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Wes Schaefer and Cathy King Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Wes Schaefer and Cathy King Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$7k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$3k
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, FY2021 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$42kAnimals$11kEducation$3kPublic Safety & Disaster$1kFood & Nutrition$1kRecreation & Sports$400
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$672
Median grant
2
States reached
$4k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CAVALIER RESCUE: $1k → 15%SAFE RESCUE TEAM: $500 → 10%NO STRAY LEFT BEHIND: $1k → 14%ROAR FOUNDATION: $500 → 14%C-CAP CULINARY ARTS CORP: $1k → 17%WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN: $1k → 14%BAY VIEW ACADEMY: $3k → 14%CAVALIER RESCUE: $500 → 15%OUR FAMILY PAWS RESCUE: $300 → 10%NO STRAY LEFT BEHIND: $500 → 14%AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE: $3k → 14%OUR FAMILY PAWS RESCUE: $200 → 10%NO STRAY LEFT BEHIND: $300 → 14%AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE: $3k → 14%AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE: $2k → 14%AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE: $250 → 14%THE MUSIC CENTER: $3k → 14%THE MUSIC CENTER: $3k → 14%THE MUSIC CENTER: $3k → 14%THE MUSIC CENTER: $3k → 14%LA ANIMAL SERVICES: $1k → 14%LA ANIMAL SERVICES: $741 → 14%LA ANIMAL SERVICES: $672 → 14%RAGS TO WAGS: $250 → 14%CONCERNED CITIZENS ANIMAL RESCUE: $1k → 14%PASADENA PLAYHOUSE: $3k → 14%GARY MARSHALL THEATRE: $6k → 14%GARY MARSHALL THEATRE: $5k → 14%GARY MARSHALL THEATRE: $5k → 14%GARY MARSHALL THEATRE: $2k → 14%THE RESCUE TRAIN: $1k → 14%SAVE A KITTY INC: $250 → 14%GARY MARSHALL THEATRE: $2k → 14%Library Foundation Los Angeles: $786 → 14%AMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE: $3k → 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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$44k · 7 repeat orgs$16k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
14

Total granted

$44k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+22%

Still filing today

43%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $786 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsArts & CultureInternationalEducationOther
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

  • TG
    THE GARRY MARSHALL THEATRE
    5× · 2021–2025 · $19k · revenue -14%
  • TM
    THE MUSIC CENTER
    4× · 2022–2025 · $12k
  • TA
    THE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE
    4× · 2022–2025 · $7k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • TP
    THE PASADENA PLAYHOUSE STATE THEATRE OF CALIFORNIA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +109%
  • BV
    BAY VIEW ACADEMY
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
  • AC
    AMERICAN CINEMATHEQUEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +88%
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
Kitten Around Cat Rescue
Animals
2
J-Lo's Animal Rescue & Sanctuary in

Animal care and rescue

Animals
3
The Adoptable Dog
Animals
4
Donna's Love Pet Rescue
Animals
5
Soulas Way Animal 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…

Animals
6
Cats At the Studios Inc

Cat rescue spay/ nueter

Animals
7
Raskels Rescue
Animals
8
Global Canine and Feline Rescue Association Inc

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…

Animals
9
Safe At Last Animal Rescue Inc
Animals
10
All About Animals Rescue Inc

Rescue and rehome homeless cats and dogs

Animals
11
Care Rescue La

Animal rescue

Public Safety & Disaster
12
Shelters and Shelves Rescue Inc

foster based dog rescue working with shelters to save dogs

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Rescue Train; 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.
04the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE GARRY MARSHALL THEATRE: $19,139 · Arts & CultureTHE GARRY MARSHALL THEATRETHE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE: $6,750 · Arts & CultureTHE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTETHE PASADENA PLAYHOUSE STATE THEATRE OF CALIFORNIA INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureTHE PASADENA PLAYHOUSE STATE THEATRE OF CALIFORNIA INCAMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE: $2,500 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN CINEMATHEQUETHE MUSIC CENTER: $11,500 · OtherTHE MUSIC CENTERBAY VIEW ACADEMY: $2,500 · OtherBAY VIEW ACADEMYLA ANIMAL SERVICES: $2,498 · OtherLA ANIMAL SERVICESIndividual grant recipient: $1,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBARKEE LAROUX ANIMAL SHELTER: $1,000 · OtherC-CAP CULINARY ARTS CORP: $1,000 · Other+4 more: $1,650 · Other+4 moreNo Stray Left Behind: $1,800 · AnimalsNo Stray …Concerned Citizens Animal Rescue Inc: $1,000 · AnimalsConcerned…THE RESCUE TRAIN: $1,000 · AnimalsTHE RESCU…ROAR FOUNDATION: $500 · AnimalsROAR FOUN…Safe Rescue Team: $500 · AnimalsSafe Resc…SAVE A KITTY INC: $250 · AnimalsWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $1,000 · InternationalTHE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES: $786 · Education
Arts & Culture$30,889Other$21,648Animals$5,050International$1,000Education$786

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 budgetTHE GARRY MARSHALL THEATRE: $19,139 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetTHE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE: $6,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PASADENA PLAYHOUSE STATE THEATRE OF CALIFORNIA INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNo Stray Left Behind: $1,800 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetConcerned Citizens Animal Rescue Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE RESCUE TRAIN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES: $786 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROAR FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSafe Rescue Team: $500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSAVE A KITTY INC: $250 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Kayne Anderson Capita…Charities Aid Foundat…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors FoundationCA13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Wes Schaefer and Cathy King Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wes Schaefer and Cathy King Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 22 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-PF 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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