· Private foundation
Jonathan and Susan Dolgen Family Foundation Inc
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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k34 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $123k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UCLA FOUNDATION | $68,700 |
| CALIFORNIA INST OF THE ARTS | $54,440 |
| SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER | $25,000 |
| POWER TO DECIDE | $20,000 |
| MACCABI WORLD UNION | $15,000 |
| PITZER COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER | $7,000 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE SUMMER SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS | $5,000 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| WOOD RIVER JEWISH COMMUNITY | $4,050 |
| STEPHEN WISE TEMPLE | $3,685 |
| RAMAH DAROM CLAYTON CAMPUS | $3,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $2,500 |
| MACCABI USA | $2,500 |
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 (FY20–24, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% 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
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 +20% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.
43 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 11 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC5× · 2020–2024 · $250k · revenue +102%- CICALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS4× · 2020–2024 · $219k · revenue +14%
- PCPitzer College3× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- 2C26 CHARITIES-AVAILABLE UPON REQUESTone grant, 2019 · $409k
- CICAKUF INSTITATE OF THE ARTSone grant, 2020 · $53k
- MSMILKEN SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $10k
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 university of la verne offers a distinctive and relevant educational experience to a diverse population of traditional-age, adult, and graduate learners, preparing them for successful careers and a commitment to lifelong learning…
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…
Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.
To produce, in a humanistic tradition, health care professionals and biomedical knowledge that will enhance and extend the quality of life in our communities.
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…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
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.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Los Angeles Leadership Academy and the most unlike its peers is Sun Valley Fire Department. 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 39 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) — 2% 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.
46 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. 46 of the 87 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 SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MACCABI WORLD UNION INC ↗
- Who funds Pitzer College ↗
- Who funds POWER TO DECIDE ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds The Space Idaho Inc ↗
- Who funds GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA ↗
- Who funds Sun Valley Community School Inc ↗
- Who funds CORNELL HILLEL ↗
- Who funds WOOD RIVER LAND TRUST CO ↗
- Who funds MACCABI USA INC ↗
- Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds ST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TOWER CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY FILM FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY 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: Spur Community Foundation Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Springcreek Foundation · Idaho Community Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Gift Fund · Sam and Peggy Grossman Family Foundation · Stewart Family Foundation · Boswell Family Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The New York Community Trust
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 Jonathan and Susan Dolgen Family Foundation Inc 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.