· Private foundation
The Crail-Johnson 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k79 grants · $144k
- $10k–50k72 grants · $915k
- $250k+1 grant · $261k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RAINBOW SERVICES LTD | $261,448 |
| HARBOR COMMUNITY CLINIC INC | $30,000 |
| GRAND VISION FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| PACIFIC BATTLESHIP CENTER | $25,000 |
| MY FRIENDS PLACE INC | $25,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CARSON | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY MUSLIM MEDICAL ASSOCIATION INC | $20,000 |
| FRIENDS OF CABRILLO MARINE AQUARIUM | $20,000 |
| ANGELS GATE CULTURAL CENTER | $20,000 |
| CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| RAINBOW SERVICES LTD | $15,000 |
| EDUCATE ADVANCING EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION PARENTING AND LITERACY | $15,000 |
| THE ACHIEVABLE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| SAN PEDRO CITY BALLET | $15,000 |
| COUNSELING PARTNERS OF LOS ANGELES | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of The Crail-Johnson 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, 98% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 90% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
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 +57% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
206 repeat relationships — 88 still active in FY2024, 118 since wound down; 31 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $220k 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
HARBOR COMMUNITY CLINIC INC8× · 2017–2024 · $455k · revenue +216%
RAINBOW SERVICES8× · 2017–2024 · $429k · revenue +59%- GVGRAND VISION FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2024 · $399k · revenue +123%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $65k
- CSCALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +14%
- PBPACIFIC BATTLE CENTERone grant, 2019 · $34k
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.
The la conservation corps creates equitable opportunities for young people to build resilience in themselves, their communities and the environment through a program of work, education and support.
La's best provides free supervised before and after-school activities to over 15,000 children at 200 schools in los angeles unified school district (lausd).
South central los angeles regional center, (sclarc), believes special needs deserve special attention. we are committed to the provision of culturally sensitive services which enhance the inherent strengths of the family and enable…
To improve the quality of life for the diverse communities we serve providing affordable and comprehensive healthcare and education in a welcoming multi-cultural environment.
Youth policy institute (ypi) transforms los angeles neighborhoods, reducing poverty by offering cradle to college & career services.
Chamber's mission: design and advance opportunities and solutions for a thriving regional economy that are inclusive and globally competitive. 1) advocacy - be a bold advocate for business as a driver of a strong economy that enables…
strengthening the leadership and workforce skills of Day Laborers and Domestic Workers. through 5 Day Labor Centers, Workers Health Program & Mujeres en Accion using Education & outreach empowerment tools
Community organizing, education, advocacy, leadership development, direct services and organizational development for communities faced with immense poverty.
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
In 2024, Inner City Law Center, ICLC, served over 3,400 people, helping vulnerable Angelenos to remain in their homes and recover nearly $20.5 million in financial benefits.
To foster relationships among alumni, students and community by providing services and activities that build loyalty, support and a lifelong connection to the university.
To improve the lives of young people in greater los angeles by creating impactful programs that will help them pursue their dreams while building fundamental life skills.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Toberman Neighborhood Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mono County Sheriff Search & Rescue. 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 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% 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.
267 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. 267 of the 365 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
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
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 HARBOR COMMUNITY CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds RAINBOW SERVICES ↗
- Who funds GRAND VISION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC BATTLESHIP CENTER ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LOS ANGELES HARBOR ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CARSON INC ↗
- Who funds PORT OF LOS ANGELES HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE RICHSTONE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ANGELS GATE CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Assistance League of San Pedro-South Bay ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF KERN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HARBOR INTERFAITH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CABRILLO AQUARIUM ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY MUSLIM MEDICAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ACCESS MAMMOTH ↗
- Who funds South Central Los Angeles Ministry Project Inc ↗
- Who funds Children Today Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW VILLAGE CHARTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Los Angeles Maritime Institute ↗
- Who funds SAN PEDRO CITY BALLET ↗
- Who funds LONG BEACH BAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Sharefest Community Development Inc ↗
- Who funds TOBERMAN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE YOUR G A M E ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds AL WOOTEN JR YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds Sanctuary of Hope ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds Long Beach BLAST Better Learning for All Students Today ↗
- Who funds THE ACHIEVABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE INFANT-FAMILY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds MINDS MATTER OF LOS ANGELES INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
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: The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · S Mark Taper Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Green Foundation · Elbridge Stuart Foundation Dba Stuart Foundation · Long Beach Community Foundation · United Way Inc · The Deutsch 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 Crail-Johnson 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.
- Chill Foundation — 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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