· Private foundation
Audrey & Sydney Irmas Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k30 grants · $144k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $365k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $226k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LA FAMILY HOUSING | $101,000 |
| BET TZEDEK | $75,000 |
| JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE | $50,000 |
| THE MAPLE COUNSELING CENTER | $30,000 |
| HAND IN HAND | $25,000 |
| LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK | $25,000 |
| WAGS AND WALKS | $25,000 |
| OKIZU FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| SHERIFF'S YOUTH FOUNDATION | $24,000 |
| MOCA | $22,500 |
| WRIGHT INSTITUTE LOS ANGELES | $22,000 |
| HEART OF LOS ANGELES (HOLA) | $21,000 |
| STRIVE | $20,000 |
| HOLLYWOOD FOOD COALITION | $20,000 |
| BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE | $20,000 |
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, $346k) 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.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
95 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2024, 53 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k 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
- LFLA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION8× · 2017–2024 · $893k · revenue +293%
BARD COLLEGE7× · 2017–2023 · $750k · revenue +256%- BTBET TZEDEK7× · 2017–2024 · $400k · revenue +123%
Funded once
- HMHAMMERT MUSEUMone grant, 2018 · $425k
ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +34%- HYHelpline Youth Counseling Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +46%
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.
Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
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.
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…
Arts for la leads communities, artists and organizations to advocate for an equitable, healthy, and creative los angeles region through the arts.
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 serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…
South central los angeles regional center, (sclarc), believes special needs deserve special attention. we are committed to the provision of culturally sensitive services which enhance the inherent strengths of the family and enable…
Community organizing, education, advocacy, leadership development, direct services and organizational development for communities faced with immense poverty.
The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…
Eisner health is a quality-focused, federally qualified nonprofit community health center dedicated to improving the physical, social, and emotional well-being of people in the communities we serve, regardless of income.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Dental Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Laurel Foundation. 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 33 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
141 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. 141 of the 188 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 ARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SHERIFFS YOUTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BET TZEDEK ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ANGEL FOOD ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds HAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA ↗
- Who funds THE MAPLE COUNSELING CENTER ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds A JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE ↗
- Who funds EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOLLYWOOD FOOD COALITION ↗
- Who funds HEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds Hear Center ↗
- Who funds THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FORWARD INC ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds STRIVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Court Appointed Special Advocates ↗
- Who funds Art Division ↗
- Who funds MEND - Meet Each Need With Dignity ↗
- Who funds JVS SOCAL ↗
- Who funds CONCERN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOLDYOU FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ONEGENERATION ↗
- Who funds VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Wags and Walks ↗
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: California Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Stern Sidney Memorial Tuw · The Annenberg Foundation · The Green Foundation · S Mark Taper Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The Crail-Johnson 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 Audrey & Sydney Irmas Charitable 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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