· Private foundation
The Carmelo 3 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 $10k50 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $19k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONGREGATION ETZ CHAYIM PALO ALTO | $19,066 |
| LA JOLLA MUSIC SOCIETY | $4,500 |
| CARING FOR CAMBODIA | $2,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,650 |
| FIRE VOLLEYBALL CLUB | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| STAR OF THE SEA FOUNDATION | $1,560 |
| WESLEY HOUSE | $1,083 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,031 |
| MONTESSORI CHILDREN'S SCHOOL OF KEY WEST | $1,021 |
| LOS ANGELES DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES | $1,000 |
| ACLU | $1,000 |
| HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY CITY HIGH SCHOOL CENTURION FOUNDATION | $780 |
| SUSAN G KOMEN | $773 |
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, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 72% 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 +27% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
52 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 27 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, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- LJLA JOLLA MUSIC SOCIETY2× · 2023–2024 · $7k · revenue +37%
- SVSTARLINGS VOLLEYBALL USA2× · 2022–2023 · $5k · revenue +84%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION3× · 2019–2023 · $5k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- DODEPARTMENT OF CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES SCHOLARSHIP FUNDone grant, 2019 · $7k
- CECONGREGATION ETZ CHAYIMone grant, 2019 · $7k
- CCCOASTAL CAROLINA UNIV ATHLETICSCCU ATHLETICSone 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.
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…
The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…
The multiple myeloma research foundation (mmrf) is the largest nonprofit in the world solely focused on accelerating acurefor multiple myeloma patient. we drive the development and delivery of next-generation therapies, leverage data to…
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION
The mission of the breast cancer research foundation, inc. is to prevent and cure breast cancer by advancing the world's most promising research.
The foundation for sarcoidosis research (fsr) is the leading international organization dedicated to finding a cure for sarcoidosis and improving care for sarcoidosis patients through research, education, and support. since its…
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Valhalla Foundation. 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 29 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
93 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. 93 of the 190 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 LA JOLLA MUSIC SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds STARLINGS VOLLEYBALL USA ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RUNWAY FOR RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds JOG YOUR MEMORY 5K INC ↗
- Who funds Our Neighbors' Table Inc ↗
- Who funds CARING FOR CAMBODIA INC ↗
- Who funds COMMON ROOTS FARM ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ALPINE ASCENTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LUCY'S LOVE BUS CHARITABLE TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE IT HOME - BAY AREA ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA ↗
- Who funds STAR OF THE SEA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLUEPRINT EDUCATION IN ↗
- Who funds BERNESE AUCTION RESCUE COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds Transgender Law Center ↗
- Who funds FRANCIS PARKER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER 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: Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund · Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc · Mary Alice Arakelian Foundation · Edward B and Joan T Knight Foundati Foundation Inc · The San Diego Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Keys Open Doors Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Intuit Foundation · Eastern Bank 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 Carmelo 3 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center Inc — 40% of income from government
- Family Services of the Merrimack Valley Inc — 11% of income from government
- Families for Depression Awareness Inc — 8% of income from government
- Star of the Sea Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
- Our Neighbors' Table Inc — 8% of income from government
- Lewis & Clark College — 2% of income from government
- Newburyport Art Association Inc — 1% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Samuel's House Inc — 0% 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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