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The Sherri Crichton 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.

$76k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$27k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $52k
$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$162k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE UCLA FOUNDATION$27,300
FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS$15,000
LAYOLA HIGH SCHOOL$10,000
ALS ASSOCIATION$5,000
LACMA$5,000
Individual grant recipient$2,500
EBMRF$2,000
HAMMER MUSEUM$1,250
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT$1,000
MEALS ON WHEELS WEST$1,000
ASSISTANCE DOGS OF WEST$1,000
NATIOANAL PARK FOUNDATION$1,000
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART$1,000
PROJECT ANGEL FOOD$1,000
AMNH$1,000
02The need
02

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $2k) 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.

area typical 12%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%MEALS ON WHEELS WEST: $1k → 14%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 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
Los Angeles Police Foundation

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)

Human Services
2
Los Angeles Opera Company

To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…

Arts & Culture
3
The Uc Davis Foundation

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

Education
4
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…

5
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.

6
Los Angeles Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games 2028

The organization aims to benefit the residents of the united states through the planning, promotion and staging of the xxxiv olympiad and the xviii paralympic games.

Recreation & Sports
7
Los Angeles Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Spcala is dedicated to the prevention of cruelty to animals through education, law enforcement, intervention and advocacy.

Animals
8
Los Angeles County Bar Association (Lacba)

Meeting the professional needs of los angeles lawyers, and improving the administration of justice.

9
The National Association of State Workforce Agencies

The national association of state workforce agencies (naswa) mission is to enhance the state workforce agencies' ability to accomplish their goals, statutory roles and responsibilities.

10
Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy

To improve the skills, wages, and working conditions of workers in the tourism industry and to assure that the benefits of tourism contribute equitably to the economic and social development of all communities in the greater los angeles…

Health
11
Ucla Alumni Association

The mission of the ucla alumni association is to enrich the lives of alumni and involve them in the future of ucla.

Education
12
Naval Postgraduate School Foundation Inc

Our mission is to support the naval postgraduate school by providing funding and programmatic support for education, research, technology development, institutional initiatives, and community programs that advance national security and…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Los Angeles County Police Canine Assoc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
2/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LAYOLA HIGH SCHOOL — $10,000 · OtherLAYOLA HIGH SCHOOLLACMA — $5,000 · OtherLACMAALS ASSOCIATION — $5,000 · OtherALS ASSOCIATIONIndividual grant recipient — $2,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientEBMRF — $2,000 · OtherEBMRFMUSEUM OF MODERN ART — $1,000 · OtherAMNH — $1,000 · OtherNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $1,000 · Other+1 more — $500 · OtherUCLA FOUNDATION — $27,300 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIONFOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureFOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPOR…ARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC — $1,250 · Arts & CultureARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF …WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $1,000 · Human ServicesMEALS ON WHEELS WEST — $1,000 · Human ServicesASSISTANCE DOGS OF THE WEST — $1,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT ANGEL FOOD — $1,000 · HealthLos Angeles County Police Canine Assoc — $550 · Crime & Legal
Other$28,000Education$27,300Arts & Culture$16,250Human Services$3,000Health$1,000Crime & Legal$550

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 budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $27,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC — $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS WEST — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL FOOD — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASSISTANCE DOGS OF THE WEST — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLos Angeles County Police Canine Assoc — $550 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Sherri Crichton 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.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.

04Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Sherri Crichton Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Sherri Crichton Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 17 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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