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Erich and Della Koenig Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$840k
Granted FY2022
25
Grants FY2022
5
States reached
$130k
Largest
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172022.

Education$634kHealth$620kReligion$462kArts & Culture$414kInternational$348kCrime & Legal$142kHuman Services$128kPhilanthropy$68kOther$0
02FY2022 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $431k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $400k
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL-NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL$130,000
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL$100,000
THE UCLA FOUNDATION$60,000
UNIVERSITY KIDNEY DISEASE FOUNDATION$60,000
BUTLER INITIATIVE$50,000
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FAMILY MEDIATION$35,000
LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART$34,000
USC MARSHALL SCHOOL OF BUSINESS$30,000
UNICEF USA$27,000
GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE$25,000
LOS ANGELES PHILHARMMONIC ASSOCIATION$25,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$25,000
NEEMA INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION$25,000
NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY$25,000
CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION$25,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $67k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LOS CABOS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $10k → 6%MIRACLE BABIES: $3k → 11%UNION RESCUE MISSION INC: $10k → 15%LOS CABOS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $5k → 6%MIRACLE BABIES: $2k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%WELLS BRING HOPE: $3k → 14%INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $2k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

MN
IL
NY
MA
NJ
CA
WV
TN
DC
TX
FL

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 9% of Erich and Della Koenig Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Erich and Della Koenig Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 8.7% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.3M · 33 repeat orgs$413k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

33 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2022, 16 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
30

Total granted

$2.3M
$202k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+23%

Still filing today

52%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $211k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalHealthEducationFood & NutritionOther

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

  • JA
    JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL
    5× · 2017–2022 · $260k · revenue +147%
  • TV
    The Versailles Foundation Inc
    4× · 2017–2021 · $165k · revenue +56%
  • CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER
    5× · 2017–2022 · $115k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $34k
  • WA
    WGW ATHLETICS BUFF AND BLUE FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • FC
    FOSTER CARE COUNTS
    one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue -98%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
2
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
3
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
4
University of California Irvine Foundation

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…

Education
5
The Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation

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.

6
University of California San Francisco Foundation

Organization's mission ====================== the university of california, san francisco(ucsf) is among the world's leading universities dedicated to advancing health worldwide through biomedical research, graduate-level education in the…

Education
7
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
8
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
9
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
10
Los Angeles Police Foundation

The mission of lapf is to create partnerships to provide resources and programs that help the police perform at their highest level and to enhance lapd-community relations.(see schedule o)

Human Services
11
California Dental Association Foundation

The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.

Science & Tech
12
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Diego Opera Association and the most unlike its peers is San Marino Motor Classic. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsJewish Community Organizati…Community Arts CentersCancer Support ServicesFood Banks and PantriesLocal History MuseumsVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Policy Research and AdvocacyWomen & Girls Leadership De…Environmental Conservation …Pregnancy Support Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 35 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%2%<5yr15%7%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr18%20%20–35yr11%24%35–55yr12%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%1%<5yr15%18%5–10yr20%4%10–20yr18%24%20–35yr11%6%35–55yr12%47%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 4% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%
2/46
the rest of the field
14%
13,714/97,715

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.

05the grantee network

42 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 71 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/42
Grantees still filing
33/42
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY KIDNEY DISEASE FOUNDATION — $243,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY KIDNEY DISEASE FOUNDATIONThe Versailles Foundation Inc — $165,000 · OtherThe Versailles Foundation IncHARVARD COLLEGE FUND — $120,000 · OtherHARVARD COLLEGE FUNDHIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN — $101,000 · OtherHIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDENMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL — $100,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALEISHEL NUESTRO HOGAR AC — $85,000 · OtherSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $80,000 · OtherASOCIACION DE ASISTENCIA PRIVADA OSE — $80,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $75,000 · OtherFJC-A FOUNDATION OF PHILANTHROPIC FUNDS-NINOS EN ALEGRIA — $65,000 · Other+43 more — $552,575 · Other+43 moreUCLA FOUNDATION — $198,750 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $194,750 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOU…MEDIATION CENTER OF LOS ANGELES — $45,000 · EducationMEDIATION CENTER …THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $40,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUS…+1 more — $1,500 · EducationJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL — $260,000 · InternationalJEWISH AGE…UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $27,000 · InternationalUNITED STA…Butler Initiative — $229,500 · ReligionCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $115,125 · HealthChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $86,500 · HealthMUSEUM ASSOCIATES — $34,000 · Arts & CultureSAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART — $26,000 · Arts & CultureLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION — $25,000 · Arts & CultureGEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO — $20,000 · Arts & CultureSTATUE OF LIBERTY ELLIS ISLAND FOUNDATION INC — $10,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $1,000 · Arts & CultureSouthern California Family Mediation Inc — $95,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$1,666,575Education$480,000International$287,000Religion$229,500Health$201,625Arts & Culture$141,500Crime & Legal$95,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL — $260,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetButler Initiative — $229,500 over 4y, 61% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $198,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $194,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Versailles Foundation Inc — $165,000 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $115,125 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern California Family Mediation Inc — $95,000 over 3y, 66% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $86,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEDIATION CENTER OF LOS ANGELES — $45,000 over 4y, 87% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM ASSOCIATES — $34,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC — $32,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $27,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART — $26,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWESTSIDE FOOD BANK — $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION — $19,625 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO — $19,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOSTER CARE COUNTS — $15,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetLos Cabos Children's Foundation — $15,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPebble Beach Company Foundation — $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSTATUE OF LIBERTY ELLIS ISLAND FOUNDATION INC — $10,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNION RESCUE MISSION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFeeding America — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAGBIT FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SKIN CANCER FOUNDATION INC — $4,625 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMIRACLE BABIES — $4,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetIMMUNOTHERAPY FOUNDATION — $3,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $3,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COUNTRY FRIENDS — $2,800 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWELLS BRING HOPE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSAN MARINO MOTOR CLASSIC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRANCHO SANTA FE FIRE DISTRICT FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetSEAL-NSW FAMILY FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLACK AND BROWN FOUNDERS INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSan Diego Opera Association — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL
  • Who funds Butler Initiative
  • Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
  • Who funds The Versailles Foundation Inc
  • Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER
  • Who funds Southern California Family Mediation Inc
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles
  • Who funds MEDIATION CENTER OF LOS ANGELES
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds MUSEUM ASSOCIATES
  • Who funds CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF
  • Who funds SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO
  • Who funds WESTSIDE FOOD BANK
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION
  • Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO
  • Who funds FOSTER CARE COUNTS
  • Who funds Los Cabos Children's 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.

The San Diego FoundationCA17.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · Kerr Family Foundation · The Stanley & Joyce Black Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Sempra Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · California Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Erich and Della Koenig 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Erich and Della Koenig Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Erich and Della Koenig Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 71 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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