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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 FY2025still arriving
51
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$81kCivil Rights$37kHuman Services$35kPhilanthropy$27kScience & Tech$25kPublic Benefit$18kInternational$18kAnimals$16kOther$0
02FY2025 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k49 grants · $57k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
$500
Median grant
14
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UCLA FOUNDATION$35,000
MALDEF$10,000
OUR VOICE COMMUNITY FOR QUALITY EDUCATION$6,800
FRIENDS OF THE VERITONES$5,000
SMITHOSIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE$5,000
JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION$4,000
ROBESON EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH$3,000
CITY OF HOPE$2,500
UNIDOS US$2,073
THOMAS JEFFERSON EX-STUDENT ASSOCIATION$2,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$2,000
PARTNERS IN HEALTH$1,890
PROJECT ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT$1,500
ACTBLUE CHARITIES$1,100
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL USA$1,032
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $1k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UNBOUND: $100 → 16%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN LOS ANGELES: $100 → 14%AIDS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $1k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
IL
MI
NY
MA
SD
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
DE
NM
KS
TN
DC
HI
OK
LA
AL
TX
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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$174k · 59 repeat orgs$86k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

59 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

59
67

Total granted

$174k
$63k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+7%

Still filing today

54%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureInternationalEducationPublic BenefitPhilanthropyOther
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

  • CL
    Community Lawyers Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $5k · revenue +249%
  • PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $5k · revenue +4%
  • LD
    LATINO DONOR COLLABORATIVE INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $4k · revenue +71%

Funded once

  • CT
    CALIFORNIA THOROUGHBRED HORSEMEN'S FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +7%
  • HC
    HARVARD COLLEGE FUND
    one grant, 2024 · $6k
  • DI
    DOVE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +9%
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
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

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2
Los Angeles World Affairs Council and Town Hall

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…

International
3
American Law Institute

The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…

Crime & Legal
4
Washington Office On Latin America

To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.

International
5
American Association of University Women Inc

Aauw advances gender equity for women and girls through research, education, and advocacy.

Education
6
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
7
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
8
Latino Corporate Directors Association

Lcda serves as an advocate and resource to corporate boards, search firms, private equity, and institutional investors interested in gaining access to exceptional latino board talent.

Education
9
University of Southern California

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…

Education
10
American Civil Liberties Union Inc

As noted in its articles of incorporation, the mission of the aclu is "to maintain and advance civil liberties, including, without limitation, the freedoms of association, press, religion and speech, and the rights to the franchise, to due…

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11
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
12
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Mayor's Fund for Los Angeles; the most unlike its peers is 8 Ball Emergency Fund for Journalists. 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

68 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 68 of the 150 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/68
Grantees still filing
40/68
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION: $28,555 · OtherJEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATIONCITY OF HOPE: $11,000 · OtherCITY OF HOPEUNIDOSUS: $7,673 · OtherOUR VOICE COMMUNITY FOR QUALITY EDUCATION: $7,300 · OtherFEEDING AMERICA: $6,850 · Other+112 more: $121,457 · Other+112 moreUCLA FOUNDATION: $43,750 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIONPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $18,300 · EducationPresident and Fellows of …JEFFERSON EX-STUDENT ASSOCIATION: $4,300 · EducationJEFFERSON EX-STUDENT ASSO…+5 more: $7,070 · Education+5 moreMALDEF - MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND: $18,150 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $900 · Civil Rights+1 more: $250 · Civil RightsCALIFORNIA THOROUGHBRED HORSEMEN'S FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · Membership BenefitPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $4,870 · HealthBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION: $3,038 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,569 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $1,000 · HealthCLINICA MSR OSCAR A ROMERO: $500 · Health+4 more: $625 · HealthLIDERAMOS THE LATINO LEADERSHIP ALLIANCE: $6,000 · Public BenefitPROJECT ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT INC: $3,314 · Public BenefitPUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC: $1,400 · Public Benefit+1 more: $25 · Public BenefitMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $3,450 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc: $2,095 · InternationalEMPOWERS AFRICA INC: $2,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $1,770 · International+4 more: $572 · International
Other$182,835Education$73,420Civil Rights$19,300Membership Benefit$15,000Health$11,602Public Benefit$10,739International$9,887

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $43,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION: $28,555 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $18,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMALDEF - MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND: $18,150 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA THOROUGHBRED HORSEMEN'S FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUNIDOSUS: $7,673 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLIDERAMOS THE LATINO LEADERSHIP ALLIANCE: $6,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetCommunity Lawyers Inc: $5,324 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetDOVE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $4,870 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLATINO DONOR COLLABORATIVE INC: $3,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $3,450 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT INC: $3,314 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION: $3,038 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC: $2,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $2,095 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEMPOWERS AFRICA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASSOCIATED STUDENTS UCLA: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACTBLUE CHARITIES INC: $1,798 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $1,770 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHarvard Club of Southern California: $1,750 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $1,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,569 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC: $1,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES MISSION INC: $1,324 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION: $1,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $1,220 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNICARAGUAN CHILDRENS FRIENDSHIP COMMITTEE: $1,200 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetJEWISH PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE OF CALIFORNIA: $1,030 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES MUSIC AND ART SCHOOL: $1,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetANDREW NORMAN FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetME TO WE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPASADENA VOCAL COMPETITION: $1,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetAMERICAN BAR FOUNDATION: $900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $850 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARVARD MAGAZINE INC: $550 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMORTIMER AND MIMI LEVITT FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLINICA MSR OSCAR A ROMERO: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAW N PAWS: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAWT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCitizens United Foundation: $450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUSIC ARTS AND COMMUNITY LOS ANGELES: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budget8 BALL EMERGENCY FUND FOR JOURNALISTS: $300 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

  • Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds MALDEF - MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA THOROUGHBRED HORSEMEN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIDOSUS ↗
  • Who funds LIDERAMOS THE LATINO LEADERSHIP ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds Community Lawyers Inc ↗
  • Who funds DOVE INC ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds JEFFERSON EX-STUDENT ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds LATINO DONOR COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT INC ↗
  • Who funds BILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
  • Who funds EMPOWERS AFRICA INC ↗
  • Who funds ASSOCIATED STUDENTS UCLA ↗
  • Who funds ACTBLUE CHARITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
  • Who funds Harvard Club of Southern California ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗

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.

California Community …S Mark Taper Foundati…Weingart FoundationArthur J Gallagher Fo…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Verizon FoundationLocal Initiatives Sup…Renaissance Charitabl…Raymond James Charita…Morgan Stanley Global…Charities Aid Foundat…Network for Good
California Community FoundationCA16.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Mandel Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mandel Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Dove Inc: 60% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • The Childrens Museum: 1% of income from government
  • Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.

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 150 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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