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The Selvin Family Charitable Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$29k
Granted FY2021
15
Grants FY2021
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172021.

Arts & Culture$97kEducation$6kCivil Rights$5kReligion$4kHuman Services$3kPublic Benefit$2kYouth Development$1kHousing & Shelter$1kOther$0
02FY2021 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k13 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$500
Median grant
3
States reached
$305k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
5 STAR THEATRICAL$10,000
5 STAR THEATRICAL$10,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
CENTER THEATRE GP$1,500
THE MUSIC CENTER$1,000
LIGHTHOUSE FOR WOMEN$1,000
LA COUNTY ANIMAL FOUNDATION$500
MANNA CONEJO VALLEY FOOD BANK$500
BUMBLE BEE FOUNDATION$500
LA MISSION$500
MANY MANSIONS$500
THOUSAND OAKS ROTARY FOUNDATION$500
SENIOR CONCERNS$500
OPERATION SMILES$240
FOOD SHARE$100
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–21, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SENIOR CONCERNS: $500 → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$111k · 8 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2021, 4 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
5

Total granted

$111k
$4k

Still filing today

25%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterArts & CultureHealthInternationalFood & NutritionOther

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

  • 5S
    5 STAR THEATRICAL
    3× · 2018–2021 · $66k
  • CM
    CABRILLO MUSIC THEATRE INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $25k · revenue -2%
  • TO
    THOUSAND OAKS ROTARY FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2021 · $6k · revenue 0%

Funded once

  • MO
    MILITARY ORDER OF WORLD WARS
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
  • OH
    OUR HOUSE GRIEF SUPPORT
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
  • BG
    BOYS GRILS CLUBS
    one grant, 2018 · $1k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Culver Palms Meals On Wheels

To provide meals on the west side of Los Angeles from Pico Blvd. to LAX, delivered by volunteers to people with illness, disability, or aging who cannot plan, shop, or provide for themselves.

2
Torrance-Lomita Meals On Wheels Inc

Provides home delivered meals to the house bound residents of Torrance and Lomita.

3
Project Angel Food

Project angel food (the organization) improves health and fights food insecurity for critically ill individuals in los angeles county through its medically tailored meal program and nutrition counseling. for over 35 years, they have served…

Health
4
Long Term Care Services of Ventura Cty

The ventura county ombudsman program's mission is to assure the highest quality of life and care possible for those elderly persons in long term care, most of whom are frail and vulnerable and unable to represent themselves.

Human Services
5
Meals On Wheels of the Monterey Peninsula Inc

To empower seniors, disabled adults, veterans, and other under served populations to remain independent by nourishing their bodies, minds, and spirits, and drive out hunger and isolation in our region.

Food & Nutrition
6
Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd

Huntington Health stands for community. We stand for compassion. But more than anything, Huntington stands for health. Providing world-class health care is our specialty, and it's what we've been doing for the San Gabriel Valley since…

Health
7
Meals On Wheels of Lompoc

Lmow's mission is to end hunger for seniors and needy individuals in the lompoc area of california, by delivering nutritious meals prepared by the local hospital to them through volunteer drivers and staff.

8
Feeding America Riverside San Bernardino Counties

Our mission is to alleviate hunger in the inland empire of southern california.

Food & Nutrition
9
Los Angeles Regional Food Bank

The organization's mission is to mobilize resources to fight hunger in our community. to fulfill its mission, the food bank:* sources and acquires nutritious food and other products and distribute them to people experiencing nutrition…

10
Thesecondopinion

The organization provides free, comprehensive second opinions to adults in California diagnosed with cancer.

11
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
12
Rescue Mission Alliance

The rescue mission alliance's primary purpose is to establish and operate rescue missions to reach the less fortunate with the gospel of jesus christ and to assist in the feeding, clothing, and lodging of those who are destitute or…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food Share Inc and the most unlike its peers is Operation Smile Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 23 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
3/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

5 STAR THEATRICAL — $65,738 · Other5 STAR THEATRICALUNITY NORTH TAMPA — $5,000 · OtherUNITY NORTH TAMPAIndividual grant recipient — $4,000 · OtherCENTER THEATRE GP — $3,000 · Other+11 more — $11,325 · Other+11 moreCABRILLO MUSIC THEATRE INC — $24,900 · Arts & CultureCABRILLO MUSIC THEATRE …THOUSAND OAKS ROTARY FOUNDATION — $5,600 · Human ServicesCONEJO VALLEY SENIOR CONCERNS INC — $500 · Human ServicesMANY MANSIONS — $500 · Housing & ShelterLOS ANGELES MISSION INC — $500 · Housing & ShelterBUMBLEBEE FOUNDATION INC — $500 · HealthOPERATION SMILE INC — $240 · InternationalFOOD SHARE INC — $100 · Food & Nutrition
Other$89,063Arts & Culture$24,900Human Services$6,100Housing & Shelter$1,000Health$500International$240Food & Nutrition$100

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCABRILLO MUSIC THEATRE INC — $24,900 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetTHOUSAND OAKS ROTARY FOUNDATION — $5,600 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetCONEJO VALLEY SENIOR CONCERNS INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUMBLEBEE FOUNDATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMANY MANSIONS — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES MISSION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC — $240 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD SHARE INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 CABRILLO MUSIC THEATRE INC
  • Who funds THOUSAND OAKS ROTARY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds CONEJO VALLEY SENIOR CONCERNS INC
  • Who funds BUMBLEBEE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds MANY MANSIONS
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES MISSION INC
  • Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC
  • Who funds FOOD SHARE INC

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.

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC8.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 Selvin Family Charitable 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.

2023
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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