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The J Grace 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.

$504k
Granted FY2024still arriving
31
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$78k
Largest
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 FY20172024.

Health$1.2MEducation$295kReligion$289kYouth Development$283kHousing & Shelter$157kHuman Services$58kPhilanthropy$29kInternational$23kOther$0
02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k16 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $155k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $328k
$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$6.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SHEA THERAPEUTIC RIDING CTR$77,500
ORANGEWOOD FDN$50,000
MISSION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$50,000
ST JAMES EPIS CHURCH$50,000
HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$50,000
CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY$50,000
MISSION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$25,000
MISSION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$25,000
EPILEPSY FDN$20,000
ST EDWARDS THE CONFESSOR CATHOLIC$20,000
EPILEPSY FOUNDATION$15,000
ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL$15,000
SHEA THERAPEUTIC SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO$15,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$10,000
SHEA THERAPEUTIC RIDING CTR$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 (FY18–23, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 57% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Guild Dogs for the Blind: $500 → 8%Guiding Eyes for the Blind: $100 → 9%Buckner International: $200 → 14%Kids Wish Network: $800 → 11%Wounded Warrior Project: $100 → 14%Christian Appalachian Project: $100 → 26%Guild Dogs for the Blind: $500 → 8%Kids Wish Network: $400 → 11%Guild Dogs for the Blind: $400 → 8%Kids Wish Network: $300 → 11%Kids Wish Network: $100 → 11%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.

Which US states your grants reach

ID
MN
WI
MI
NY
SD
IN
CA
KY
VA
MD
TN
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL

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.

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.2M · 44 repeat orgs$231k to everyone else

44 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
28

Total granted

$2.2M
$65k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+77%

Still filing today

61%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $166k 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
HealthInternationalHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterEducationAnimalsOther

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

  • JS
    JF SHEA THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC FKA FRAN JOSWICK THERAP RIDING CTR INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $442k · revenue +101%
  • MISSION HOSPITAL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER
    7× · 2017–2024 · $377k · revenue +51%
  • OF
    ORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $280k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • CF
    Chapman Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • UP
    UNLEASHED PHOENIX CORPgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $12k · revenue +267%
  • GG
    GLA Global Lyme Alliance
    one grant, 2023 · $5k

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
Altamed Health Services Corporation

To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.

Health
2
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
3
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
4
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
5
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
6
World Vision Inc

World vision, inc. is a christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families, and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. (continued on schedule…

International
7
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

8
Acadia General Hospital Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
9
Allosource

Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.

Health
10
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
11
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
12
National Committee for Quality Assurance

Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Health CentersAnimal Rescue and AdoptionCancer Support OrganizationsHomeless Services & ShelterFood Pantries & AssistanceVeteran Support ServicesUrban Agriculture & Food Ac…Environmental Advocacy Orga…Pregnancy Support ServicesLand Conservation Organizat…Christian Missionary Organi…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Affordable Housing Developm…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%0%<5yr15%4%5–10yr20%7%10–20yr17%20%20–35yr11%31%35–55yr13%38%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%1%5–10yr20%5%10–20yr17%2%20–35yr11%74%35–55yr13%19%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 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/45
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,933

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.

04the grantee network

45 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 45 of the 83 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/45
Grantees still filing
35/45
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Epilepsy Foundation — $127,000 · OtherEpilepsy FoundationSt Edwards the Confessor Church — $81,000 · OtherSt Edwards the Confessor Chur…SHEA THERAPEUTIC RIDING CTR — $77,500 · OtherSHEA THERAPEUTIC RIDING CTRST JAMES EPIS CHURCH — $50,000 · OtherST JAMES EPIS CHURCHSt James Episcopol Church — $42,500 · OtherSt James Episcopol ChurchHABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $35,850 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITYThe Salvation Army — $27,400 · OtherChapman Foundation — $25,000 · Other+59 more — $154,799 · Other+59 moreMISSION HOSPITAL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER — $376,790 · HealthMISSION HOSPITAL REGIONAL …HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $121,500 · HealthHOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $34,700 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARC…+4 more — $19,610 · HealthJF SHEA THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC FKA FRAN JOSWICK THERAP RIDING CTR INC — $442,490 · Recreation & SportsJF SHEA THERAPEUTIC …CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY — $278,300 · EducationCHAPMAN UNIVE…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION — $16,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF…ORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION — $280,000 · Crime & LegalORANGEWOOD FO…AMERICAN FAMILY HOUSING — $77,500 · Housing & ShelterOrange County Rescue Mission Inc — $24,966 · Housing & ShelterLOS ANGELES MISSION INC — $18,740 · Housing & ShelterST JAMES FAITH LAB — $90,000 · Religion+1 more — $100 · Religion
Other$621,049Health$552,600Recreation & Sports$442,490Education$294,300Crime & Legal$280,000Housing & Shelter$121,206Religion$90,100

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 budgetJF SHEA THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC FKA FRAN JOSWICK THERAP RIDING CTR INC — $442,490 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetMISSION HOSPITAL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER — $376,790 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION — $280,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY — $278,300 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $121,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetST JAMES FAITH LAB — $90,000 over 4y, 25% of budgetAMERICAN FAMILY HOUSING — $77,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $34,700 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetOrange County Rescue Mission Inc — $24,966 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES MISSION INC — $18,740 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION — $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $15,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNLEASHED PHOENIX CORP — $11,760 over 1y, 11% of budgetFeeding America — $8,230 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc — $6,100 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDESIGN WITH PURPOSE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetLUTHERAN ASSOCIATION OF MISSIONARIES AND PILOTS US — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $4,650 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $4,350 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION — $3,940 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC — $3,624 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA — $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC — $2,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC — $2,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION HOMEFRONT INC — $1,900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS WISH NETWORK INC — $1,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC — $1,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFEED THE CHILDREN INC — $1,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREGENERATION INTERNATIONAL — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHOC FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE EARTH — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMINO HEALTH CENTER — $255 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUCKNER INTERNATIONAL — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INC — $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLESEA GLOBAL FEED THE HUNGRY INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIVING SUCCESS CENTER — $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH — $100 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.

  • Who funds JF SHEA THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC FKA FRAN JOSWICK THERAP RIDING CTR INC
  • Who funds MISSION HOSPITAL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER
  • Who funds ORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION
  • Who funds CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds ST JAMES FAITH LAB
  • Who funds AMERICAN FAMILY HOUSING
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
  • Who funds Orange County Rescue Mission Inc
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES MISSION INC
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
  • Who funds UNLEASHED PHOENIX CORP
  • Who funds Feeding America
  • Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc
  • Who funds DESIGN WITH PURPOSE INC
  • Who funds LUTHERAN ASSOCIATION OF MISSIONARIES AND PILOTS US
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
  • Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA

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 Community FoundationCA13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 J Grace 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
202122232425
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Feed the Children Inc1% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc0% of income from government
  • Food for the Poor Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
6report 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, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The J Grace Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The J Grace 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 83 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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