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The Louis and Gladyce Foster Family Foundation
Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
95% of The Louis and Gladyce Foster Family Foundation’s FY2020 grant dollars went to American Foundation Of Utah Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2020 names 16 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2017, the last year The Louis and Gladyce Foster Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 19 organizations, $2M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2017
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $330k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $605k
- $250k+3 grants · $775k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLLETTES CHILDRENS HOME | $275,000 |
| PARENTS TELEVISION COUNCIL | $250,000 |
| COLUMBUS FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| SEMPER FI FUND | $200,000 |
| HIGH HOPES | $150,000 |
| ORANGE COUNTY ROWING CLUB | $75,000 |
| ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| THERE WITH CARE | $55,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $50,000 |
| MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $45,000 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $35,000 |
| UNION RESCUE MISSION | $30,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES | $25,000 |
| CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF LOS ANGELES | $25,000 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–20, $95k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2017, 0 since wound down; 40 grantees were first funded in FY2017 (too recent to call). Read against FY2017, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2020, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $310k 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
- PTPARENTS TELEVISION COUNCIL INC4× · 2017–2020 · $800k · revenue -23%
- SFSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND3× · 2017–2019 · $700k · revenue +56%
- CCCOLETTE'S CHILDREN'S HOME INC2× · 2017–2020 · $635k · revenue -37%
Funded once
- CCCOLUMBUS COMMUNITY CENTERone grant, 2019 · $300k
- CFCOLUMBUS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $250k · revenue -4%
- HHHIGH HOPES HEAD INJURY PROGRAMone grant, 2019 · $176k
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 san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…
To transform lives and communities by providing an array of programs, all directed toward changing the lives of children in the foster care system aimed to prevent academic failure, drug abuse, teen pregnancy, sex trafficking,…
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.
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
Ronald mcdonald house charities of greater washington, dc (rmhcdc) provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.
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,…
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
Our children's hospital foundation is dedicated to supporting loma linda university children's hospital's mission to bring whole-child healthcare to the region and beyond.
The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…
Our mission is to support the naval postgraduate school by providing funding and programmatic support for education, research, technology development, institutional initiatives, and community programs that advance national security and…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of San Diego and the most unlike its peers is Balboa Island Museum. 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 43 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
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 47 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 AMERICAN FOUNDATION OF UTAH INC ↗
- Who funds PARENTS TELEVISION COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds COLETTE'S CHILDREN'S HOME INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds High Hopes Neurological Recovery Group ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY ROWING CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds UNION RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Global ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES - BAY AREA ↗
- Who funds THERE WITH CARE OF THE BAY AREA ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds PROJECT INDEPENDENCE ↗
- Who funds ECHOES OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds MEALS-ON-WHEELS GREATER SAN DIEGO INC ↗
- Who funds PROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ECTODERMAL DYSPLASIAS ↗
- Who funds PUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ROBINSON GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds THE HILLSIDE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY COUNCIL 039 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE SEA LIONS INC DBA PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS ↗
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: American Foundation of Utah Inc · Orange County Community Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · California Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · AbbVie Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
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 Louis and Gladyce Foster 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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