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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.

$609k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$160k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.1MHealth$628kEducation$188kHousing & Shelter$50kPhilanthropy$50kRecreation & Sports$37kEnvironment$10kCrime & Legal$8kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $145k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $441k
$20,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
THE JUDY FUNDALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$10,000
LA RIVER STATE PARK PARTNERS$10,000
SAVE THE MUSIC FOUNDATION$7,500
EPILEPSY FOUNDATION$5,000
MEN'S GUILD OF CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES$5,000
02The need
03

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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SWEET RELIEF MUSICIANS FUND: $75k → 10%PLAYING FOR CHANGE FOUNDATION: $55k → 14%HARLEM SCHOOL OF THE ARTS: $75k → 17%THE ALLIANCE FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION: $10k → 14%NAT KING COLE GENERATION HOPE INC: $160k → 11%ATHENS UNITED SOCCER ASSOCIATION: $25k → 27%CONNECTING TO CURE CROHNS AND COLITIS: $25k → 14%SWEET RELIEF MUSICIANS FUND: $75k → 10%CORNERSTONE HOUSING FOR ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES: $25k → 14%HARLEM SCHOOL OF THE ARTS: $20k → 17%NAT KING COLE GENERATION HOPE INC: $155k → 11%CONNECTING TO CURE CROHNS AND COLITIS: $10k → 14%SWEET RELIEF MUSICIANS FUND: $50k → 10%PLAYING FOR CHANGE FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%THE JAZZ FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $50k → 17%NAT KING COLE GENERATION HOPE INC: $103k → 11%CONNECTING TO CURE CROHNS AND COLITIS: $10k → 14%CORNERSTONE HOUSING FOR ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES: $25k → 14%NAT KING COLE GENERATION HOPE INC: $100k → 11%CONNECTING TO CURE CROHNS AND COLITIS: $10k → 14%TM23 FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%NAT KING COLE GENERATION HOPE INC: $45k → 11%THE JUDY FUNDALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION: $25k → 14%MEN'S GUILD OF CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES: $5k → 14%NAT KING COLE GENERATION HOPE: $25k → 11%THE JUDY FUNDALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION: $13k → 14%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $5k → 14%NAT KING COLE GENERATION HOPE: $25k → 11%THE JUDY FUNDALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION: $10k → 14%LA RIVER STATE PARK PARTNERS: $10k → 14%NAT KING COLE GENERATION HOPE: $20k → 11%TJ MARTELL FOUNDATION: $799 → 14%UCLA FOUNDATION FUND: $100k → 14%UCLA FOUNDATION FUND: $28k → 14%THE UCLA FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%THE UCLA FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%UCLA FOUNDATION FUND: $10k → 14%CONTRIBUTIONS THROUGH KCP SONGS K-1: $2k → 14%CITY OF HOPE: $51k → 14%CITY OF HOPE: $36k → 14%CITY OF HOPE: $25k → 14%CITY OF HOPE: $25k → 14%GRAMMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $250k → 14%NOAH BENARDOUT FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%GRAMMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 14%ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: $3k → 14%EPILEPSY FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%MUSICARES: $28k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 13% of The Natalie Cole Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 75% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 63%.

The Natalie Cole Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 7.7% directed abroad (not shown)
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 12 repeat orgs$158k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
5

Total granted

$1.9M
$72k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-1%
+41%

Still filing today

50%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $86k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

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HealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalPhilanthropyInternationalOther
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

  • NK
    NAT KING COLE GENERATION HOPE INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $563k
  • GM
    GRAMMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $255k · revenue -1%
  • SR
    SWEET RELIEF MUSICIANS FUND
    3× · 2022–2024 · $200k · revenue +132%

Funded once

  • JF
    Jazz Foundation of America Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +156%
  • TA
    THE ALLIANCE FOR CLIMATE PROTECTIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +41%
  • NB
    NOAH BENARDOUT FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -73%
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.

1
Latin Grammy Cultural Foundation

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.

Arts & Culture
2
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
3
National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences Inc

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…

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4
San Francisco Jazz Organization

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…

Arts & Culture
5
The Sergio Franchi Music Foundation
Arts & Culture
6
Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center Inc

The hammer museum at ucla believes in the promise of art and ideas to illuminate our lives and build a more just world.

Arts & Culture
7
Los Angeles Philharmonic Association

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)…

Arts & Culture
8
Fender Play Foundation
Arts & Culture
9
California Music Center

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.

Arts & Culture
10
The Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation

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.

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11
Pacific Bridge Arts Foundation

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.

Human Services
12
Maraschino Music
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Musicares Foundation Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
7/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NAT KING COLE GENERATION HOPE INC: $563,000 · OtherNAT KING COLE GENERATION HOPE INCIndividual grant recipient: $150,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUCLA FOUNDATION FUND: $137,500 · OtherUCLA FOUNDATION FUNDCITY OF HOPE: $136,000 · OtherCITY OF HOPEHARLEM SCHOOL OF THE ARTS INC: $95,040 · OtherHARLEM SCHOOL OF THE ARTS INCCONNECTING TO CURE CROHNS AND COLITIS: $55,000 · OtherTHE JUDY FUNDALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION: $47,500 · Other+10 more: $74,276 · Other+10 moreGRAMMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $255,000 · Arts & CultureGRAMMY MUSEUM F…MUSICARES FOUNDATION INC: $27,750 · Arts & CultureMUSICARES FOUND…SWEET RELIEF MUSICIANS FUND: $200,000 · HealthSWEET RELIE…+3 more: $6,299 · HealthNat King Cole Generation Hope Inc: $70,000 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationPLAYING FOR CHANGE FOUNDATION: $105,000 · InternationalCORNERSTONE HOUSING FOR ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES: $50,000 · Housing & ShelterJazz Foundation of America Inc: $50,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,258,316Arts & Culture$282,750Health$206,299Education$120,000International$105,000Housing & Shelter$50,000Philanthropy$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGRAMMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $255,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetPLAYING FOR CHANGE FOUNDATION: $105,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetHARLEM SCHOOL OF THE ARTS INC: $95,040 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetNat King Cole Generation Hope Inc: $70,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCORNERSTONE HOUSING FOR ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES: $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetJazz Foundation of America Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMUSICARES FOUNDATION INC: $27,750 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetATHENS UNITED SOCCER ASSOCIATION: $25,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetTHE ALLIANCE FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES RIVER STATE PARK PARTNERS: $10,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetSAVE THE MUSIC FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMENS GUILD OF CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES: $5,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTM23 FOUNDATION: $2,120 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTJ MARTELL FOUNDATION: $799 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HAROLD AND CAROLE PUMP FOUNDATION (FKA THE HAROLD PUMP FOUNDATION): $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Alesia Alpert Family …Pledgeling FoundationWasserman FoundationGibson Gives Foundati…California Community …Silicon Valley Commun…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Paypal Charitable Giv…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…
Alesia Alpert Family Foundation (Fka Alesia Family Foundation)CA17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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