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Billie & Richard Udko Foundation at a glance

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Billie & Richard Udko Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$20k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Religion$10kEducation$8kHealth$6kPhilanthropy$4kCivil Rights$2kAnimals$2kPublic Safety & Disaster$2kEnvironment$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$301k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VILLAGE SCHOOL$5,000
STEPHEN WISE TEMPLE$4,000
KEHILLAT ISRAEL$2,285
JEWISH FREE LOAN$1,800
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER$1,200
HEAL THE BAY$1,000
JOHN RITTER FOUNDATION$1,000
CEDARS SINAI$1,000
PETA$1,000
CARDIOVASCULAR REASERCH FOUNDATION$1,000
BEIT T SHUVAH$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%BEIT T SHUVAH: $2k → 14%UNICEF USA: $1k → 17%SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: $1k → 18%PETA: $1k → 19%BEIT T SHUVAH: $1k → 14%CARDIO VASCULAR RESEARCH FNDTN: $1k → 17%SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: $1k → 18%PETA: $1k → 19%STEPHEN S WISE TEMPLE: $4k → 14%CARDIOVASCULAR REASERCH FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%STEPHEN WISE TEMPLE: $4k → 14%HEAL THE BAY: $1k → 14%HEAL THE BAY: $500 → 14%VILLAGE SCHOOL: $5k → 14%VILLAGE SCHOOL: $3k → 14%KEHILLAT ISRAEL: $2k → 14%KEHILLAT TEMPLE: $2k → 14%JEWISH FREE LOAN: $2k → 14%JEWISH FREE LOAN: $2k → 14%CEDARS SINAI: $1k → 14%CEDARS SINAI FNDTN: $1k → 14%JOHN RITTER FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$30k · 8 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against +36% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
4

Total granted

$30k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+36%

Still filing today

75%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
InternationalHealthCrime & LegalAnimalsEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • VS
    VILLAGE SCHOOL INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $8k · revenue +148%
  • BT
    Beit T'Shuvah
    2× · 2023–2024 · $3k · revenue +62%
  • PF
    PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $2k · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $2k
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +36%
  • UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +1%
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.

04Its field

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.

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
Seattle Biomedical Research Institute

We conduct fundamental infectious disease research to generate critical new knowledge about pathogens and their interactions with see schedule o for continuationhumans to enable the discovery and development of novel interventions,…

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3
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
4
The California Medical Innovations Institute Inc

The Institute is a scientific research center dedicated to conducting basic and applied research to advance the understanding of human disease and the improvement of human health. The Institute fosters an innovative research environment…

Education
5
Western University of Health Sciences

To produce, in a humanistic tradition, health care professionals and biomedical knowledge that will enhance and extend the quality of life in our communities.

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6
Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.

Health
7
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
8
The Water Research Foundation

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…

Environment
9
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
10
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
11
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
12
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is World Central Kitchen Inc; the most unlike its peers is People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STEPHEN S WISE TEMPLE: $8,000 · OtherSTEPHEN S WISE TEMPLEVILLAGE SCHOOL INC: $7,500 · OtherVILLAGE SCHOOL INCJEWISH FREE LOAN: $3,600 · OtherJEWISH FREE LOANBeit T'Shuvah: $3,000 · OtherBeit T'ShuvahKEHILLAT ISRAEL RECONSTRUCTIONIST CONGREGATION OF PACIFIC PALISADES: $2,285 · OtherKEHILLAT ISRAEL RECONSTRUCTIONIST CONGREGATION OF PACIFIC PALISADESIndividual grant recipient: $2,135 · OtherIndividual grant recipientJOHN RITTER FOUNDATION: $1,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,000 · OtherWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $2,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $1,005 · InternationalCARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $2,000 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $1,000 · HealthSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $2,400 · Crime & LegalPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC: $2,000 · AnimalsHEAL THE BAY: $1,500 · Environment
Other$28,520International$3,005Health$3,000Crime & Legal$2,400Animals$2,000Environment$1,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVILLAGE SCHOOL INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBeit T'Shuvah: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $2,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEAL THE BAY: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $1,005 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Selma & Manuel Udko F…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Selma & Manuel Udko FoundationCA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Selma & Manuel Udko Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Billie & Richard Udko Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Billie & Richard Udko Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Billie & Richard Udko Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Billie & Richard Udko 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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