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Brotman Foundation of California
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k40 grants · $115k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $68k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE UCLA FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| HAMMER MUSEUM | $13,000 |
| OAKWOOD SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| THE BRENT SHAPIRO FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| WOMENS GUILD CEDARS-SINAI | $10,000 |
| CEDARS-SINAI | $10,000 |
| ALEX'S LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| THINKAGAIN FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (USC HILLEL) | $5,000 |
| MERCY MEDICAL ANGELS | $5,000 |
| WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| CAA FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SPINE HOPE | $5,000 |
| OCEANA | $5,000 |
| WAM AT CLEVELAND CLINIC | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $197k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 100% of Brotman Foundation of California’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 71% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +37% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
65 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 43 since wound down; 23 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, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k 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
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC3× · 2018–2021 · $85k · revenue +37%
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC5× · 2018–2023 · $80k · revenue +110%- VCVIP COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC4× · 2020–2023 · $57k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- AACLUone grant, 2020 · $20k
CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUNDone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +17%- TBTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $15k
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.
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 surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. we work with public school systems, establishing relationship with superintendents, principals, educators, and community partners to…
The la conservation corps creates equitable opportunities for young people to build resilience in themselves, their communities and the environment through a program of work, education and support.
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…
Our mission is to mobilize community volunteers to advocate for children who have experienced abuse and neglect. our vision is a los angeles where every child in the welfare system has an advocate and the opportunity to thrive.
The jonsson cancer center foundation is the single most important vehicle for raising private funds for cancer research at ucla and plays a key role in advancing cancer treatments and care. please see schedule o for additional information.
La's best provides free supervised before and after-school activities to over 15,000 children at 200 schools in los angeles unified school district (lausd).
Arts for la leads communities, artists and organizations to advocate for an equitable, healthy, and creative los angeles region through the arts.
To be the preeminent pediatric, multispecialty medical group in the nation, dedicated to providing the highest quality medical care to infants, children and adolescents; and supporting the finest teaching and research endeavors of our…
To harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…
Spcala is dedicated to the prevention of cruelty to animals through education, law enforcement, intervention and advocacy.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foster Nation and the most unlike its peers is Spinehope Fka Spinal Deformity Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
127 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. 127 of the 163 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 NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GENESIS ↗
- Who funds VIP COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds A LITTLE RESCUE ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF LOS ANGELES LYCEE INTERNATIONAL DE LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds THE RAPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE WAVERLY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TOWER CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OAKWOOD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds THE PAINTED TURTLE ↗
- Who funds HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES ↗
- Who funds SHOES THAT FIT ↗
- Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Children of the Night ↗
- Who funds BABY2BABY ↗
- Who funds Wayfinder Family Services ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds Mercy Medical Angels ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION THINKAGAIN ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OCEANA INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ANGEL FOOD ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds CORE COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF EFFORT ↗
- Who funds NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds AHEAD WITH HORSES INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN MENDING HEARTS INC ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE FOOD BANK ↗
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 Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Carrie Estelle Doheny Foundation · The Green Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · Audrey & Sydney Irmas Charitable Foundation · QueensCare
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 Brotman Foundation of California 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Wesleyan University — 1% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
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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