How much does The Change Reaction give?

The Change Reaction reported 7 itemized grants totaling $74,076, out of $1,387,114 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 20 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.

What does The Change Reaction fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (33%), Housing & Shelter (14%), Health (14%).

Who are The Change Reaction's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Milwaukee Jewish Free Loan Association ($258k), No One Left Behind ($205k), Vetsveterans Exploring Treatment Solutions ($200k).

Does The Change Reaction fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Change Reaction?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Perlman Family Foundation, California Community Foundation, The Ralph M Parsons Foundation.

Where is The Change Reaction based?

The Change Reaction is based in CA.

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The Change Reaction

The Change Reaction is a philosophy of giving that offers maximum joy for donors and maximum impact for recipients. We provide direct grants to hardworking people who are experiencing hardships or who have opportunities to further their success but do not have the financial support they need to succeed. By partnering with…

$1.4M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 7
Itemized grants FY2024: 8
Organizations funded FY2023: 38%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $74k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $9,379
Largest grant, FY2024: $20,244
Organizations funded a year: 3 to 20; FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 2
Total assets, FY2024: $1.7M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 38% of the organizations The Change Reaction funded were first-time grantees, receiving 77% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $265k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentPublic BenefitPhilanthropyOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	7	$74k	86%
FY2023	8	$342k	38%
FY2022	20	$374k	80%
FY2021	6	$84k	83%
FY2020	19	$1.2M	89%
FY2019	3	$150k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Human Services$782kHousing & Shelter$327kHealth$320kPhilanthropy$282kEducation$143kCommunity Improvement$118kYouth Development$112kPublic Benefit$75kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Milwaukee Jewish Free Loan Association	$257,822	3	73%
No One Left Behind	$205,000	1	29%
Vetsveterans Exploring Treatment Solutions	$200,000	1	23%
April Parker Foundation Inc	$144,700	1	10%
La Family Housing Corporation	$125,000	2	0%
Los Angeles Foundation on Aging	$100,000	1	n/a
New Economics for Women	$100,000	1	2%
Hebrew Free Loan Association	$95,923	2	3%
R O C Era Corp	$80,000	1	n/a
Canary Impact Lab Inc	$75,000	1	3%

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All grantees of The Change Reaction by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Milwaukee Jewish Free Loan Association	$257,822	3	73%
No One Left Behind	$205,000	1	29%
Vetsveterans Exploring Treatment Solutions	$200,000	1	23%
April Parker Foundation Inc	$144,700	1	10%
La Family Housing Corporation	$125,000	2	0%
Los Angeles Foundation on Aging	$100,000	1	n/a
New Economics for Women	$100,000	1	2%
Hebrew Free Loan Association	$95,923	2	3%
R O C Era Corp	$80,000	1	n/a
Canary Impact Lab Inc	$75,000	1	3%
The Havens Relief Fund Society	$60,000	1	2%
Charity Navigator	$50,145	1	0%
Downtown Women's Center	$50,000	1	0%
Watts Labor Community Action Committee	$50,000	1	0%
Regents Univ of California	$44,881	1	n/a
The Global Orphan Project Inc	$41,028	2	0%
City of Hope	$40,144	2	0%
Sisters of Watts	$37,213	2	22%
Ready to Succeed	$30,000	2	1%
Alliance for Children's Rights	$29,494	2	0%
Candid	$28,615	2	0%
National Health Foundation	$25,008	1	0%
Miracles for Kids Inc	$25,000	1	1%
Onegeneration	$25,000	1	0%
Oakland Elizabeth House	$25,000	1	6%
Chrysalis Center	$24,445	1	0%
Fotc - Los Angeles	$23,366	1	0%
Public Counsel	$23,178	2	0%
Community Partners	$22,712	1	0%
Journey House Inc	$19,000	1	3%
Los Angeles General Medical Center Foundation Inc	$18,186	2	0%
Food on Foot	$18,062	2	0%
Men of Westwood	$15,000	1	n/a
Covenant House California	$11,726	1	0%
United States Catholic Conference	$10,000	1	n/a
Los Angeles Room & Board	$10,000	1	1%
Lost Angels Childrens Project Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Transfiguration School (Manhattan)	$10,000	1	n/a
Northridge Chamber of Commerce	$10,000	1	14%
Thinkwatts Foundation	$10,000	1	1%
Extraordinary Families	$9,589	1	0%
Safe Parking LA	$9,379	1	0%
Village for Vets	$9,309	1	0%
Union Station Homeless Services	$9,265	1	0%
The Anti-Recidivism Coalition	$8,473	1	0%
Alexandria House	$8,365	1	0%
Veteran Social Services Inc	$8,000	1	8%
Young Eisner Scholars	$5,069	1	0%

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($16k), not named here.

The Change Reaction supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 42 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 42.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Perlman Family FoundationCA32.5× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Perlman Family Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Shelter Partnership Inc · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The Annenberg Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Weingart Foundation · Carrie Estelle Doheny Foundation · S Mark Taper Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The Change Reaction

How much does The Change Reaction give?: The Change Reaction reported 7 itemized grants totaling $74,076, out of $1,387,114 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 20 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does The Change Reaction fund?: By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (33%), Housing & Shelter (14%), Health (14%).
Who are The Change Reaction's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Milwaukee Jewish Free Loan Association ($258k), No One Left Behind ($205k), Vetsveterans Exploring Treatment Solutions ($200k).
Does The Change Reaction fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Change Reaction?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Perlman Family Foundation, California Community Foundation, The Ralph M Parsons Foundation.
Where is The Change Reaction based?: The Change Reaction is based in CA.