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Kleiner Cohen Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k29 grants · $89k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE VIKING CHARITIES | $20,000 |
| CONCERN FOUNDATION | $9,700 |
| SHERIFF'S YOUTH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BUCK FROM BOBBY FND | $5,000 |
| LAS DORADAS | $4,000 |
| AQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC | $4,000 |
| BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF WEST VALLEY | $4,000 |
| BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA MONICA | $4,000 |
| BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF BURBANK | $4,000 |
| BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF LA HARBOR | $4,000 |
| VARIETY BOYS GIRLS CLUB | $4,000 |
| BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF WHITTIER | $4,000 |
| BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF METRO LA | $4,000 |
| HOLLENBECK POLICE BUS COUNCIL | $2,500 |
| CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT | $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 (FY17–25, $104k) 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.
56 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- VCVIKING CHARITIES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $180k · revenue +861%
- CFCONCERN FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $73k · revenue +30%
- AOAQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC CORPORATION9× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- HOHUGH O'BRIAN YOUTH LEADERSHIPone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -25%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $2k
- CICATALINA ISLAND SEARCH & RESCUE TEAMgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue +43%
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 la conservation corps creates equitable opportunities for young people to build resilience in themselves, their communities and the environment through a program of work, education and support.
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…
Spcala is dedicated to the prevention of cruelty to animals through education, law enforcement, intervention and advocacy.
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…
After-school all-stars provides out-of-school time academic, tutoring, mentoring, career-readiness, sports and recreation, health and wellness, and other education and enrichment prpograms to underserved and vulnerable youth and families…
We inspire and educate young minds through engaging science-based programs and exhibits to create a meaningful impact on the communities we serve.
The purpose of passion la is to reach urban youth of los angeles with the love and message of jesus christ, bring them into christian community, and lead them to a life of christian discipleship, service and leadership.
The league of california community foundations promotes and strengthens community foundations in california. through collaboration and shared learning among member foundations and building partnerships with private and public entities, we…
Family promise of the south bay assists families experiencing housing insecurity with short-term shelter, case management, and navigation with the goal of creating a sustainable solution for their family.
Our mission is to mobilize community volunteers to advocate for children who have experienced abuse and neglect. our vision is a los angeles where every child in the welfare system has an advocate and the opportunity to thrive.
To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as healthy, caring, and responsible adults.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Para Los Ninos and the most unlike its peers is Viking Charities Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 41 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 — 3% 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 65 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 VIKING CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds CONCERN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHERIFFS YOUTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds LAS DORADAS ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF VENICE ↗
- Who funds Children of the Night ↗
- Who funds LA'S BEST ↗
- Who funds SANTA CATALINA ISLAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Allies for Every Child Inc ↗
- Who funds PARA LOS NINOS ↗
- Who funds Wayfinder Family Services ↗
- Who funds JEWISH BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds READING TO KIDS ↗
- Who funds GUIDED DISCOVERIES INC ↗
- Who funds PATH ↗
- Who funds A PLACE CALLED HOME ↗
- Who funds STRIVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Free Arts dba Free Arts for Abused Children ↗
- Who funds Long Beach Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Blind Childrens Center Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF WEST LOS ANGELES 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: California Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Green Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Los Angeles Trial Lawyers' Charities a Ca Non Profit Public Benefit Corp · Gary E Milgard Family Foundation-Lori · The Deutsch Foundation · Joseph Drown 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 Kleiner Cohen 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
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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