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THE MOLINA FOUNDATION
To reduce disparities in access to education and health with a focus on children in under-served communities in the united states by providing books and educational materials.
$5.3M
Granted FY2024
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Grants
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Communities
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Largest
01What you fund
01beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
believesvulnerablenutritionalwoodlanddignitywell-beinglos angeles
2020
waysanta claritaclarita valleycambrian districtequipmentdevelopchicago police
2021
innovativesciencehopeyouthclassroomcatalystcounseling
2022
current formerformer studentshomelessnessadultsorderencourageovercome
2023
elementaryworth isdadultchurchcleveland librarychicago policetraining tools
2024
southwesternvtftech'sinvestingtraining toolstools softwaresoftware churches
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
02FY2024
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
Grant detail is referenced in an attached schedule not included in the e-file. Total reported in the filing: $5,267,937.
$0
Median grant
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States reached
$19M
Total assets
02The need
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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.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your 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
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank
Fighting hunger, improving lives, strengthening communities.
Food & Nutrition
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Oakland Literacy Coalition Inc
Working together to ensure that every Oakland child learns and loves to read.
Education
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Impact Community Action
Reducing the barriers and burdens that families in poverty experience by increasing access to essential needs.
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Community Action Agency
Provide social services to low income families to provide them with a better quality of life.
Human Services
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Community Action Board
To partner with the community to eliminate poverty and create social change through advocacy and essential services.
Employment
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Children's Bureau Inc
Empowering individuals to build stronger families and communities.
Human Services
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Los Angeles Business Council
The los angeles business council uniting the power of business with the power of government for education and advocacy to promote environmental and economic sustainability.
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Community Action Partnership of
Reduce the causes and effects of poverty and promote self-sufficiency of low income residents.
Education
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Community Foundation Santa Cruz
To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future
Philanthropy
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Community Action for Improvement Inc
To build sustainable communities with partners by providing services and resources utilizing the whole family approach with low-income households to help reduce the burdens of poverty.
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Lakes and Prairies Community
To eliminate poverty by empowering families and engaging communities.
Human Services
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Book Harvest
Book harvest provides books to children who need them and engages families and communities to promote children's lifelong literacy and academic success.
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child Care Resource Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lotus Healing Centers Inc. 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.
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
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 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
0.0%0/122
the rest of the field
11%
206,164/1,819,443
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.
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.
Kaiser Foundation HospitalsCA23.8× affinity16 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Share Our Strength · Baby2baby · GenYOUTH Incorporated · Dollar General Literacy Foundation · Reading Is Fundamental Inc · California Community Foundation · Foundation for Inspiration & Recogn · Round It Up America Inc · The Ahmanson Foundation · The George W Bush Foundation · Feed the Children 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.
04Through Plinth
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How do I get to The Molina Foundation?
Find your warmest path to The Molina Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines