Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America

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 The Ac and Shaughne S Warnack Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ac and Shaughne S Warnack Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%

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.

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