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Cheryl Saban Self Worth Foundation for Women & Girls at a glance

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Cheryl Saban Self Worth Foundation for Women & Girls

Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2k
Granted FY2022
1
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2022.

International$180kPhilanthropy$125kEducation$120kYouth Development$120kEmployment$100kFood & Nutrition$75kHuman Services$75kArts & Culture$50kOther$0
02FY2022 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,749
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES$1,749
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–21, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $25k → 14%THE DREAM CENTER FOUNDATION: $75k → 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.

28%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$220k · 4 repeat orgs$572k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2022, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
11

Total granted

$220k
$571k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%
+83%

Still filing today

75%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22
EducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesHealthInternationalArts & 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

  • HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES
    2× · 2020–2021 · $100k · revenue +74%
  • AF
    AMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $70k · revenue +61%
  • CS
    CALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION
    2× · 2019–2021 · $18k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • HH
    HIRE HEROES USA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +284%
  • DC
    DREAM CENTER FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $75k · revenue +83%
  • PA
    PROJECT ANGEL FOODgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $75k · revenue +273%
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
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
2
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International
3
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
4
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

—
5
American Society for Technion Israel Institute of Technology Inc

The american technion society supports the technion's critical research and (continued on sch o)

International
6
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
7
Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles

We steward $1.5 billion in charitable assets through donor-advised funds, endowments, and other giving vehicles. partnering with 1,400 individuals, families, and organizations, we build enduring legacies and multigenerational impact. in…

Philanthropy
8
Artis Contemporary Israeli Art Fundinc

Artis is an independent nonprofit organization that supports contemporary artists from israel whose work addresses aesthetic, social and political questions to inspire reflection and debate. www.artis.art

Arts & Culture
9
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
10
The Israel Institute Inc

The israel institute, inc. (the institute) enhances knowledge about modern israel by ensuring that more students have access to courses about israel during their time on campus.

International
11
University of Southern California Hillel Foundation

To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…

—
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc; the most unlike its peers is Downtown Women's Center. 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

16 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. 16 of the 18 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
13/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HIRE HEROES USA INC: $100,000 · EducationHIRE HEROES USA INCAMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY INC: $70,000 · EducationAMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION U…ENCORPSINC: $50,000 · EducationENCORPSINCROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $125,000 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELLER PHILAN…PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $30,000 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWME…JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL: $75,000 · InternationalJEWISH AGENCY FOR…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ALLIANCE ISRAELITE UNIVERSELLE INC: $75,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS …HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentHOMEBOY INDUST…CHILDREN MENDING HEARTS INC: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHILDREN MENDI…DREAM CENTER FOUNDATION: $75,000 · Human ServicesDREAM CENTE…DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $25,000 · Human ServicesDOWNTOWN WO…PROJECT ANGEL FOOD: $75,000 · HealthPROJECT A…+1 more: $1,749 · HealthINNER-CITY ARTS: $50,000 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION: $17,500 · Arts & CultureLA COUNTY SCIENCE & ENGINEERING FAIR: $32,000 · OtherBRAVE NEW FILMS: $25,000 · Other+1 more: $600 · Other
Education$220,000Philanthropy$155,000International$150,000Youth Development$120,000Human Services$100,000Health$76,749Arts & Culture$67,500Other$57,600

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 budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $125,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHIRE HEROES USA INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetDREAM CENTER FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL FOOD: $75,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL: $75,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ALLIANCE ISRAELITE UNIVERSELLE INC: $75,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetAMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY INC: $70,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetENCORPSINC: $50,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetINNER-CITY ARTS: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN MENDING HEARTS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetCALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION: $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $1,749 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RAPE FOUNDATION: $600 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.

National Philanthropi…Fidelity Investments …
National Philanthropic TrustPA10.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Cheryl Saban Self Worth Foundation for Women & Girls funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cheryl Saban Self Worth Foundation for Women & Girls. 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%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 Cheryl Saban Self Worth Foundation for Women & Girls?

    Find your warmest path to Cheryl Saban Self Worth Foundation for Women & Girls 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 18 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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