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The Change Reaction is a philosophy of giving that offers maximum joy for donors and maximum impact for recipients.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $74,076, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,387,114 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,313,038 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
$9,379
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION$20,244
LOST ANGELS CHILDRENS PROJECT$10,000
THINK WATTS FOUNDATION$10,000
SAFE PARKING LA$9,379
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO$9,088
ALEXANDRIA HOUSE$8,365
Providence Saint Johns Healt$7,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $589k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%DOWNTOWN WOMENS CENTER: $50k → 14%JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION: $212k → 17%JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION: $26k → 17%JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION: $20k → 17%ALEXANDRIA HOUSE: $8k → 14%FOOD ON FOOT: $12k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $12k → 14%FOOD ON FOOT: $6k → 14%LOS ANGELES FOUNDATION AGING: $100k → 14%WATTS LABOR COMMUNITY ACTION: $50k → 14%LOST ANGELS CHILDRENS PROJECT: $10k → 14%JOURNEY HOUSE INC: $19k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELES SERVICE: $9k → 14%PICO UNION PROJECT: $50k → 14%YOUNG EISNER SCHOLARS: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

33%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$745k · 12 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
32

Total granted

$745k
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+80%

Still filing today

100%
84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterHealthPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementEducationOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • MILWAUKEE JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION
    3× · 2020–2024 · $258k · revenue +32% · 73% of their budget
  • LF
    LA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION
    2× · 2019–2020 · $125k · revenue +100%
  • TG
    THE GLOBAL ORPHAN PROJECT INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $41k · revenue +132%

Funded once

  • NO
    No One Left Behindgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $205k · revenue +341% · 29% of their budget
  • VE
    VETSVETERANS EXPLORING TREATMENT SOLUTIONSgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue +621%
  • AP
    APRIL PARKER FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $145k · revenue +135%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Interval House

The mission of the organization is to ensure safety and stability for people who are battered, abused, homeless or at risk; to create public awareness about the epidemic of violence; and to mobilize the community to prevent violence and…

Human Services
2
Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles

Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles seeks to achieve equal justice for people living in poverty across Greater Los Angeles. We change lives through direct representation, systems change, and community education.

Crime & Legal
3
Allies for Every Child Inc

All children need a childhood. Allies for Every Child brings together and strengthens families, cultivating conditions for children to succeed in life. (Continues on Schedule O)

Human Services
4
The Center in Hollywood

The center provides a place of community to end isolation, build relationships, and introduce housing, health and wellness services to adult individuals experiencing homelessness in hollywood. it contracts with public and non-profit grant…

Human Services
5
Wellnest Emotional Health & Wellness

Through a holistic approach to emotional well-being, Wellnest offers hope, healing, and opportunity to the children, young adults, families, and communities we serve. Our commitment remains steadfast as we enter our second century of…

Human Services
6
Housing Works

Our mission is to create housing and service options that model, with respect and dignity, sustainable, environmentally sensitive, affordable communities for people of limited resources.

Housing & Shelter
7
The Miracle House Foundation

Mentorship and housing assistant for women returning from incarceration

Human Services
8
Ascencia

To lift people of out homelessness, one person, one family at a time.

Housing & Shelter
9
The San Francisco Particular Council of the Society of St Vincent De Paul

The mission of the st. vincent de paul society of san francisco (svdp-sf) is to offer hope and service on a direct person-to-person basis, working to break the cycles of homelessness and domestic violence.

Human Services
10
Didi Hirsch Psychiatric Service

The roots of the los angeles didi hirsch psychiatric service dba didi hirsch mental health services ("dhmhs") extend back to the 1930s, when a group of women funded psychiatric care for people whose lives were devastated by the depression.…

Health
11
Coalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking

To end modern slavery through education, advocacy, and empowering survivors of human trafficking.

Crime & Legal
12
Mercy House Living Centers

Mercy house's most significant exempt activities focus on ending homelessness and providing comprehensive housing and support services. the organization offers homeless prevention, rapid rehousing, permanent supportive housing, and…

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is La Family Housing Corporation; the most unlike its peers is The Havens Relief Fund Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

47 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 47 of the 53 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/47
Grantees still filing
33/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MILWAUKEE JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION: $257,822 · Human ServicesMILWAUKEE JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATIONNo One Left Behind: $205,000 · Human ServicesNo One Left BehindLOS ANGELES FOUNDATION ON AGING: $100,000 · Human ServicesLOS ANGELES FOUNDATION ON AGINGCharity Navigator: $50,145 · Human ServicesCharity NavigatorDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $50,000 · Human ServicesDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTERWATTS LABOR COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE: $50,000 · Human ServicesWATTS LABOR COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE+7 more: $81,487 · Human Services+7 moreAPRIL PARKER FOUNDATION INC: $144,700 · OtherAPRIL PARKER FOUNDATION INCLA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION: $125,000 · OtherLA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATIONTHE HAVENS RELIEF FUND SOCIETY: $60,000 · OtherTHE HAVENS RELIEF FUND SOCIETYREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA: $44,881 · OtherREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIAALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: $29,494 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS OF THE HUDSON VALLEY INC: $25,000 · OtherONEGENERATION: $25,000 · OtherCANARY IMPACT LAB INC: $75,000 · OtherCANARY IMPACT LAB INCMIRACLES FOR KIDS INC: $25,000 · Other+15 more: $194,980 · Other+15 moreVETSVETERANS EXPLORING TREATMENT SOLUTIONS: $200,000 · HealthVETSVETERANS …CITY OF HOPE: $40,144 · HealthCITY OF HOPENATIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $25,008 · HealthNATIONAL HEAL…+1 more: $7,630 · HealthHEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION: $95,923 · PhilanthropyTHE GLOBAL ORPHAN PROJECT INC: $41,028 · PhilanthropyCANDID: $28,615 · PhilanthropyNEW ECONOMICS FOR WOMEN: $100,000 · Housing & ShelterOakland Elizabeth House: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterLos Angeles Room & Board: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterSafe Parking LA: $9,379 · Housing & ShelterR O C Era Corp: $80,000 · Youth DevelopmentSISTERS OF WATTS: $37,213 · Youth DevelopmentUCLA FOUNDATION: $42,717 · EducationREADY TO SUCCEED: $30,000 · EducationFOTC - LOS ANGELES: $23,366 · Education
Human Services$794,454Other$749,055Health$272,782Philanthropy$165,566Housing & Shelter$144,379Youth Development$117,213Education$96,083

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMILWAUKEE JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION: $257,822 over 3y, 73% of budgetNo One Left Behind: $205,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetVETSVETERANS EXPLORING TREATMENT SOLUTIONS: $200,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetAPRIL PARKER FOUNDATION INC: $144,700 over 1y, 10% of budgetLA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION: $125,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNEW ECONOMICS FOR WOMEN: $100,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetHEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION: $95,923 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetCANARY IMPACT LAB INC: $75,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetTHE HAVENS RELIEF FUND SOCIETY: $60,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCharity Navigator: $50,145 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWATTS LABOR COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $42,717 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GLOBAL ORPHAN PROJECT INC: $41,028 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCITY OF HOPE: $40,144 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSISTERS OF WATTS: $37,213 over 2y, 22% of budgetREADY TO SUCCEED: $30,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: $29,494 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCANDID: $28,615 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $25,008 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS OF THE HUDSON VALLEY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMIRACLES FOR KIDS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetONEGENERATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOakland Elizabeth House: $25,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetCHRYSALIS CENTER: $24,445 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOTC - LOS ANGELES: $23,366 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPUBLIC COUNSEL: $23,178 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $22,712 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOURNEY HOUSE INC: $19,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES GENERAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $18,186 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFOOD ON FOOT: $18,062 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $11,726 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLos Angeles Room & Board: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetLost Angels Childrens Project Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNORTHRIDGE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $10,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetTHINKWATTS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetExtraordinary Families: $9,589 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSafe Parking LA: $9,379 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVILLAGE FOR VETS: $9,309 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $9,265 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ANTI-RECIDIVISM COALITION: $8,473 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALEXANDRIA HOUSE: $8,365 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVETERAN SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $8,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetAMUDIM COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC: $7,630 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYoung Eisner Scholars: $5,069 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 Founda…California Community …The Ralph M Parsons F…Shelter Partnership I…The Rose Hills Founda…The Ahmanson Foundati…Kaiser Foundation Hos…The Annenberg Foundat…Jewish Community Foun…Weingart FoundationCarrie Estelle Doheny…S Mark Taper Foundati…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Change Reaction funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Change Reaction. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Change Reaction?

    Find your warmest path to The Change Reaction through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 53 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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