California · Private foundation
Ornest 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.
- $394k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 48
- Grants FY2025
- 74
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $6,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $45,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 45 to 74
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations Ornest Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $93k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 47 | $393k | 32% |
| FY2024 | 74 | $495k | 31% |
| FY2023 | 60 | $384k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 57 | $382k | 19% |
| FY2021 | 56 | $466k | 21% |
| FY2020 | 50 | $405k | 26% |
| FY2019 | 45 | $385k | 18% |
| FY2017 | 54 | $350k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Didi Hirsch Psychiatric Service | $204,450 | 6 | 0% |
| International Documentary Foundation Inc | $150,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Vista del Mar Child and Family Services | $119,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Voter Participation Center | $84,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Bridges Academy Inc | $75,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Beverly Hills Athletic Alumni Association | $75,000 | 3 | 29% |
| Casa Colina Inc | $70,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | $56,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Insightla Inc | $48,000 | 7 | n/a |
| American Society for Yad Vashem Inc | $41,800 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 96 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 52 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ornest Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 81 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 Los Angeles · California Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Stanley & Joyce Black Family Foundation · The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Milton and Ruth Berman Family Foundation · The Michael and Lori Milken Family Foundation · Jewish Federation Council of Greater La · Onion Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation
How this is measured
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About Ornest Family Foundation
- How much does Ornest Family Foundation give?
- Ornest Family Foundation reported 48 grants totaling $393,850 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 45 and 74 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Ornest Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (24%), Education (16%), Human Services (13%).
- Who are Ornest Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Didi Hirsch Psychiatric Service ($204k), International Documentary Foundation Inc ($150k), Vista del Mar Child and Family Services ($119k).
- Does Ornest Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ornest 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 Ornest Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles, California Community Foundation, The Ahmanson Foundation.
- Where is Ornest Family Foundation based?
- Ornest Family Foundation is based in CA.
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