· Private foundation
The James J and Sue Femino Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k39 grants · $116k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $301k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $676k
- $250k+1 grant · $350k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| USC KECK SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $350,000 |
| US OLYMPIC PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| CALTECH ASSOCIATES | $150,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $101,000 |
| WELLESLEY COLLEGE | $100,000 |
| THE HUNTINGTON LIBRARY | $75,000 |
| USC LEONARD DAVIS GERONTOLOGY RESEA | $50,000 |
| USC CENTER FOR PHILANTHROPY | $35,000 |
| HUNTINGTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| CALTECH | $25,000 |
| DESCANSO GARDENS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| TOGETHER IN MISSION | $17,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| USC DORMSIFE COLLEGE OF LETTERS | $15,000 |
| HUNTINGTON MEDICAL RESEARCH INST | $15,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $203k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
113 repeat relationships — 59 still active in FY2025, 54 since wound down; 7 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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 GALLERY9× · 2017–2025 · $648k · revenue +99%
Northwestern University8× · 2017–2025 · $135k · revenue +41%- WCWellesley College3× · 2019–2025 · $130k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- SCSCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND DAF 3053-810one grant, 2021 · $309k
- SCSCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND DAF 9112-757one grant, 2021 · $305k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $200k
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 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 Institute is a scientific research center dedicated to conducting basic and applied research to advance the understanding of human disease and the improvement of human health. The Institute fosters an innovative research environment…
A not-for-profit, long-term acute care specialty healthcare organization is to improve the quality of life for patients with respiratory and other diseases that may require prolonged acute hospitalization of specialized treatment.
To be the preeminent pediatric, multispecialty medical group in the nation, dedicated to providing the highest quality medical care to infants, children and adolescents; and supporting the finest teaching and research endeavors of our…
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…
The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.
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Mission: we provide high quality healthcare without discrimination, and contribute to the health and well-being of our communities in an ethical, safe, and fiscally prudent manner in recognition of our charitable purpose.
Pitzer College produces engaged socially responsible citizens of the world through an academically rigorous, interdisciplinary liberal arts education emphasizing social justice, intercultural understanding and environmental sensitivity.…
We, saint agnes medical center and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. saint agnes medical center is a member of trinity health.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Families Forward and the most unlike its peers is Physicians Aid Association. 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.
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 65 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
68 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. 68 of the 175 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 HUNTINGTON MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTES ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds HENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds Wellesley College ↗
- Who funds Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd ↗
- Who funds UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SWIM WITH MIKE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds DESCANSO GARDENS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROSE BOWL AQUATICS CENTER ↗
- Who funds YOSEMITE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Colonial Williamsburg Foundation ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds THE CALTECH Y ↗
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: Pasadena Community Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Gail G Ellis Foundation Inc · The Green Foundation · The Confidence Foundation · Henry L Guenther Foundation · Henry a Yost and Cynthia Yost Family Foundation · The Hernan & Orfi Barros Foundation · Klm 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 James J and Sue Femino 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.
- Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
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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