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The Boardman Family 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 $10k5 grants · $21k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $210k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OTIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN | $84,138 |
| OTIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN | $71,625 |
| OTIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN | $54,140 |
| OTIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN | $8,629 |
| OTIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN | $5,000 |
| OTIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN | $4,807 |
| CRAFT IN AMERICA | $2,000 |
| CRAFT CONTEMPORARY | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–18, $900) 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.
11 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- OCOTIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN5× · 2020–2025 · $280k · revenue +25%
- HEHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY3× · 2017–2019 · $30k · revenue +99%
- PAPASADENA ART ALLIANCE3× · 2017–2019 · $9k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- FBFOOD BANKone grant, 2021 · $10k
- OOTISone grant, 2019 · $6k
- MAMUSEUM ASSOCIATESgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +89%
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.
To present the breadth of california art and design through exhibitions that explore the cultural dynamics and influence that are unique to california.
See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…
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…
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 hammer museum at ucla believes in the promise of art and ideas to illuminate our lives and build a more just world.
Through its exhibitions and outreach programs, the institute of contemporary art, los angeles fosters diversity, innovation, and discovery in contemporary art - local, national, and international.
The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…
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 museum's mission is to inspire all californians to create a more vibrant future for themselves and their communities. through collections, exhibitions, education programs, and public dialogue, we inspire people of all ages and…
California association of museums cam, an association funded in 1979, is dedicated to advancing museums across california in service to their communities. today, cam is one of the strongest and most active state museum associations in the…
Operation of a public art museum.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles and the most unlike its peers is National Wildlife Federation. 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 51 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 16% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 39 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 OTIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN ↗
- Who funds HENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY ↗
- Who funds CRAFT CONTEMPORARY ↗
- Who funds PASADENA ART ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds CRAFT IN AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Pasadena Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds Pasadena Conservatory of Music ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds SOUTH PASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN MUSEUM OF CERAMIC ART ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TIAS HOPE ↗
- Who funds ARMORY CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds PASADENA HUMANE ↗
- Who funds PASADENA SENIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds FULCRUM ARTS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS INC ↗
- Who funds ARROYO SECO FOUNDATION HAHAMONGNA NATIVE PLANT NURSERY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB ↗
- Who funds TOWN CLUB 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.
Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The J Paul Getty Trust · The Ahmanson Foundation · Harvey and Ellen Knell Foundation · Perenchio Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · Pasadena Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 The Boardman Family 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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