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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.

$1.7M
Granted FY2017
27
Grants FY2017
9
States reached
$275k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

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

19
’17
2
’18
4
’19
16
’20

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Philanthropy$33MHuman Services$1.2MHealth$817kArts & Culture$811kHousing & Shelter$685kEducation$165kRecreation & Sports$75kFood & Nutrition$40kOther$0
02FY2017 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2017

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $330k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $605k
  • $250k+3 grants · $775k
$25,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLLETTES CHILDRENS HOME$275,000
PARENTS TELEVISION COUNCIL$250,000
COLUMBUS FOUNDATION$250,000
SEMPER FI FUND$200,000
HIGH HOPES$150,000
ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION$75,000
ORANGE COUNTY ROWING CLUB$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
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%PROJECT INDEPENDENCE: $20k → 10%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $30k → 14%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $15k → 17%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $20k → 14%HANDS FOR HOPE: $10k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
SD
PA
CA
UT
VA
AZ
FL
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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 5 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
40

Total granted

$2.4M
$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-23%
+29%

Still filing today

100%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $310k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther
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

  • PT
    PARENTS TELEVISION COUNCIL INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $800k · revenue -23%
  • SF
    SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND
    3× · 2017–2019 · $700k · revenue +56%
  • CC
    COLETTE'S CHILDREN'S HOME INC
    2× · 2017–2020 · $635k · revenue -37%

Funded once

  • CC
    COLUMBUS COMMUNITY CENTER
    one grant, 2019 · $300k
  • CF
    COLUMBUS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $250k · revenue -4%
  • HH
    HIGH HOPES HEAD INJURY PROGRAM
    one grant, 2019 · $176k
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
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
2
The California Channel

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…

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3
For the Children

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,…

Recreation & Sports
4
Altamed Health Services Corporation

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.

Health
5
Marin Humane Society

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.

Animals
6
Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Greater Washongton Dc Inc

Ronald mcdonald house charities of greater washington, dc (rmhcdc) provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.

Health
7
Feeding San Diego

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,…

Food & Nutrition
8
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
9
Loma Linda University Children's Hospital 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.

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10
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

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…

Education
11
Naval Postgraduate School Foundation Inc

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…

Education
12
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of San Diego; 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.
04the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 47 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/32
Grantees still filing
22/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN FOUNDATION OF UTAH INC: $33,254,379 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FOUNDATION OF UTAH INC+1 more: $175,000 · PhilanthropyCOLUMBUS COMMUNITY CENTER: $300,000 · OtherHIGH HOPES HEAD INJURY PROGRAM: $176,240 · OtherHIGH HOPES: $150,000 · OtherHigh Hopes Neurological Recovery Group: $135,500 · OtherORANGE COUNTY ROWING CLUB INC: $75,000 · OtherTHERE WITH CARE: $55,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY: $50,000 · Other+22 more: $263,000 · OtherSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $700,000 · HealthCOLUMBUS FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 · Health+4 more: $85,000 · HealthPARENTS TELEVISION COUNCIL INC: $800,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureCOLETTE'S CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $635,000 · Housing & ShelterMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $35,000 · EducationECHOES OF HOPE: $20,000 · EducationUNION RESCUE MISSION: $50,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT INDEPENDENCE: $20,000 · Human ServicesPUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesHANDS FOR HOPE: $10,000 · Human Services
Philanthropy$33,429,379Other$1,204,740Health$1,035,000Arts & Culture$801,000Housing & Shelter$635,000Education$100,000Human Services$95,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION OF UTAH INC: $33,254,379 over 2y, 56% of budgetPARENTS TELEVISION COUNCIL INC: $800,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $700,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCOLETTE'S CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $635,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetCOLUMBUS FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC: $175,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHigh Hopes Neurological Recovery Group: $135,500 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetORANGE COUNTY ROWING CLUB INC: $75,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetUNION RESCUE MISSION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHERE WITH CARE OF THE BAY AREA: $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES - BAY AREA: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPROJECT INDEPENDENCE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetMEALS-ON-WHEELS GREATER SAN DIEGO INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetECHOES OF HOPE: $20,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ECTODERMAL DYSPLASIAS: $15,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetPUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHANDS FOR HOPE: $10,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF ROBINSON GARDENS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE HILLSIDE SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetORANGE COUNTY COUNCIL 039 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE SEA LIONS INC DBA PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSANTA CATALINA ISLAND CONSERVANCY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOREVER YOUNG FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBALBOA ISLAND MUSEUM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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.

American Foundation o…Orange County Communi…Bright Funds Foundati…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Silicon Valley Commun…California Community …Morgan Stanley Global…AbbVie FoundationThe Chicago Community…The Blackbaud Giving …Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Pfizer Foundation…
American Foundation of Utah IncAZ32.6× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Louis and Gladyce Foster Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Louis and Gladyce Foster Family 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%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 Louis and Gladyce Foster Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Louis and Gladyce Foster Family 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 47 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 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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