· Private foundation
Ella Fitzgerald Charitable 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 $10k64 grants · $321k
- $10k–50k61 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k2 grants · $111k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VAR CHARITABLE ORGS 3500 BOOKS | $60,452 |
| NCUU FOUNDATION INC | $50,649 |
| SALVATION ARMY VARCENTERSPGMS | $35,985 |
| LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK | $34,559 |
| MY STUFF BAGS FOUNDATION | $31,626 |
| EISNER HEALTH PEDIATRIC MED CTR | $30,413 |
| VENICE FAMILY CLINIC -EARLY HEAD ST | $30,020 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $30,000 |
| SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER | $30,000 |
| SPREAD THE WORD NV | $28,634 |
| THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK FNDN | $25,750 |
| SMITHSONIAN -NATL MUSEUM AMER HISTO | $25,000 |
| CSU LONG BEACH FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER | $25,000 |
| SABAN COMMUNITY CLINIC | $24,924 |
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, $300k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% 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 +43% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.
185 repeat relationships — 96 still active in FY2024, 89 since wound down; 30 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $340k 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
- CSCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LONG BEACH RESEARCH FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2024 · $201k · revenue +25%
- JAJAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $200k · revenue +18%
- LALOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK7× · 2017–2024 · $192k · revenue +205%
Funded once
- EUEVOLUTION USA LLCone grant, 2018 · $100k
- SASMITHSONIAN AMERICAN HISTORY MUSEUMone grant, 2017 · $56k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $25k
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.
To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…
The orchestra pursues its mission, "to enrich and connect our community through intimate and transformative musical experiences which exemplify and foster artistic excellence, education and innovation," through the blend of traditional…
The san francisco jazz organization (the organization) is a recognized international leader in jazz creation, presentation, and education. the organization explores the full spectrum of jazz, from the music's origins in the african…
Arts for la leads communities, artists and organizations to advocate for an equitable, healthy, and creative los angeles region through the arts.
The ojai music festival serves as a creative music laboratory for pioneering new works,championing adventurous programming, and working with today's emerging artists with events during the year and the ojai music festival serves as a…
The mission of lyrica baroque is to support a diverse community of students, teachers, artists, institutions and audiences of all ages through education, collaboration and performance. lyrica baroque seeks to promote the extraordinary…
Mission: the mission of san diego opera is to deliver exceptional performances and exciting, accessible programs to diverse audiences, focusing on community partnerships, and the transformative and expressive power of the human voice. as…
The mission of the pasadena symphony association (psa) is to provide musical concerts of the highest quality raning from orchestral performances to world-renowned artists in recital, and to provide the broadest access to youth education…
The music institute of chicago ("music institute") leads people toward a lifelong engagement with music, by providing widely accessible resources for high quality music teaching, performing, and service activities.
Deeply rooted in our local beverly hills community and influenced by cultural change, the wallis annenberg center for the performing arts, a public-private partnership with the city of beverly hills, strives to be a site for the…
The mission of the Fresno Philharmonic is to enrich the lives of Central San Joaquin Valley residents through inspiring performances of orchestral music. We are an essential and collaborative member of a vibrant arts scene which unites,…
Menlo school's mission is to empower students to explore and expand their interests, reach their fullest potential, develop the skills necessary for success in college, and become ethical, responsible, and engaged members of ever wider…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Para Los Ninos and the most unlike its peers is We Always Swing 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 33 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
143 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. 143 of the 348 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LONG BEACH RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds VENICE FAMILY CLINIC ↗
- Who funds GRAMMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds A PLACE CALLED HOME ↗
- Who funds SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Harmony Project ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds THE LOS ANGELES FREE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MUSICIANS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds APOLLO THEATER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds LA'S BEST ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK POPS INC ↗
- Who funds The Carnegie Hall Society Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CENTRAL FAMILY HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds PARA LOS NINOS ↗
- Who funds HEAL THE BAY ↗
- Who funds Wayfinder Family Services ↗
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 · The Rose Hills Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Johnny Carson Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · D'Addario Foundation Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Sempra Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · 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 Ella Fitzgerald Charitable 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.
- Jazz House Kids Inc — 29% of income from government
- Miami Music Project Inc — 2% 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.