· Private foundation
Lynn & Les Bider 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $159k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $225k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER LA | $250,000 |
| THE AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE INC | $125,000 |
| TEMPLE BETH AM PRESSMAN ACADEMY | $50,000 |
| STEPHEN S WISE TEMPLE | $50,000 |
| BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION | $18,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | $15,500 |
| USC HILLEL | $15,000 |
| THE UCLA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE UCLA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ADL | $10,000 |
| BEIT T'SHUVAH | $10,000 |
| BEAUTY BUS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| JQ INTERNATIONAL | $10,000 |
| JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICES | $10,000 |
| THE WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of your 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Lynn & Les Bider Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
36 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 8 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $87k 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
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc3× · 2018–2024 · $225k · revenue +16%- WAWALLIS ANNENBERG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS6× · 2017–2022 · $135k · revenue +71%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HILLEL FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2024 · $115k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- JJDCone grant, 2020 · $65k
- AJAMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE DBA JCone grant, 2022 · $25k
- TFTHE FOUNDATION FOR CAMP BOB WALDORFgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +49%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Hebrew University Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. 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 32 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.
39 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. 39 of the 67 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 JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds WALLIS ANNENBERG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HILLEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HIDE AND SEEK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Beit T'Shuvah ↗
- Who funds JQ INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds BEAUTY BUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHAREWELL ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR CAMP BOB WALDORF ↗
- Who funds CAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds BEVERLY HILLS POLICE OFFICERS ASSN INC ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BHPOA BENEVOLENT FUND ↗
- Who funds BUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES INC ↗
- Who funds MATTHEW SILVERMAN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WISE READERS TO LEADERS ↗
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: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · California Community Foundation · The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation · Jewish Federation Council of Greater La · Richard and Ellen Sandler Family Foundation · The Cayton-Goldrich Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles Group · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Bob & Nita Hirsch Family Foundation · Warren and Elaine Breslow Family Foundation · Goldrich Family Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund
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 Lynn & Les Bider 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.
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.