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Variety - the Childrens Charity of Southern California Tent 25

Variety is dedicated to inspiring hope, enriching lives and building a better future for the children of Southern California.

$449k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$128k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 59% of VARIETY - THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TENT 25’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 5 grants below total $186,250 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $448,615 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $262,365 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $51k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $128k
$13,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VARIETY BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB$128,000
Concerned Black Men of LA$25,000
SURFER HEALING FOUNDATION$13,500
HOPES NEST$12,250
LOLLIPOP THEATER NETWORK$7,500
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 (FY17–24, $558k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%VISTA DEL MAR: $25k → 14%VISTA DEL MAR: $25k → 14%CASA DE AMPRO: $15k → 11%VISTA DEL MAR: $25k → 14%CASA DE AMPRO: $15k → 11%1736 FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $10k → 14%CASA DE AMPRO: $15k → 11%HOLLYGROVE: $25k → 14%HOLLYGROVE: $25k → 14%JEFFREY FNDTN FOR HANDICAPPED: $35k → 14%JEFFREY FNDTN FOR HANDICAPPED: $13k → 14%JEFFREY FNDTN FOR HANDICAPPED: $13k → 14%ABILITY FIRST: $20k → 14%HILLSIDES: $10k → 14%HILLSIDES: $10k → 14%HILLSIDES: $10k → 14%RIDE ON THERAPEUTIC: $15k → 14%RIDE ON THERAPEUTIC: $15k → 14%RIDE ON THERAPEUTIC: $15k → 14%RIDE ON THERAPEUTIC: $10k → 14%JOHN TRACY CLINIC: $15k → 14%CHILDRENS BUREAU: $10k → 14%CHILDRENS BUREAU: $10k → 14%EXCEPTIONAL CHILDRENS FNDTN: $20k → 14%CHILDRENS BUREAU: $10k → 14%EXCEPTIONAL CHILDRENS FNDTN: $15k → 14%CHILDRENS BUREAU: $10k → 14%EXCEPTIONAL CHILDRENS FNDTN: $15k → 14%CHILDREN TODAY: $10k → 14%LOLLIPOP THEATER NETWORK: $25k → 14%CHILDREN TODAY: $10k → 14%LOLLIPOP THEATER NETWORK: $20k → 14%CHILDREN TODAY: $10k → 14%LOLLIPOP THEATER NETWORK: $15k → 14%CHILDREN TODAY: $10k → 14%LOLLIPOP THEATER NETWORK: $8k → 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 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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.8M · 32 repeat orgs$427k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

32 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
26

Total granted

$2.8M
$427k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+9%

Still filing today

81%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsEducationPhilanthropyOther

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

  • VB
    VARIETY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +112%
  • CB
    CONCERNED BLACK MEN OF LOS ANGELES INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $158k · revenue +168% · 59% of their budget
  • VD
    VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES
    3× · 2017–2019 · $75k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • TM
    THE MENIFEE VALLEY BOYS & GIRLS CLUBgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $47k · revenue +152%
  • SO
    SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC
    one grant, 2017 · $37k · revenue -10%
  • 1L
    1979 LEGACY CORPgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +88%

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
All About Kids La
Philanthropy
2
Allies for Every Child Inc

All children need a childhood. Allies for Every Child brings together and strengthens families, cultivating conditions for children to succeed in life. (Continues on Schedule O)

Human Services
3
Achievekids

Achievekids schools provide individualized and multi-disciplinary programs that deliver special education, mental health, and family support services for students ages 5 to 22 who have complex and often severe developmental, emotional, and…

Education
4
Wellnest Emotional Health & Wellness

Through a holistic approach to emotional well-being, Wellnest offers hope, healing, and opportunity to the children, young adults, families, and communities we serve. Our commitment remains steadfast as we enter our second century of…

Human Services
5
Wayfinder Family Services

The mission of Wayfinder Family Services is to ensure that children, youth and adults facing challenges always have a place to turn. Founded in 1953 as the Foundation for the Junior Blind, the organization initially enabled visually…

Human Services
6
Children's Hospital & Research Center At Oakland

The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.

Health
7
Hathaway-Sycamores Child and Family Services

Sycamores nonprofit health organization whose mission is cultivating hope and resilience to enrich the well-being of children, families, and communities through out los angeles and riverside counties.

Human Services
8
The Florida Center for Early Childhood Inc

The florida center supports the healthy development of young children, specializing in those with delays, disabilities or mental health challenges. our mission- "to help build and foster strong families and expand the potential of young…

Human Services
9
Drew Child Development Corporation

Preparing the children of watts-willowbrook, compton, and south los angeles to succeed and thereby strengthen our community's future

Human Services
10
The Guidance Center

The guidance center provides comprehensive mental health treatment to our community's most disadvantaged children and their families struggling with mental illness and abuse, leading them toward a positive and productive future.

Health
11
Partners for Pediatric Vision

To turn possibilities into achievements for children with visual impairment and their families. we envision a world where all children with visual impairment have equal access to healthcare,education, and support to be successful in life.

Health
12
Bayfront Youth and Family Services Inc

Bayfront Youth & Family Services is a quality provider of behavioral and mental health treatment services for children, adolescents, and their caregivers. Our mission is to provide a comprehensive support system that promotes safe and…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Villa Esperanza Services and the most unlike its peers is Special Equestrian Riding Therapy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCharter Schools and Educati…Youth Sports ClubsDog and Cat RescueCommunity Arts PerformanceDevelopmental Disabilities …Community Health CentersChild & Family Counseling S…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%0%<5yr16%2%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr17%31%20–35yr10%23%35–55yr12%31%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%0%<5yr16%1%5–10yr20%5%10–20yr17%20%20–35yr10%14%35–55yr12%61%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%2/58
the rest of the field
15%
9,955/65,056

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.

04the grantee network

51 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. 51 of the 58 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/51
Grantees still filing
29/51
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VARIETY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB — $1,356,389 · OtherVARIETY BOYS & GIRLS CLUBSUCCESS THROUGH EDUCATION INC — $103,700 · OtherSUCCESS THROUGH EDUCATION INCSURFER HEALING FOUNDATION — $69,250 · Other+18 more — $392,303 · Other+18 moreVISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES — $75,000 · Human ServicesVISTA DEL MAR CHILD…LOLLIPOP THEATER NETWORK INC — $67,500 · Human ServicesLOLLIPOP THEATER NE…JEFFREY FOUNDATION — $60,500 · Human ServicesJEFFREY FOUNDATIONRIDE ON LA RIDE ON THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP — $55,000 · Human ServicesRIDE ON LA RIDE ON …EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Human ServicesEXCEPTIONAL CHILDRE…PACIFIC CLINICS — $50,000 · Human ServicesPACIFIC CLINICSCasa De Amparo — $45,000 · Human ServicesCasa De AmparoChildren Today Inc — $40,000 · Human ServicesChildren Today IncCHILDREN'S BUREAU FOUNDATION — $40,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S BUREAU F…HILLSIDES — $30,000 · Human ServicesHILLSIDESABILITYFIRST — $20,000 · Human Services+2 more — $25,000 · Human ServicesCONCERNED BLACK MEN OF LOS ANGELES INC — $157,500 · Youth DevelopmentCONCERNED B…THE MENIFEE VALLEY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB — $46,779 · Youth DevelopmentTHE MENIFEE…THE PAINTED TURTLE — $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE PAINTED…KIDS ENJOY EXERCISE NOW — $28,909 · Youth DevelopmentKIDS ENJOY …JEWISH BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentJEWISH BIG …BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LOS ANGELES HARBOR — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRL…Children's Hospital Los Angeles — $30,000 · HealthSEANY FOUNDATION — $30,000 · HealthHELP FOR BRAIN INJURED CHILDREN INC — $25,000 · HealthOptimist Boys' Home and Ranch Inc — $20,000 · HealthOPEN MEDICINE FOUNDATION — $20,000 · HealthTHE AUTISM COMMUNITY IN ACTION — $11,000 · HealthHaynes Family of Programs — $10,855 · HealthDIDI HIRSCH PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE — $10,060 · HealthSPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC — $36,500 · Recreation & SportsINGLEWOOD BASEBALL FUND — $30,000 · Recreation & SportsA WALK ON WATER INC — $25,000 · Recreation & SportsCAMP DEL CORAZON INC — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsONE WITH THE WATER — $6,050 · Recreation & SportsLAS FLORISTAS INC — $54,800 · EducationVILLA ESPERANZA SERVICES — $20,000 · EducationREACH OUT AND READ INC — $10,000 · EducationBurn Institute — $65,000 · Philanthropy1979 LEGACY CORP — $25,000 · Community Improvement
Other$1,921,642Human Services$558,000Youth Development$323,188Health$156,915Recreation & Sports$107,550Education$84,800Philanthropy$65,000Community Improvement$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetVARIETY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB — $1,356,389 over 8y, 13% of budgetCONCERNED BLACK MEN OF LOS ANGELES INC — $157,500 over 6y, 59% of budgetSUCCESS THROUGH EDUCATION INC — $103,700 over 6y, 57% of budgetVISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES — $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLOLLIPOP THEATER NETWORK INC — $67,500 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetBurn Institute — $65,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetJEFFREY FOUNDATION — $60,500 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetRIDE ON LA RIDE ON THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP — $55,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetLAS FLORISTAS INC — $54,800 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetEXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPACIFIC CLINICS — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPF Bresee Foundation — $50,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE MENIFEE VALLEY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB — $46,779 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetTHE PAINTED TURTLE — $45,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCasa De Amparo — $45,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSpecial Equestrian Riding Therapy — $42,000 over 3y, 57% of budgetChildren Today Inc — $40,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetPEDIATRIC THERAPY NETWORK — $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC — $36,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRESH START SURGICAL GIFTS — $35,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetINGLEWOOD BASEBALL FUND — $30,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSIDES — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF VISTA INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetDISCOVERY ARTS — $30,000 over 3y, 9.9% of budgetSEANY FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budget1979 LEGACY CORP — $25,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetHELP FOR BRAIN INJURED CHILDREN INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetJEWISH BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetA WALK ON WATER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetVILLA ESPERANZA SERVICES — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOptimist Boys' Home and Ranch Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetABILITYFIRST — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY TRUST FUND OF VOLUNTEER LEAGUE OF SAN FERNANDO VALLEY — $20,000 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LOS ANGELES HARBOR — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOPEN MEDICINE FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetJOHN TRACY CLINIC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCENTER4SPECIALNEEDS INC — $12,480 over 1y, 11% of budgetTHE AUTISM COMMUNITY IN ACTION — $11,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHaynes Family of Programs — $10,855 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIDI HIRSCH PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE — $10,060 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWest Valley Boys & Girls Club Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetREACH OUT AND READ INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP DEL CORAZON INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMILK AND BOOKIES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSOCAL TRYKERS CHAPTER OF NATIONAL AMBUCS INC — $8,348 over 1y, 13% of budgetONE WITH THE WATER — $6,050 over 1y, 2.0% 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.

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.

Henry L Guenther Foun…The Green FoundationCalifornia Community …The Ahmanson Foundati…The Rose Hills Founda…The Ralph M Parsons F…Sempra FoundationCarl E Wynn FoundationLon V Smith FoundationThe Kenneth T and Eil…Pasadena Community Fo…Orange County Communi…
Henry L Guenther FoundationCA25.9× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Henry L Guenther Foundation · The Green Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Carl E Wynn Foundation · Lon V Smith Foundation · The Kenneth T and Eileen L Norris Foundation · Pasadena Community Foundation · Orange County Community 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 Variety - the Childrens Charity of Southern California Tent 25 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 58 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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