· Private foundation
Estelle Funk Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WIEZMANN INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| MAXIMUM HOPE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE JEWISH FEDERATION | $5,750 |
| SHALOM INSTITUTE | $5,500 |
| ANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $1,800 |
| STATER BROTHERS CHARITIES | $1,800 |
| CHABAD LUBAVITCH OF GRANADA HILLS | $1,800 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER SEATTLE | $1,800 |
| ADAT ARI EL | $1,800 |
| ETTA ISRAEL CENTER | $1,000 |
| CHABBAD OF SLO AND CAL POLY | $1,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA | $1,000 |
| CAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA | $1,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH T1D | $750 |
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 (FY20–22, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 51% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +35% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 3 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- CRCAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC4× · 2021–2024 · $16k · revenue +65%
- BTBREAKTHROUGH T1D4× · 2021–2024 · $7k · revenue +35%
- TATIKVAH-ETTA AND LAZEAR ISRAEL CENTER FOR THE DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED5× · 2020–2024 · $6k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- WIWEIZMANN INSTITUTEone grant, 2020 · $50k
- FFFRONTLINE FOUNDATIONS INCone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue 0%
- DTDE TOLEDO HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +4%
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.
Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…
Brightfocus foundation funds exceptional research worldwide to defeat alzheimer's disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma and provides expert information on these heartbreaking diseases. please refer to schedule o for a complete…
The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…
To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).
The american lung association's mission is to save lives by improving lung health and preventing lung disease. we do this through education, advocacy, and research.
Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
To significantly improve the lives of people with down syndrome through research, medical care, education and advocacy. an important part of this mission is to support the global affiliate organizations that we helped establish and…
To accelerate the development of breakthrough discoveries that will transform the lives of people living with food allergies.
To marshal and focus the resources and relationships needed to cure fa by raising funds for research, promoting public awareness and aligning scientists, patients, clinicians, government agencies and pharmaceutical companies dedicated to…
Please see schedule o
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc and the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. 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 47 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 — 0.0% 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.
54 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. 54 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 MAXIMUM HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL LYME ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds TIKVAH-ETTA AND LAZEAR ISRAEL CENTER FOR THE DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED ↗
- Who funds SHALOM INSTITUTE CAMP & CONFERENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds ONEGENERATION ↗
- Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRONTLINE FOUNDATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds DE TOLEDO HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds LA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds Stater Bros Charities ↗
- Who funds BUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Macular Degeneration Association ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION 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 · California Community Foundation · Bob & Nita Hirsch Family Foundation · The Field Family Fund · The Stanley & Joyce Black Family Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment 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 Estelle Funk 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Feed the Children Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% 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.