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Madeline & Marvin Gussman Family Foundation at a glance

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Madeline & Marvin Gussman 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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Health$1.2MHuman Services$875kCrime & Legal$150kFood & Nutrition$100kPublic Safety & Disaster$100k
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k10 grants · $700k
  • $250k+2 grants · $500k
$75,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC$250,000
CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER$250,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC$125,000
CHILDHELP INC$100,000
CHILDREN'S BURN FOUNDATION$100,000
HIRSHBERG FOUNDATION FOR PANCREATIC CANCER RESEAR$75,000
VISTA DEL MAR CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES$50,000
PROJECT ANGEL FOOD$50,000
THE RAPE FOUNDATION$50,000
THE THALIANS$50,000
JEFFREY FOUNDATION$50,000
BEVERLY HILLS FIREMEN'S RELIEF FUND$50,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $400k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHILDHELP INC: $100k → 11%VISTA DEL MAR CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES: $50k → 14%CHILDHELP INC: $100k → 11%VISTA DEL MAR CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES: $50k → 14%JEFFREY FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%JEFFREY FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 12 repeat orgs$75k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against -17% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
2

Total granted

$2.3M
$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
-17%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesPublic BenefitPhilanthropyCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER
    2× · 2023–2024 · $500k · revenue +26%
  • UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $450k · revenue +3%
  • CB
    CHILDREN'S BURN FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +244%

Funded once

  • BB
    BHPOA BENEVOLENT FUND
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -17%
  • UV
    US VETS - INGLEWOOD
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
John Muir Behavioral Health

John muir behavioral health provides psychiatric and substance abuse treatment in a 73-bed acute psychiatric hospital to children, adolescents, and adults and offers adolescent and adult treatment in a partial hospital and intensive…

Health
2
Direct Relief

Direct relief is a humanitarian aid organization, active in all 50 states and more than 80 countries, with a mission to improve the health and lives of people affected by poverty or emergencies - without regard to politics, religion, or…

International
3
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.

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4
Usc Care Medical Group Inc

To promote health by engaging in the practice of medicine for patients of hospitals affiliated with the university of southern california keck school of medicine and elsewhere. to provide medical care to the sick and injured who may come…

Health
5
Usc Verdugo Hills Hospital Foundation

To raise funds in order to support the operation of the usc verdugo hills hospital, an organization exempt under irc 501(c)(3).

Health
6
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
7
University of California Irvine Foundation

The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…

Education
8
Kfhpw Holdings

Supporting kaiser permanente organizations which provide high-quality, affordable health care services to improve the health of our members and the communities we serve.

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9
America's Health Insurance Plans Inc

Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…

Membership Benefit
10
Ucsf Health Medical Foundation

See schedule othe mission of ucsf health medical foundation is threefold: 1) to establish, operate and maintain medical clinics for the provision of healthcare services in california; 2) to promote health by providing, coordinating,…

Health
11
Pediatric and Family Medical Center Dba Eisner Health

Eisner health is a quality-focused, federally qualified nonprofit community health center dedicated to improving the physical, social, and emotional well-being of people in the communities we serve, regardless of income.

Health
12
California Health Foundation and Trust

Support access, research, and education in the fields of healthcare delivery, financing, and patient care.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Burn Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 14 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $500,000 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTERAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $225,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INCPROJECT ANGEL FOOD: $100,000 · HealthPROJECT ANGEL FOODCHILDREN'S BURN FOUNDATION: $200,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S BURN FOUNDATI…THE THALIANS: $100,000 · OtherTHE THALIANSBEVERLY HILLS FIREMEN'S RELIEF FUND: $100,000 · OtherBEVERLY HILLS FIREMEN'S …THE RAPE FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherTHE RAPE FOUNDATIONUS VETS - INGLEWOOD: $25,000 · OtherUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $450,000 · Public BenefitUNITED SERVICE ORGANI…CHILDHELP INC: $200,000 · Human ServicesCHILDHELP INCJEFFREY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Human ServicesJEFFREY FOUNDATIONVISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $100,000 · Human ServicesVISTA DEL MAR CHIL…HIRSHBERG FOUNDATION FOR PANCREATIC CANC: $150,000 · PhilanthropyBHPOA BENEVOLENT FUND: $50,000 · Crime & Legal
Health$825,000Other$525,000Public Benefit$450,000Human Services$400,000Philanthropy$150,000Crime & Legal$50,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $500,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $450,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $225,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S BURN FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetCHILDHELP INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHIRSHBERG FOUNDATION FOR PANCREATIC CANC: $150,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetTHE THALIANS: $100,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetBEVERLY HILLS FIREMEN'S RELIEF FUND: $100,000 over 2y, 55% of budgetJEFFREY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetVISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RAPE FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL FOOD: $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBHPOA BENEVOLENT FUND: $50,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Jewish Community Foun…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Community Foundation of Los AngelesCA13.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Madeline & Marvin Gussman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Madeline & Marvin Gussman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Madeline & Marvin Gussman Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Madeline & Marvin Gussman 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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