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Lustig Family 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.

$741k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192024.

Health$578kArts & Culture$500kEducation$490kReligion$260kHuman Services$251kPhilanthropy$200kRecreation & Sports$25kFood & Nutrition$20k
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $228k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $250k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$25,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Miliken Center for AD$250,000
The Jewish Federation$100,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
Brothers for Life$50,000
LACMA$50,000
University of Texas$25,000
Phase One - The Road to Curing Cancer$25,000
David Foster Foundation$25,000
Sinai Temple$25,000
Rett Syndrome$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
Brentwood School$20,000
ADL$15,000
Race to Erase MS$12,500
Teens For Food Justice$10,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Shalom Park: $5k → 8%Teens For Food Justice: $10k → 17%Shalom Park: $5k → 8%Teens For Food Justice: $10k → 17%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.

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.9M · 16 repeat orgs$325k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
2

Total granted

$1.9M
$225k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+116%

Still filing today

44%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationOther

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

  • BS
    BRENTWOOD SCHOOL
    4× · 2019–2024 · $490k · revenue +6%
  • RT
    RACE TO ERASE MS
    2× · 2023–2024 · $38k · revenue +10%
  • B
    BABY2BABY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $30k · revenue +72%

Funded once

  • MC
    Milken Center for AD
    one grant, 2022 · $200k
  • WH
    WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +116%

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
Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation

The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…

2
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

3
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
4
Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy
5
Jewish Voice Ministries Intl

To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…

6
Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis

Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.

Human Services
7
Sandler Foundation

The foundation operates exclusively for charitable, educational or religious purposes by conducting or supporting activities for the benefit of, or to carry out the purposes of the jewish community federation of san francisco, the…

Philanthropy
8
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
9
Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech
10
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.

11
Chelsea Jewish Lifecare Inc

The organization's mission is to manage a continuum of senior care business lines that consistently provide high-quality compassionate care while focusing on the development of innovative programs and services that enable individuals to…

Health
12
Abraham Joshua Heschel Day School

Abraham joshua heschel day school cultivates students' natural sense of wonder into an exceptionally rich education that encourages critical thinking, creativity, and compassion. in partnership with our families, we inspire our students to…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Communal Fund and the most unlike its peers is Phase One Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 24 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Miliken Center for AD — $450,000 · OtherMiliken Center for ADWILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLE — $200,000 · OtherWILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLEMilken Center for AD — $200,000 · OtherMilken Center for ADLACMA — $150,000 · OtherLACMAIndividual grant recipient — $150,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientThe Jewish Federation — $150,000 · OtherThe Jewish Federation+8 more — $238,500 · Other+8 moreBRENTWOOD SCHOOL — $490,000 · EducationBRENTWOOD SCHOOLBrothers for Life — $125,000 · Arts & CultureWHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION — $25,000 · Arts & CultureJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND — $50,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISHColorado — $10,000 · PhilanthropyPHASE ONE FOUNDATION — $25,000 · HealthTHE DAVID FOSTER FOUNDATION — $25,000 · HealthGLOBAL DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION — $5,000 · HealthTEENS FOR FOOD JUSTICE INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesSHALOM PARK — $10,000 · Human Services
Other$1,538,500Education$490,000Arts & Culture$150,000Philanthropy$60,000Health$55,000Human Services$30,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBRENTWOOD SCHOOL — $490,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBrothers for Life — $125,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRACE TO ERASE MS — $37,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetBABY2BABY — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPHASE ONE FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DAVID FOSTER FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTEENS FOR FOOD JUSTICE INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetJEWISHColorado — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHALOM PARK — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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 BRENTWOOD SCHOOL
  • Who funds Brothers for Life
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND
  • Who funds RACE TO ERASE MS
  • Who funds BABY2BABY
  • Who funds PHASE ONE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds THE DAVID FOSTER FOUNDATION
  • Who funds TEENS FOR FOOD JUSTICE INC
  • Who funds JEWISHColorado
  • Who funds SHALOM PARK
  • Who funds GLOBAL DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Lustig Family 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Lustig Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Lustig Family 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 24 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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