· Private foundation
The Josephine S Gumbiner 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $610k
- $50k–250k35 grants · $1.9M
- $250k+4 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CASA YOUTH SHELTER | $350,000 |
| FMILIES UNITING FAMILIES | $350,000 |
| THE NONPROFIT PARTNERSHIP | $350,000 |
| LONG BEACH FORWARD | $350,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $100,000 |
| THE NONPROFIT PARTNERSHIP | $100,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $65,000 |
| FOOD FINDERS | $60,000 |
| CHRISTIAN OUTREACH IN ACTION | $55,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $55,000 |
| CENTURY VILLAGES AT CABRILLO | $50,000 |
| DISABLED RESOURCE CENTER | $50,000 |
| CHILD LANE | $50,000 |
| YMCA OF GREATER LONG BEACH | $50,000 |
| SOCIAL ENVIRONMENTAL ENTERPRISES-LI | $50,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
108 repeat relationships — 69 still active in FY2025, 39 since wound down; 10 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $169k 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
- LBLong Beach Nonprofit Partnership Inc DBA The Nonprofit Partnership8× · 2018–2025 · $748k · revenue +225%
- TGTHE GUIDANCE CENTER4× · 2019–2024 · $396k · revenue +30%
- CYCASA YOUTH SHELTER2× · 2018–2025 · $360k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $75k
- LBLONG BEACH LIBRARY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $45k
- FBFOOD BANK OF SO CAone grant, 2023 · $40k
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.
Family promise of the south bay assists families experiencing housing insecurity with short-term shelter, case management, and navigation with the goal of creating a sustainable solution for their family.
We are a catalyst that informs, activates, and connects community leaders to more meaningfully serve Long Beach.
Expand opportunities available to underresourced individuals in the city of long beach
To facilitate economic structures and policy initiatives that empower Latino business development and foster economic growth across Los Angeles.
The Workforce Development Board promotes workforce development activitieswhich connect Los Angeles jobseekers and youth to training, workforce preparedness and employment opportunities. Facilitates placing youth into private,public &…
The Chamber is the platform for business to provide leadership, education and advocacy so that the Long Beach area thrives in the 21st century.
To provide high quality and affordable child care, nutrition and other social services to low-income families.
The la conservation corps creates equitable opportunities for young people to build resilience in themselves, their communities and the environment through a program of work, education and support.
Community organizing, education, advocacy, leadership development, direct services and organizational development for communities faced with immense poverty.
The los angeles business council, labc, serves the los angeles community by providing public education, awareness to community issues, advocacy of sustainable development, workforce housing and business development.
The mission of laguna beach community clinic (lbcc) is to provide excellent medical care regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Long Beach Community Action Partnership and the most unlike its peers is Success in Challenges 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 30 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
83 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. 83 of the 170 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 Long Beach Nonprofit Partnership Inc DBA The Nonprofit Partnership ↗
- Who funds FOR THE CHILD INC ↗
- Who funds LONG BEACH FORWARD INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES UNITING FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds THE GUIDANCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CASA YOUTH SHELTER ↗
- Who funds FOOD FINDERS INC ↗
- Who funds Christian Outreach Appeal dba Christian Outreach in Action ↗
- Who funds YOUNG HORIZONS ↗
- Who funds ABILITYFIRST ↗
- Who funds OPERATION JUMP START ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds LINC HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Assistance League of Long Beach ↗
- Who funds LONG BEACH DAY NURSERY ↗
- Who funds SHELTER PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD LANE ↗
- Who funds Long Beach BLAST Better Learning for All Students Today ↗
- Who funds One in Long Beach Inc dba The LGBTQ Center Long Beach ↗
- Who funds URBAN COMMUNITY OUTREACH INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties ↗
- Who funds DISABLED RESOURCES CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KHMER GIRLS IN ACTION ↗
- Who funds Elite Skills Development ↗
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: Earl B & Loraine H Miller Foundation · The Rudolph J & Daphne a Munzer Foundation · Long Beach Community Foundation · Bess J Hodges Foundation · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · Long Beach Nonprofit Partnership Inc DBA The Nonprofit Partnership · The Ahmanson Foundation · Weingart Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Crail-Johnson Foundation · The California Endowment
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 Josephine S Gumbiner 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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