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· Public charity

The Colleagues Inc

To raise funds to support underserved women, children, and families in our community.

$420k
Granted FY2026still arriving
6
Grants FY2026still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$5.8MYouth Development$317kHealth$210kHousing & Shelter$104kCommunity Improvement$100kInternational$50kPublic Safety & Disaster$49k
02FY2026 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $400k
$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$857k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN'S BURN FOUNDATION$100,000
VISION TO LEARN FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY$100,000
THE TEEN PROJECT$100,000
RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION & INSTITUTE$50,000
ECHOES OF HOPE$50,000
LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION$12,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–26, $5.7M) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%UNITED PEACE OFFICERS AGAINST: $50k → 14%THE JOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION: $365k → 20%THE TEEN PROJECT: $100k → 14%GOOD PLUS FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 14%CHILDRENS INSTITUTE INC: $1.0M → 14%CHILDRENS INSTITUTE INC: $573k → 14%CHILDRENS INSTITUTE INC: $518k → 14%CHILDRENS INSTITUTE INC: $18k → 14%JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION: $86k → 14%LOS ANGELES HOUSE OF RUTH: $104k → 14%JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%CHILDRENS INSTITUTE INC: $983k → 14%CHILDRENS INSTITUTE INC: $820k → 14%UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $107k → 14%CHILDRENS INSTITUTE INC: $717k → 14%UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $100k → 14%LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $28k → 14%LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $12k → 14%LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $11k → 14%LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $10k → 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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.9M · 8 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2026, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
8

Total granted

$5.9M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+8%

Still filing today

100%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationHealthInternationalOther
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

  • CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $4.6M · revenue +71%
  • F
    FOSTERALL
    3× · 2023–2025 · $294k · revenue +12%
  • VISION TO LEARN
    3× · 2024–2026 · $210k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • JOYFUL HEART FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $365k · revenue +135%
  • FF
    FIREWORK FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $200k · revenue 0%
  • TP
    THE PAINTED TURTLE
    one grant, 2024 · $117k · revenue -40%
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
Trauma Informed La
Civil Rights
2
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
3
Sacramento Children's Home

At the sacramento children's home, we are committed to opening doors to the future by maximizing the potential of children and families.

Human Services
4
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
5
All for Kids Organization

This year, all for kids provided 70,000 at-risk children and parents living in los angeles and orange counties with services that include school readiness, parenting classes, family resource centers, support groups, mental health…

Human Services
6
Vista Del Mar Child and Family Services

To provide comprehensive, family-centered social, educational and behavioral health services that encourage children, adolescents and their families to lead self reliant, stable and productive lives.

Human Services
7
Beyond Us & Them

To offer programs and training that resource individuals and organizations in self-awareness, self-regulation, effective communication and to promote structures of belonging, utilizing council and other practices, to encourage social…

Human Services
8
California Partnership to End Domestic Violence

The organization's mission is to promote the collective voice of a diverse coalition of organizations and individuals working to eliminate all forms of domestic violence. as an advocate for sociate change, we advance our mission by…

Civil Rights
9
Los Angeles Education Partnership

To advance educational equity. together with families, schools and the community, facilitate access to and opportunities for quality educational and wellness practices so that children thrive from diapers to diplomas.

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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
El Paso Guidance Center Inc dba El Paso Child Guidance Center

Improving the health and well-being of children and families in a safe environment through mental health services, education and awareness.

—
12
Vip Community Mental Health Center Inc

Intervening to protect and treat all victims of violence

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Institute Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute. 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

17 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. 17 of the 18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
10/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $4,629,495 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INCJOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION: $365,000 · Human ServicesJOYFUL HEART FOUNDATIONThe Teen Project Inc: $207,000 · Human ServicesUNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $207,000 · Human Services+5 more: $376,262 · Human Services+5 moreFOSTERALL: $294,000 · OtherFOSTERALLCHILDREN'S BURN FOUNDATION: $200,000 · OtherCHILDREN'…OPERATION PROCESS LOS ANGELES: $100,000 · OtherOPERATION…FIREWORK FOUNDATION: $200,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE PAINTED TURTLE: $117,000 · Youth DevelopmentVISION TO LEARN: $210,000 · HealthECHOES OF HOPE: $50,000 · EducationTHE RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION AND INSTITUTE: $50,000 · EducationINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $50,000 · International
Human Services$5,784,757Other$594,000Youth Development$317,000Health$210,000Education$100,000International$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $4,629,495 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetJOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION: $365,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetFOSTERALL: $294,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetVISION TO LEARN: $210,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetThe Teen Project Inc: $207,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetUNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $207,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S BURN FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFIREWORK FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetTHE JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION: $136,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetLOS ANGELES HOUSE OF RUTH: $104,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetLOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $61,262 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD PLUS FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Fidelity Investments …
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA5.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Colleagues Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Colleagues Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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 Colleagues Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Colleagues Inc 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 18 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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