· Private foundation
The Duncan Great Cause Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE HUNTINGTON LIBRARY | $40,000 |
| CAL STATE LA UNIVERSITY AUXILIARY SERVICES INC | $10,350 |
| JOHN RAITT AWARDS FOR YOUTH (JRAY) | $9,000 |
| MUSEIQUE | $5,000 |
| CALTECH | $4,000 |
| ASCENCIA | $2,650 |
| SAN MARINO ROTARY CHARITIES | $2,000 |
| SAN MARINO MOTOR CLASSIC | $1,500 |
| MONROE INSTITUTE | $1,000 |
| THE ROTARY FOUNDATION | $700 |
| MAASAI CULTURAL CONSERVATION FOUNDATION | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $495 |
| EAST MEETS WEST PARENT EDUCATION CLUB | $250 |
| SAN MARINO SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $103 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% of your 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.
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.
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.
20 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- HEHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY5× · 2021–2025 · $179k · revenue +48%
- AASCENCIA6× · 2020–2025 · $27k · revenue +63%
- CSCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LOS ANGELES AUXILIARY SERVICES INC2× · 2020–2025 · $11k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- HLHUNTINGTION LIBRARYone grant, 2020 · $28k
- CHCHILDREN HOSPITALone grant, 2020 · $1k
- CCCHINESE CLUB OF SAN MARINOgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +129%
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 central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…
To serve the public through the collection, conservation, exhibition and interpretation of significant works of art from a broad range of cultures and historical periods, and through translation of these collections into meaningful…
The museum of contemporary art san diego invites all audiences to experience our world, our region, and ourselves through the prism of contemporary art.
The monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
The hammer museum at ucla believes in the promise of art and ideas to illuminate our lives and build a more just world.
Nurture empathy and connection by engaging communities with socially relevant contemporary art
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chinese Club of San Marino and the most unlike its peers is Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 35 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
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 HENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY ↗
- Who funds ASCENCIA ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LOS ANGELES AUXILIARY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE CALTECH Y ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds CENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds MuseIque ↗
- Who funds San Marino Schools Foundation ↗
- Who funds SAN MARINO MOTOR CLASSIC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds THE MONROE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SAN MARINO ROTARY CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds CHINESE CLUB OF SAN MARINO ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds CHOC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE PASADENA PLAYHOUSE STATE THEATRE OF CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds Maasai Cultural Conservation Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE LOS ANGELES DODGERS 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: Jcs Family Foundation · Harvey and Ellen Knell Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · Pasadena Community Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Weingart Foundation · California Community Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Duncan Great Cause 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.
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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