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Whitney Young Childrens Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k22 grants · $105k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $51k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES | $16,250 |
| THE POSSE FOUNDATION LOS ANGELES | $15,000 |
| NATIONAL CHARITY LEAGUE PENNISULA CHAPTER | $10,000 |
| AQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC | $10,000 |
| HARBOR INTERFAITH SERVICES INC | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| LAS FLORISTAS | $6,800 |
| MY FRIEND'S PLACE | $5,000 |
| MANES FOR MOVEMENT | $5,000 |
| PROVIDENCE LITTLE COMPANY OF MARY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| KAT6 FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| THE SUNSHINE KIDS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| RAINBOW SERVICES | $5,000 |
| WE ARE BRAVE TOGETHER | $5,000 |
| SHAREFEST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $125k) 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Whitney Young Childrens Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 93% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 85% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
39 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CHChildren's Hospital Los Angeles8× · 2017–2024 · $117k · revenue +78%
- AOAQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC CORPORATION8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +50%
- NCNATIONAL CHARITY LEAGUE INC PENINSULA CHAPTER6× · 2017–2022 · $60k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- UPUSA PATRIOTS VETERAN ATHLETICSone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +22%
- HHHELPING HANDS - MONKEY HELPERSone grant, 2021 · $10k
- TVTHE VOLUNTEER CENTER- FOOD FOR KIDSone grant, 2017 · $8k
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.
To ensure that children with complex health care needs have access to timely and high quality medical care, and that pediatric specialists are able to thrive in californias health care
The la conservation corps creates equitable opportunities for young people to build resilience in themselves, their communities and the environment through a program of work, education and support.
MISSION: Autism Society of Los Angeles (ASLA) will empower individuals with Autism and other disabilities, their families, and professionals through advocacy, education and community support to ensure an equitable quality of life for all.…
Chamber's mission: design and advance opportunities and solutions for a thriving regional economy that are inclusive and globally competitive. 1) advocacy - be a bold advocate for business as a driver of a strong economy that enables…
To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. we work with public school systems, establishing relationship with superintendents, principals, educators, and community partners to…
Children's law center of california (clc) provides legal representation for children and youth impacted by abuse and neglect. we advocate for our clients by supporting families; fighting for reunification, permanence, educational…
The league of california community foundations promotes and strengthens community foundations in california. through collaboration and shared learning among member foundations and building partnerships with private and public entities, we…
To improve the quality of life for the diverse communities we serve providing affordable and comprehensive healthcare and education in a welcoming multi-cultural environment.
Our mission is to advance the well-being of children, promote access to high quality pediatric health care, and ensure the long-term viability of childrens hospitals.
Spcala is dedicated to the prevention of cruelty to animals through education, law enforcement, intervention and advocacy.
To improve and enrich the community of southern california through its support of children's hospital los angeles (chla) and the hospital's medical research or other charitable and philanthropic enterprises as determined by its membership.
We are committed to breaking the cycle of poverty and creating programs that drive change. by addressing students' basic needs, including food, housing, utilities, transportation, and healthcare, we enable low-income students to enroll,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Los Angeles Challenge Corporation and the most unlike its peers is We Are Brave Together. 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 36 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
32 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. 32 of the 50 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 Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds AQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CHARITY LEAGUE INC PENINSULA CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds PEDIATRIC THERAPY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds HARBOR INTERFAITH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Sharefest Community Development Inc ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES CHALLENGE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds RAINBOW SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE KAT6 FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LAS FLORISTAS INC ↗
- Who funds We Are Brave Together ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS FOR PEDIATRIC VISION ↗
- Who funds JOURNEY OUT ↗
- Who funds Manes for Movement Inc ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA COMMITTEE FOR THE LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds South Bay Families Connected ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE LITTLE COMPANY OF MARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INNER-CITY ARTS ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO MESA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA COMMITTEE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds ENVISIONING ACCESS INC ↗
- Who funds A SENSE OF HOME ↗
- Who funds COMFORT ZONE CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds USA PATRIOTS VETERAN ATHLETICS ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER CENTER SOUTH BAY-HARBOR- LONG BEACH ↗
- Who funds NEW IMAGE EMERGENCY SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS 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: The Crail-Johnson Foundation · California Community Foundation · Vistas for Children Inc · Bloomfield Family Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Palos Verdes Junior Women's Club · National Charity League Inc Peninsula Chapter · Lon V Smith Foundation · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Variety - the Childrens Charity of Southern California Tent 25
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 Whitney Young Childrens 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.
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