· Private foundation
Wes Schaefer and Cathy King Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE MUSIC CENTER | $3,000 |
| GARY MARSHALL THEATRE | $1,626 |
| Library Foundation Los Angeles | $786 |
| LA ANIMAL SERVICES | $672 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| NO STRAY LEFT BEHIND | $300 |
| AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE | $250 |
| OUR FAMILY PAWS RESCUE | $200 |
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 (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% 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.
7 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $786 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
- TGTHE GARRY MARSHALL THEATRE5× · 2021–2025 · $19k · revenue -14%
- TMTHE MUSIC CENTER4× · 2022–2025 · $12k
- TATHE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE4× · 2022–2025 · $7k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- BVBAY VIEW ACADEMYone grant, 2022 · $3k
- TPTHE PASADENA PLAYHOUSE STATE THEATRE OF CALIFORNIA INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +109%
- ACAMERICAN CINEMATHEQUEgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +88%
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.
Animal care and rescue
To rescue animals, with last chances at local, Southern California animal shelters. Once rescued, we rehabilitate the animals to make for a smoother transition to their forever homes. We strive to connect the animals we rescue with the…
Cat rescue spay/ nueter
We rescue cats and dogs suffered on the street and in endangered locations in both new york and china. the mission of our no-kill shelter is to provide stray cats with safe haven and veterinary care before placing them in forever loving…
Rescue and rehome homeless cats and dogs
Animal rescue
foster based dog rescue working with shelters to save dogs
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Rescue Train and the most unlike its peers is Our Family Paws Rescue Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 22 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 THE GARRY MARSHALL THEATRE ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE PASADENA PLAYHOUSE STATE THEATRE OF CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE ↗
- Who funds No Stray Left Behind ↗
- Who funds Concerned Citizens Animal Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds THE RESCUE TRAIN ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds ROAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OUR FAMILY PAWS RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds Safe Rescue Team ↗
- Who funds SAVE A KITTY INC ↗
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: Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Wes Schaefer and Cathy King Charitable Foundation 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.