· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k28 grants · $79k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $315k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION | $45,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $35,000 |
| UCSB | $26,000 |
| BEVERLY HILLS ATHLETIC ALUMNI ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| FRIENDS OF VANCOUVER FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| HILLEL | $18,000 |
| CHEWONKI FOUNDATION | $14,000 |
| SAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION | $11,500 |
| THE FOUNDATION FOR ART & HEALING | $10,500 |
| UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| SOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $10,000 |
| SANDY HOOK PROMISE | $10,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE INC | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $164k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.
81 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2025, 49 since wound down; 15 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DHDIDI HIRSCH PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE6× · 2017–2024 · $204k · revenue +81%
- VDVISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES8× · 2017–2025 · $119k · revenue +19%
- TVTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER4× · 2021–2024 · $84k · revenue +432%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $10k
- WFWOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL INCone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
- PCPIERCE COLLEGE BASEBALL DUGOUT CLUB INCone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
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 association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…
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…
California western school of law is an independent, aba/aals and wasc senior college and university commission (wscuc) accredited s.d. law school that prepares graduates for the practice of law through a carefully sequenced program of…
To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.
The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
To produce, in a humanistic tradition, health care professionals and biomedical knowledge that will enhance and extend the quality of life in our communities.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
The la conservation corps creates equitable opportunities for young people to build resilience in themselves, their communities and the environment through a program of work, education and support.
How this is measured
91 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. 91 of the 152 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds DIDI HIRSCH PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds BEVERLY HILLS ATHLETIC ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CASA COLINA INC ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC ↗
- Who funds HILLEL AT UCLA ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds WINDWARD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds THE AURELIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Beyond Differences ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Chewonki Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF VANCOUVER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Palisades Baseball Team Inc ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ornest Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ornest Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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