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The Molina 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.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
40
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Health$2.6MArts & Culture$2.1MEnvironment$1.9MEducation$801kHuman Services$550kFood & Nutrition$455kRecreation & Sports$450kYouth Development$380kOther$0
02FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k26 grants · $496k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $725k
$25,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$37M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MOUNT VERNON LADIES ASSOCIATION$200,000
UNITED STATES OF CARE CAMPAIGN$200,000
YOUNG INVINCIBLES$75,000
NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY$50,000
THE OJAI VALLEY LAND CONSERVANCY$50,000
FAMILIES USA$50,000
COMMUNITY CATALYST$50,000
JUSTICE IN AGING$50,000
THE KIND MOUSE$25,000
CALIFORNIA COMPETES$25,000
AZTLAN ATHLETICS FOUNDATION$25,000
SAN DIEGO COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT$25,000
CENTRAL UNION MISSION$25,000
HENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY & ART GALLERY$25,000
UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES$25,000
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 (FY19–24, $475k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FAMILIES USA FOUNDATION INC: $100k → 14%FAMILIES USA FOUNDATION INC: $75k → 14%FAMILIES USA FOUNDATION INC: $75k → 14%FAMILIES USA FOUNDATION INC: $50k → 14%CATERINA'S CLUB: $5k → 10%LATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50k → 10%INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $10k → 17%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $25k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $25k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $20k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $20k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $10k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $10k → 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

NH
WA
IL
NY
MA
RI
CA
VA
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DC
HI
LA
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FL

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.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 6% of The Molina Family 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 Molina Family 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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$9.3M · 55 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

55 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

55
31

Total granted

$9.3M
$983k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+8%

Still filing today

80%
84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $182k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationEnvironmentAnimalsArts & CultureInternationalOther

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

  • HE
    HENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +116%
  • US
    UNITED STATES OF CARE CAMPAIGN
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +10%
  • THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND
    4× · 2020–2023 · $1.3M · revenue +113%

Funded once

  • SC
    SCHWAB CHARITABLE DONOR ADVISED FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $375k
  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $171k · revenue +42%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +33%

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
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
2
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
3
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
4
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
5
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
6
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
7
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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8
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
9
California Ocean Science Trust

California ocean science trust (ost) is a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating progress towards a healthy and productive ocean future for california. created by state legislation, ost bridges the gap between cutting-edge…

Environment
10
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
11
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
12
South Central Family Health Center

To improve the quality of life for the diverse communities we serve providing affordable and comprehensive healthcare and education in a welcoming multi-cultural environment.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United States of Care Campaign and the most unlike its peers is The Friends of Boyd Hill Nature. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Independent K-12 SchoolsHealth Access Advocacy and …Animal Rescue and ShelterYouth Sports ProgramsPolicy Research and AdvocacyCommunity College Foundatio…Food Banks and PantriesImmigrant Worker SupportCancer Support ServicesCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 31 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%2%<5yr15%11%5–10yr20%15%10–20yr17%31%20–35yr11%21%35–55yr13%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%1%<5yr15%22%5–10yr20%4%10–20yr17%15%20–35yr11%33%35–55yr13%25%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/92
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,886

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

86 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. 86 of the 103 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
85/86
Grantees still filing
53/86
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MOUNT VERNON LADIES ASSOCIATION — $925,000 · OtherMOUNT VERNON LADIES ASSOCIATIONSCHWAB CHARITABLE DONOR ADVISED FUND — $375,000 · OtherSCHWAB CHARITABLE DONOR ADVISED FUNDYOUNG INVINCIBLES — $300,000 · OtherYOUNG INVINCIBLESNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY — $235,000 · OtherNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY+57 more — $2,174,000 · Other+57 moreUNITED STATES OF CARE CAMPAIGN — $1,275,000 · HealthUNITED STATES OF CAR…COMMUNITY CATALYST INC — $325,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY CATALYST I…American Heart Association Inc — $100,000 · HealthTHE HAROLD AND CAROLE PUMP FOUNDATION (FKA THE HAROLD PUMP FOUNDATION) — $75,000 · Health+6 more — $165,000 · Health+6 moreTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $1,250,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLI…THE OJAI VALLEY LAND CONSERVANCY — $440,000 · EnvironmentTHE OJAI VALLEY LAN…+5 more — $90,500 · EnvironmentHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY — $1,350,000 · Arts & CultureHENRY E HUNTING…+5 more — $75,000 · Arts & CultureJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $171,000 · EducationCAMPAIGN FOR COLLEGE OPPORTUNITY — $125,000 · EducationLittle Owl Foundation for Childhood Education Inc — $120,000 · EducationSHORECREST PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC — $55,500 · EducationCALIFORNIA COMPETES — $25,000 · EducationWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC — $25,000 · Education+2 more — $20,000 · EducationFAMILIES USA FOUNDATION INC — $300,000 · Human ServicesUNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES — $110,000 · Human ServicesLATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Human Services+2 more — $15,000 · Human ServicesHENRY J KAISER FAMILY FOUNDATION — $275,000 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $30,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY INC — $25,000 · Philanthropy+3 more — $25,000 · Philanthropy
Other$4,009,000Health$1,940,000Environment$1,780,500Arts & Culture$1,425,000Education$541,500Human Services$475,000Philanthropy$355,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY — $1,350,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetUNITED STATES OF CARE CAMPAIGN — $1,275,000 over 6y, 9.5% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $1,250,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE OJAI VALLEY LAND CONSERVANCY — $440,000 over 6y, 8.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY CATALYST INC — $325,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILIES USA FOUNDATION INC — $300,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetHENRY J KAISER FAMILY FOUNDATION — $275,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $171,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $125,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCAMPAIGN FOR COLLEGE OPPORTUNITY — $125,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetLittle Owl Foundation for Childhood Education Inc — $120,000 over 5y, 100% of budgetTHE MOLINA FOUNDATION — $120,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetUNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES — $110,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJUSTICE IN AGING — $100,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL UNION MISSION — $90,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSOME INC — $90,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetALPHA PROJECT FOR THE HOMELESS — $90,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES — $80,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK — $75,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HAROLD AND CAROLE PUMP FOUNDATION (FKA THE HAROLD PUMP FOUNDATION) — $75,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetSt Petersburg Free Clinic Inc — $65,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSHORECREST PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC — $55,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Kind Mouse Productions Inc — $50,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC — $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOUR HOUSE GRIEF SUPPORT CENTER — $50,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK — $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America — $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC — $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Action Partnership of San Luis Obispo County Inc — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetParson's Nose Productions — $45,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetA NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT — $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION SURF — $30,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetAQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC CORPORATION — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ESCONDIDO CREEK CONSERVANCY — $30,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK COALITION OF SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSEQUOIA PARKS CONSERVANCY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED WAY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMPETES — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MEDICINE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWEST HILLS LITTLE LEAGUE — $25,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetLawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONE SMALL HOUSE INC — $22,500 over 2y, 15% 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.

California Community …Silicon Valley Commun…The California Wellne…California Healthcare…Sempra FoundationThe Wood Family Found…Laura and John Arnold…The Robert Wood Johns…Dwayne Hawkins Family…The John a Hartford F…Tides FoundationCatalina Marketing Ch…
California Community FoundationCA18.8× affinity11 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · California Healthcare Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The Wood Family Foundation Inc · Laura and John Arnold Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Dwayne Hawkins Family Foundation Inc D/B/A Crown Automotive Charities · The John a Hartford Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · Catalina Marketing Charitable 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 Molina 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Community Catalyst Inc — 15% of income from government
  • Community Action Stops Abuse Inc — 13% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
  • Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc — 2% of income from government
  • The Kind Mouse Productions Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
  • The Florida Aquarium Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 103 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

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home