· Private foundation
Lee Graff 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 $10k5 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $138k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BREAK THE CHAIN KENNEL KRU | $40,000 |
| Segerstrom Center For The Arts | $25,000 |
| CHOC FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| OSHA FOUNDATION | $19,000 |
| LA PHILHARMONIC HOLLYWOOD BOWL | $17,504 |
| SCHS GIRLS SOCCER BOOSTER CLUB | $16,000 |
| TIM TEBOW FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| CATCHING HOPE FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| PET PROJECT FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| DREAM FETCHERS | $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 (FY17–24, $40k) 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.
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.
22 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 4 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- IAINNER-CITY ARTS7× · 2017–2023 · $395k · revenue +44%
- BTBREAK THE CHAIN KENNEL KRU INC5× · 2021–2025 · $95k · revenue +60% · 28% of their budget
- SCSegerstrom Center for the Arts5× · 2021–2025 · $90k · revenue +73%
Funded once
- MEMAKO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $16k
- NFNoble Friends Foundation OCACone grant, 2021 · $10k
- CDCHRISTOPHER DANA REEVE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $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.
Friends of Orange County's Homeless Pets (FOCHP) is a licensed 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Our mission is to make homeless and unwanted pets more adoptable and provide them the opportunity to find lifelong families. This mission…
In addition to rescue and adoption, pet orphans provides a wide range of services including education, medical/financial, spay/neuter, and training assistance.
Rescuing medium to large breed dogs and puppies from high kill shelters and unsafe conditions. We give each animal proper vet care, vaccinations, rehabilitation, microchipping and basic training to secure their future in a Furever home.
Providing shelter for domestic animals, through rescue, rehabilitation, adoption, and sanctuary and act as an advocate for the humane treatment of animals. to educate the public regarding the responsibilities of pet ownership, as well as…
Animal rescue and prepares animals for adoption. provides needed medical care and supplies. care servcies are provided through foster homes.
Our mission is to save dogs in distressing conditions on both sides of the California/Mexican border. We provide them with essential medical treatment and care to help them regain their health, and ultimately match them with loving homes…
To rescue shelter, abandoned and neglected dogs and find appropriate permanent homes through adoption, education and awareness to the public about the understanding of humane animal care and the importance of spaying and neutering.
To decrease the total number of animals being euthanised
To help homeless pets find their forever home. it includes fostering, medicdal and microchipping them.
We specialize in saving the most at-risk and critical needs dogs facing unnecessary euthanasia in our local shelters. We provide every resource they need to ultimately become adoptable to their perfect forever home.
Animal rescue project saves homeless pets, one at a time, and offers socially responsible adoption services to those seeking the companionship of pets. by providing medical care to homeless pets, providing temporary shelter to them, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Assistance Ministries and the most unlike its peers is Allys Animal Rescue. 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 28 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 42 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 INNER-CITY ARTS ↗
- Who funds BREAK THE CHAIN KENNEL KRU INC ↗
- Who funds Segerstrom Center for the Arts ↗
- Who funds GENIUS SCHOOL US ↗
- Who funds HOLY FAMILY SERVICES ADOPTION AND FOSTER CARE ↗
- Who funds CHOC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE SEA LIONS INC DBA PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Orange County Rescue Mission Inc ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BRADLEYS BEAUTIFUL BOUQUETS INC BRADLEY ROFER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JF SHEA THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC FKA FRAN JOSWICK THERAP RIDING CTR INC ↗
- Who funds PET PROJECT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DREAM FETCHERS ↗
- Who funds KERSHAW'S CHALLENGE ↗
- Who funds THE LOS ANGELES DODGERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Allys Animal Rescue ↗
- Who funds The Happiness Project Inc ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HANAELEH ↗
- Who funds TIM TEBOW FOUNDATION 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: Network for Good · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Lee Graff 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.
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.