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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$674kHuman Services$592kYouth Development$576kHealth$357kPhilanthropy$150kArts & Culture$145kCommunity Improvement$72kRecreation & Sports$58kOther$0
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 20 grants below total $308,439, the rows itemized in this filing. The $374,360 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $65,921 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 · 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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its 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
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +83% since the first grant, against +36% for those 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%
+36%

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
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

  • 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%
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
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Phenomenal Angels of the Community; 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.
04the grantee network

61 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. 61 of the 75 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)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/61
Grantees still filing
43/61
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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 budgetONCE UPON A ROOM INC: $20,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetORTHOPAEDIC INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budget40 LOVE FOUNDATION: $19,398 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetCROSSROADS SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND SCIENCES: $18,375 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAWOKE: $18,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetEMPOWHER INSTITUTE INC: $18,000 over 2y, 3.7% 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 budgetGIVING A SMILE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetVARIETY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetARTS BRIDGING THE GAP: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetDEBBIE ALLEN DANCE INC DEBBIE ALLEN DANCE ACADEMY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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

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 Water Buffalo Club Inc Dba We Benefit Children funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Water Buffalo Club Inc Dba We Benefit Children. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%8%17%30%funder's 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
    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.
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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 75 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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