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Llww 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $110k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $502k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTER FOR CURATORIAL STUDIES BARD COLLEGE | $250,000 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS | $102,000 |
| CENTER FOR CURATORIAL STUDIES BARD COLLEGE | $100,000 |
| LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART (LACMA) | $100,000 |
| CALIFORNIA HERITAGE MUSEUM | $50,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $50,000 |
| ELINGS PARK FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| READING IS FUNDAMENTAL OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC | $50,000 |
| MUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INC DBA ASPEN MUSIC FESTIVAL AND SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART | $20,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC | $15,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES | $15,000 |
| CATALINA ISLAND MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| CARIBOU HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| PS1 CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER INC | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $18k) 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.
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 +29% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
43 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 3 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; $65k 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
- ICINNER CITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2022 · $325k · revenue +89%
- CHCALIFORNIA HERITAGE MUSEUM6× · 2018–2024 · $285k · revenue +25% · 30% of their budget
- SRSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION4× · 2018–2023 · $250k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- KIKAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $50k
- HEHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERYone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -4%
- PGPhilip Glass Center for the Artsone grant, 2018 · $25k
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 monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.
To integrate art into the lives of people, fostering imagination, stimulating thought, and creating personally rewarding experiences.
The museum of contemporary art san diego invites all audiences to experience our world, our region, and ourselves through the prism of contemporary art.
Through its exhibitions and outreach programs, the institute of contemporary art, los angeles fosters diversity, innovation, and discovery in contemporary art - local, national, and international.
The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…
See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…
The purpose of the Foundation is to promote understanding and appreciation of the arts, to collect and exhibit significant works of art, & to manage and support an institution where these works of art may be housed and displayed for the…
The specific purpose of this corporation is to: expand knowledge and appreciation of modern and contemporary latin american tine art that has been created since world war ii; to operate a museum; to collect and display latin american…
To present the breadth of california art and design through exhibitions that explore the cultural dynamics and influence that are unique to california.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles and the most unlike its peers is Portal Schools. 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 49 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% 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.
56 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. 56 of the 72 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 Portal Schools ↗
- Who funds INNER CITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA HERITAGE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES OPERA COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds LOBERO THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds READING IS FUNDAMENTAL OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds PIH Health Good Samaritan Hospital ↗
- Who funds GANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND ↗
- Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ALLEGHENIES MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA LYME FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BYRD HOFFMAN WATER MILL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ELINGS PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PERFORMING ARTS CENTER OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds HENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY ↗
- Who funds VENICE FAMILY CLINIC ↗
- Who funds PS 1 CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER 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 Annenberg Foundation · The Kenneth T and Eileen L Norris Foundation · Pasadena Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Www Foundation · The J Paul Getty Trust · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Brittingham Family Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · The Confidence 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 Llww 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.
- Edith Wharton Restoration Inc — 1% 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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