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The Gilbert and Jacki Cisneros 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.

$380k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$2.2MReligion$455kPublic Benefit$356kYouth Development$131kHuman Services$104kHealth$99kArts & Culture$69kHousing & Shelter$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $130k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $250k
$20,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EXCELENCIA IN EDUCATION INC$100,000
GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$50,000
HISPANIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$35,000
GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$20,000
EXCELENCIA IN EDUCATION INC$15,000
BE A LEADER FOUNDATION$15,000
ALTAMED HEALTH SERVICES CORP$15,000
GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$10,000
TELACU EDUCATION FOUNDATION$10,000
LANDON SCHOOL CORPORATION$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–18, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%EVA LONGORIA FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%EVA LONGORIA FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%HISPANIC 100 FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 10% of The Gilbert and Jacki Cisneros 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.

The Gilbert and Jacki Cisneros Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.8M · 16 repeat orgs$347k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
21

Total granted

$2.8M
$307k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+52%

Still filing today

75%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
EducationArts & CultureHealthCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther

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

  • EI
    EXCELENCIA IN EDUCATION INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $720k · revenue +35%
  • HS
    HISPANIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    8× · 2017–2024 · $458k · revenue +14%
  • TG
    The George Washington University
    4× · 2017–2024 · $395k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • RC
    ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP OF ORANGE A CORPORATION SOLE
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • CH
    CORNERSTONE HOUSING FOR ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -94%
  • LD
    LATINO DONOR COLLABORATIVE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $38k · revenue +79%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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2
Ucla Foundation

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…

Education
3
Occidental College

See schedule othe mission of occidental college is to provide a gifted and diverse group of students with a total educational experience of the highest quality - one that prepares them for leadership in an increasingly complex,…

Education
4
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
5
California State University Los Angeles Foundation

To advance the educational, cultural, scholarly, and creative activities and the role of community service of csula by increasing private funding, responsibly managing donated resources and supporting the university and its diverse and…

Education
6
University of La Verne

The university of la verne offers a distinctive and relevant educational experience to a diverse population of traditional-age, adult, and graduate learners, preparing them for successful careers and a commitment to lifelong learning…

Education
7
Los Angeles Pacific University

Los angeles pacific university exists to deliver high quality, accessible christ-centered education to learners everywhere.

Education
8
Dominican University of California

Our institutional mission is to educate and prepare students to be ethical leaders and socially responsible global citizens who incorporate the dominican values of study, reflection, community and service into their lives.

Education
9
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
10
California Competes

Established in 2011, our mission is to help transform the state's higher education system into an engine of economic opportunity that empowers all californians, particularly those from underserved communities, to achieve their full…

Education
11
Long Island University

To provide excellence and access in private higher education to those who seek to expand their knowledge and prepare themselves for meaningful, educated lives and for service to their communities and the world.

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12
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Campaign for College Opportunity and the most unlike its peers is Youth Employment Service of the Harbor Area Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%0%<5yr16%3%5–10yr20%26%10–20yr17%26%20–35yr11%17%35–55yr12%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr16%2%5–10yr20%23%10–20yr17%27%20–35yr11%24%35–55yr12%25%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/37
the rest of the field
15%
11,557/78,078

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.

05the grantee network

35 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. 35 of the 43 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
25/35
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

EXCELENCIA IN EDUCATION INC — $720,000 · EducationEXCELENCIA IN EDUCATION INCHISPANIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $458,000 · EducationHISPANIC SCHOLARSHIP FUNDThe George Washington University — $395,000 · EducationThe George Washington UniversityUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $250,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIACivic Nation — $240,000 · EducationCivic Nation+5 more — $40,000 · EducationORANGE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION — $305,000 · OtherORANGE CATHOLIC FOUNDATIONCONGRESSIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS INSTITUTE INC — $116,000 · OtherCONGRESSIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS I…THE PEGASUS SCHOOL — $110,000 · OtherTHE PEGASUS SCHOOLROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP OF ORANGE A CORPORATION SOLE — $100,000 · OtherROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP OF ORANGE…EL RANCHO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT — $88,176 · OtherEL RANCHO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRI…UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS — $50,000 · OtherOUR LADY QUEEN OF ANGELS — $50,000 · OtherCORNERSTONE HOUSING FOR ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES — $50,000 · Other+12 more — $97,500 · Other+12 moreTHE WOODEN FLOOR FOR YOUTH MOVEMENT — $55,000 · Arts & CultureLATINO DONOR COLLABORATIVE INC — $37,500 · Arts & CultureTHE COLBURN SCHOOL — $30,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $1,000 · Arts & CultureGeorge Lopez Foundation — $77,500 · PhilanthropyCAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION — $30,000 · PhilanthropyORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION — $65,000 · Crime & LegalBROWN UNIVERSITY — $36,000 · Community ImprovementCHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE COUNTY — $10,000 · Community ImprovementHISPANIC FEDERATION INC — $5,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $5,000 · Community ImprovementTHE EVA LONGORIA FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Human Services+1 more — $1,000 · Human Services
Education$2,103,000Other$966,676Arts & Culture$123,500Philanthropy$107,500Crime & Legal$65,000Community Improvement$56,000Human Services$51,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEXCELENCIA IN EDUCATION INC — $720,000 over 7y, 3.5% of budgetHISPANIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $458,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetThe George Washington University — $395,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $250,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCivic Nation — $240,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS INSTITUTE INC — $116,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetTHE PEGASUS SCHOOL — $110,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGeorge Lopez Foundation — $77,500 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION — $65,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE WOODEN FLOOR FOR YOUTH MOVEMENT — $55,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHE EVA LONGORIA FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetCORNERSTONE HOUSING FOR ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLATINO DONOR COLLABORATIVE INC — $37,500 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $36,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COLBURN SCHOOL — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTELACU EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBE A LEADER FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetALTAMED HEALTH SERVICES CORPORATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADVANCE — $10,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetLANDON SCHOOL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE COUNTY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAchievement Institute for STEM Scholars — $10,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMALDEF - MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAMPAIGN FOR COLLEGE OPPORTUNITY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHISPANIC FEDERATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOODORANGE AND SAN BERNARDINO COUNTIES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIRACLES FOR KIDS INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH EMPLOYMENT SERVICE OF THE HARBOR AREA INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHISPANIC 100 FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBALLET HISPANICO OF NEW YORK INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Orange County Communi…Edwards Lifesciences …Weingart FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…California Community …The California Endowm…The Ayco Charitable F…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Verizon Foundation
Orange County Community FoundationCA20.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · California Community Foundation · The California Endowment · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Verizon 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 Gilbert and Jacki Cisneros 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 43 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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