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Ymi Foundation at a glance

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Ymi Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $970k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$100,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$31M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC DBA DAFGIVING360$500,000
CHILDRENS HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES$200,000
CARTER S FOUNDATION INC$200,000
TOGETHER WE RISE CORPORATION$100,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY RIVERSIDE INC$100,000
ECHO PARK SILVERLAKE PEOPLES CHILD CARE CENTER$100,000
WILD EARTH ALLIES INC$100,000
COALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS$100,000
ABILITYFIRST$70,000
TIME FOR CHANGE FOUNDATION$25,000
02The need
02

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $170k) 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%ECHO PARK SILVERLAKE PEOPLES CHILD CARE CENTER: $100k → 14%ABILITYFIRST: $70k → 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 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
California Housing Partner Corporation

The California Housing Partnership Corporation creates and preserves affordable and sustainable homes for Californians with low incomes by providing expert financial and policy solutions to nonprofit and public partners.

Unclassified
2
Transformca dba Transform

Transform works to ensure that people of all incomes thrive in a world safe from climate chaos.

Community Improvement
3
Childrens House International

Children's house international provides ethical adoption services, child focused recruitment, and family support. we support disadvantaged children with humanitarian aid in countries worldwide.

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4
Children At Risk

Children At Risk (C@R) is a statewide nonprofit organization whose mission is to serve as a catalyst for change to improve the quality of life for children through strategic research, public policy analysis, education, collaboration, and…

Crime & Legal
5
West Hollywood Community Housing Corp

The organization develops and operates high quality affordable housing and provides resident services for low-income families, seniors and people with special needs.

Housing & Shelter
6
Climate Access Fund Corporation

The Climate Access Fund develops and finances community solar products that serve low to moderate income households

Environment
7
The Alliance for Collective Action

The Alliance for Collective Action convenes leaders of environmental and social movements to advance solutions for a thriving planet. We advance our mission through the Alliance Center building and community, as well as through Collective…

Environment
8
Human Services Association

The principal mission of Human Services Association is to provide families with compassionate and comprehensive care to promote wellness and build strong communities.

Human Services
9
California Alliance of Caregivers

California Alliance of Caregivers represents the voices of relative and non-relative caregivers to promote the well-being of children in foster care. California Alliance of Caregivers provides training information support and advocacy for…

Health
10
Advokids

Protecting and promoting the right of every child in foster care in California to safety, security, and a permanent home. Teaching others how to advocate for safety, security, and permanency for children in foster care.

Unclassified
11
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
12
California Child Care Resource and Referral Network

To advance and advocate for an equitable early childhood support system for all California families by working at the intersection of research, programs, and policy in partnership with member Child Care Resource & Referral agencies (R&Rs)…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Abilityfirst; the most unlike its peers is Echo Park Silverlake Peoples. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

10 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.

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

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
2/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $500,000 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INCCARTERS FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 · HealthCARTERS FOUNDATION INCChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $200,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Los Angele…Echo Park Silverlake Peoples: $100,000 · Human ServicesEcho Park Si…ABILITYFIRST: $70,000 · Human ServicesABILITYFIRSTHABITAT FOR HUMANITY RIVERSIDE INC: $100,000 · OtherHABITAT F…Time For Change Foundation: $25,000 · OtherTime For …TOGETHER WE RISE: $100,000 · Recreation & SportsWild Earth Allies Inc: $100,000 · EnvironmentCOALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS: $100,000 · Civil Rights
Philanthropy$500,000Health$400,000Human Services$170,000Other$125,000Recreation & Sports$100,000Environment$100,000Civil Rights$100,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARTERS FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 1y, 74% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY RIVERSIDE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetWild Earth Allies Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCOALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTime For Change Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ymi Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ymi Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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 10 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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