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The Plum Spring 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $175k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STEP UP WOMENS NETWORK | $75,000 |
| UNICEF | $50,000 |
| THE CENTER IN HOLLYWOOD | $50,000 |
| ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE | $40,000 |
| APEX FOR YOUTH | $25,000 |
| HUMAN RIGHTS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE PARADISE THEATRE | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $235k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those 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.
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.
9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- SUSTEP UP WOMEN'S NETWORK5× · 2020–2024 · $284k · revenue +28%
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF5× · 2020–2024 · $283k · revenue +46%- TCTHE CENTER IN HOLLYWOOD5× · 2020–2024 · $215k · revenue +101%
Funded once
- LALOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANKone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -28%
- WAWE ARE RISE INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · 26% of their budget
- TTEACHAAPIgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +216%
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.
Gold house is the leading cultural ecosystem that unites, invests in, and champions asian pacific leaders to power tomorrow for all. as a non-profit collective of diverse leaders, we forge meaningful relationships and build programs to…
To make freedom possible for the community of current and formerly incarcerated individuals, youth and families in high-risk situations, allies, supporters, and their communities.
The organization's mission is to promote the collective voice of a diverse coalition of organizations and individuals working to eliminate all forms of domestic violence. as an advocate for sociate change, we advance our mission by…
To improve the lives and protect the rights of women, children and youth displaced by conflict and crisis. the women's refugee commission envisions a world in which refugees are safe, healthy and reliant and seeks to drive change in…
Together women rise champions gender equality because womens rights are human rights. when women and girls are treated equally, the world is healthier, safer, more peaceful, inclusive, and economically just for everyone.
To end modern slavery through education, advocacy, and empowering survivors of human trafficking.
Bigs & littles nyc mentoring is a nonprofit community-based organization which transforms the lives of vulnerable nyc children and strengthens families through professionally guided one-to-one mentoring, life skills programming, and…
Tomorrow's youth organization empowers refugees and marginalized communities across the middle east - to build resilience, healing, and opportunity admist conflict. through locally-led and globally-informed programs in education,…
Avenues for justice operates a progressive diversion program for nyc court-involved and at-risk youth, ages 13 to 24, through adapted hybrid online and onsite programming, and 24/7 mentorship with community-based court advocates, the…
Man up mobilizes, supports, and trains men to model healthy masculinity in their homes, churches, and communities so that fatherlessness decreases in the world.(continued on schedule o)through mentoring, fatherhood coaching, discipleship,…
Good neighbors usa is an international humanitarian and development organization committed to build a global community where people live together in health, harmony, and dignity.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Apex for Youth Inc and the most unlike its peers is Formidable Joy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 16 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 STEP UP WOMEN'S NETWORK ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER IN HOLLYWOOD ↗
- Who funds APEX FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds FORMIDABLE JOY ↗
- Who funds AMIKAS ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE PARADISE THEATER ↗
- Who funds FOOD ON FOOT ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WE ARE RISE INC ↗
- Who funds TEACHAAPI ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN OF VIETNAM ↗
- Who funds AAPI STAND TOGETHER SENIORS FIGHT BACK ↗
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: California Community Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Plum Spring 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.
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