· Private foundation
The Natalie Cole 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $145k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $441k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NAT KING COLE GENERATION HOPE INC | $160,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| SWEET RELIEF MUSICIANS FUND | $75,000 |
| PLAYING FOR CHANGE FOUNDATION | $55,000 |
| CITY OF HOPE | $50,500 |
| MUSICARES | $27,750 |
| UCLA FOUNDATION FUND | $27,500 |
| CONNECTING TO CURE CROHNS AND COLITIS | $25,000 |
| ATHENS UNITED SOCCER ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| HARLEM SCHOOL OF THE ARTS | $20,000 |
| LA RIVER STATE PARK PARTNERS | $10,000 |
| THE JUDY FUNDALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| SAVE THE MUSIC FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| EPILEPSY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MEN'S GUILD OF CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 13% of The Natalie Cole 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. Read by recipient address, 75% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 63% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
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.
12 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $86k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- NKNAT KING COLE GENERATION HOPE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $563k
- GMGRAMMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC2× · 2022–2023 · $255k · revenue -1%
- SRSWEET RELIEF MUSICIANS FUND3× · 2022–2024 · $200k · revenue +132%
Funded once
- JFJazz Foundation of America Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +156%
- TATHE ALLIANCE FOR CLIMATE PROTECTIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +41%
- NBNOAH BENARDOUT FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -73%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The latin grammy cultural foundation, through scholarships, fellowships, grants and education programs, furthers international awareness and appreciation of the significant contributions of latin music and its makers to the world's culture.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
Our mission is to advance the arts and sciences of recording and to foster creative leadership for artistic, cultural, educational, and technical progress in the recording field. a primary activity of the recording academy is the…
The san francisco jazz organization (the organization) is a recognized international leader in jazz creation, presentation, and education. the organization explores the full spectrum of jazz, from the music's origins in the african…
The hammer museum at ucla believes in the promise of art and ideas to illuminate our lives and build a more just world.
Under the leadership of music & artistic director gustavo dudamel, the la phil offers live performances, media initiatives, and learning programs that inspire and strengthen communities in los angeles and beyond. (continued in schedule o)…
To seek and nurture exceptional young string musicians, foster and further their performance and professional skills development, and provide them with performance opportunities and monetary support.
The jonsson cancer center foundation is the single most important vehicle for raising private funds for cancer research at ucla and plays a key role in advancing cancer treatments and care. please see schedule o for additional information.
The Foundation works throughout the year to provide educational arts and culture workshops, mentorship for rising community leaders, grants for independent artists, and award honoree ceremony.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Musicares Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Los Angeles River State Park Partners. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 28 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds GRAMMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SWEET RELIEF MUSICIANS FUND ↗
- Who funds PLAYING FOR CHANGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HARLEM SCHOOL OF THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Nat King Cole Generation Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE HOUSING FOR ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Jazz Foundation of America Inc ↗
- Who funds MUSICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ATHENS UNITED SOCCER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE ALLIANCE FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES RIVER STATE PARK PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE MUSIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MENS GUILD OF CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds NOAH BENARDOUT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds TM23 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TJ MARTELL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HAROLD AND CAROLE PUMP FOUNDATION (FKA THE HAROLD PUMP FOUNDATION) ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Alesia Alpert Family Foundation (Fka Alesia Family Foundation) · Pledgeling Foundation · Wasserman Foundation · Gibson Gives Foundation Dba Gibson Gives · California Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Natalie Cole 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.
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.