· Private foundation
Irene C Finkelstein 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $42k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CMTA - CHARCOL MARIE TOOTH ASSOCIATION | $12,000 |
| THE HARMONY PROJECT | $10,000 |
| UC BERKELEY SCHOOL OF LAW | $10,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF LOS ANGELES | $10,000 |
| FEED MY POOR INC | $6,000 |
| JEWISH BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF LOS ANGELES | $5,000 |
| JEWISH HEALING CENTER | $5,000 |
| LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC | $5,000 |
| WESTIDE FOOD BANK | $4,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA | $4,000 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
| MIRACLE FLIGHTS FOR KIDS | $2,000 |
| LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK | $2,000 |
| CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +73% since the first grant, against +66% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES8× · 2017–2024 · $85k · revenue +92%- HPHarmony Project7× · 2017–2024 · $46k · revenue +88%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $38k · revenue +98%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $10k
- BHBOALT HALL SCHOOL OF LAWS FUNDone grant, 2017 · $10k
- TMTHE MUSIC CENTER OF LOS ANGELES COUNTYone grant, 2018 · $5k
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.
La's best provides free supervised before and after-school activities to over 15,000 children at 200 schools in los angeles unified school district (lausd).
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
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…
Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.
Project angel food (the organization) improves health and fights food insecurity for critically ill individuals in los angeles county through its medically tailored meal program and nutrition counseling. for over 35 years, they have served…
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…
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
Huntington Health stands for community. We stand for compassion. But more than anything, Huntington stands for health. Providing world-class health care is our specialty, and it's what we've been doing for the San Gabriel Valley since…
Hollywood food coalition welcomes people to dinner each night. we rescue and redistribute food daily to other organizations. we care for our immediate community through our wellness program. we build community with and through our…
To advance educational equity. together with families, schools and the community, facilitate access to and opportunities for quality educational and wellness practices so that children thrive from diapers to diplomas.
Para los ninos (pln) is a nonprofit organization that partners with children, youth, and their families through integrated education, wellness, support, and advocacy to address individual and systemic barriers and create pathways to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Create Now Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pickleberry Pie 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 37 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.
24 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. 24 of the 38 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 PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds Harmony Project ↗
- Who funds JEWISH BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF LOS ANGELES INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Feed My Poor Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Children of the Night ↗
- Who funds Learning Ally Inc ↗
- Who funds IMPERIAL VALLEY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Resource for Education Advocacy Communication and Housing ↗
- Who funds PICKLEBERRY PIE INC ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY ARTS ↗
- Who funds CREATE NOW INC ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHAREWELL ↗
- Who funds HOPE THE MISSION ↗
- Who funds Mercy Medical Angels ↗
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 · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Irene C Finkelstein 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.
- Learning Ally Inc — 4% 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.
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