· Private foundation
Chuck Lorre Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $539k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $1.0M
- $250k+16 grants · $36M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CEDARS SINAI | $11,597,200 |
| UCLA DEVELOPMENT | $6,300,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF LOS ANGELES | $3,353,750 |
| VENICE FAMILY CLINIC | $2,698,863 |
| DONORSCHOOSEORG | $2,500,000 |
| TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND | $2,000,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $2,000,000 |
| UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN | $1,000,000 |
| YOUNG EISNER SCHOLARS | $793,606 |
| 9 DOTS | $763,750 |
| THE MIDNIGHT MISSION | $753,000 |
| READY TO SUCCEED | $600,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $500,000 |
| JUST KEEP LIVING FOUNDATION | $388,000 |
| BURBANK UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | $345,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $7.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
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.
62 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 24 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $972k 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 CENTER7× · 2017–2024 · $17M · revenue +63%
VENICE FAMILY CLINIC7× · 2017–2024 · $14M · revenue +110%- CHChildren's Hospital Los Angeles7× · 2017–2024 · $7.5M · revenue +78%
Funded once
- OCORE CITY INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2023 · $105k
THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +27%- CICALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +19%
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 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…
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
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…
The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…
The university of la verne offers a distinctive and relevant educational experience to a diverse population of traditional-age, adult, and graduate learners, preparing them for successful careers and a commitment to lifelong learning…
Arts for la leads communities, artists and organizations to advocate for an equitable, healthy, and creative los angeles region through the arts.
The archer school for girls is an educational community that supports and challenges young women to discover their passions and realize their true potential by a) providing a rigorous, integrated college preparatory curriculum that fosters…
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.
To advance educational equity. together with families, schools and the community, facilitate access to and opportunities for quality educational and wellness practices so that children thrive from diapers to diplomas.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Good Deed Corps. 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 33 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
89 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. 89 of the 145 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 CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds VENICE FAMILY CLINIC ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ANGEL FOOD ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Young Eisner Scholars ↗
- Who funds THE MIDNIGHT MISSION ↗
- Who funds READY TO SUCCEED ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GRAMMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds One Voice ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA VOLUNTEERS FUND ↗
- Who funds JUST KEEP LIVIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIRLS WHO CODE INC ↗
- Who funds HEALING CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds CLAREMATRIX ↗
- Who funds THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE SUMMER SCHOOL ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Joseph Drown Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · Johnny Carson Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gary E Milgard Family Foundation-Lori
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 Chuck Lorre Family 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% 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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