· Private foundation
Judith Knell Binder Family Foundation
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
58% of Judith Knell Binder Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Jewish Federation Of Orange County, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 7 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Judith Knell Binder Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $76k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k6 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION & FAMILY SERVICE | $39,500 |
| TEMPLE SOLEL | $10,000 |
| TEMPLE BAT YAHM | $10,000 |
| HERITAGE POINTE | $7,000 |
| PACIFIC RIDGE SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB GREATER CONEJO VALLEY | $2,500 |
| REINS OF HOPE | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $300 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JHJEWISH HOME FOR THE AGING OF ORANGE COUNTY6× · 2019–2024 · $63k · revenue +4%
- SBSOLANA BEACH SCHOOLS FOUNDATION4× · 2019–2022 · $12k · revenue +13%
- PRPACIFIC RIDGE SCHOOL3× · 2022–2024 · $11k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- BCBIKUR CHOLIMone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -63%
- MSMONARCH SCHOOL PROJECTgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +46%
- SBSOLANA BEACH BACKPACKS FOR KIDS INCone grant, 2022 · $3k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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How this is measured
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 19 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH HOME FOR THE AGING OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SOLANA BEACH SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC RIDGE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of Greater Conejo Valley Inc ↗
- Who funds Segerstrom Center for the Arts ↗
- Who funds REINS OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds BIKUR CHOLIM ↗
- Who funds MONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Dianne H Ruthman Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Jewish Community Foundation of Orange County · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Sempra Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Judith Knell Binder Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Judith Knell Binder Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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