· Private foundation
The Richard C and Melanie F Lundquist Family 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EVERYCHILD FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| US GRANT '67 SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $1,500 |
| ST JOSEPH CENTER | $1,500 |
| VETS WHOLE IN ONE INC | $1,500 |
| PALOS VERDES ESTATES FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| HEIDI DUCKLER DANCE | $500 |
| UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN | $500 |
| NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY | $250 |
| DEL MONTE FOREST PROPERTY OWNERS | $100 |
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, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
16 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 3 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- UFUNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN5× · 2020–2024 · $7k · revenue +7%
- LALOS ANGELES SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS4× · 2020–2023 · $5k · revenue +27%
- HDHEIDI DUCKLER DANCE2× · 2021–2024 · $1k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- PBPVHS BOOSTER CLUB FAB LABone grant, 2023 · $2k
- MOMEALS ON WHEELSone grant, 2023 · $2k
- POPet Orphans of Southern Californiagraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +90%
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.
As california state parks' statutory non-profit partner, we have a clear mission - to help strengthen parks and inspire all people to experience these extraordinary places.
Palos verdes peninsula land conservancy, "pvplc", mission is to preserve land and restore habitat for the education and enjoyment of all. (see schedule o for further description).pvplc's vision is the preservation and management of large…
Los padres forestwatch protects the los padres national forest and the carrizo plain national monument through education, advocacy, and when necessary, legal action for the benefit of our communities, climate and future generations.
The trust for public land creates parks and protects land for people, ensuring healthy, livable communities for generations to come. in the past year, we helped communities to plan for parks and conservation, fund parks and conservation,…
San diego zoo wildlife alliance is committed to saving species worldwide by uniting our expertise in wildlife care and conservation science with our dedication to inspiring passion for nature.
The los angeles conservancy is a nonprofit membership organization that works through education and advocacy to recognize, preserve, and revitalize the historic architectural and cultural resources of los angeles county.
To enhance, expand, preserve and promote public recreation, parks and open space for the diverse people of los angeles.
The sacramento zoo inspires appreciation, respect and a connection with wildlife and nature through education, recreation and conservation.
Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…
The mission of lapf is to create partnerships to provide resources and programs that help the police perform at their highest level and to enhance lapd-community relations.(see schedule o)
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
We transform schools to revolutionize school systems, empowering all students with a high-quality education. the partnership's goals are to 1) dramatically accelerate achievement for students in the district's highest need and historically…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California State Parks Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Del Monte Forest Conservancy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
20 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. 20 of the 39 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 The Everychild Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds PALOS VERDES ESTATES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VETS WHOLE IN ONE INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH CENTER ↗
- Who funds Pet Orphans of Southern California ↗
- Who funds HEIDI DUCKLER DANCE ↗
- Who funds FULFILLMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COALITION FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Palos Verdes Police Officers Association ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESS ↗
- Who funds DEL MONTE FOREST CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WALDORF SCHOOL OF SARATOGA SPRINGS ↗
- Who funds DEL MONTE FOREST PROPERTY OWNERS ↗
- Who funds THE MONO LAKE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PALOS VERDES HILLS COOPERATIVE NURSERY SCHOOL ↗
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: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Richard C and Melanie F Lundquist Family 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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