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The Discovery Land Company Foundation

To strengthen non-profit and charitable programs that serve children and families, including shelters and foster care facilities, in the communities that surround discovery land company developments.

$2.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$1.9M
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 2024.

International$3.3MHousing & Shelter$1.9MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.8MHuman Services$1.6MYouth Development$827kPhilanthropy$678kHealth$295kFood & Nutrition$130kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $2,256,167, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,346,167 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $90,000 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 $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $141k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $208k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.9M
$45,920
Median grant
6
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GLOBAL EMERGENCY RELIEF RECOVERY AND REC$1,900,000
BABY2BABY$97,600
CHILDRENS VILLAGECANOPY VILLAGE$60,000
SAFEHOUSE OF THE DESERT$50,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA$45,920
NORTH EAST COMMUNITY CENTER$30,000
COACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION$25,000
SHELTER FROM THE STORM$25,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF COACHELLA VALLEY$14,647
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY$8,000
02The need
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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 (FY17–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%IDAHO YOUTH RANCH INC: $12k → 8%LOS CABOS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $10k → 6%JUGLIFE FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 14%PROVIDENCE HOUSE INC: $6k → 20%SELFLESS LOVE FOUNDATION: $44k → 11%COMMUNITY CANCER FUND: $50k → 12%IMAGINE LOS ANGELES INC: $5k → 14%HOUSE OF HOPE: $10k → 10%SELFLESS LOVE FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%SAFEHOUSE OF THE DESERT: $55k → 11%THE CHILDREN'S VILLAGE: $130k → 10%SAFEHOUSE OF THE DESERT: $50k → 11%ISLAND HARVEST: $5k → 7%THE CHILDREN'S VILLAGE: $125k → 10%SAFEHOUSE OF THE DESERT: $50k → 11%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEVADA: $20k → 13%CHILDREN'S VILLAGE INC: $93k → 10%OPERATION SAFEHOUSE: $50k → 11%CHILDRENS VILLAGECANOPY VILLAGE: $60k → 10%OPERATION SAFEHOUSE: $50k → 11%THE CHILDREN'S VILLAGE: $60k → 10%OPERATION SAFEHOUSE: $50k → 11%THE CHILDREN'S VILLAGE INC: $60k → 10%CHILDREN'S VILLAGE FOUNDATION INC: $56k → 10%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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MN
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CO
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MD
AZ
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HI
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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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 6% of The Discovery Land Company Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 22% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 17%.

The Discovery Land Company Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 6.3% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.9M · 21 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

21 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
49

Total granted

$8.9M
$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+46%

Still filing today

95%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthFood & NutritionInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • GE
    GLOBAL EMERGENCY RELIEF RECOVERY AND RECONSTRUCTION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $4.5M · revenue +138% · 67% of their budget
  • DIRECT RELIEF
    3× · 2020–2023 · $1.7M · revenue +20%
  • CV
    CANOPY VILLAGE FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $524k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • TB
    The Benjamin & Heather Crane Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2019 · $436k · revenue 0% · 99% of their budget
  • GE
    GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +674%
  • AV
    ARRINGTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $220k · revenue +31%
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
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
2
Los Angeles Regional Food Bank

The organization's mission is to mobilize resources to fight hunger in our community. to fulfill its mission, the food bank:* sources and acquires nutritious food and other products and distribute them to people experiencing nutrition…

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3
Food for the Hungry Inc

Food for the hungry is a christian humanitarian aid and global development organization that has designed, developed and delivered solutions for more than 50 years so that children, families and communities can flourish. (continued on…

International
4
California Association of Food Banks

California association of food banks (cafb) is a non-profit public benefit corporation located in oakland, california. together with its 41-member foodbanks, cafb is the largest charitable hunger-relief and anti-hunger leader in the state.…

Food & Nutrition
5
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
6
Kuakini Foundation

The mission of kuakini foundation is to improve the health status of the community by: providing comprehensive health care services and programs at reasonable cost; continuously improving the quality of health care services and programs;…

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7
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
8
Hollywood Food Coalition

Hollywood food coalition welcomes people to dinner each night. we rescue and redistribute food daily to other organizations. we care for our immediate community through our wellness program. we build community with and through our…

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9
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition
10
Family Programs Hawaii

The mission of the organization is to strengthen youth and families through high quality prevention, support, and transition services.

Unclassified
11
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
12
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Good Sports Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Benjamin & Heather Crane Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

76 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. 76 of the 77 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)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
72/76
Grantees still filing
56/76
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GLOBAL EMERGENCY RELIEF RECOVERY AND RECONSTRUCTION: $4,513,000 · InternationalGLOBAL EMERGENCY RELIEF RECOVERY AND RECONSTRUCTIONDIRECT RELIEF: $1,696,852 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEF+2 more: $16,000 · InternationalCANOPY VILLAGE FOUNDATION INC: $524,000 · Human ServicesCANOPY VILL…OPERATION SAFE HOUSE INC: $305,000 · Human ServicesOPERATION S…CANOPY VILLAGE INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesCANOPY VILL…SELFLESS LOVE FOUNDATION INC: $54,220 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY CANCER FUND: $50,000 · Human Services+9 more: $103,000 · Human Services+9 moreThe Benjamin & Heather Crane Foundation Inc: $435,701 · OtherThe Benjamin &…NORTHEAST COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $277,000 · OtherNORTHEAST COMM…BABY2BABY: $122,600 · OtherBABY2BABYJHPIEGO CORPORATION: $50,000 · OtherENTERPRISE PALM BEACH INC: $120,000 · OtherENTERPRISE PAL…SPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INC: $60,000 · Other+26 more: $349,082 · Other+26 moreCrane Family Foundation: $667,829 · PhilanthropyINTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $73,000 · Philanthropy+5 more: $55,000 · PhilanthropyBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $318,544 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF KOOTENAI COUNTY IDAHO INC: $101,934 · Youth DevelopmentFosterClub Inc: $63,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HENDERSON COUNTY/HENDERSONVILLE INC: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY: $23,000 · Youth Development+5 more: $54,647 · Youth DevelopmentGLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC: $250,000 · Public Safety & DisasterARRINGTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $220,000 · Public Safety & DisasterHAWAIIAN LIFEGUARD ASSOCIATION: $20,000 · Public Safety & DisasterFAMILY REACH FOUNDATION: $75,000 · HealthBOOMER ESIASON FOUNDATION: $50,000 · HealthSHELTER FROM THE STORM INC: $25,000 · HealthIMUA FAMILY SERVICES: $25,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $25,000 · Health+2 more: $10,000 · Health
International$6,225,852Human Services$1,096,220Other$1,414,383Philanthropy$795,829Youth Development$586,125Public Safety & Disaster$490,000Health$210,000

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 budgetGLOBAL EMERGENCY RELIEF RECOVERY AND RECONSTRUCTION: $4,513,000 over 5y, 67% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $1,696,852 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCANOPY VILLAGE FOUNDATION INC: $524,000 over 6y, 23% of budgetThe Benjamin & Heather Crane Foundation Inc: $435,701 over 1y, 99% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $318,544 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION SAFE HOUSE INC: $305,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetNORTHEAST COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $277,000 over 7y, 18% of budgetGLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC: $250,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBABY2BABY: $122,600 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetENTERPRISE PALM BEACH INC: $120,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF KOOTENAI COUNTY IDAHO INC: $101,934 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetFAMILY REACH FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetINTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $73,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFosterClub Inc: $63,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INC: $60,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCANOPY VILLAGE INC: $60,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSELFLESS LOVE FOUNDATION INC: $54,220 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY CANCER FUND: $50,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetJHPIEGO CORPORATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOOMER ESIASON FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetIDEA RELIEF FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetSHELTER FROM THE STORM INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ENVIRONMENT INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetCOACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetIMUA FAMILY SERVICES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEART OF THE HAMPTONS LTD: $25,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetTHREE SQUARE: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HENDERSON COUNTY/HENDERSONVILLE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY: $23,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAIIAN LIFEGUARD ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetOPPORTUNITY VILLAGE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetI Have A Dream Foundation Of Boulder County: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFOR THE CITY NETWORK: $19,400 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetANDREW S RODDICK FOUNDATION INC: $17,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COACHELLA VALLEY: $14,647 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetIDAHO YOUTH RANCH INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR CHILD PROTECTION: $11,294 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD SPORTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD OF CHILDREN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJESUS HOUSE OF HOPE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUGLIFE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.3% 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.

Numerica Credit UnionEnterprise Holdings F…Pga Tour Charities IncFirst Interstate Banc…The Ayco Charitable F…Morgan Stanley Global…The Avista FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…Community Foundation …National Philanthropi…Austin Community Foun…The Chicago Community…
Numerica Credit UnionWA15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Numerica Credit Union · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Pga Tour Charities Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Avista Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Austin Community Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust

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 Discovery Land Company Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Discovery Land Company Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Jhpiego Corporation: 65% of income from government
  • FosterClub Inc: 21% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Jesus House of Hope Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Martin County: 2% of income from government
  • Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Global Empowerment Mission Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
24report 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Discovery Land Company Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Discovery Land Company 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 77 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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