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The Malou 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.

$725k
Granted FY2024still arriving
42
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$93k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.

Health$453kInternational$279kPhilanthropy$215kArts & Culture$208kEducation$150kRecreation & Sports$138kHuman Services$15kAnimals$12kOther$0
02FY2024 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k21 grants · $62k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $330k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $333k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREATER HORIZONS$93,334
EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION$80,000
EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION$60,000
USC KECK SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$50,000
USC KECK SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$50,000
ROSWELL-ALPHARETTA MOUNTAIN BIKE ORGANIZATION (RAMBO)$35,000
MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC$33,333
SANTA BARBARA BOWL FOUNDATION$30,000
SANTA BARBARA COTTAGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$30,000
GREATER HORIZONS$29,000
HILO MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$25,000
SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY$20,000
EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION$20,000
LOBERO THEATRE$20,000
HAWAII PREPARATORY ACADEMY$15,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $303k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%RAISING HARTS CORPORATION: $5k → 7%RAISING HARTS CORPORATION: $5k → 8%EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $119k → 14%EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $80k → 14%EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $60k → 14%EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%WALK WITH SALLY: $14k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

IL
NY
MA
IN
CA
MO
HI
GA

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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 11% of The Malou Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

The Malou Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

44%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$581k · 12 repeat orgs$728k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +14% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
28

Total granted

$581k
$452k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+1%

Still filing today

67%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $275k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
HealthRecreation & SportsEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther

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

  • EC
    EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $279k · revenue +70%
  • SB
    SANTA BARBARA BOWL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $80k · revenue +13%
  • PH
    Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd
    2× · 2023–2024 · $60k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • TM
    Torrance Memorial Medical Center Health Care Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +151%
  • UK
    USC KECK HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • SC
    SOUTHERN CA OUTRIGGER RACING ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2023 · $35k

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

04Your field

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.

1
Sutter Bay Medical Foundation

Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…

Health
2
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
3
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
4
Santa Monica Education Foundation

The Santa Monica Education Foundation (SMEF) raises funds to enhance and supplement the curriculum of every public school in the city of Santa Monica.

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5
Santa Monica Historical Society

Historical nbsp;preservation nbsp;and nbsp;education

Arts & Culture
6
California Pacific Medical Center Foundation

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
7
San Antonio Regional Hospital

Our mission is to improve the health and well-being of the people we serve.

Health
8
Santa Barbara Education Foundation

Santa Barbara Education Foundation (SBEF) provides and supports programs that enrich the academic, artistic, and personal development of all students in the Santa Barbara Unified School District.

Education
9
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
10
Sutter Valley Medical Foundation

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: Caring for our patients first and our people always. VISION: To be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
11
Santa Monica Mountains Natural History Association
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12
St Francis Foundation of Santa Barbara

The mission of st. francis foundation of santa barbara is to promote and support health care.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Barbara Bowl Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery. 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 35 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%7%<5yr15%5%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr17%25%20–35yr11%16%35–55yr13%34%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%2%<5yr15%1%5–10yr19%44%10–20yr17%14%20–35yr11%20%35–55yr13%20%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/48
the rest of the field
16%
17,859/111,915

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.

05the grantee network

40 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. 40 of the 63 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/40
Grantees still filing
21/40
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

USC KECK SCHOOL OF MEDICINE — $100,000 · OtherUSC KECK SCHOOL OF MEDICINEUSC KECK HOSPITAL — $50,000 · OtherUSC KECK HOSPITALLOBERO THEATRE — $45,000 · OtherLOBERO THEATRESOUTHERN CA OUTRIGGER RACING ASSOCIATION — $35,000 · OtherSOUTHERN CA OUTRIGGER RACING ASSOCIATIONROSWELL-ALPHARETTA MOUNTAIN BIKE ORGANIZATION (RAMBO) — $35,000 · OtherROSWELL-ALPHARETTA MOUNTAIN BIKE ORGANIZ…MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC — $33,333 · OtherMORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRU…CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA — $30,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTAST PHILLIP THE APOSTLE SCHOOL — $25,500 · OtherCOTTAGE HOSPITAL — $20,000 · Other+23 more — $161,250 · Other+23 moreEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION — $278,500 · Human ServicesEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDAT…WALK WITH SALLY — $14,000 · Human Services+1 more — $10,000 · Human ServicesGreater Horizons — $134,334 · PhilanthropyGreater Horizon…MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC — $33,333 · PhilanthropyMORGAN STANLEY …HILO MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $25,000 · PhilanthropyHILO MEDICAL CE…NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC — $14,000 · PhilanthropyNATL CHRISTIAN …+1 more — $500 · PhilanthropyPasadena Hospital Association Ltd — $60,000 · HealthPasadena Hospi…Torrance Memorial Medical Center Health Care Foundation — $50,000 · HealthTorrance Memor…NORTHSIDE HOSPITAL INC — $30,000 · HealthNORTHSIDE HOSP…Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation — $30,000 · HealthSanta Barbara …Children's Hospital Los Angeles — $15,000 · HealthChildren's Hos…+2 more — $7,500 · HealthSANTA BARBARA BOWL FOUNDATION — $80,000 · Recreation & SportsSANTA BAR…SANTA BARBARA MOUNTAIN BIKE TRAIL VOLUNTEERS INC — $20,000 · Recreation & SportsSANTA BAR…SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA OUTRIGGER RACING ASSOCIATION — $15,000 · Recreation & SportsSOUTHERN …SAN MARINO COMMUNITY ATHLETICS ASSOCIATION — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsSAN MARIN…+2 more — $2,000 · Recreation & SportsSan Marino Schools Foundation — $25,000 · EducationHAWAII PREPARATORY ACADEMY — $15,000 · EducationThe Harry L Dougherty and Sakae K Tanaka Orthodontics Foundation Inc — $10,000 · EducationPROVIDENCE SCHOOL — $10,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $5,000 · EducationLOS OLIVOS SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $2,500 · EducationSOUTH BAY ARTIST COLLECTIVE — $25,000 · Arts & CultureSANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY — $20,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM SANTA MARIA CALIFORNIA — $15,000 · Arts & CultureHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY — $3,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$535,083Human Services$302,500Philanthropy$207,167Health$192,500Recreation & Sports$127,000Education$67,500Arts & Culture$63,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION — $278,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGreater Horizons — $134,334 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA BOWL FOUNDATION — $80,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPasadena Hospital Association Ltd — $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTorrance Memorial Medical Center Health Care Foundation — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC — $33,333 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHSIDE HOSPITAL INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHILO MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetSan Marino Schools Foundation — $25,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSOUTH BAY ARTIST COLLECTIVE — $25,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetSANTA BARBARA MOUNTAIN BIKE TRAIL VOLUNTEERS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetSANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA OUTRIGGER RACING ASSOCIATION — $15,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetTHE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM SANTA MARIA CALIFORNIA — $15,000 over 1y, 44% of budgetHAWAII PREPARATORY ACADEMY — $15,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetNATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC — $14,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWALK WITH SALLY — $14,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSAN MARINO NATIONAL LITTLE LEAGUE INC — $10,500 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSAN MARINO COMMUNITY ATHLETICS ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetThe Harry L Dougherty and Sakae K Tanaka Orthodontics Foundation Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetRAISING HARTS CORPORATION — $10,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetPROVIDENCE SCHOOL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTEWARDS OF THE SEQUOIA — $5,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY GREATER SAN GABRIEL VALLEY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetISABELS CHANCE — $5,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetUNITE TO LIGHT INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS OLIVOS SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR ALCOHOLISM RESEARCH — $2,500 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetHenry E Huntington Parent Teachers Association of San Marino Calif — $2,250 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTITAN ATHLETIC BOOSTERS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPasadena Southwest Little League — $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPEDIATRIC CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTORYTELLER CHILDRENS CENTER INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Gardner Grout Foundat…California Community …Santa Barbara Foundat…H Leslie & Elaine S H…The Confidence Founda…The Fletcher Jones Fo…Catholic Community Fo…Western Asset Managem…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Mosher FoundationHutton Foundation Dba…Pasadena Community Fo…
Gardner Grout FoundationNV26.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gardner Grout Foundation · California Community Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · H Leslie & Elaine S Hoffman Foundation · The Confidence Foundation · The Fletcher Jones Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Western Asset Management Company Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Mosher Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Pasadena Community Foundation

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 Malou 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Raising Harts Corporation — 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 63 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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