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The Confidence Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$4.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
215
Grants FY2024still arriving
18
States reached
$386k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.

Health$4.8MPhilanthropy$4.5MEducation$3.1MArts & Culture$2.5MYouth Development$2.3MEnvironment$1.6MAnimals$1.3MHuman Services$1.0MOther$0
02FY2024 · 215 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k118 grants · $290k
  • $10k–50k73 grants · $1.4M
  • $50k–250k21 grants · $1.8M
  • $250k+3 grants · $986k
$5,000
Median grant
18
States reached
$107M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREATER HORIZONS$385,500
GREATER HORIZONS$300,000
GREATER HORIZONS$300,000
GREATER HORIZONS$200,000
STRENGTH OF SHADOW DOG RESCUE INC$190,000
GREATER HORIZONS$180,000
FLY COMPTON AERONAUTICAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC$100,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MAUI INC$100,000
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ALOHA COUNCIL$100,000
SCRIPPS WHITTIER DIABETES INSTITUTE$100,000
MUSEIQUE$75,000
JOHN TRACY CENTER$75,000
FOSS WATERWAY SEAPORT$75,000
FLY COMPTON AERONAUTICAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC$75,000
HELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER$70,000
02The need
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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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%INTERFACE CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 10%INTERFACE CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 10%INTERFACE CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 10%Interface Children Family Services: $5k → 10%INTERFACE CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 10%MULLIS COMMUNITY SENIOR CENTER: $5k → 10%WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 9%Union Rescue Mission: $50k → 14%Lake Tahoe SummerFest: $15k → 10%CLASSICAL TAHOE: $10k → 10%BONNER COMMUNITY FOOD CENTER INC: $25k → 12%ALLIANCE AGAINST FAMILY VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT: $5k → 18%BONNER COMMUNITY FOOD CENTER INC: $15k → 12%BONNER COMMUNITY FOOD CENTER INC: $15k → 12%BONNER COMMUNITY FOOD CENTER INC: $15k → 12%ALLIANCE AGAINST FAMILY VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT: $6k → 18%INTERFACE CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 11%CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT: $50k → 14%CLASSICAL TAHOE: $25k → 10%CLASSICAL TAHOE: $20k → 10%CLASSICAL TAHOE: $10k → 10%CLASSICAL TAHOE: $5k → 10%YMCA OF ORANGE COUNTY: $25k → 10%YMCA OF ORANGE COUNTY: $10k → 10%Young Men's Christian Association of Orange County: $10k → 10%YMCA OF ORANGE COUNTY: $10k → 10%YMCA OF ORANGE COUNTY: $10k → 10%YMCA OF ORANGE COUNTY: $10k → 10%YMCA OF ORANGE COUNTY: $10k → 10%John Tracy Clinic: $50k → 14%THE HOUSE OF YAHWEH: $6k → 14%PELICAN COVE COUNSELING CENTER: $10k → 14%PELICAN COVE COUNSELING CENTER: $10k → 14%PELICAN COVE COUNSELING CENTER: $10k → 14%JOHN TRACY CENTER: $75k → 14%JOHN TRACY CENTER: $50k → 14%JOHN TRACY CENTER: $50k → 14%JOHN TRACY CENTER: $50k → 14%RICHSTONE CENTER: $10k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $150k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $100k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $50k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $40k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $20k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN LOS ANGELES: $25k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN LOS ANGELES: $10k → 14%MIDNIGHT MISSION: $30k → 14%MIDNIGHT MISSION: $20k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 16% of The Confidence Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 62% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 60% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

The Confidence Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.1% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$18M · 232 repeat orgs$2.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

232 repeat relationships — 119 still active in FY2024, 113 since wound down; 63 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

232
199

Total granted

$18M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+14%

Still filing today

76%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $519k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthAnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • FW
    FOSS WATERWAY SEAPORT
    6× · 2019–2024 · $480k · revenue +8%
  • HW
    HELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER
    7× · 2018–2024 · $426k · revenue +75%
  • MC
    MUSIC CONSERVATORY OF SANDPOINT
    7× · 2018–2024 · $409k · revenue +111% · 28% of their budget

Funded once

  • CG
    Carlyle Global Partners LLC
    one grant, 2018 · $150k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE SEA LIONS INC DBA PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $103k · revenue +66%
  • TS
    THRIVE SCHOLARSgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +55%

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

04Your field

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.

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Association of California School Administrators

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.

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2
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
3
University of La Verne

The university of la verne offers a distinctive and relevant educational experience to a diverse population of traditional-age, adult, and graduate learners, preparing them for successful careers and a commitment to lifelong learning…

Education
4
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
5
Uc Riverside Foundation

To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.

Education
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The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
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University of California Irvine Foundation

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…

Education
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California College of the Arts

California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…

Education
9
Pacific University

A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.

Education
10
University of the Pacific

To provide a superior, student-centered learning experience integrating liberal arts and professional education and preparing individuals for lasting achievement and responsible leadership in their careers and communities.

Education
11
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.

Philanthropy
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The California Channel

To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Diego Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsIndependent K-12 SchoolsYouth Development CentersFood Banks and PantriesCommunity FoundationsEquine Therapy ProgramsCommunity Arts CentersAnimal Rescue and ShelterYouth Sports ProgramsPolicy Research and AdvocacyPublic Library OperationsMilitary Veterans SupportCommunity College Foundatio…Faith-Based Social ServicesChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Elementary Literacy TutoringAddiction Recovery ServicesYouth Development ServicesYouth Mentoring ProgramsDance Arts OrganizationsChristian Youth CampsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Pregnancy Support ServicesWomen & Girls Leadership De…School Parent OrganizationsSchool District FoundationsHealth Access Advocacy and …Local History MuseumsOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Environmental Conservation …Cancer Support ServicesSenior Support Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 36 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%2%<5yr15%6%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr17%23%20–35yr11%26%35–55yr13%25%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%3%5–10yr20%37%10–20yr17%20%20–35yr11%20%35–55yr13%21%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.7%3/417
the rest of the field
14%
26,001/186,561

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.

05the grantee network

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

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 389 of the 508 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
82
Early backer (in before they grew)
378/389
Grantees still filing
257/389
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Scripps Whittier Diabetes Institute — $1,300,000 · OtherScripps Whittier Diabetes Institute+116 more — $9,357,823 · Other+116 moreGreater Horizons — $3,884,000 · PhilanthropyGreater HorizonsTHE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION — $235,000 · PhilanthropyTHE SAN DIEGO FOUNDA…+6 more — $178,500 · PhilanthropyCHARLES R DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE — $300,000 · EducationCHARLES R D…CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — $285,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA …MOUNT SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY — $285,000 · EducationMOUNT SAINT…PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY — $275,000 · EducationPEPPERDINE …NORTH IDAHO HIGH SCHOOL AEROSPACE PROGRAM INC — $196,000 · EducationNORTH IDAHO…ALLIANCE COLLEGE-READY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $162,500 · EducationALLIANCE CO…INNER CITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $150,000 · EducationINNER CITY …UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $128,000 · EducationTHRIVE SCHOLARS — $100,000 · EducationCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY — $84,000 · Education+15 more — $467,000 · Education+15 moreFOSS WATERWAY SEAPORT — $480,000 · Arts & CultureFOSS WATER…MUSIC CONSERVATORY OF SANDPOINT — $408,550 · Arts & CultureMUSIC CONS…MuseIque — $350,000 · Arts & CultureMuseIqueMUSEUM OF FLIGHT FOUNDATION — $327,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF …PACIFIC BATTLESHIP CENTER — $169,500 · Arts & CulturePACIFIC BA…Panida Theater Committee Inc — $95,200 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION — $80,000 · Arts & CulturePasadena Conservatory of Music — $75,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more — $129,500 · Arts & Culture+6 moreThe Neuromuscular Disease Foundation — $720,000 · HealthThe Neuro…PROVIDENCE HEALTH & SERVICES FOUNDATION SAN FERNANDO & SANTA CLARITA VALLEYS SA — $690,000 · HealthPROVIDENC…Children's Hospital Los Angeles — $257,500 · HealthChildren'…MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ORANGE COUNTY AND THE INLAND EMPIRE INC — $101,000 · HealthPARTNERS IN CARE FOUNDATION — $80,000 · Health+7 more — $260,250 · Health+7 moreCOVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA — $300,000 · Human ServicesJOHN TRACY CLINIC — $277,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ORANGE COUNTY — $90,000 · Human ServicesCLASSICAL TAHOE — $85,000 · Human ServicesBONNER COMMUNITY FOOD CENTER INC — $70,000 · Human ServicesUNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES — $62,500 · Human ServicesChildren of the Night — $50,000 · Human ServicesUNION RESCUE MISSION — $50,000 · Human ServicesTHE MIDNIGHT MISSION — $50,000 · Human Services+6 more — $170,250 · Human ServicesHELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER — $425,750 · AnimalsSTRENGTH OF SHADOW DOG RESCUE INC — $350,000 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF THE SEA LIONS INC DBA PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER — $102,500 · AnimalsAQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC CORPORATION — $75,000 · AnimalsCritters Without Litters Inc — $65,000 · Animals+4 more — $92,500 · Animals
Other$10,657,823Philanthropy$4,297,500Education$2,432,500Arts & Culture$2,114,750Health$2,108,750Human Services$1,204,750Animals$1,110,750

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGreater Horizons — $3,884,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetThe Neuromuscular Disease Foundation — $720,000 over 6y, 46% of budgetPROVIDENCE HEALTH & SERVICES FOUNDATION SAN FERNANDO & SANTA CLARITA VALLEYS SA — $690,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetFOSS WATERWAY SEAPORT — $480,000 over 6y, 14% of budgetHELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER — $425,750 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetMUSIC CONSERVATORY OF SANDPOINT — $408,550 over 7y, 28% of budgetSTRENGTH OF SHADOW DOG RESCUE INC — $350,000 over 7y, 49% of budgetMuseIque — $350,000 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetMUSEUM OF FLIGHT FOUNDATION — $327,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetLAKE PEND OREILLE WATERKEEPER INC — $320,000 over 4y, 49% of budgetPortal Schools — $302,500 over 3y, 11% of budgetCHARLES R DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE — $300,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA — $300,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — $285,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY — $285,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJOHN TRACY CLINIC — $277,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetPEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY — $275,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC COUNCIL ON INTERNATIONAL POLICY — $267,500 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION — $262,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $257,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMODEL FOREST POLICY PROGRAM — $240,000 over 7y, 42% of budgetTHE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION — $235,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetOutward Bound Adventures — $230,000 over 4y, 8.2% of budgetSANTA TERESITA INC — $225,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetNORTH IDAHO HIGH SCHOOL AEROSPACE PROGRAM INC — $196,000 over 5y, 71% of budgetSandpoint Waldorf School Inc — $191,500 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY GREATER SAN GABRIEL VALLEY — $187,500 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MAUI INC — $184,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetLegacy Connections — $182,500 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER LOS ANGELES — $175,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK — $175,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE LOS ANGELES RIVER — $175,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetFly Compton Aeronautical Education Foundation Inc — $175,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetPACIFIC BATTLESHIP CENTER — $169,500 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetALLIANCE COLLEGE-READY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $162,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA -- ALOHA COUNCIL — $162,500 over 3y, 20% of budgetHIGHER GROUND USA INC — $155,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetINNER CITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBETHANY SERVICES INC — $146,750 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSan Diego-Imperial Council Boy Scouts of America — $145,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetPacific Legal Foundation — $135,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $128,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NOTHERN NEVADA INC — $111,000 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetFOUR WINDS — $107,500 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetMOUNTAIN COMMUNITIES BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB — $105,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE SEA LIONS INC DBA PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER — $102,500 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ORANGE COUNTY AND THE INLAND EMPIRE INC — $102,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ORANGE COUNTY AND THE INLAND EMPIRE INC — $101,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budget
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 Greater Horizons ↗
  • Who funds The Neuromuscular Disease Foundation ↗
  • Who funds PROVIDENCE HEALTH & SERVICES FOUNDATION SAN FERNANDO & SANTA CLARITA VALLEYS SA ↗
  • Who funds FOSS WATERWAY SEAPORT ↗
  • Who funds HELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MUSIC CONSERVATORY OF SANDPOINT ↗
  • Who funds STRENGTH OF SHADOW DOG RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds MuseIque ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF FLIGHT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LAKE PEND OREILLE WATERKEEPER INC ↗
  • Who funds Portal Schools ↗
  • Who funds CHARLES R DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
  • Who funds MOUNT SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds JOHN TRACY CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds PACIFIC COUNCIL ON INTERNATIONAL POLICY ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
  • Who funds MODEL FOREST POLICY PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Outward Bound Adventures ↗
  • Who funds SANTA TERESITA INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH IDAHO HIGH SCHOOL AEROSPACE PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds Sandpoint Waldorf School Inc ↗
  • Who funds CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY GREATER SAN GABRIEL VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MAUI INC ↗
  • Who funds Legacy Connections ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER LOS ANGELES ↗
  • Who funds JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE LOS ANGELES RIVER ↗
  • Who funds Fly Compton Aeronautical Education Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds PACIFIC BATTLESHIP CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE COLLEGE-READY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA -- ALOHA COUNCIL ↗

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.

The Mericos FoundationThe Ralph M Parsons F…The Ahmanson Foundati…The Rose Hills Founda…Pasadena Community Fo…Orange County Communi…Weingart FoundationCalifornia Community …Wm Keck FoundationHenry L Guenther Foun…The Annenberg Foundat…Joseph Drown Foundati…
The Mericos FoundationCA66.3× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Mericos Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · Pasadena Community Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · Weingart Foundation · California Community Foundation · Wm Keck Foundation · Henry L Guenther Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Joseph Drown 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 Confidence 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Greenwich Alliance for Education Inc — 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
70report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Confidence Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Confidence Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 508 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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