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The Kay Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k7 grants · $122k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WESTERN MANDARIN IMMERSION CHARTER SCHOOL | $150,000 |
| HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| REGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA | $29,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| JOHN RITTER FOUNDATION FOR AORTIC HEALTH | $25,000 |
| GIVE2ASIA | $12,500 |
| NORTH AMERICAN TAIWANESE ENGINEERS ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–23, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.
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 +40% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $185k 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
- CUCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY3× · 2017–2019 · $1.4M · revenue +62%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION5× · 2018–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +55%
- CSCHINA SOUL FOR CHRIST FOUNDATION3× · 2019–2023 · $375k · revenue +96% · 64% of their budget
Funded once
- FOFOUNDATIONS OF FREEDOMone grant, 2022 · $600k · revenue -72% · 72% of their budget
- NTNATIONAL TALENT COLLABORATIVEone grant, 2022 · $200k
- CLCEO LEADERSHIP ALLIANCE (CLA-OC)one grant, 2021 · $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 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.
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
Cna is a non-profit research organization that operates the center for naval analyses, a federally funded research center that has supported the navy and marine corps for nearly seventy years, and the institute for public research that…
Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.
Los angeles pacific university exists to deliver high quality, accessible christ-centered education to learners everywhere.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
Innovative and full of heart, mark day school nurtures each child to pursue their curiosity, think critically, embrace challenge with courage and joy, and work in partnership with others to build more caring and inclusive communities.
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…
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
A private institution of higher education, offering both undergraduate and graduate courses to students.
Achieving international impact through world-class research and education in fundamental computer science and information technology.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Orange County Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is China Soul for Christ Foundation. 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 27 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) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 57 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 CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARINERS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATIONS OF FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds CHINA SOUL FOR CHRIST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TOUCH LIFE MISSION DR GORDON S LEE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL TALENT COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds BIOLA UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN MANDARIN IMMERSION CHARTER SCHOOL DBA IRVINE INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BURMA-CHINESE ASSOC ↗
- Who funds DREAMS FOR SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds LANGHAM PARTNERSHIP USA INC NFP ↗
- Who funds SAMUELI ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds SOUTH COAST CHINESE CULTURAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Project Access Inc ↗
- Who funds STARS AND STRIPES CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JOHN RITTER FOUNDATION FOR AORTIC HEALTH ↗
- Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds KIDWORKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
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: Orange County Community Foundation · The Devto Support Foundation · Cuberint Institute Inc · The Larry and Helen Hoag Foundation · Croul Family Foundation · Oneoc · Samueli Foundation · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Kay Family 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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