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Max Factor Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$730k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$275k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Human Services$1.8MHealth$648kArts & Culture$448kInternational$435kEducation$415kPublic Safety & Disaster$265kPhilanthropy$260kFood & Nutrition$175kOther$0
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k17 grants · $355k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
  • $250k+1 grant · $275k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE JEWISH FEDERATION$275,000
JEWISH COUNCIL FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS$50,000
FARM2PEOPLE$50,000
TEACH DEMOCRACY$25,000
HEAL THE BAY$25,000
AMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY$25,000
ETTA$25,000
RESETTING THE TABLE$25,000
DANCE AND DIALOGUE$20,000
OPICA$20,000
NEW WAYS TO WORK$20,000
CROP SWAP LA$20,000
LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION$20,000
MATERNAL MENTAL HEALTH NOW$20,000
ACHIEVABLE HEALTH$20,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $315k) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE ACHIEVABLE FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%A SENSE OF HOME: $10k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $20k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $10k → 14%JUNIOR BLIND OF AMERICA: $20k → 14%WAYFINDER FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 14%PROYECTO PASTORAL: $25k → 14%SHOES THAT FIT: $15k → 14%FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $50k → 14%MEND: $25k → 14%MEND: $25k → 14%MEND: $20k → 14%A SENSE OF HOME: $20k → 14%A SENSE OF HOME: $15k → 14%THE VILLAGE FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.2M · 27 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +96% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

27 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
59

Total granted

$3.2M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+96%
+25%

Still filing today

63%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $305k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • FL
    Fuente Latina Inc
    2× · 2018–2021 · $100k · revenue +301%
  • TD
    Teach Democracy
    4× · 2019–2024 · $95k · revenue +223%
  • BT
    BET TZEDEK
    4× · 2017–2023 · $87k · revenue +123%

Funded once

  • OF
    ORGANIZATION FOR SOCIAL MEDIA SAFETY
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -1%
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES LGTB CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • PL
    PARA LOS NINOS STUDENT SUPPORT
    one grant, 2022 · $50k

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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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2
South Central Family Health Center

To improve the quality of life for the diverse communities we serve providing affordable and comprehensive healthcare and education in a welcoming multi-cultural environment.

Health
3
Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.

Health
4
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
5
Altamed Health Services Corporation

To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.

Health
6
Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles

Jfsla's mission is to provide life-improving services that help the people of los angeles live with dignity and exercise self-determination. we believe in and strive for a more compassionate los angeles where no one has to navigate life…

Human Services
7
California Dental Association

The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.

Community Improvement
8
Los Angeles Opera Company

To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…

Arts & Culture
9
The California Channel

To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…

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10
California Dental Association Foundation

The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.

Science & Tech
11
Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd

Huntington Health stands for community. We stand for compassion. But more than anything, Huntington stands for health. Providing world-class health care is our specialty, and it's what we've been doing for the San Gabriel Valley since…

Health
12
San Diego Jewish Academy

San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is El Nido Family Centers and the most unlike its peers is Voice for the Animals. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAffordable Housing Developm…Homeless & Low-Income Suppo…Professional Trade Associat…Performing Arts Organizatio…Child Welfare & Protection …Community Health CentersJewish Community Organizati…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%7%<5yr16%3%5–10yr20%15%10–20yr17%20%20–35yr10%28%35–55yr12%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%5%<5yr16%4%5–10yr20%22%10–20yr17%14%20–35yr10%28%35–55yr12%28%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/61
the rest of the field
16%
7,867/49,755

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 61 of the 101 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/61
Grantees still filing
50/61
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE JEWISH FEDERATION — $1,885,000 · OtherTHE JEWISH FEDERATION+63 more — $1,927,300 · Other+63 moreMEND - Meet Each Need With Dignity — $70,000 · Human ServicesORGANIZATION FOR SOCIAL MEDIA SAFETY — $50,000 · Human ServicesFIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH — $50,000 · Human ServicesA SENSE OF HOME — $45,000 · Human ServicesWayfinder Family Services — $40,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA — $30,000 · Human ServicesProyecto Pastoral — $25,000 · Human ServicesThe Village Family Services Inc — $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE ACHIEVABLE FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Human ServicesSHOES THAT FIT — $15,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION — $50,000 · HealthMARTIN LUTHER KING JR COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION — $50,000 · HealthEAST LOS ANGELES WOMEN'S CENTER — $25,000 · HealthKIDS COMMUNITY CLINIC OF BURBANK — $25,000 · HealthDIDI HIRSCH PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE — $20,000 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $20,000 · HealthPARTNERS FOR PEDIATRIC VISION — $20,000 · HealthVENICE FAMILY CLINIC — $20,000 · HealthMATERNAL MENTAL HEALTH NOW INC — $20,000 · HealthHear Center — $15,000 · HealthUSC ARCADIA HOSPITAL — $15,000 · HealthJEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA — $250,000 · PhilanthropyDANCE AND DIALOGUE — $81,600 · Arts & CultureSegerstrom Center for the Arts — $45,000 · Arts & CultureLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION — $45,000 · Arts & CultureRED HEN PRESS INC — $40,000 · Arts & CultureSIERRA MADRE PLAYHOUSE — $20,000 · Arts & CultureJEWISH GRADUATE STUDENT INITIATIVE — $50,000 · EducationCOLLEGE MATCH — $45,000 · EducationAMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY — $25,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $25,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION — $20,000 · EducationHarmony Project — $15,000 · EducationTHE CALTECH Y — $12,500 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationTREEPEOPLE INC — $80,000 · EnvironmentHEAL THE BAY — $45,000 · Environment
Other$3,812,300Human Services$365,000Health$280,000Philanthropy$250,000Arts & Culture$231,600Education$202,500Environment$125,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA — $250,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFuente Latina Inc — $100,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetTeach Democracy — $95,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetBET TZEDEK — $86,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetDANCE AND DIALOGUE — $81,600 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetTREEPEOPLE INC — $80,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMEND - Meet Each Need With Dignity — $70,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFOOD FORWARD INC — $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetORGANIZATION FOR SOCIAL MEDIA SAFETY — $50,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetJEWISH COUNCIL FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetFarm2People — $50,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetFIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWISE READERS TO LEADERS — $50,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetHuman-I-T — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLOS ANGELES JEWISH HOME FOR THE AGING — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH GRADUATE STUDENT INITIATIVE — $50,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetNATIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMARTIN LUTHER KING JR COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSegerstrom Center for the Arts — $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION — $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetA SENSE OF HOME — $45,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetHEAL THE BAY — $45,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetRED HEN PRESS INC — $40,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetWayfinder Family Services — $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MAPLE COUNSELING CENTER — $37,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetEL NIDO FAMILY CENTERS — $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES — $35,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTIKVAH-ETTA AND LAZEAR ISRAEL CENTER FOR THE DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProyecto Pastoral — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEAST LOS ANGELES WOMEN'S CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKIDS COMMUNITY CLINIC OF BURBANK — $25,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetJVS SOCAL — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRESETTING THE TABLE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetDIDI HIRSCH PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW WAYS TO WORK INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe Village Family Services Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVENICE FAMILY CLINIC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACHIEVABLE FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPOPSTHECLUBCOM INC — $20,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetSIERRA MADRE PLAYHOUSE — $20,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHear Center — $15,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSHOES THAT FIT — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

California Community …The Ahmanson Foundati…Jewish Community Foun…The Ralph M Parsons F…The Rose Hills Founda…Weingart FoundationPasadena Community Fo…The Annenberg Foundat…S Mark Taper Foundati…The Green FoundationKaiser Foundation Hos…QueensCare
California Community FoundationCA35.6× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Pasadena Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · S Mark Taper Foundation · The Green Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · QueensCare

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Max Factor Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 101 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

    Source object · view filing

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