The Discovery Land Company Foundation
Beverly Hills, CA · EIN 20-4420241. Reported 51 grants totalling $6,944,306 to 35 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For The Discovery Land Company Foundation, the IRS classifies it as a public foundation -- a grantmaker that raises its money from many sources rather than from one donor (NTEE T30).
- How spread out its giving is. 35 distinct organizations, with 60% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
- How much its list changes. 60% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 56% median for grantmaking charities -- lower than the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $25,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $55,000; the smallest was $7,000 and the largest $1,900,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Global Emergency Relief Recovery and Reconstruction | Boyce, VA | $4,188,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Direct Relief | Santa Barbara, CA | $1,230,999 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Arrington Volunteer Fire Department | Arrington, TN | $220,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of America | Atlanta, GA | $216,840 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Childrens Village Foundation Inc | Coeur D Alene, ID | $153,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| North East Community Center Inc | Millerton, NY | $120,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Operation Safe House Inc | Riverside, CA | $105,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| BABY2BABY | Los Angeles, CA | $97,600 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Canopy Village Inc | Coeur D Alene, ID | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Selfless Love Foundation Inc | Jupiter, FL | $54,220 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Boomer Esiason Foundation | New York, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc | Lxhtchee Grvs, FL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Henderson Co Hendersonville Inc | Hendersonvlle, NC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Childrens Hospital Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Coachella Valley Rescue Mission | Indio, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Family Reach Foundation | Boston, MA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Friends of the Environment Inc | Delray Beach, FL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Imua Family Services | Kahului, HI | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Shelter From the Storm Inc | Palm Desert, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Martin County Inc | Hobe Sound, FL | $23,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Hawaiian Lifeguard Association | Kapaa, HI | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Maui Food Bank Inc | Wailuku, HI | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hawaii Community Foundation | Honolulu, HI | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Coachella Valley | Palm Desert, CA | $14,647 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Fosterclub | Seaside, OR | $14,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Maui Adult Baseball League | Wailuku, HI | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement | Kapolei, HI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Food in Need of Distribution Inc | Indio, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Heart of the Hamptons | Southampton, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| International Community Foundation | National City, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Jesus House of Hope Inc | Stuart, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Maui United Way Inc | Kahului, HI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee Inc | Nashville, TN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Three Square | Las Vegas, NV | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
9 of 35 (26%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Global Emergency Relief Recovery and Rec
ABACO RELIEF-VULNERABLE HOUSING REHABILITATION & CAPACITY BUILDING PHASE IV - Global Emergency Relief Recovery and Reconstruction
ABACO RELIEF-GRANTS TO REPAIR HOMES IN ABACO - Direct Relief
ABACO RELIEF-SUPPORT FOR GUANA CAY CLINIC - Arrington Volunteer Fire Department
THIS GRANT WAS TO IMPROVE AND EXPAND THE CAPABILITIES OF THE ARRINGTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT, AND WITH NEW EQUIPMENT TO PROVIDE A MORE EFFICIENT, CAPABLE, AND ACCURATE RESPONSE TO CALLS FOR THE CITIZENS OF WILLIAMSON COUNTY - Children's Village Inc
CHILDRENS PROGRAM AND SUPPORT - Childrens Villagecanopy Village
FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER WRAP AROUND SERVICES
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 33 of 35 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 8 | $507,000 | $27,500 |
| 2022 | 10 | $1,911,781 | $27,500 |
| 2023 | 23 | $2,269,358 | $20,000 |
| 2024 | 10 | $2,256,167 | $37,960 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
60% of its giving went to organizations in Virginia. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
Down to the city
Foundations that fund only organizations they pick gave to this one
16 private foundations that told the IRS they contribute only to organizations they select themselves reported 26 grants totalling $667,750 to The Discovery Land Company Foundation. That is 42% of the 38 funders we can see giving to it. Those 16 foundations do not take unsolicited requests -- their own returns say so. The IRS classifies this organization as a grantmaking organization.
6 of them gave in more than one tax year, which is the only durability signal the filings carry.
What that does not mean. It does not mean an application here reaches that money. A grant from a closed foundation is often a designated gift or a donor-advised fund earmarked by whoever gave it, and has nothing to do with any open programme this organization runs. Neither tax return says which, so neither do we. The list below is who put money in. It is not a route to it.
| Foundation | State | Reported | Grants | Years | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Randall Family Foundation | California | $200,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Mackesy Family Foundation | New York | $115,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Ryan and Ashley Smith Foundation | Utah | $80,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Weintraub Family Foundation | California | $56,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Doris & Stanley Tananbaum Foundation | New York | $45,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Harman Family Foundation | California | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Rogers Family Charitable Trust | California | $34,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Jp's Peace Love & Happiness Foundation | Delaware | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sachs Family Foundation | New York | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Marc and Diane Spilker Foundation | New York | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
The 10 largest by reported dollars, of 16.
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Both the count and the total are floors. A foundation appears here only where its return named this organization clearly enough for us to match the name to an EIN, which we manage for about two thirds of 990-PF grant rows. There are more; we cannot name them.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $25,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Virginia.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from The Discovery Land Company Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 10 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 257 North Canon Drive Third Floor, Beverly Hills, CA, 90210.
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