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Brotman Foundation of California at a glance

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Brotman Foundation of California

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$183k
Granted FY2024still arriving
46
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$339kHuman Services$201kEducation$176kCivil Rights$146kArts & Culture$119kYouth Development$114kCrime & Legal$109kEnvironment$105kOther$0
02FY2024 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k40 grants · $115k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $68k
$2,500
Median grant
9
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE UCLA FOUNDATION$15,000
HAMMER MUSEUM$13,000
CEDARS-SINAI$10,000
THE BRENT SHAPIRO FOUNDATION$10,000
WOMENS GUILD CEDARS-SINAI$10,000
OAKWOOD SCHOOL$10,000
ALEX'S LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION$6,000
THINKAGAIN FOUNDATION$6,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (USC HILLEL)$5,000
TOWER CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION$5,000
WAM AT CLEVELAND CLINIC$5,000
SPINE HOPE$5,000
INNER-CITY ARTS$5,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$5,000
CAA FOUNDATION$5,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CANINE SUPPORT TEAMS INC: $5k → 11%CANINE SUPPORT TEAMS INC: $3k → 11%4 KIDS 2 KIDS: $5k → 10%TAKING IT TO THE STREETS: $1k → 11%EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT: $10k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $10k → 14%WAYFINDER FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 14%WAYFINDER FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 14%WAYFINDER FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 14%WAYFINDER FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 14%CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT: $5k → 14%CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT: $5k → 14%CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT: $3k → 14%GOOD FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%CAMP KESEM: $5k → 14%GENESIS: $50k → 14%GENESIS: $25k → 14%SHOES THAT FIT: $5k → 14%SHOES THAT FIT: $5k → 14%WESPARK: $5k → 14%SHOES THAT FIT: $5k → 14%SHOES THAT FIT: $5k → 14%SHOES THAT FIT: $3k → 14%PROGRAM FOR TORTURED VICTIMS: $3k → 14%A SENSE OF HOME: $7k → 14%A SENSE OF HOME: $5k → 14%FOSTER NATION: $3k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
AR
TN
DC
HI
TX
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 100% of Brotman Foundation of California’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 71% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 0%.

Brotman Foundation of Californialessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 65 repeat orgs$414k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +23% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

65
73

Total granted

$1.3M
$326k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+23%

Still filing today

85%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentInternationalArts & CultureOther
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

  • NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC
    3× · 2018–2021 · $85k · revenue +37%
  • AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2018–2023 · $80k · revenue +110%
  • VC
    VIP COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $57k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +17%
  • A
    ACLU
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
  • TB
    THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $15k
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.

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University of Southern California

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…

Education
2
Communities in Schools of Los Angeles Inc

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…

Youth Development
3
Los Angeles Conservation Corps

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.

Employment
4
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
5
Casa of Los Angeles

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.

Civil Rights
6
The Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation

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.

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7
La's Best

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).

Education
8
Arts for La

Arts for la leads communities, artists and organizations to advocate for an equitable, healthy, and creative los angeles region through the arts.

Arts & Culture
9
Children's Hospital Los Angeles Medical Group

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…

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10
California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy

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…

Health
11
Los Angeles Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Spcala is dedicated to the prevention of cruelty to animals through education, law enforcement, intervention and advocacy.

Animals
12
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foster Nation; 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.
05the grantee network

127 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
127/127
Grantees still filing
78/127
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $60,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $36,000 · OtherTHE RAPE FOUNDATION: $35,000 · OtherTHE WOMEN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND: $25,000 · OtherNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $85,000 · OtherNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INCA LITTLE RESCUE: $41,000 · OtherA LITTLE RESCUE+78 more: $459,750 · Other+78 moreVIP COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC: $56,750 · HealthVIP COMMUNITY ME…TOWER CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $30,000 · HealthTOWER CANCER RES…Children's Hospital Los Angeles: $16,500 · HealthChildren's Hospi…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $15,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN…PROJECT ANGEL FOOD: $15,000 · HealthPROJECT ANGEL FO…FOUNDATION THINKAGAIN: $15,000 · HealthFOUNDATION THINK…Mercy Medical Angels: $15,000 · HealthMercy Medical An…AHEAD WITH HORSES INC: $12,500 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $10,000 · Health+17 more: $58,915 · Health+17 moreGENESIS: $75,000 · Human ServicesGENESISChildren of the Night: $22,500 · Human ServicesChildren of th…SHOES THAT FIT: $22,500 · Human ServicesSHOES THAT FITWayfinder Family Services: $20,000 · Human ServicesWayfinder Fami…A SENSE OF HOME: $12,000 · Human ServicesA SENSE OF HOM…WHITE HEART FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $10,000 · Human ServicesCANINE SUPPORT TEAMS INC: $7,500 · Human Services+10 more: $38,500 · Human Services+10 moreINTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF LOS ANGELES LYCEE INTERNATIONAL DE LOS ANGELES: $36,700 · EducationINTERNATIO…THE WAVERLY SCHOOL: $33,750 · EducationTHE WAVERL…OAKWOOD SCHOOL: $25,650 · EducationOAKWOOD SC…UCLA FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationUCLA FOUND…NEW VILLAGE CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $10,000 · EducationNEW VILLAG…PALISADES CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL: $10,000 · EducationPALISADES …+8 more: $23,500 · Education+8 moreAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 · Civil RightsCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND: $20,000 · Civil RightsGIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $10,000 · Civil RightsTHE TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER: $5,000 · Civil RightsREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $5,000 · Civil RightsHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE PAINTED TURTLE: $23,500 · Youth DevelopmentHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $22,500 · Youth DevelopmentCHILDREN MENDING HEARTS INC: $12,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG STORYTELLERS: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentSTUDENTS RUN AMERICA: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentREADING LEGACIES: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentHermandad Mexicana Nacional: $5,000 · Youth Development+2 more: $3,500 · Youth DevelopmentARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC: $75,640 · Arts & CultureGEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM ASSOCIATES: $10,000 · Arts & CultureMAK CENTER FOR ART AND ARCHITECTURE LA: $7,000 · Arts & CultureINNER-CITY ARTS: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $2,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$741,750Health$244,665Human Services$218,000Education$154,600Civil Rights$120,000Youth Development$116,500Arts & Culture$110,140

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $85,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC: $75,640 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetVIP COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC: $56,750 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetA LITTLE RESCUE: $41,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF LOS ANGELES LYCEE INTERNATIONAL DE LOS ANGELES: $36,700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $36,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RAPE FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE WAVERLY SCHOOL: $33,750 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTOWER CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetOAKWOOD SCHOOL: $25,650 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE PAINTED TURTLE: $23,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $22,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChildren of the Night: $22,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetBABY2BABY: $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHOES THAT FIT: $22,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $22,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWayfinder Family Services: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $16,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOCEANA INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL FOOD: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION THINKAGAIN: $15,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetCORE COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF EFFORT: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Medical Angels: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAHEAD WITH HORSES INC: $12,500 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN MENDING HEARTS INC: $12,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetWESTSIDE FOOD BANK: $12,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetA SENSE OF HOME: $12,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWHITE HEART FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetGIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW VILLAGE CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG STORYTELLERS: $10,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNOVA UKRAINE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRENT SHAPIRO FOUNDATION FOR DRUG AWARENESS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPALISADES CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTUDENTS RUN AMERICA: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% 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.

California Community …The Ralph M Parsons F…The Ahmanson Foundati…Jewish Community Foun…The Rose Hills Founda…The Annenberg Foundat…Carrie Estelle Doheny…The Green FoundationWeingart FoundationLiberty Hill Foundati…Audrey & Sydney Irmas…QueensCare
California Community FoundationCA41.9× affinity31 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 · 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

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 Brotman Foundation of California funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brotman Foundation of California. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
27report 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
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.
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How do I get to Brotman Foundation of California?

Find your warmest path to Brotman Foundation of California 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 163 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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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home