· Private foundation
United Plankton Charitable Trust
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 $10k3 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $95k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $720k
- $250k+5 grants · $2.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS | $1,000,000 |
| HAMMER MUSEUM LOS ANGELES | $615,000 |
| CAL POLY HUMBOLDT FOUNDATION | $345,000 |
| THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART | $315,000 |
| INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART | $250,000 |
| PERFORMANCE ART MUSEUM | $200,000 |
| LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION | $150,000 |
| PASADENA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC | $120,000 |
| HEART OF THE BRAIN | $100,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC | $100,000 |
| LACE | $50,000 |
| THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART | $45,000 |
| LAXART | $25,000 |
| POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| LCYC COMMUNITY SAILING FOUNDATION | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of your 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.
22 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 5 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $557k 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
- CICALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS7× · 2018–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +20%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC7× · 2018–2024 · $715k · revenue +50%- TMTHE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES7× · 2018–2024 · $579k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- LCLAISTSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIOone grant, 2023 · $40k
- ACARMORY CENTER FOR THE ARTSgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +230%
- PMPASADENA MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA ARTone grant, 2018 · $25k
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.
The hammer museum at ucla believes in the promise of art and ideas to illuminate our lives and build a more just world.
See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…
The museum of contemporary art san diego invites all audiences to experience our world, our region, and ourselves through the prism of contemporary art.
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
Through its exhibitions and outreach programs, the institute of contemporary art, los angeles fosters diversity, innovation, and discovery in contemporary art - local, national, and international.
The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…
The academy museum of motion pictures advances the understanding, celebration, and preservation of cinema through inclusive and accessible exhibitions, screenings, programs, initiatives, and collections. welcoming visitors from los angeles…
The specific purpose of this corporation is to: expand knowledge and appreciation of modern and contemporary latin american tine art that has been created since world war ii; to operate a museum; to collect and display latin american…
Operation of a public art museum.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles and the most unlike its peers is Whitney Museum of American Art. 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 46 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 55 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 CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds Pasadena Conservatory of Music ↗
- Who funds CAL POLY HUMBOLDT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE PERFORMANCE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KCRW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FUTURE ROOTS INC ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds PASADENA PLAYHOUSE ALUMNI & ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds THE BRICK ↗
- Who funds ARMORY CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds PASADENA MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA ART ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PASADENA ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY DOMINGUEZ HILLS PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PASADENA ART ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds CENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds EQUITABLE VITRINES ↗
- Who funds THE WENDE MUSEUM OF THE COLD WAR INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Pasadena Community Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Wilhelm Family Foundation Co Cascade Wilhelm · Perenchio Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The J Paul Getty Trust · The Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts · Harvey and Ellen Knell Foundation · The Green Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Fitzberg 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 United Plankton Charitable Trust 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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