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Attias Family Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.0M
Granted FY2020
43
Grants FY2020
6
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of Attias Family Foundation’s FY2021 grant dollars went to California Community Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2021 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Attias Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 35 organizations, $1M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

38
’17
39
’18
32
’19
35
’20
1
’21

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.

Philanthropy$6.8MHealth$634kInternational$353kArts & Culture$280kCivil Rights$275kEducation$271kPublic Benefit$269kReligion$175kOther$0
02FY2020 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k23 grants · $76k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $125k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $825k
$6,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION$125,000
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH$100,000
WOMEN DONORS NETWORK$75,000
J STREET EDUCATION FUND$75,000
DEMOCRACY NOW$75,000
PUBLIC CITIZEN$75,000
UCLA FOUNDATION$50,000
BRAIN & BEHAVIOR RESEARCH FOUNDATION$50,000
KCET LINK MEDIA GROUP$50,000
HEREDITARY DISEASE FOUNDATION$50,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$50,000
GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN$50,000
TYPE MEDIA CENTER$25,000
SKIRBALL CURTURAL CENTER$25,000
CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$25,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–20, $86k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AFGHAN HANDS INC: $3k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $2k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $2k → 17%STEP UP ON SECOND: $13k → 14%STEP UP ON SECOND: $8k → 14%STEP UP ON SECOND: $5k → 14%STEP UP ON SECOND: $5k → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $10k → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $10k → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $8k → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $8k → 14%OPCC: $5k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
MT
NY
CA
VA
MD
AZ
NM
DC
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.3M · 47 repeat orgs$115k to everyone else

47 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2020, 14 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
21

Total granted

$2.3M
$97k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+83%
+110%

Still filing today

89%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21
HealthArts & CultureInternationalHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEducationOther

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

  • NA
    NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION
    4× · 2017–2020 · $300k · revenue +60%
  • JS
    J STREET EDUCATION FUND INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $170k · revenue +40%
  • WD
    WOMEN DONORS NETWORK
    3× · 2017–2020 · $155k · revenue +276%

Funded once

  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +9%
  • VC
    VENTURA COUNT UNITED WAY
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -93%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
2
South Central Family Health Center

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.

Health
3
Latino Media Collaborative

Latino Media Collaborative's mission is to leverage the power of Latino and community news media to impact policy, change narratives, and promote civic engagement, while also supporting advancement of the sector through capacity building,…

Arts & Culture
4
Public Health Institute

Public health institute generates and promotes research, leadership and partnerships to build capacity for strong public health policy, programs, systems and practices.

Health
5
Altamed Health Services Corporation

To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.

Health
6
Los Angeles World Affairs Council and Town Hall

The organization is a non-partisan, membership based speakers' forum that connects business leaders, community members, and engaged individuals with shared interest in local, national, and global affairs. it provides an open and accessible…

International
7
The Anti-Recidivism Coalition

The anti-recidivism coalition (arc) works to end mass incarceration in california. to ensure our communities are safe, healthy, and whole, arc empowers formerly and currently incarcerated people to thrive by providing a support network,…

Crime & Legal
8
California Healthcare Foundation

Chcf is dedicated to advancing meaningful, measurable improvements in the way the health care delivery system provides care to the people of california, particularly those with low incomes and those whose needs are not well served by the…

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9
Alliance for Safety and Justice

Just safe's mission is to educate the public about the needs of communities most impacted by crime, violence, and incarceration; and promote new safety solutions through community-building, leadership development, grassroots mobilization,…

Crime & Legal
10
Beyond Us & Them

To offer programs and training that resource individuals and organizations in self-awareness, self-regulation, effective communication and to promote structures of belonging, utilizing council and other practices, to encourage social…

Human Services
11
Community Medical Centers Inc

The organization provides primary medical, behavior health, and dental care to the population of san joaquin, and solano counties without regard to patients' ability to pay.

Health
12
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Partners and the most unlike its peers is Afghan Hands Inc. 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 34 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr15%2%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr18%38%20–35yr12%25%35–55yr13%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%0%10–20yr18%7%20–35yr12%87%35–55yr13%5%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/64
the rest of the field
14%
11,586/82,936

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.

04the grantee network

63 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. 63 of the 78 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/63
Grantees still filing
51/63
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $5,923,456 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONLIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION — $695,000 · PhilanthropyLIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION+2 more — $163,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION — $300,000 · OtherNATIONAL AL…KCET LINK MEDIA GROUP — $100,000 · OtherKCET LINK M…J STREET EDUCATION FUND INC — $170,000 · OtherJ STREET ED…THE PEOPLE CONCERN — $40,000 · Other+35 more — $298,200 · Other+35 moreHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $200,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $100,000 · InternationalGLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC — $100,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC — $30,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS — $20,000 · International+1 more — $500 · InternationalHUNTINGTON'S DISEASE FOUNDATION — $130,000 · HealthNAMI National — $60,000 · HealthVENICE FAMILY CLINIC — $31,000 · HealthLOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY — $30,600 · HealthFRIENDS OF FSH RESEARCH — $30,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $22,500 · Health+8 more — $31,500 · HealthDEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC — $185,000 · Arts & CultureTYPE MEDIA CENTER INC — $65,000 · Arts & CultureSKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER — $35,000 · Arts & CultureMosaic Multicultural Foundation — $25,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $13,000 · Arts & CultureUCLA FOUNDATION — $250,000 · EducationYOUTH MENTORING CONNECTION — $12,500 · EducationSTREET POETS INC — $10,000 · Education+2 more — $10,500 · EducationPUBLIC CITIZEN INC — $150,000 · Public BenefitSTATE DEMOCRACY PROJECT — $77,500 · Public Benefit
Philanthropy$6,781,456Other$908,200International$450,500Health$335,600Arts & Culture$323,000Education$283,000Public Benefit$227,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $5,923,456 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetLIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION — $695,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION — $300,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $250,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC — $185,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetJ STREET EDUCATION FUND INC — $170,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetWOMEN DONORS NETWORK — $155,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetPUBLIC CITIZEN INC — $150,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetHUNTINGTON'S DISEASE FOUNDATION — $130,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSTATE DEMOCRACY PROJECT — $77,500 over 2y, 21% of budgetTYPE MEDIA CENTER INC — $65,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetNAMI National — $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PEOPLE CONCERN — $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER — $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVENICE FAMILY CLINIC — $31,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY — $30,600 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF FSH RESEARCH — $30,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetSTEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC — $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMosaic Multicultural Foundation — $25,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $22,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetACLU FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRACKING PROJECT INC — $20,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUSTICE IN AGING — $15,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY COALITION FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH MENTORING CONNECTION — $12,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSTREET POETS INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNAMI California — $8,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES — $8,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA PHYSICIAN ALLIANC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTS FOR HEALING AND JUSTICE NETWORK — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTIA CHUCHA'S CENTRO CULTURAL INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetA NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SANTA MONICA COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVENICE COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION — $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

California Community …The Ralph M Parsons F…Liberty Hill Foundati…The Annenberg Foundat…The Ahmanson Foundati…The California Endowm…Tides FoundationKaiser Foundation Hos…The California Wellne…Jewish Community Foun…The Deutsch FoundationThe Green Foundation
California Community FoundationCA33.9× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The California Endowment · Tides Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The California Wellness Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Deutsch Foundation · The Green Foundation

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 Attias Family 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Attias Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Attias Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 78 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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