· Private foundation
Appel Family 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k26 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UCLA Foundation | $50,000 |
| Jay Schapira Med Foundation | $25,000 |
| Jewish Federation | $15,000 |
| UCLA Medical Hospitality Fund | $14,500 |
| Los Angeles Giving Circle | $7,614 |
| Concern Foundation | $7,500 |
| American Friends of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra | $5,000 |
| City of Hope | $5,000 |
| American Jewish University | $5,000 |
| American Committe for Weizmann Institue of Science | $5,000 |
| Determined to Succeed | $4,347 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| Doctors without Borders | $2,500 |
| World Central Kitchen | $2,000 |
| Planned Parenthood Los Angeles | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
51 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 10 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CFCONCERN FOUNDATION8× · 2018–2025 · $41k · revenue +9%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC6× · 2017–2025 · $10k · revenue +98%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC3× · 2021–2025 · $8k · revenue +167%
Funded once
- PJPATRICK JOHNSON MD SPINE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $15k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $5k
- UJUCLA JONSSON CANCER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $3k
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.
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.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.
Educational & charitable. to provide legal and scientific information to public interest attorneys and scientists in numerous countries.
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
Women donors network advances a just, equitable, and sustainable world through the power of philanthropy, women's leadership, and collective and individual action.
How this is measured
94 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. 94 of the 164 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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- Who funds Determined to Succeed ↗
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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.
Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · David & Sylvia Weisz Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · The Crail-Johnson Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · Tides Foundation · The Intuit Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Appel Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Appel Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- Bnos Esther Malka Inc: 2% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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