· Private foundation
Frederick R Weisman Philanthropic
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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $35,000 |
| LOS ANGELES CO MUSEUM OF ART | $15,000 |
| MUSEUM CONTEMPRARY ART | $5,000 |
| PUBLIC COUNSEL | $5,000 |
| UCLA HAMMER MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| LUNG CANCER FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| JOHNSON CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK | $3,000 |
| NEW YORK STEM CELL RESEARCH | $3,000 |
| CHILDRENS HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES | $3,000 |
| SPECIAL NEEDS RESOURCE GOUP | $3,000 |
| SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER | $3,000 |
| TOWER CANCER RESEARCH CENTER | $3,000 |
| NEW DIRECTIONS | $2,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $2,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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 +24% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 1 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
VENICE FAMILY CLINIC4× · 2020–2023 · $125k · revenue +68%- MAMUSEUM ASSOCIATES4× · 2021–2024 · $25k · revenue +89%
PUBLIC COUNSEL4× · 2021–2024 · $24k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- PUPEPPERDINE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +4%
- MOMEALS ON WHEELS OF WEST LOS ANGELES INCone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -15%
- ICInner City Law Centerone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +5%
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.
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
The survivor justice center secures justice for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault and empowers them to create their own future.
Community organizing, education, advocacy, leadership development, direct services and organizational development for communities faced with immense poverty.
Chamber's mission: design and advance opportunities and solutions for a thriving regional economy that are inclusive and globally competitive. 1) advocacy - be a bold advocate for business as a driver of a strong economy that enables…
To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. we work with public school systems, establishing relationship with superintendents, principals, educators, and community partners to…
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…
California western school of law is an independent, aba/aals and wasc senior college and university commission (wscuc) accredited s.d. law school that prepares graduates for the practice of law through a carefully sequenced program of…
To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.
To enhance the professionalism and clinical autonomy of physicians to allow them to advocate for their patients and the health of the community of los angeles.
Meeting the professional needs of los angeles lawyers, and improving the administration of justice.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa of Los Angeles and the most unlike its peers is Inclusion Matters by Shanes Inspiration. 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 40 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% 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 16% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 80 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 VENICE FAMILY CLINIC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC COUNSEL ↗
- Who funds PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds BET TZEDEK ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF WEST LOS ANGELES INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds Inner City Law Center ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ANGEL FOOD ↗
- Who funds THE JONSSON CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW DIRECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE MIDNIGHT MISSION ↗
- Who funds UNION RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds OTIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN ↗
- Who funds FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC CLINICS ↗
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 Ahmanson Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation · Shelter Partnership Inc · Alfred E Mann Charities Inc · United Way Inc · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Sempra Foundation
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 Frederick R Weisman Philanthropic 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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