· Private foundation
Ellie and Mark Lainer Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $400k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VALLEY BETH SHALOM | $250,000 |
| BUILDERS OF JEWISH EDUCATION | $150,000 |
| ILAN RAMON DAY SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| HESCHEL DAY SCHOOL WEST | $50,000 |
| ALPHA EPSILON PI FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| HILLEL 818 | $50,000 |
| MESIVTA OF GREATER LOS ANGELES | $25,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of your 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.
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.
7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $225k 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
- IRILAN RAMON DAY SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +70%
- AJABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL DAY SCHOOL5× · 2017–2021 · $500k · revenue +37%
- DTDE TOLEDO HIGH SCHOOL4× · 2020–2023 · $475k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- DTDE TOLEDONEW COMM JEW HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $250k
- HUHEBREW UNION COLLEGE - JEWISH INSTITUTE OF RELIGIONone grant, 2021 · $100k
- SCSKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +26%
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 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…
San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.
Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…
Ihds utilizes a dual general and judaic studies curriculum. the judaic studies curriculum emphasizes the fundamentals of hebrew reading, writing and speaking, jewish history, holidays, jewish values, torah, the jewish life cycle, the land…
Atlanta jewish academy is a college preparatory, co-educational, preschool-12th grade, independent jewish day school, guided by modern orthodox values and principles. we embody the ideals of community, tradition, individual development and…
The abraham joshua heschel school is an independent jewish day school which includes students from a wide range of jewish backgrounds, practices and beliefs. (see schedule o for continuation)
At akiva, we pursue excellence, foster critical inquiry, and inspire informed jewish living. we believe in, promote, and expect academic excellence in our general studies and jewish studies curriculum. our educational program incorporates…
Hillel of silicon valley provides a welcoming, supportive environmentto enrich students' college experience and enable them to connect with the jewish community and israel.
The mission of the hebrew academy is to imbue all students with a love of god, torah and eretz yisroel and to prepare them to achieve excellence in torah and general knowledge based on successful cooperation among family, judaic and…
Awaken. build. connect. tehiyah day school is a jewish community school committed to: awakening intellectual curiosity and a strong sense of jewish identity; building a culture of thoughtfulness ad ethical behavior; connecting learners to…
Yavneh day school provides strong academic excellence in general and judaic studies within a strong community where each child is celebrated and challenged.
To provide education in general and judiac studies
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is De Toledo High School and the most unlike its peers is Atzum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 15 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 ILAN RAMON DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DE TOLEDO HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES INC ↗
- Who funds HILLEL 818 ↗
- Who funds ALPHA EPSILON PI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds MESIVTA OF GREATER LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds ATZUM INC ↗
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: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Jewish Federation Council of Greater La · Bob & Nita Hirsch Family Foundation · Alpert & Alpert Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles Group · Simha and Sara Lainer Family Foundation · Smotrich Family Foundation · Jacoby Family Foundation · Bureau of Jewish Education of Greater Los Angeles Inc · The Milstein Family Foundation · Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Ellie and Mark Lainer 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.
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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