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The Ahmanson Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$65M
Granted FY2024still arriving
442
Grants FY2024still arriving
15
States reached
$6.3M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Education$94MArts & Culture$67MHealth$38MHousing & Shelter$28MHuman Services$21MScience & Tech$13MEnvironment$11MYouth Development$10MOther$0
02FY2024 · 442 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k25 grants · $107k
  • $10k–50k117 grants · $2.5M
  • $50k–250k264 grants · $24M
  • $250k+36 grants · $39M
$50,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$1.5B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROMAN ARCHBISHOP OF LOS ANGELES$6,300,000
LOS ANGELES CTY MUS OF NAT HIST$5,000,000
THE COLBURN SCHOOL$5,000,000
MEXICAN AMER LEG DEF & EDU FD$2,000,000
CHILDRENS INSTITUTE INC$1,500,000
VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA INC$1,500,000
DISCOVERY SCIENCE CENTER OF LA$1,500,000
HENRY E HUNTINGTON LIB & ART GAL$1,000,000
PASADENA HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION LTD$1,000,000
CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY$1,000,000
HENRY E HUNTINGTON LIB & ART GAL$1,000,000
PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS$1,000,000
AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS$880,000
VILLA ESPERANZA SERVICES$750,000
LEGAL AID FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES$750,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $37.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%EXCEPTIONAL CHILDRENS FDN A CORP: $430k → 14%THE ACHIEVABLE FOUNDATION: $150k → 14%EXCEPTIONAL CHILDRENS FOUNDATION: $150k → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $1.5M → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $1.0M → 14%JOHN TRACY CLINIC: $500k → 14%MYCHALS LEARNING PLACE: $215k → 14%FOOTHILL FAMILY SERVICE: $300k → 14%DAVID AND MARGARET HOME INC: $150k → 14%WAYFINDER FAMILY SERVICES: $315k → 14%CHILDRENS INSTITUTE INC: $1.5M → 14%CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $750k → 14%STEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC: $427k → 14%ST ANNES FAMILY SERVICES: $150k → 14%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $5.0M → 14%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $3.0M → 14%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $2.5M → 14%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $500k → 14%DOWNTOWN WOMENS CENTER: $325k → 14%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $150k → 14%HARVEST HOME INC: $250k → 14%KOREAN AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES INC: $150k → 14%CHILD LANE: $150k → 14%PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS: $1.0M → 14%PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS: $250k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $300k → 14%ABILITYFIRST: $500k → 14%SINGLE MOTHERS OUTREACH INC: $350k → 14%LOS ANGELES HOUSE OF RUTH: $150k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $880k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $707k → 14%ALL PEOPLES COMMUNITY CENTER: $150k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $500k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $500k → 14%ALL PEOPLES COMMUNITY CENTER: $140k → 14%ARTS AND SVCS FOR DISABLED INC: $150k → 14%SHOES THAT FIT: $150k → 14%RIDE ON LA: $400k → 14%MEND-MEET EACH NEED WITH DIGNITY: $720k → 14%RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE: $150k → 14%MIDNIGHT MISSION: $150k → 14%ST JOSEPH CENTER: $300k → 14%CHILDRENS BUREAU OF SOUTHERN CALIF: $1.0M → 14%WELLNEST EMOTIONAL HEALTH & WELLNESS: $500k → 14%BRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC: $260k → 14%WESTSIDE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $150k → 14%WESTSIDE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $150k → 14%LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $150k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$226M · 427 repeat orgs$73M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.

427 repeat relationships — 251 still active in FY2024, 176 since wound down; 99 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

427
370

Total granted

$226M
$63M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+28%

Still filing today

87%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • HE
    HENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY
    2× · 2020–2021 · $12M · revenue +89%
  • UR
    UNION RESCUE MISSION
    3× · 2020–2023 · $11M · revenue +67%
  • TC
    THE COLBURN SCHOOL
    5× · 2020–2024 · $6.1M · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • CS
    CALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $7.5M · revenue -70%
  • TS
    THE SHAKESPEARE CENTER OF LA INC
    one grant, 2023 · $3.3M
  • JA
    JOSLYN ART MUSEUM
    one grant, 2021 · $3.0M · revenue -52%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
California College of the Arts

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…

Education
2
Alternative Schools Inc

To help each child reach his/her full potential by cultivating an active village of parents, community members, and stakeholders involved in providing an individual, personal, and conceptual learning environment for each student.

Education
3
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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4
Communities in Schools of Los Angeles Inc

To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. we work with public school systems, establishing relationship with superintendents, principals, educators, and community partners to…

Youth Development
5
Westside Neighborhood School

Wns is committed to creating a deeply caring community of lifelong learners that nurtures students from diverse backgrounds to reach their full potential, develop cultural competency, and inspire the world with their curiosity, innovation,…

Education
6
La's Best

La's best provides free supervised before and after-school activities to over 15,000 children at 200 schools in los angeles unified school district (lausd).

Education
7
The California Channel

To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…

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8
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce

Chamber's mission: design and advance opportunities and solutions for a thriving regional economy that are inclusive and globally competitive. 1) advocacy - be a bold advocate for business as a driver of a strong economy that enables…

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9
The American Institute of Architects California

The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.

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10
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
11
Los Angeles Pacific University

Los angeles pacific university exists to deliver high quality, accessible christ-centered education to learners everywhere.

Education
12
The Language Academy of Sacramento

The las mission is to create a learning community where students: utilize bilingualism and biliteracy (spanish and english) to achieve academic excellence and apply skills in real-world situations and diverse settings; develop and exhibit…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young & Healthy and the most unlike its peers is The Altadena Mountain Rescue Team. 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 39 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%0%<5yr16%3%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr17%31%20–35yr10%22%35–55yr12%32%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%0%<5yr16%2%5–10yr20%6%10–20yr17%17%20–35yr10%18%35–55yr12%57%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.5%4/802
the rest of the field
16%
7,864/49,014

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.

04the grantee network

745 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. 745 of the 906 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.

16
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
148
Early backer (in before they grew)
737/745
Grantees still filing
531/745
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HENRY E HUNTINGTON LIB & ART GAL — $9,732,580 · OtherHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIB & ART GALROMAN ARCHBISHOP OF LOS ANGELES — $6,375,000 · OtherROMAN ARCHBISHOP OF LOS ANGELESLOS ANGELES CTY MUS OF NAT HIST — $5,400,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES CTY MUS OF NAT HISTTHE SHAKESPEARE CENTER OF LA INC — $3,250,000 · OtherVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA INC — $2,575,000 · Other+63 more — $45,056,990 · Other+63 moreUCLA FOUNDATION — $4,820,300 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIONOCCIDENTAL COLLEGE — $3,655,000 · EducationOCCIDENTAL COLLEGEPOLYTECHNIC SCHOOL — $2,610,000 · EducationPEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY — $2,367,000 · EducationCreighton University — $2,155,000 · EducationBIOLA UNIVERSITY INC — $2,047,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY — $1,886,000 · Education+39 more — $34,413,500 · Education+39 moreHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY — $12,175,000 · Arts & CultureHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRAR…CALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION — $7,500,000 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER…THE COLBURN SCHOOL — $6,096,750 · Arts & CultureTHE COLBURN SCHOOLCENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES — $3,195,000 · Arts & CultureCENTER THEATRE GROUP OF L…JOSLYN ART MUSEUM — $3,000,000 · Arts & CultureJOSLYN ART MUSEUMCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS — $2,309,000 · Arts & CultureLOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY FOUNDATION — $2,125,000 · Arts & Culture+21 more — $15,508,800 · Arts & Culture+21 moreUNION RESCUE MISSION — $10,690,000 · Human ServicesUNION RESCUE M…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $2,587,300 · Human ServicesAmerican Natio…THE PEOPLE CONCERN — $2,560,000 · Human ServicesTHE PEOPLE CON…CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC — $2,350,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S INS…PATH — $1,250,000 · Human ServicesALL FOR KIDS ORGANIZATION — $1,005,000 · Human Services+19 more — $9,337,450 · Human Services+19 morePasadena Hospital Association Ltd — $3,195,000 · HealthPasadena …DIGNITY COMMUNITY CARE — $2,510,000 · HealthDIGNITY C…Children's Hospital Los Angeles — $2,050,000 · HealthChildren'…Emanate Health Foundation — $1,050,000 · HealthEmanate H…SAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION — $1,000,000 · HealthORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL — $850,000 · HealthBarlow Foundation — $750,000 · HealthALTAMED HEALTH SERVICES CORPORATION — $704,000 · Health+16 more — $7,467,800 · Health+16 moreLOS ANGELES MISSION INC — $978,000 · Housing & ShelterHOMES FOR FAMILIES — $903,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER LOS ANGELES — $650,000 · Housing & ShelterHOLLENBECK PALMS — $500,000 · Housing & ShelterABODE COMMUNITIES — $418,000 · Housing & ShelterLTSC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $404,000 · Housing & ShelterBEACON HOUSINGINC — $328,500 · Housing & ShelterCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $2,710,000 · PhilanthropySOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS — $522,000 · Philanthropy
Other$72,389,570Education$53,953,800Arts & Culture$51,909,550Human Services$29,779,750Health$19,576,800Housing & Shelter$4,181,500Philanthropy$3,232,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY — $12,175,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetUNION RESCUE MISSION — $10,690,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetCALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION — $7,500,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetTHE COLBURN SCHOOL — $6,096,750 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $4,820,300 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetOCCIDENTAL COLLEGE — $3,655,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetPasadena Hospital Association Ltd — $3,195,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES — $3,195,000 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetJOSLYN ART MUSEUM — $3,000,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $2,710,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPOLYTECHNIC SCHOOL — $2,610,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $2,587,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PEOPLE CONCERN — $2,560,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetDIGNITY COMMUNITY CARE — $2,510,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY — $2,367,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC — $2,350,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS — $2,309,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetCreighton University — $2,155,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY FOUNDATION — $2,125,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $2,050,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBIOLA UNIVERSITY INC — $2,047,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY — $1,886,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetOTIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN — $1,765,500 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetPOMONA COLLEGE — $1,755,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY — $1,720,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMOUNT SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY — $1,655,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN — $1,655,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetPERFORMING ARTS CENTER OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY — $1,633,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetDISCOVERY SCIENCE CENTER OF LOS ANGELES — $1,625,000 over 3y, 24% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $1,581,500 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION — $1,560,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $1,500,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCATE SCHOOL — $1,485,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetAZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY — $1,460,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — $1,275,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPATH — $1,250,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCROSSROADS SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND SCIENCES — $1,235,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetLOS ANGELES OPERA COMPANY — $1,225,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetWESTMONT COLLEGE — $1,205,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY — $1,160,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEAST-WEST PLAYERS INC — $1,081,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetPitzer College — $1,055,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetEmanate Health Foundation — $1,050,000 over 5y, 39% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LOS ANGELES HARBOR — $1,036,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetWESTRIDGE SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC — $1,035,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetClaremont McKenna College — $1,035,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetLATINO THEATER COMPANY — $1,030,400 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetORANGE COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART — $1,010,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budget
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 HENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY ↗
  • Who funds UNION RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE COLBURN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd ↗
  • Who funds CENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES ↗
  • Who funds JOSLYN ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds THE PEOPLE CONCERN ↗
  • Who funds DIGNITY COMMUNITY CARE ↗
  • Who funds PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds Creighton University ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
  • Who funds BIOLA UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds OTIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN ↗
  • Who funds POMONA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MOUNT SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN ↗
  • Who funds PERFORMING ARTS CENTER OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds DISCOVERY SCIENCE CENTER OF LOS ANGELES ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗

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.

The Ralph M Parsons F…The Rose Hills Founda…The Green FoundationWeingart FoundationS Mark Taper Foundati…The Annenberg Foundat…United Way IncElbridge Stuart Found…Carrie Estelle Doheny…Pasadena Community Fo…Shelter Partnership I…QueensCare
The Ralph M Parsons FoundationCA344× affinity309 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Green Foundation · Weingart Foundation · S Mark Taper Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · United Way Inc · Elbridge Stuart Foundation Dba Stuart Foundation · Carrie Estelle Doheny Foundation · Pasadena Community Foundation · Shelter Partnership Inc · QueensCare

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 The Ahmanson 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    70report 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

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Ahmanson Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Ahmanson Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 906 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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