· Private foundation
The Capstone Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $3k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $228k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $445k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNION RESCUE MISSION | $219,769 |
| CAPITOL MINISTRIES | $75,000 |
| WORLD SPORTS INC | $50,000 |
| GLOBAL TRAINING NETWORK | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI | $50,000 |
| BRENTWOOD SCHOOL | $26,000 |
| USC ASSOCIATES | $25,000 |
| UNION RESCUE MISSION | $25,000 |
| XPRIZE FOUNDATION INC | $24,000 |
| CALTHORP SCHOOL | $20,500 |
| ADVENTURES OF THE HEART | $20,000 |
| COMMUNITAS INTERNATIONAL | $17,500 |
| WORLD MONUMENTS FUND | $15,000 |
| WORLD VISION | $15,000 |
| BEVERLY HILLS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $10,000 |
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, $1.4M) 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 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against -5% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 2 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- URUNION RESCUE MISSION6× · 2019–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +61%
GLOBAL TRAINING NETWORK INC6× · 2019–2024 · $320k · revenue +71%- CMCAPITOL MINISTRIES5× · 2019–2024 · $285k · revenue +81%
Funded once
- FYFULLER YOUTH INSTITUTEone grant, 2019 · $20k
- TUTHE UC DAVIS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +93%
- C3CORE 300one grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
Los angeles pacific university exists to deliver high quality, accessible christ-centered education to learners everywhere.
Our institutional mission is to educate and prepare students to be ethical leaders and socially responsible global citizens who incorporate the dominican values of study, reflection, community and service into their lives.
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…
The institute's mission is to conduct research on key issues facing society to help both the church and society deal thoughtfully with the major issues they face globally. the institute also sponsors and conducts research and scholarship…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
A private institution of higher education, offering both undergraduate and graduate courses to students.
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The specific purpose of this corporation is to present a biblical, christian ministry of the gospel, hope, encouragement and strength to as many people as possible. the intent of those who will conduct this corporation's work is to present…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Scholar Leaders International and the most unlike its peers is University of Miami. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% 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 14% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 42 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 UNION RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL TRAINING NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITOL MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds WORLD SPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds LEARNING WITH A DIFFERENCE INC ↗
- Who funds CARLTHORP SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds X PRIZE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BRENTWOOD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds Baja Christian Ministries ↗
- Who funds Scholar Leaders International ↗
- Who funds WORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds AREA CHRISTIANS TAKING INITIATIVE ON NEEDS ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM X ↗
- Who funds THE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARTY HENNESSY INSPIRING CHILDREN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Beit T'Shuvah ↗
- Who funds URBANPROMISE LOS ANGELES INC ↗
- Who funds INSPIRING CHILDREN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE EPISCOPAL ACTORS' GUILD OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds SHEILA KAR HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA ↗
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 · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Capstone 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.
- University of Miami — 5% 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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