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The Josephine S Gumbiner Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Josephine S Gumbiner Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
80
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$350k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$2.7MHousing & Shelter$1.6MHealth$1.6MCommunity Improvement$1.5MYouth Development$961kFood & Nutrition$775kCrime & Legal$705kEducation$338kOther$0
02FY2025 · 80 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $56k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $610k
  • $50k–250k35 grants · $1.9M
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.4M
$40,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CASA YOUTH SHELTER$350,000
THE NONPROFIT PARTNERSHIP$350,000
LONG BEACH FORWARD$350,000
FMILIES UNITING FAMILIES$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
LEGAL AID FOUNDATION$50,000
SHELTER PARTNERSHIP$50,000
ONE IN LONG BEACH$50,000
COMMUNITY PARTNERS$50,000
LONG BEACH BLAST$50,000
02The need
03

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PROJECT SELF SUFFICIENCY: $10k → 10%CHILD LANE: $50k → 14%CHILD LANE: $50k → 14%LONG BEACH COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP: $15k → 14%LONG BEACH CENTER FOR ECONOMIC INCLUSION: $11k → 14%SUCCESS IN CHALLENGES: $5k → 14%SUCCESS IN CHALLENGES: $5k → 14%PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS PATH: $10k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICES: $30k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICES: $25k → 14%ABILITY FIRST: $25k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICES: $25k → 14%ABILITY FIRST: $20k → 14%ABILITY FIRST: $20k → 14%ABILITY FIRST: $20k → 14%ABILITY FIRST: $50k → 14%ABILITY FIRST: $50k → 14%ABILITY FIRST: $5k → 14%DISABLED RESOURCE CENTER: $50k → 14%DISABLED RESOURCE CENTER: $50k → 14%RED CROSS: $25k → 14%DISABLED RESOURCES CENTER: $20k → 14%CHILD LANE: $20k → 14%COMPREHENSIVE CHILD DEVELOPMENT: $20k → 14%DISABLED RESOURCES CENTER: $5k → 14%CENTROL CHA INC: $50k → 14%YOUNG HORIZONS: $45k → 14%YOUNG HORIZONS: $40k → 14%YOUNG HORIZONS: $40k → 14%YOUNG HORIZONS: $25k → 14%YOUNG HORIZONS: $25k → 14%THE HEART OF IDA: $25k → 14%THE HEART OF IDA: $25k → 14%YOUNG HORIZONS: $20k → 14%HEART OF IDA: $5k → 14%YOUNG HORIZONS: $5k → 14%FMILIES UNITING FAMILIES: $350k → 14%FAMILIES UNITING FAMILIES: $25k → 14%CENTRO CHA: $20k → 14%FAMILIES UNITING FAMILIES: $15k → 14%CENTRO CHA: $10k → 14%FAMILIES UNITING FAMILIES: $10k → 14%AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTER: $25k → 14%AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTER: $25k → 14%SUCCESS IN CHALLENGES: $10k → 14%UNITED CAMBODIAN COMMUNITY: $50k → 14%UNITED CAMBODIAN COMMUNITY: $20k → 14%UNITED CAMBODIAN COMMUNITY: $20k → 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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 108 repeat orgs$852k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +22% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

108
50

Total granted

$11M
$683k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+22%

Still filing today

51%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $169k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHousing & ShelterHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • LB
    Long Beach Nonprofit Partnership Inc DBA The Nonprofit Partnership
    8× · 2018–2025 · $748k · revenue +225%
  • TG
    THE GUIDANCE CENTER
    4× · 2019–2024 · $396k · revenue +30%
  • CY
    CASA YOUTH SHELTER
    2× · 2018–2025 · $360k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $75k
  • LB
    LONG BEACH LIBRARY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $45k
  • FB
    FOOD BANK OF SO CA
    one grant, 2023 · $40k
How this is measured

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

04Its 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.

1
Family Promise of Los Angeles

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.

Human Services
2
Leadership Long Beach

We are a catalyst that informs, activates, and connects community leaders to more meaningfully serve Long Beach.

—
3
Youths Working for Change

Expand opportunities available to underresourced individuals in the city of long beach

Youth Development
4
Latino Business Chamber of Greater La Foundation Inc

To facilitate economic structures and policy initiatives that empower Latino business development and foster economic growth across Los Angeles.

Human Services
5
The City of Los Angeles Workforce Development Board

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 &…

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6
Long Beach Area Chamber of Commerce

The Chamber is the platform for business to provide leadership, education and advocacy so that the Long Beach area thrives in the 21st century.

—
7
Long Beach Community Improvement League

To provide high quality and affordable child care, nutrition and other social services to low-income families.

—
8
Los Angeles Conservation Corps

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.

Employment
9
Cangress Dba Los Angeles Community Action Network

Community organizing, education, advocacy, leadership development, direct services and organizational development for communities faced with immense poverty.

Community Improvement
10
Los Angeles Business Council Formerly Known As West La Chamber of Commerce

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.

—
11
Laguna Beach Community Clinic

The mission of laguna beach community clinic (lbcc) is to provide excellent medical care regardless of the patient's ability to pay.

Health
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Long Beach Community Action Partnership; 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.
04the grantee network

83 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. 83 of the 170 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
81/83
Grantees still filing
56/83
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Christian Outreach Appeal dba Christian Outreach in Action: $219,500 · OtherFOOD FINDERS INC: $230,000 · Other+123 more: $6,075,906 · Other+123 moreFAMILIES UNITING FAMILIES: $400,000 · Human ServicesFAMILIES UNITIN…YOUNG HORIZONS: $200,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG HORIZONSABILITYFIRST: $190,000 · Human ServicesABILITYFIRSTCHILD LANE: $140,000 · Human ServicesCHILD LANEDISABLED RESOURCES CENTER INC: $125,000 · Human ServicesDISABLED RESOUR…UNITED CAMBODIAN COMMUNITY INC: $90,000 · Human ServicesUNITED CAMBODIA…JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $80,000 · Human ServicesCENTRO CHA INC: $80,000 · Human ServicesWOMENSHELTER OF LONG BEACH: $66,000 · Human ServicesHeart of Ida: $57,500 · Human Services+9 more: $162,250 · Human Services+9 moreLong Beach Nonprofit Partnership Inc DBA The Nonprofit Partnership: $747,625 · Community ImprovementLong Beach No…LONG BEACH FORWARD INC: $400,000 · Community ImprovementLONG BEACH FO…COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $172,500 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY PAR…URBAN COMMUNITY OUTREACH INCORPORATED: $135,000 · Community ImprovementURBAN COMMUNI…CASA YOUTH SHELTER: $360,000 · Housing & ShelterLINC HOUSING CORPORATION: $170,000 · Housing & ShelterSHELTER PARTNERSHIP INC: $160,000 · Housing & ShelterCENTURY VILLAGES AT CABRILLO INC: $100,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterFOR THE CHILD INC: $460,000 · Crime & LegalLONG BEACH BAR FOUNDATION: $45,000 · Crime & LegalLegal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles: $30,000 · Crime & LegalHelpline Youth Counseling Inc: $20,000 · Crime & LegalLONG BEACH DAY NURSERY: $167,500 · EducationLong Beach BLAST Better Learning for All Students Today: $137,500 · EducationOne in Long Beach Inc dba The LGBTQ Center Long Beach: $135,000 · EducationShared Science: $25,500 · EducationTHE BOOK TRUCK INC: $20,000 · Education+3 more: $22,600 · EducationTHE GUIDANCE CENTER: $395,500 · HealthNEW HOPE GRIEF SUPPORT COMMUNITY: $35,000 · HealthTRANSFORMATIONAL LIVING HOMES INC: $35,000 · Health+2 more: $25,000 · Health
Other$6,525,406Human Services$1,590,750Community Improvement$1,455,125Housing & Shelter$805,000Crime & Legal$555,000Education$508,100Health$490,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLong Beach Nonprofit Partnership Inc DBA The Nonprofit Partnership: $747,625 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetFOR THE CHILD INC: $460,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetFAMILIES UNITING FAMILIES: $400,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetTHE GUIDANCE CENTER: $395,500 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetCASA YOUTH SHELTER: $360,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetFOOD FINDERS INC: $230,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetChristian Outreach Appeal dba Christian Outreach in Action: $219,500 over 7y, 3.8% of budgetYOUNG HORIZONS: $200,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetOPERATION JUMP START: $190,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetABILITYFIRST: $190,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $172,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLINC HOUSING CORPORATION: $170,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAssistance League of Long Beach: $170,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetLONG BEACH DAY NURSERY: $167,500 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetSHELTER PARTNERSHIP INC: $160,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCHILD LANE: $140,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetLong Beach BLAST Better Learning for All Students Today: $137,500 over 5y, 6.1% of budgetURBAN COMMUNITY OUTREACH INCORPORATED: $135,000 over 6y, 17% of budgetCatholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties: $135,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetOne in Long Beach Inc dba The LGBTQ Center Long Beach: $135,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetDISABLED RESOURCES CENTER INC: $125,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetKHMER GIRLS IN ACTION: $122,500 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetElite Skills Development: $120,000 over 5y, 21% of budgetCENTURY VILLAGES AT CABRILLO INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFilipino Migrant Center: $100,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetUNITED CAMBODIAN COMMUNITY INC: $90,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetLong Beach Community Table: $85,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetCITYHEART INCORPORATED: $82,000 over 5y, 28% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $80,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRO CHA INC: $80,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF LATIN AMERICAN ART: $73,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetCalifornia Aquatic Therapy & Wellness Center Inc: $70,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetHelp Me Help You: $70,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetWOMENSHELTER OF LONG BEACH: $66,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetHeart of Ida: $57,500 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetAFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTER: $50,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetFOODBANK OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLONG BEACH BAR FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetLONG BEACH MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetAQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC CORPORATION: $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSUCCESS IN CHALLENGES INC: $40,000 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetNEW HOPE GRIEF SUPPORT COMMUNITY: $35,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetTRANSFORMATIONAL LIVING HOMES INC: $35,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetPEDIATRIC THERAPY NETWORK: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetExtraordinary Families: $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLegal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S CLINIC 'SERVING CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES': $27,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetShared Science: $25,500 over 7y, 1.8% 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.

  • 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 OPERATION JUMP START ↗
  • Who funds ABILITYFIRST ↗
  • 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 URBAN COMMUNITY OUTREACH INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds Catholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties ↗
  • Who funds One in Long Beach Inc dba The LGBTQ Center Long Beach ↗
  • Who funds DISABLED RESOURCES CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds KHMER GIRLS IN ACTION ↗
  • Who funds Elite Skills Development ↗

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.

Earl B & Loraine H Mi…The Rudolph J & Daphn…Long Beach Community …Bess J Hodges Foundat…Farmers & Merchants B…Long Beach Nonprofit …The Ahmanson Foundati…Weingart FoundationCalifornia Community …The Ralph M Parsons F…The Crail-Johnson Fou…The California Endowm…
Earl B & Loraine H Miller FoundationCA105.2× affinity48 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Josephine S Gumbiner Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Josephine S Gumbiner Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    38report 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
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Josephine S Gumbiner Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Josephine S Gumbiner 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 170 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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