· Private foundation
Lucille Ellis Simon 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 57% of LUCILLE ELLIS SIMON FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k80 grants · $272k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $124k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRAZIL FOUNDATION | $70,000 |
| MUSEUM ASSOCIATES - LACMA | $50,000 |
| UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE | $20,000 |
| RAND CORPORATION | $18,000 |
| BRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA | $16,000 |
| DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE | $15,000 |
| SHELTER PARTNERSHIP INC | $10,000 |
| THE MUSIC CENTER | $10,000 |
| CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER (WHC) | $10,000 |
| JEWISH NATIONAL FUND INC | $8,000 |
| PBS FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| THE UCLA - CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES | $8,000 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $7,500 |
| DIDI HIRSCH PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE | $7,500 |
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 (FY23–24, $87k) 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.
129 repeat relationships — 77 still active in FY2024, 52 since wound down; 6 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- BFBRAZIL FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $132k · revenue +10%
- MAMUSEUM ASSOCIATES2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +21%
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF2× · 2023–2024 · $48k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- MAMuseum Associates - LACMA, After School Programone grant, 2018 · $50k
- MAMuseum Associates - LACMAone grant, 2022 · $50k
- HSHarvard-Westlake Schoolone grant, 2018 · $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.
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…
The organization's mission is to promote the collective voice of a diverse coalition of organizations and individuals working to eliminate all forms of domestic violence. as an advocate for sociate change, we advance our mission by…
We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
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…
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.
Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.
The anti-recidivism coalition (arc) works to end mass incarceration in california. to ensure our communities are safe, healthy, and whole, arc empowers formerly and currently incarcerated people to thrive by providing a support network,…
Latino Media Collaborative's mission is to leverage the power of Latino and community news media to impact policy, change narratives, and promote civic engagement, while also supporting advancement of the sector through capacity building,…
California latinas for reproductive justice (clrj) is a statewide organization committed to honoring the experiences of latinas to uphold our dignity, our bodies, sexuality, and families. we build latinas' power and cultivate leadership…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The National Museum of Women in the Arts. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 48 years old; the field is 15. 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.
75 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. 75 of the 175 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 BRAZIL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds The Rand Corporation ↗
- Who funds BRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Defenders of Wildlife ↗
- Who funds SHELTER PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds PBS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds DIDI HIRSCH PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE ↗
- Who funds PARA LOS NINOS ↗
- Who funds AMANECER COMMUNITY COUNSELING SERVICE A NON-PROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Wayfinder Family Services ↗
- Who funds VENICE FAMILY CLINIC ↗
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: The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · California Community Foundation · S Mark Taper Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · QueensCare · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The California Wellness Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Green Foundation · Shelter Partnership 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 Lucille Ellis Simon 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% 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.