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.

Margolis Family Foundation

Margolis Family Foundation at a glance

· 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

Grants FY2023

States reached

$89k

Largest

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

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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$1.3MHealth$1.2MPhilanthropy$1.1MEducation$498kInternational$475kArts & Culture$389kHuman Services$238kCivil Rights$18kOther$0

02FY2023 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k7 grants · $22k
$10k–50k9 grants · $159k
$50k–250k4 grants · $270k

$12,203

Median grant

States reached

$5.1M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
JEWISH FEDERATION & FAMILY SERVICES	$89,000
AMERICA ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION	$75,000
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION	$53,600
HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION	$52,075
CENTRAL FUND OF ISRAEL	$36,000
SEGERSTROM CENTER FOR THE ARTS	$25,000
REUT USA	$20,000
CONGREGATION HAR HASHEM	$18,000
PACIFIC SYMPHONY	$18,000
TEMPLE BAT YAHM	$12,203
CHABAD AT UCI	$10,000
FRIENDS OF IR DAVID	$10,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD-ORANGE COUNTY	$10,000
UC IRVINE FOUNDATION	$7,000
WAYNE STATE FOUNDATION	$6,000

02The need

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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 37% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$3.9M · 27 repeat orgs$271k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against -23% for those funded once.

27 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2023, 13 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.9M

$99k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%

-23%

Still filing today

59%

36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureHealthInternationalReligionPhilanthropyOther

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

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HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
9× · 2017–2025 · $894k · revenue +300%
University of Illinois Foundation
9× · 2017–2025 · $312k · revenue +127%
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Segerstrom Center for the Arts
9× · 2017–2025 · $225k · revenue +57%

Funded once

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AIEF
one grant, 2022 · $75k
WS
WAYNE STREET FOUNDATION
one grant, 2019 · $6k
IF
INTEGRITY FIRST FOR AMERICA INC
one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -95%

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.

The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.

Arts & Culture

University of Judaism Foundation

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The Israel Institute Inc

The israel institute, inc. (the institute) enhances knowledge about modern israel by ensuring that more students have access to courses about israel during their time on campus.

International

American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International

The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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One for Israel

One for israel's purposes are to unite u.s. and international churches, ministries and individuals for the proclamation of the gospel in israel, to raise funds for evangelism and gospel proclamation, to provide tangible relief for israel's…

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The Shalem Foundation

To promote and foster the creation of a zionist intellectual infrastructure for the state of israel, the development of a jewish national culture, and the establishment and promotion of intellectual and economic liberty.

Crime & Legal

Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy

Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech

Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc

See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…

Philanthropy

University of Southern California Hillel Foundation

To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…

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American Friends of Bar-Ilan University

We fundraise in the u.s. to support, and raise awareness of, bar-ilan university in israel.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Funders Network; the most unlike its peers is The Blossom Siegel Family Foundation. 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

34 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. 34 of the 55 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

33/34

Grantees still filing

18/34

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,938,842Philanthropy$1,130,110Health$1,018,851Education$489,600Arts & Culture$488,350International$204,600Religion$42,300

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

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 Foundation of Orange CountyCA22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home