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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.

$565k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$170k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Youth Development$1.8MHealth$674kHuman Services$374kRecreation & Sports$180kEducation$134kInternational$55kCommunity Improvement$25kPhilanthropy$20k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $279,738, the rows itemized in this filing. The $565,392 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $285,654 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $83k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $170k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VARIETY BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB$169,583
Concerned Black Men of LA$25,200
CASA DE AMPRO$24,880
SURFER HEALING FOUNDATION$17,850
RIDE ON THERAPEUTIC$15,000
LOLLIPOP THEATER NETWORK$7,500
THE PAINTED TURTLE$7,500
Help for Brain Injured Childr$7,000
HOPES NEST$5,225
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $605k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%VISTA DEL MAR: $25k → 14%VISTA DEL MAR: $25k → 14%CASA DE AMPRO: $25k → 11%CASA DE AMPRO: $15k → 11%VISTA DEL MAR: $25k → 14%1736 FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $10k → 14%CASA DE AMPRO: $15k → 11%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: $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%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%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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.1M · 33 repeat orgs$402k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against -9% for those funded once.

33 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
25

Total granted

$3.1M
$402k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
-9%

Still filing today

82%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsEducationPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +112%
  • CB
    CONCERNED BLACK MEN OF LOS ANGELES INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $183k · 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%
  • AW
    A WALK ON WATER INC
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -10%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
Alliance for Children's Rights

The alliance has improved the lives of more than 178,000 young clients with stability through adoption and legal guardianship, and with access to healthcare, education, and other critical supports, serving over 5,600 children and young…

Unclassified
9
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
10
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
11
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Villa Esperanza Services; 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.
04the grantee network

51 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VARIETY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $1,525,972 · OtherVARIETY BOYS & GIRLS CLUBSUCCESS THROUGH EDUCATION INC: $103,700 · OtherSURFER HEALING FOUNDATION: $87,100 · Other+18 more: $397,528 · Other+18 moreVISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $75,000 · Human ServicesVISTA DEL MAR CHILD…LOLLIPOP THEATER NETWORK INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesLOLLIPOP THEATER NE…RIDE ON LA RIDE ON THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP: $70,000 · Human ServicesRIDE ON LA RIDE ON …Casa De Amparo: $69,880 · Human ServicesCasa De AmparoJEFFREY FOUNDATION: $60,500 · Human ServicesJEFFREY FOUNDATIONEXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Human ServicesEXCEPTIONAL CHILDRE…PACIFIC CLINICS: $50,000 · Human ServicesPACIFIC CLINICSCHILDREN'S BUREAU FOUNDATION: $40,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S BUREAU F…Children Today Inc: $40,000 · Human ServicesChildren Today IncHILLSIDES: $30,000 · Human Services+3 more: $45,000 · Human Services+3 moreCONCERNED BLACK MEN OF LOS ANGELES INC: $182,700 · Youth DevelopmentCONCERNED B…THE PAINTED TURTLE: $52,500 · Youth DevelopmentTHE PAINTED…THE MENIFEE VALLEY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $46,779 · Youth DevelopmentTHE MENIFEE…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…HELP FOR BRAIN INJURED CHILDREN INC: $32,000 · HealthSEANY FOUNDATION: $30,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $30,000 · HealthOPEN MEDICINE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthOptimist Boys' Home and Ranch Inc: $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$2,114,300Human Services$605,380Youth Development$355,888Health$163,915Recreation & Sports$107,550Education$84,800Philanthropy$65,000Community Improvement$25,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVARIETY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $1,525,972 over 9y, 13% of budgetCONCERNED BLACK MEN OF LOS ANGELES INC: $182,700 over 7y, 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: $75,000 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetRIDE ON LA RIDE ON THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP: $70,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetCasa De Amparo: $69,880 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBurn Institute: $65,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetJEFFREY FOUNDATION: $60,500 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetLAS FLORISTAS INC: $54,800 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetTHE PAINTED TURTLE: $52,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetEXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPF Bresee Foundation: $50,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetPACIFIC CLINICS: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MENIFEE VALLEY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $46,779 over 1y, 3.9% 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 budgetHELP FOR BRAIN INJURED CHILDREN INC: $32,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetHILLSIDES: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDISCOVERY ARTS: $30,000 over 3y, 9.9% of budgetSEANY FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetINGLEWOOD BASEBALL FUND: $30,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF VISTA INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetA WALK ON WATER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budget1979 LEGACY CORP: $25,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetJEWISH BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LOS ANGELES HARBOR: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVILLA ESPERANZA SERVICES: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOPEN MEDICINE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetOptimist Boys' Home and Ranch Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY TRUST FUND OF VOLUNTEER LEAGUE OF SAN FERNANDO VALLEY: $20,000 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetABILITYFIRST: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 budgetCAMP DEL CORAZON INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMILK AND BOOKIES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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 budgetLOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Variety - the Childrens Charity of Southern California Tent 25 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Variety - the Childrens Charity of Southern California Tent 25. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 58 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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