How much does The Diane Warren Foundation give?

The Diane Warren Foundation reported 55 grants totaling $698,090 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 51 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Diane Warren Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Animals (81%), Human Services (3%), Food & Nutrition (3%).

Who are The Diane Warren Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Advancing Law For Animals ($244k), Lange Foundation ($200k), Stray Cat Alliance ($200k).

Does The Diane Warren Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Diane Warren Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Where is The Diane Warren Foundation based?

The Diane Warren Foundation is based in CA.

The Diane Warren Foundation

The Diane Warren Foundation at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

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The Diane Warren Foundation

Q: Which funders back the same organizations as The Diane Warren Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Thornton S Jr and Katrina D Glide Foundation, Mary Jo and Hank Greenberg Animal Welfare Foundation, The Annenberg 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.

$698k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$50k

Largest

01What it funds

0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Animals$3.6MHuman Services$149kFood & Nutrition$139kHealth$94kReligion$39kYouth Development$13kArts & Culture$4kOther$0

02FY2024 · 55 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k21 grants · $96k
$10k–50k32 grants · $503k
$50k–250k2 grants · $100k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$6.2M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
MEGAN HAD A LITTLE LAMB	$50,000
ADVANCING LAW FOR ANIMALS	$50,000
THE FORGOTTEN DOG FOUNDATION	$45,000
MERCY FOR ANIMALS FOUNDATION	$32,500
Individual grant recipient	$25,000
MARTHA'S FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY	$25,000
SAINT FELIX CAT RESCUE	$25,000
THE LANGE FOUNDATION	$20,000
STRAY CAT ALLIANCE	$20,000
CATALINA ISLAND HUMANE SOCIETY	$20,000
SANTE DFOUNDATION	$20,000
FIXNATION	$20,000
MEOOWZ RESQ	$20,000
KITTY DEVORE RESCUE NETWORK	$15,000
SAVEADOG RESCUE OREGON	$15,000

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $270k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$4.0M · 71 repeat orgs$484k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

71 repeat relationships: 42 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.0M

$334k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%

+19%

Still filing today

62%

51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $149k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

AnimalsHuman ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementHealthArts & CultureOther

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

LF
LANGE FOUNDATION
8× · 2017–2024 · $200k · revenue +82%
SC
STRAY CAT ALLIANCE
8× · 2017–2024 · $200k · revenue +111%
CI
CATALINA ISLAND HUMANE SOCIETY INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $135k · revenue +137% · 35% of their budget

Funded once

MH
Meghan Had A Little Lamb A Nonprofit Corporation
one grant, 2021 · $45k
FL
FOREVER LOVE RESCUE INCgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $27k · revenue +196% · 34% of their budget
LC
Last Chance for Animals
one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -13%

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.

Cat Tail Farms Feline Sanctuary

Animal rescue and housing

Animals

Kitten Around Cat Rescue

Animals

J-Lo's Animal Rescue & Sanctuary in

Animal care and rescue

Animals

Runaways Animal Rescue

Animals

Hope Fur Paws Rescue

To help injured, abandoned and unwanted animals. We provide food, vet care that includes heartworm prevention and spay or neuter services, shelter and anything else needed.

Animals

Kneading Kitty Rescue

Philanthropy

Fur Animal Rescue

Animal rescue organization dedicated to finding homes for animals at the animal shelter. we also provde vet care foster homes, and assistance with homing for special needs animals.

Animals

Donna's Love Pet Rescue

Animals

Grace Farm Animal Rescue and Sanctu

Animals

PurrHarmony Inc

Rescue and shelter cats

Animals

Muttsnstuff

Rescue animals

Animals

Raskels Rescue

Animals

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pet Adoption Fund; the most unlike its peers is Cats At the Studios Inc. 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

74 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. 74 of the 121 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

69/74

Grantees still filing

47/74

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Animals$2,282,490Other$1,741,380Human Services$270,000Education$82,000Community Improvement$52,000Health$20,000Youth Development$10,000Arts & Culture$500

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

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.

Thornton S Jr and Katrina D Glide FoundationCA33.2× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Thornton S Jr and Katrina D Glide Foundation · Mary Jo and Hank Greenberg Animal Welfare Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · The Michelson Found Animals Foundation Inc · Greater Good Charities · Pet Care Foundation · Hope for Paws · Laffintr of John & Maria Tuw Main · Sempra Foundation · On Shore Foundation · Best Friends Animal Society · Paul and Lea Levine 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 Diane Warren Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Diane Warren Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

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.

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