How much does The Ms Grumbacher Foundation give?

The Ms Grumbacher Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $376,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 21 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does The Ms Grumbacher Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (23%), Youth Development (19%), Recreation & Sports (17%).

Who are The Ms Grumbacher Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Big City Mountaineers ($368k), Homeboy Industries ($190k), Outside the Lens ($115k).

Does The Ms Grumbacher Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Ms Grumbacher Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Ms Grumbacher Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Endowment Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.

Where is The Ms Grumbacher Foundation based?

The Ms Grumbacher Foundation is based in CA.

The Ms Grumbacher Foundation

The Ms Grumbacher Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Ms Grumbacher Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$376k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$73k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$518kYouth Development$425kRecreation & Sports$368kCommunity Improvement$208kEducation$151kHousing & Shelter$145kHealth$135kInternational$115kOther$0

02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k7 grants · $35k
$10k–50k12 grants · $195k
$50k–250k2 grants · $146k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$7.5M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
BIG CITY MOUNTAINEERS	$73,000
EDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC LA	$73,000
Individual grant recipient	$45,000
HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES	$25,000
EDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC LA	$20,000
OUTSIDE THE LENS	$15,000
COMMON SENSE MEDIA	$15,000
BIG CITY MOUNTAINEERS	$15,000
HEART OF LOS ANGELES	$10,000
CANAL ALLIANCE	$10,000
WAR LEGACIES PROJECT	$10,000
SACRED ROCK	$10,000
LANDPATHS	$10,000
CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY-SANTA MONICA	$10,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS	$5,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

Where the work is directed

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

About 43% of The Ms Grumbacher Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 64% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 40%.

The Ms Grumbacher Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

How this is measured

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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.0M · 26 repeat orgs$158k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.0M

$143k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%

+8%

Still filing today

62%

60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Youth DevelopmentArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHealthEducationHuman ServicesOther

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

BC
BIG CITY MOUNTAINEERS
6× · 2020–2025 · $368k · revenue +77%
HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES
6× · 2020–2025 · $190k · revenue +74%
OT
OUTSIDE THE LENS
6× · 2020–2025 · $115k · revenue +229%

Funded once

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THE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES
one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -89%
PP
PLANNED PARENTHOOD
one grant, 2022 · $40k
CP
COMMUNITY PARTNERS FOR WRITEGIRL
one grant, 2021 · $10k

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.

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

Public Advocates Inc

For more than five decades, public advocates has challenged the systemic causes of poverty and racial discrimination by strengthening community voices in public policy and achieving tangible legal victories advancing education, housing,…

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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

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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Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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Community Action Partnership of Sonoma County

We are a catalyst of equitable transformation, aligning partners and resources to implement values-based, data-driven, community-led solutions that help families reach their full potential. our vision - we see sonoma county transformed…

Community Improvement

Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement

League of California Community Foundations

The league of california community foundations promotes and strengthens community foundations in california. through collaboration and shared learning among member foundations and building partnerships with private and public entities, we…

Philanthropy

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

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

Los Angeles Conservation Corps

The la conservation corps creates equitable opportunities for young people to build resilience in themselves, their communities and the environment through a program of work, education and support.

Employment

Communities in Schools of Los Angeles Inc

To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. we work with public school systems, establishing relationship with superintendents, principals, educators, and community partners to…

Youth Development

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Partners; the most unlike its peers is Sacred Rok. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 41 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

27/27

Grantees still filing

17/27

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,073,750Youth Development$410,000Recreation & Sports$367,750Philanthropy$130,000Arts & Culture$110,000International$75,000Community Improvement$52,500

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

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 Endowment FoundationOH8.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Ms Grumbacher Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ms Grumbacher Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

8report 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.

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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