· Private foundation
Ben B and Joyce E Eisenberg 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $265k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $350k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LOS ANGELES JEWISH HEALTH | $500,000 |
| ISRAEL TENNIS AND EDUCATION CENTER | $500,000 |
| AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE | $500,000 |
| CALIFORNIA ONCOLOGY RESEARCH INST | $100,000 |
| SAINT JOHN HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER | $100,000 |
| SMIDT HEART INSTITUTE AT CEDARDS-SINAI | $50,000 |
| CHABAD OF GREATER HOLMBY HILLS | $40,000 |
| EDUCATE TOMORROW'S PARENTS | $36,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| SINAI TEMPLE | $25,000 |
| ISRAEL PARASPORT CENTER | $20,000 |
| COALITION TO ABOLISH SLAVERY & TRAFFICKING | $20,000 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $18,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MIGDAL OHR | $18,000 |
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 (FY24–25, $111k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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.
21 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 6 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $92k 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
CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER3× · 2018–2025 · $250k · revenue +52%- ALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE3× · 2018–2025 · $86k · revenue +80%
- ETEDUCATE TOMORROW'S PARENTS2× · 2024–2025 · $61k · revenue +25% · 60% of their budget
Funded once
- LALos Angeles Jewish Homes for the Agingone grant, 2018 · $2.1M
- ITISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $200k · revenue +80%
- CHCEDARS-SINAI HEART INSTITUTEone grant, 2024 · $100k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint John's Health Center Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Kids of Ukraine 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 41 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 67 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 AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA ONCOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds EDUCATE TOMORROW'S PARENTS ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GRIFFITH OBSERVATORY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Friends of Migdal OHR ↗
- Who funds GREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE THALIANS ↗
- Who funds CAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds Harmony Project ↗
- Who funds COALITION TO ABOLISH SLAVERY & TRAFFICKING ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
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: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · California Community Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Ben B and Joyce E Eisenberg 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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