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The Felice Foundation Dba the Leo Buscaglia Foundation

Encouraging the spirit of giving by fostering a community spirit for helping others.

$76k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
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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.

Human Services$30kArts & Culture$20kEducation$15kYouth Development$13kHealth$13kHousing & Shelter$10kFood & Nutrition$8kPhilanthropy$8kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $14,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $76,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $61,500 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.
$7,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HEALING WELL THE$7,500
FOSTERING YOUTH INDEPENDENCE$7,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–23, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ELI HOME INC THE: $8k → 10%OPICA: $8k → 14%LOS ANGELES HOUSE OF RUTH: $10k → 14%MAPS CHARITIES: $7k → 14%OPCIA: $8k → 14%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.
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 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.

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Trauma Informed La
Civil Rights
2
Rancho San Antonio Boys Home Inc

Rancho San Antonio commits to being an anti-racist organization that continues to review systemic policies and procedures through an equitable lens, provide a culturally responsive staff training program to educate our teams, continue…

Human Services
3
The Miracle House Foundation

Mentorship and housing assistant for women returning from incarceration

Human Services
4
Los Angeles Youth Network

Youth Emerging Stronger (YES) empowers young people, between ages of 12 and 24 within Los Angeles County, including but not limited to run-away and homeless youth. YES mission is to end homelessness one youth at a time to become…

Human Services
5
Casa de Esperanza

Casa is a refuge, providing protection and education for people caught in the cylces of domestic violence, sexual assault and child assault. Casa is a healing community where women and children can receive the nurturing and support…

Human Services
6
Center for the Empowerment of Families Inc

Provider of innovative healing arts programs,therapeutic mentorship and professional development serving Los Angeles County marginalized youth and families.

Community Improvement
7
Black Los Angeles County Client Coalition Inc

Mental health services advocacy

Human Services
8
Optimist Boys' Home and Ranch Inc

Our mission is to support children/youth, and their families, in and at-risk of foster care, to build hope and achieve bright futures through wellness, education, relationships, and career focused services and resources.

Health
9
Bridges Community Treatment Services Inc

Bridges is a mental health and social services agency dedicated to supporting individuals facing behavioral health challenges and disorders. our mission is to restore dignity, respect, and to empower at risk children, youth, adults, and…

Human Services
10
California Womens Recovery Inc

Provide lodging, meals & safe haven for women

Health
11
Caps of Santa Barbara Inc

Lifetime assistance services for persons with developmental disabilities

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12
Isaiah House of Los Angeles Inc

Low income and transitional community housing and food

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Initiatives; the most unlike its peers is Fostering Youth Independence. 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

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 17 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
12/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OPICA ADULT DAY PROGRAM & COUNSELING CENTER: $15,000 · Human ServicesOPICA ADULT DAY PROGRAM & COUNSEL…LOS ANGELES HOUSE OF RUTH: $10,000 · Human ServicesLOS ANGELES HOUSE OF RUTHTHE ELI HOME INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesTHE ELI HOME INCMAPS Charities: $7,000 · Human ServicesMAPS CharitiesUCLA WATTS LEADERSHIP INSTITU: $6,600 · OtherUCLA WATTS LEADERSHIP INSTITUSTRENGTH IN SUPPORT: $6,600 · OtherSTRENGTH IN SUPPORTJOURNEY OUT: $6,000 · OtherJOURNEY OUTUNIVERSITY CAMPS: $5,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY CAMPSKIDS AND HORSES INC: $6,062 · OtherKIDS AND HORSES INCSAVE OUR YOUTH SOY: $6,000 · OtherSAVE OUR YOUTH SOYPLAZA DE LA RAZA INC: $12,000 · Arts & CulturePLAZA DE LA RAZA…HAVEN ACADEMY OF THE ARTS: $7,500 · Arts & CultureHAVEN ACADEMY OF…ECHOES OF HOPE: $8,000 · EducationECHOES OF HO…STREET POETS INC: $6,600 · EducationSTREET POETS…FALLBROOK FOOD PANTRY: $7,500 · ReligionCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $7,500 · PhilanthropyFostering Youth Independence: $7,000 · Youth Development
Human Services$39,500Other$36,762Arts & Culture$19,500Education$14,600Religion$7,500Philanthropy$7,500Youth Development$7,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOPICA ADULT DAY PROGRAM & COUNSELING CENTER: $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPLAZA DE LA RAZA INC: $12,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetLOS ANGELES HOUSE OF RUTH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetECHOES OF HOPE: $8,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetHAVEN ACADEMY OF THE ARTS: $7,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE ELI HOME INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFALLBROOK FOOD PANTRY: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAPS Charities: $7,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetFostering Youth Independence: $7,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetSTRENGTH IN SUPPORT: $6,600 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetSTREET POETS INC: $6,600 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKIDS AND HORSES INC: $6,062 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSAVE OUR YOUTH SOY: $6,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetJOURNEY OUT: $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY CAMPS: $5,500 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

California Community …Orange County Communi…The Annenberg Foundat…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
California Community FoundationCA15.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Felice Foundation Dba the Leo Buscaglia Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Felice Foundation Dba the Leo Buscaglia Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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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    Find your warmest path to The Felice Foundation Dba the Leo Buscaglia 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 17 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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