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Laura & Harvey Alpert 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.

$117k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$31k
Largest
01What you fund
0191% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Philanthropy$279kArts & Culture$202kEducation$111kHuman Services$99kReligion$85kHealth$73kEnvironment$56kRecreation & Sports$18kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $83k
$2,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$91k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE JEWISH FEDERATION$30,800
Individual grant recipient$25,000
CENTER THEATRE GROUP$15,000
STEPHEN S WISE TEMPLE$12,000
THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGEL$9,000
GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE$5,000
USS MIDWAY MUSEUM$3,900
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL NAVY$2,500
THE HARMONY PROJECT$2,500
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND$2,000
LOS ANGELES TRADE TECH COLLEGE$2,000
CEDARS SINAI$2,000
THE US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM$1,500
BEVERLY HILLS POLICE OFFICERS BENEV$1,000
MARITIME MUSEUM OF SAN DIEGO$500
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–20, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.

area typical 10%VISTA DEL MAR: $250 → 14%VISTA DEL MAR: $250 → 14%VISTA DEL MAR: $250 → 14%VISTA DEL MAR: $250 → 14%BEVERLY HILLS WOMEN'S CLUB: $350 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$969k · 48 repeat orgs$103k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

48 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
50

Total granted

$969k
$69k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+23%

Still filing today

50%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthEnvironmentPublic BenefitInternationalOther

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

  • TL
    THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES
    9× · 2017–2025 · $42k · revenue +16%
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES JEWISH HOME FOR THE AGING
    4× · 2017–2020 · $35k · revenue +37%
  • CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER
    8× · 2017–2025 · $32k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $8k
  • A
    ALS
    one grant, 2021 · $7k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
2
University of Southern California

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…

Education
3
Los Angeles World Affairs Council and Town Hall

The organization is a non-partisan, membership based speakers' forum that connects business leaders, community members, and engaged individuals with shared interest in local, national, and global affairs. it provides an open and accessible…

International
4
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
5
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

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…

6
Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center Inc

The hammer museum at ucla believes in the promise of art and ideas to illuminate our lives and build a more just world.

Arts & Culture
7
Los Angeles Opera Company

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…

Arts & Culture
8
The Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation

The jonsson cancer center foundation is the single most important vehicle for raising private funds for cancer research at ucla and plays a key role in advancing cancer treatments and care. please see schedule o for additional information.

9
University of Southern California Hillel Foundation

To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…

10
Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles

We steward $1.5 billion in charitable assets through donor-advised funds, endowments, and other giving vehicles. partnering with 1,400 individuals, families, and organizations, we build enduring legacies and multigenerational impact. in…

Philanthropy
11
Association of California School Administrators

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.

12
California Dental Association Foundation

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.

Science & Tech

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of Robinson Gardens Inc and the most unlike its peers is Beverly Hills Womens Club. 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 35 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr18%38%20–35yr11%21%35–55yr12%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr18%28%20–35yr11%14%35–55yr12%49%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/52
the rest of the field
14%
12,737/89,870

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.

04the grantee network

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 46 of the 105 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/46
Grantees still filing
35/46
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE JEWISH FEDERATION — $248,435 · OtherTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONIndividual grant recipient — $96,960 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSTEPHEN S WISE TEMPLE — $76,065 · OtherSTEPHEN S WISE TEMPLEIFSA FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP — $52,000 · OtherIFSA FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIPFRIENDS OF VIRGINIA ROBINSON GARDEN — $45,300 · OtherFRIENDS OF VIRGINIA ROBINSON GARDENTHE SALVATION ARMY — $40,056 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYIndividual grant recipient — $25,000 · Other+67 more — $165,507 · Other+67 moreCENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES — $100,040 · Arts & CultureCENTER THEATRE…GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC — $12,782 · Arts & CultureGEFFEN PLAYHOU…WALLIS ANNENBERG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $12,500 · Arts & CultureWALLIS ANNENBE…FRACTURED ATLAS INC — $5,000 · Arts & Culture+9 more — $13,520 · Arts & Culture+9 moreTHE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES — $42,160 · EducationTHE LIBRA…Harmony Project — $28,260 · EducationHarmony P…HAMBURGER HOME — $19,750 · EducationHAMBURGER…+5 more — $1,800 · EducationLOS ANGELES JEWISH HOME FOR THE AGING — $35,450 · Community ImprovementCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $31,818 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $1,600 · Health+3 more — $1,400 · HealthSilicon Valley Community Foundation — $26,100 · PhilanthropyTHE INTANDEM FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF ROBINSON GARDENS INC — $21,450 · Environment+1 more — $360 · Environment
Other$749,323Arts & Culture$143,842Education$91,970Community Improvement$35,450Health$34,818Philanthropy$27,100Environment$21,810

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES — $100,040 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES — $42,160 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES JEWISH HOME FOR THE AGING — $35,450 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $31,818 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHarmony Project — $28,260 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSilicon Valley Community Foundation — $26,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF ROBINSON GARDENS INC — $21,450 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetHAMBURGER HOME — $19,750 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC — $12,782 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWALLIS ANNENBERG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $6,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC — $4,150 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC — $3,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $3,720 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA — $2,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $1,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF ELNET — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBEVERLY HILLS POLICE OFFICERS ASSN INC — $1,450 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $1,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES MISSION INC — $1,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INTANDEM FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGRAND PERFORMANCES — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES BALLET INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES — $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBEVERLY HILLS FIREMENS ASSOCIATION — $1,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetONEGENERATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMY STUFF BAGS FOUNDATION — $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOJAI VALLEY SCHOOL — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCLIMATE RIDE INC — $360 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBeverly Hills Womens Club — $350 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBEVERLY HILLS THEATRE GUILD — $350 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSAINT JOHN'S CANCER INSTITUTE — $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S BURN FOUNDATION — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES CITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPets for Vets Inc — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALS Network — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 CENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES
  • Who funds THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES JEWISH HOME FOR THE AGING
  • Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER
  • Who funds Harmony Project
  • Who funds Silicon Valley Community Foundation
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF ROBINSON GARDENS INC
  • Who funds HAMBURGER HOME
  • Who funds GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC
  • Who funds WALLIS ANNENBERG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC
  • Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC
  • Who funds COAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds USS MIDWAY MUSEUM
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC
  • Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

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.

California Community FoundationCA19.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · The Stanley & Joyce Black Family Foundation · The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation · The Karsh Family Foundation · Strauss Foundation Td · Sempra Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

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 Laura & Harvey Alpert 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.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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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    How do I get to Laura & Harvey Alpert Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Laura & Harvey Alpert Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 105 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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