California · Private foundation
Margolis 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.
- $451k
- Granted FY2023
- 20
- Grants FY2023
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
62% of Margolis Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Giving Back Fund Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 14 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Margolis Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 13 organizations, $451k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2023
- $12,203
- Largest grant, FY2023
- $89,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 20
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2023
- 7
- Total assets, FY2023
- $5.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 22% of the organizations Margolis Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 34% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $124k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 18 | $362k | 22% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $298k | 11% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $486k | 22% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $544k | 6% |
| FY2019 | 20 | $571k | 45% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $684k | 17% |
| FY2017 | 17 | $604k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hoag Hospital Foundation | $893,725 | 9 | 0% |
| University of Illinois Foundation | $312,400 | 9 | 0% |
| Segerstrom Center for the Arts | $225,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Pacific Symphony | $154,750 | 9 | 0% |
| Choc Foundation | $105,600 | 3 | 0% |
| Reut USA | $100,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Friends of Ir David Inc | $90,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Temple Bat Yahm | $84,897 | 2 | n/a |
| American Israel Education Foundation Inc | $75,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Wayne State Foundation | $70,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 31 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Margolis Family Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Jewish Community Foundation of Orange County · Samueli Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Orange County Community Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation · California Community Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
How this is measured
About Margolis Family Foundation
- How much does Margolis Family Foundation give?
- Margolis Family Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $451,278 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Margolis Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (25%), Health (22%), Philanthropy (21%).
- Who are Margolis Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Hoag Hospital Foundation ($894k), University of Illinois Foundation ($312k), Segerstrom Center for the Arts ($225k).
- Does Margolis Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Margolis 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 Margolis Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Community Foundation of Orange County, Samueli Foundation, Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc.
- Where is Margolis Family Foundation based?
- Margolis Family Foundation is based in CA.
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