California · Private foundation
Mandel Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $102k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 51
- Grants FY2025
- 55
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $35,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 35 to 55
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Mandel Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 48% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 50 | $67k | 40% |
| FY2024 | 55 | $58k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 52 | $43k | 48% |
| FY2022 | 44 | $41k | 48% |
| FY2021 | 35 | $25k | 46% |
| FY2020 | 42 | $26k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish Free Loan Association | $28,555 | 4 | 0% |
| Maldef - Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund | $18,150 | 6 | 0% |
| California Thoroughbred Horsemen's Foundation Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Unidosus | $7,673 | 5 | 0% |
| Lideramos the Latino Leadership Alliance | $6,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Community Lawyers Inc | $5,324 | 6 | 1% |
| Dove Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation | $4,870 | 3 | 0% |
| Jefferson Ex-Student Association | $4,300 | 4 | n/a |
| Latino Donor Collaborative Inc | $3,500 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 73 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 73 recipients with no EIN on record ($98k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mandel Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · S Mark Taper Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Verizon Foundation · Local Initiatives Support Corporation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Network for Good
How this is measured
About Mandel Family Foundation
- How much does Mandel Family Foundation give?
- Mandel Family Foundation reported 51 grants totaling $101,768 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 55 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Mandel Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (25%), Civil Rights (12%), Human Services (11%).
- Who are Mandel Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Jewish Free Loan Association ($29k), Maldef - Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund ($18k), California Thoroughbred Horsemen's Foundation Inc ($15k).
- Does Mandel Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mandel Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Mandel Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, S Mark Taper Foundation, Weingart Foundation.
- Where is Mandel Family Foundation based?
- Mandel Family Foundation is based in CA.
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