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Water Buffalo Club Inc Dba We Benefit Children

Wbc is a charitable organization dedicated to fostering the well being of underserved and at-risk children in los angeles through its members' commitment of their time and financial resources.

$374k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$76k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0184% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$571kYouth Development$452kHuman Services$380kHealth$359kRecreation & Sports$222kArts & Culture$103kCommunity Improvement$87kPhilanthropy$46kCivil Rights$23kOther$453k
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 20 grants below total $308,439 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $374,360 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $65,921 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 $10k6 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $188k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $76k
$10,565
Median grant
1
States reached
$536k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAKE GOOD$75,900
READY SET READ - COMMUNITY PARTNERS$30,000
FILM2FUTURE$25,000
HOPE IN A SUITCASE$18,900
PACTL$14,989
WHY CAN'T WE MAKE A DIFFERENCE$14,200
OFF THE WALL GRAFFITI$12,537
LEND A EAR$10,920
GET LIT$10,750
PICO YOUTH & FAMILY CENTER$10,565
VOLUNTEER LEAGUE OF SFV$10,500
ARTS BRIDGING THE GAP$10,000
GIVING A SMILE$10,000
VARIETY BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB$10,000
UNITED VOICES OF LITERACY$9,824
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, $380k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION: $50k → 17%FOR GOODNESS CAKES: $9k → 14%FOR GOODNESS CAKES: $5k → 14%HOPE IN A SUITCASE: $57k → 14%HOPE IN A SUITCASE: $40k → 14%HOPE IN A SUITCASE: $19k → 14%HOPE IN A SUITCASE: $13k → 14%HOPE IN A SUITCASE: $7k → 14%WE SPARK CANCER SUPPORT CENTE: $9k → 14%WE SPARK CANCER SUPPORT CENTE: $5k → 14%WHY CAN'T WE MAKE A DIFFERENCE: $27k → 14%WHY CAN'T WE MAKE A DIFFERENCE FOUNDATION: $19k → 14%WHY CANT WE MAKE A DIFFERENCE FOUNDATION: $16k → 14%WHY CAN'T WE MAKE A DIFFERENCE: $14k → 14%YWCA PASADENA - FOOTHILL VALLEY: $15k → 14%HANDS FOR HOPE: $23k → 14%YWCA PASADENA - FOOTHILL VALLEY: $10k → 14%HANDS FOR HOPE: $11k → 14%CHILDREN'S MUSIC FUND: $16k → 14%PACTL: $15k → 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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.9M · 25 repeat orgs$751k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +83% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

25 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
40

Total granted

$1.9M
$655k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+83%
+24%

Still filing today

84%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $96k 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
Youth DevelopmentEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • AB
    ACCESS BOOKS
    7× · 2017–2023 · $382k · revenue +92%
  • MG
    MAKE GOOD INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $329k · revenue +87%
  • F
    FILM2FUTURE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $192k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • TJ
    THE JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +164%
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR LEARNING ATHLETICS AND GROWTH
    one grant, 2023 · $33k · revenue +5% · 27% of their budget
  • CH
    CITY HEARTS KIDS SAY YES TO THE ARTS LA FRINGE THEATRE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $28k · revenue +41%

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
J3 Foundation
Education
3
Inner-City Arts

Inner-city arts believes that the arts and creativity are transformational, and we envision a society that honors the human capacity for creativity, and values its cultivation in the education of young people. inner-city arts uses arts…

Arts & Culture
4
Los Angeles Team Mentoring Inc

Los Angeles Team Mentorings (LATM) mission is to guide middle school students growing up in challenging urban environments to recognize and reach their full potential. See Schedule O for more details.

Youth Development
5
Legacy La Youth Development Corp

To make positive interventions in the lives of young people by offering alternatives to gangs and violence. legacy la builds the capacity of youth to reach their full potential and equips them with tools to transform their lives and…

Crime & Legal
6
Life Pieces to Masterpieces

Life pieces to masterpieces (lptm) is dedicated to the creative, academic, social-emotional, physical, and citizenship development of black boys and young men living in washington d.c.'s underserved 7th and 8th wards. founded in 1996, lptm…

Arts & Culture
7
Urban Compass

Urban Compass provides a safe, welcoming, and innovative environment that challenges our youth to envision and navigate a course for a rewarding future characterized by achievement, independent thought, and social responsibility through…

Youth Development
8
Western Avenue Community Action Inc

Provide resources, education and services to the underserved African-American youth population in Los Angeles.

Community Improvement
9
Da Vinci Schools La County

Da Vinci Schools: LA County consists of a public charter school, RISE High, which exists to provide our students an individualized education through the coalescence of their personal and professional goals, their interests, and the…

Education
10
Street Poets Inc

Street poets, inc. is an arts education violence prevention program for system-impacted youth and young adults in the probation facilities and under-served school communities of los angeles county (and occasionally beyond). the program is…

Education
11
Boys 2 Gentlemen Leadership Inc

Boys 2 Gentlemen Leadership, Inc.'s mission is to deliver a continuum of prevention, assessment, intervention, and treatment to at-risk boys/girls by assisting in cultivating new dreams. We will empower them to create a roadmap to make…

Human Services
12
To Much Talent

Working with families and youth to create pathway out of poverty.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Phenomenal Angels of the Community and the most unlike its peers is You Run This Town Foundation. 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 17 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%5%<5yr16%16%5–10yr20%33%10–20yr17%32%20–35yr10%6%35–55yr12%8%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%2%<5yr16%14%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr17%56%20–35yr10%4%35–55yr12%7%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%2/70
the rest of the field
16%
7,865/49,746

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

61 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. 61 of the 75 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)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/61
Grantees still filing
43/61
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ACCESS BOOKS — $382,017 · EducationACCESS BOOKSREADING TO KIDS — $45,000 · EducationREADING TO KIDSEDUCATING STUDENTS TOGETHER INC — $27,997 · EducationLOS ANGELES METROPOLITAN DEBATE COMMISSION — $22,000 · Education+8 more — $94,126 · Education+8 moreFILM2FUTURE — $191,500 · Youth DevelopmentFILM2FUTUREJ TECH INSTITUTE INC — $54,000 · Youth DevelopmentJ TECH INSTITUTE I…FOUNDATION FOR LEARNING ATHLETICS AND GROWTH — $33,000 · Youth DevelopmentFOUNDATION FOR LEA…CITY HEARTS KIDS SAY YES TO THE ARTS LA FRINGE THEATRE INC — $28,025 · Youth DevelopmentCITY HEARTS KIDS S…Urban Scholar Academy — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentUrban Scholar Acad…PICO YOUTH & FAMILY CENTER — $22,465 · Youth DevelopmentONCE UPON A ROOM INC — $20,000 · Youth Development40 LOVE FOUNDATION — $19,398 · Youth Development+5 more — $58,234 · Youth Development+5 moreCOMMUNITY TRUST FUND OF VOLUNTEER LEAGUE OF SAN FERNANDO VALLEY — $99,300 · OtherCOMMUNITY TRUST FUND OF V…STEAM CODERS — $58,175 · OtherSTEAM CODERSNATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION INC — $54,500 · OtherNATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION …OFF THE WALL GRAFFITI FOUNDATION — $42,537 · OtherOFF THE WALL GRAFFITI FOU…Individual grant recipient — $26,622 · OtherRAINBOW PACK — $21,842 · OtherCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $71,197 · OtherCOMMUNITY PARTNERSFOUNDATION FOR LIBERTY AND AMERICAN GREATNESS — $22,500 · Other+19 more — $211,075 · Other+19 moreHOPE IN A SUITCASE — $135,751 · Human ServicesHOPE IN A SUITC…Why Cant We Make A Difference — $76,586 · Human ServicesWhy Cant We Mak…THE JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Human ServicesTHE JOE TORRE S…HANDS FOR HOPE — $34,400 · Human ServicesHANDS FOR HOPEPASADENA - FOOTHILL VALLEY YWCA — $24,500 · Human ServicesPASADENA - FOOT…CHILDRENS MUSIC FUND — $15,785 · Human ServicesPASADENA ALTADENA COALITION OF TRANSFORMATIVE LEAD — $14,989 · Human ServicesFOR GOODNESS CAKES — $14,166 · Human ServicesWESPARK INC — $14,010 · Human ServicesMAKE GOOD INC — $328,747 · HealthMAKE GOOD INCORTHOPAEDIC INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION — $20,000 · HealthORTHOPAEDIC INS…+1 more — $10,000 · HealthTHE LOS ANGELES DODGERS FOUNDATION — $172,589 · Recreation & SportsTHE LOS A…AMERICA SCORES LA — $23,468 · Recreation & SportsAMERICA S…A CHANCE FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC — $17,500 · Recreation & SportsA CHANCE …SLOANE STEPHENS FOUNDATION INC — $8,000 · Recreation & SportsDANCE AND DIALOGUE — $24,000 · Arts & CultureINNER CITY YOUTH ORCHRSTRA OF LOS ANGELES INC — $23,054 · Arts & Culture1111 A CREATIVE COLLECTIVE — $14,172 · Arts & CulturePIECE BY PIECE — $11,000 · Arts & CultureGET LIT - WORDS IGNITE INC — $10,750 · Arts & CultureFERNANDO PULLUM COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER — $10,258 · Arts & CultureARTS BRIDGING THE GAP — $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$571,140Youth Development$451,622Other$607,748Human Services$380,187Health$358,747Recreation & Sports$221,557Arts & Culture$103,234

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 budgetACCESS BOOKS — $382,017 over 7y, 17% of budgetMAKE GOOD INC — $328,747 over 5y, 15% of budgetFILM2FUTURE — $191,500 over 5y, 11% of budgetTHE LOS ANGELES DODGERS FOUNDATION — $172,589 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHOPE IN A SUITCASE — $135,751 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY TRUST FUND OF VOLUNTEER LEAGUE OF SAN FERNANDO VALLEY — $99,300 over 6y, 14% of budgetWhy Cant We Make A Difference — $76,586 over 4y, 9.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $71,197 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION INC — $54,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetJ TECH INSTITUTE INC — $54,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetTHE JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetREADING TO KIDS — $45,000 over 4y, 8.0% of budgetHANDS FOR HOPE — $34,400 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR LEARNING ATHLETICS AND GROWTH — $33,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetCITY HEARTS KIDS SAY YES TO THE ARTS LA FRINGE THEATRE INC — $28,025 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetEDUCATING STUDENTS TOGETHER INC — $27,997 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetUrban Scholar Academy — $25,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetPASADENA - FOOTHILL VALLEY YWCA — $24,500 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetDANCE AND DIALOGUE — $24,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetAMERICA SCORES LA — $23,468 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetINNER CITY YOUTH ORCHRSTRA OF LOS ANGELES INC — $23,054 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR LIBERTY AND AMERICAN GREATNESS — $22,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetPICO YOUTH & FAMILY CENTER — $22,465 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetLOS ANGELES METROPOLITAN DEBATE COMMISSION — $22,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetORTHOPAEDIC INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetONCE UPON A ROOM INC — $20,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budget40 LOVE FOUNDATION — $19,398 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetCROSSROADS SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND SCIENCES — $18,375 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMPOWHER INSTITUTE INC — $18,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetAWOKE — $18,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetA CHANCE FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC — $17,500 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetCHILDRENS MUSIC FUND — $15,785 over 1y, 63% of budgetSHEROS RISE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 15% of budget1111 A CREATIVE COLLECTIVE — $14,172 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetFOR GOODNESS CAKES — $14,166 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetWESPARK INC — $14,010 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHE BOOK TRUCK INC — $13,725 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetWorthy Beyond Purpose Inc — $13,487 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetCITY LACROSSE — $13,100 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetPrinciples of Success Motivational Programs — $12,745 over 1y, 39% of budgetPS I Love You Foundation — $12,500 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetPIECE BY PIECE — $11,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetGET LIT - WORDS IGNITE INC — $10,750 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFERNANDO PULLUM COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER — $10,258 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetARTS BRIDGING THE GAP — $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetGIVING A SMILE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetVARIETY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDEBBIE ALLEN DANCE INC DEBBIE ALLEN DANCE ACADEMY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

California Community …The Ralph M Parsons F…The Ahmanson Foundati…Sempra FoundationMuskin Family Foundat…Perenchio FoundationJewish Community Foun…Women Helping YouthFrieda C Fox Family F…Joseph Drown Foundati…Elbridge Stuart Found…Community Partners
California Community FoundationCA36.4× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Muskin Family Foundation · Perenchio Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Women Helping Youth · Frieda C Fox Family Foundation · Joseph Drown Foundation · Elbridge Stuart Foundation Dba Stuart Foundation · Community Partners

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 Water Buffalo Club Inc Dba We Benefit Children 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 · 20%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Water Buffalo Club Inc Dba We Benefit Children?

    Find your warmest path to Water Buffalo Club Inc Dba We Benefit Children 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 75 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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