· Community foundation
Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles
We steward $1.5 billion in charitable assets through donor-advised funds, endowments, and other giving vehicles.
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 $10k180 grants · $1.2M
- $10k–50k537 grants · $11M
- $50k–250k244 grants · $26M
- $250k+102 grants · $104M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund | $21,000,000 |
| Cedars-Sinai Medical Center | $8,752,949 |
| Congregation Bais Shalom Inc | $6,687,992 |
| Yeshiva Keren Orah | $5,806,500 |
| Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles | $4,803,007 |
| Yeshiva Mishkan Aharon | $2,800,000 |
| Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund | $2,571,746 |
| Kollel International Inc | $2,173,950 |
| USA Outreach Incorporated Priority 1 | $2,039,000 |
| ImpactAssets | $2,000,000 |
| Eat Real Certified Inc | $1,622,500 |
| Shiras Chaim Inc | $1,506,000 |
| Congregation Supporters of Torah Inc | $1,500,000 |
| Vaad Harabbanim Linyanei Tzeduka Inc | $1,295,400 |
| Congregation Bnos Devorah Inc | $1,258,500 |
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, $14.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
Grants abroad, by region — $23M on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 3 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: general support
Stated purpose: general support
Stated purpose: general support
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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 +42% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
1303 repeat relationships — 807 still active in FY2024, 496 since wound down; 169 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8.7M 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
CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $40M · revenue +63%- TGThe George Washington University4× · 2020–2024 · $12M · revenue +22%
- MAMUSEUM ASSOCIATES8× · 2017–2024 · $6.3M · revenue +89%
Funded once
- CSCALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10M · revenue +50% · 38% of their budget
- JEJACK E & RACHEL GINDI FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $7.8M · revenue +7%
- PAPeggy and Edward Robin Family Foundationone grant, 2019 · $1.5M · 27% of their budget
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma and the most unlike its peers is Creative Learning Exchange. 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 26 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
1494 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. 1494 of the 2,000 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA ↗
- Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds The George Washington University ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds THE SABAN CHARITABLE SUPPORT FUND ↗
- Who funds JACK E & RACHEL GINDI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES INC ↗
- Who funds USA OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds TIKUN OLAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES JEWISH HOME FOR THE AGING ↗
- Who funds VAAD HARABBANIM L'INYANEI TZEDUKA INC ↗
- Who funds Yeshiva Gedolah of Elkins Park ↗
- Who funds Kollel - Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds JVS SOCAL ↗
- Who funds JEWISH BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS 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 Federation Council of Greater La · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles Group · Donors Fund Inc · National Society for Hebrew Day Schools · Goldner Family Foundation Inc · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation · Hager Foundation · The Rav-Noy Family Foundation Inc · Jay Morris Foundation Inc · The Stanley & Joyce Black Family Foundation · The Ahmanson 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 Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Yeshiva Shaar Hatalmud — 6% 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.