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The Arvey 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 $10k13 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $97k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UCLA FOUNDATION DIVISION OF DIGESTIVE DISEASES | $25,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ART | $20,000 |
| OPERA SANTA BARBARA | $12,000 |
| DIRECT RELIEF | $10,000 |
| J PAUL GETTY TRUST | $10,000 |
| UCLA FOUNDATION COTSEN INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY | $10,000 |
| EASY LIFT TRANSPORTATION | $10,000 |
| GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE | $5,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA COTTAGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA WILFIRE PROTECTION TEAM | $5,000 |
| LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART (LACMA) | $5,000 |
| GRANADA THEATRE | $3,000 |
| MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST | $3,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $2,000 |
| ART HISTORY SOCIETY OF CAL STATE LA | $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 (FY17–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- MAMUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST6× · 2017–2025 · $31k · revenue +18%
DIRECT RELIEF5× · 2017–2025 · $30k · revenue +94%- MAMUSEUM ASSOCIATES4× · 2017–2025 · $25k · revenue +89%
Funded once
- LALos Angeles Operaone grant, 2022 · $10k
- LOLA OPERAone grant, 2017 · $10k
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOMone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -51%
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 hammer museum at ucla believes in the promise of art and ideas to illuminate our lives and build a more just world.
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…
To integrate art into the lives of people, fostering imagination, stimulating thought, and creating personally rewarding experiences.
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 jonsson cancer center foundation is the single most important vehicle for raising private funds for cancer research at ucla and plays a key role in advancing cancer treatments and care. please see schedule o for additional information.
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
The museum of contemporary art san diego invites all audiences to experience our world, our region, and ourselves through the prism of contemporary art.
The Chile-California Council is a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to developing and promoting joint endeavors and cooperative relations between Chile and California, as well as individuals, legal entities and other institutions in…
The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…
The monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ucla Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Santa Barbara Courthouse Legacy Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
23 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. 23 of the 51 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 THE J PAUL GETTY TRUST ↗
- Who funds MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds EASY LIFT TRANSPORTATION INC ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds OPERA SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA WILDFIRE PROTECTION TEAM ↗
- Who funds ETHNIC ARTS COUNCIL OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE FOR CULTURAL POLICY INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds National Kidney Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA COURTHOUSE LEGACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE PROJECT FOR RESILIENT COMMUNITIES ↗
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: Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Mosher Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 The Arvey 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.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% 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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