· Private foundation
The RuMBa Foundation of Long Beach
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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $639k
- $250k+1 grant · $600k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Molina Foundation | $600,000 |
| Long Beach Unified School District | $243,912 |
| Long Beach Symphony Association | $120,000 |
| Assistance League of Long Beach | $100,000 |
| Cambodia Town Film Festival | $75,000 |
| Long Beach Blues Society | $50,000 |
| Musique Sur La Mer Youth Symphony O | $50,000 |
| Long Beach Museum of Art | $47,242 |
| International City Theatre | $32,450 |
| Rim of the World High School | $6,000 |
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 (FY20–22, $159k) 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.
19 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 10 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- ALAssistance League of Long Beach4× · 2021–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +11%
- LBLONG BEACH MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION4× · 2019–2024 · $393k · revenue +15%
- LBLong Beach Symphony Association4× · 2019–2024 · $304k · revenue +71%
Funded once
- FFFOOD FINDERS INCone grant, 2021 · $300k · revenue -3%
- LBLong Beach Corona Virus Relief Fundone grant, 2020 · $100k
- YOYMCA of Greater Long Beachone grant, 2021 · $100k
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.
Dedicated to excellence in choral music, we enrich the lives of our communities and performers through a broad spectrum of repertoire, innovative programming and arts education.
The orchestra pursues its mission, "to enrich and connect our community through intimate and transformative musical experiences which exemplify and foster artistic excellence, education and innovation," through the blend of traditional…
LB Cultural Arts Center provides a creative epicenter through exhibition space events and promotion to support artists in the following mediums: visual arts music video and still photography film dance prose and poetry and arts education.
The latino theater company operates the los angeles theatre center, whose mission is to provide a world class arts center for those pursuing artistic excellence; a laboratory where both tradition and innovation are honored and honed; a…
Teaching ballet classes and producing grand-scale ballet performances
To perform outstanding classical and modern ballets that set the standard for dancer in los angeles, nationally, and internationally. to passionately pursue innovation and creativity and performance. to change lives through accessible…
To celebrate the human experience while encouraging the participation of artist and audience in theatre productions.
To promote, produce, and sponsor events and activities that encourage the appreciation, study and performance of the arts.
Youth Band for Boys/Girls Ages 13-21
To support and maintain the long beach symphony association.
To preserve, promote, and present the art of ballet and dance through performances, education, and community outreach, making high-quality cultural experiences accessible to diverse audiences.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Long Beach Symphony Association and the most unlike its peers is His Little Feet. 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 33 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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 Assistance League of Long Beach ↗
- Who funds THE MOLINA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD ↗
- Who funds LONG BEACH MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Long Beach Symphony Association ↗
- Who funds FOOD FINDERS INC ↗
- Who funds LONG BEACH BLUES SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LONG BEACH OPERA ↗
- Who funds ARTS AND SERVICES FOR DISABLED INC DBA ABLE ARTS WORK ↗
- Who funds SOUTH COAST DANCE ARTS ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CITY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF LATIN AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds MUSICA ANGELICA ↗
- Who funds Jazz Angel Inc ↗
- Who funds MUSICAL THEATRE WEST ↗
- Who funds Dramatic Results ↗
- Who funds His Little Feet ↗
- Who funds Children Today Inc ↗
- Who funds The Long Beach Shakespeare Company ↗
- Who funds Long Beach Youth Chorus ↗
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: Earl B & Loraine H Miller Foundation · Public Corp for the Arts of the City of Long Beach · Bess J Hodges Foundation · Long Beach Community Foundation · Keesal Young & Logan Charitable Foundation · The Rudolph J & Daphne a Munzer Foundation · California Community Foundation · Perenchio Foundation · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Long Beach & West Orange County · Schulzman-Neri 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 RuMBa Foundation of Long Beach 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.