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Muskin 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $76k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WATER BUFFALO CLUB | $70,000 |
| BEIT T'SHUVAH | $5,000 |
| LAGERLOF CARES FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MICHAEL JFOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S | $5,000 |
| LEUKEMIA LYMPHOMA SOCIETY OF GREATER LA | $5,000 |
| JEWISH BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF LA | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN TECHNION SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| VETERANS EXPLORING TREATMENT SOLUTIONS | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES | $5,000 |
| WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY | $5,000 |
| THE LEGION FUND | $5,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH T1D | $2,510 |
| UNITED FIREFIGHTERS OF LOS ANGELES CITY | $2,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $74k) 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.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- WBWATER BUFFALO CLUB INC DBA WE BENEFIT CHILDREN8× · 2018–2025 · $429k · revenue +74%
- BTBeit T'Shuvah8× · 2018–2025 · $40k · revenue +49%
- WIWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY7× · 2018–2025 · $35k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- LLLADF LOS ANGELES DEVELOPENT FUNDone grant, 2022 · $10k
- LLLEUKEMIA LYMPHOMA SOCIETY OF GREATEone grant, 2022 · $10k
- LALOS ANGELES RONALD MCDONALD HOUSEone grant, 2018 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…
The special forces foundation provides immediate and ongoing support to the special forces community and their families.
To harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…
Upwardly global removes employment barriers for immigrant, refugee, and asylee professionals while advancing the inclusion of their skills into the u.s. economy.
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…
The jonsson cancer center foundation is the single most important vehicle for raising private funds for cancer research at ucla and plays a key role in advancing cancer treatments and care. please see schedule o for additional information.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foster Nation and the most unlike its peers is Flourish Foundation. 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.
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 25 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
41 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. 41 of the 67 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds WATER BUFFALO CLUB INC DBA WE BENEFIT CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds Beit T'Shuvah ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY ↗
- Who funds DANNY'S FARM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HANDS FOR HOPE ↗
- Who funds WESPARK INC ↗
- Who funds Inclusion Matters by Shanes Inspiration ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds GET LIT - WORDS IGNITE INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
- Who funds VETSVETERANS EXPLORING TREATMENT SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds TEAM PRIME TIME INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE IN A SUITCASE ↗
- Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Camp Kesem National ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds WALK WITH SALLY ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds ACCESS BOOKS ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of Greater Conejo Valley Inc ↗
- Who funds ONEGENERATION ↗
- Who funds ONCE UPON A ROOM INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Water Buffalo Club Inc Dba We Benefit Children · The Ahmanson Foundation · Gary E Milgard Family Foundation-Lori · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · National Charity League - la Chapter · Frieda C Fox Family Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 Muskin 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.
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.
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