· Private foundation
Daniel & Susan Gottlieb 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 49% of DANIEL & SUSAN GOTTLIEB FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $185k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY | $185,000 |
| CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| THEODORE PAYNE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE BALLONA WETLANDS | $10,000 |
| LIGHT PRODUCTIONSWOMEN'S IMAGE NETW | $10,000 |
| CEDARS SINAI HOSPITAL | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
| HOMEGROWN NATIONAL PARK | $3,500 |
| CALIFORNIANS AGAINST WASTE | $1,000 |
| SURVIVOR MITZVAH PROJECT | $500 |
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 (FY19–19, $5k) 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +78% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 38 since wound down; 2 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- LMLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2024 · $770k · revenue +68%
- NWNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION3× · 2017–2022 · $228k · revenue +72%
- TPTHEODORE PAYNE FOUNDATION FOR WILD FLOWERS AND NATIVE PLANTS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $93k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- GPG2 PUBLICATIONSone grant, 2020 · $101k
- JCJEM COMMUNITY CENTERone grant, 2019 · $50k
- CBCA BOTANIC GARDENone grant, 2020 · $45k
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.
Spcala is dedicated to the prevention of cruelty to animals through education, law enforcement, intervention and advocacy.
The institute is dedicated to scientific research, the results of which are used to promote public awareness and education in the areas of conservation biology and ecology,including the wise use of natural resources.
The SPCA Monterey County's Mission is assuring compassionate treatment of all animals through rescue, rehabilitation, protection and education. The SPCA shelters homeless, neglected, and abused pets, including dogs, cats, horses, exotic…
Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…
Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.
C.A.R.E.S.MISSION STATEMENT*Rescue, foster and find good homes for abandoned and homeless domestic and farm animals.*Spay/neuter abandoned and homeless cats and dogs, as well as help low income families with same.*Conduct TNR+ programs to…
Cuenca los ojos works to preserve and restore the biodiversity of the us/mexican borderlands through land protection, habitat restoration and wildlife reintroduction.
Our mission is to rescue pets that have been impounded at los angeles county's 25 overcrowded public shelters - providing proper care, shelter, and then placement. we also provide pet owners with alternatives when they think they have no…
The los angeles conservancy is a nonprofit membership organization that works through education and advocacy to recognize, preserve, and revitalize the historic architectural and cultural resources of los angeles county.
The institute for bird populations enables science-based conservation of species and habitats by studying the abundance, demography, and ecology of birds and other wildlife.
Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…
To bring animals out of crisis and strengthen the bond between people and animals through emergency sheltering, disaster relief services, financial assistance and education. redrover accomplishes its mission by engaging volunteers and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is International Bird Rescue and the most unlike its peers is Los Angeles Press Club. 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 41 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
44 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. 44 of the 90 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 LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THEODORE PAYNE FOUNDATION FOR WILD FLOWERS AND NATIVE PLANTS INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT VERITAS ↗
- Who funds FixNation Inc ↗
- Who funds CHP 11-99 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds DAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds RANCHO SANTA ANA BOTANIC GARDEN ↗
- Who funds BOUND ANGELS ↗
- Who funds South Bay Wildlife Rehab and Educ ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds THE MONO LAKE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL BIRD RESCUE ↗
- Who funds Los Angeles County Police Canine Assoc ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION ↗
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: The Annenberg Foundation · California Community Foundation · Mary Jo and Hank Greenberg Animal Welfare Foundation · Thornton S Jr and Katrina D Glide Foundation · Greater Good Charities · Sempra Foundation · The Diane Warren Foundation · Laffintr of John & Maria Tuw Main · The Michelson Found Animals Foundation Inc · Best Friends Animal Society · Patagoniaorg · Petsmart Charities Inc
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 Daniel & Susan Gottlieb 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.
- Xerces Society Inc — 22% 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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