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Paul Marciano Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$4.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Arts & Culture$3.3MInternational$2.1MReligion$2.0MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.7MHealth$1.3MEducation$975kPhilanthropy$650kHuman Services$495kOther$0
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 26 grants below total $2,909,128 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,025,628 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,116,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $219k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $950k
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.7M
$50,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$40M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCE$500,000
AMERICA ISRAEL DEMOCRACY COALITION$500,000
FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH$476,448
CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER$250,000
FRIENDS OF ELNET$200,000
THE SKATEPARK PROJECT$150,000
EN HABANIM SEPHARDIC CONGREGATION$125,000
SEPHARDIC TEMPLE TIFERETH ISRAEL$102,255
DAVID FOSTER FOUNDATION$100,000
THE CENTER FOR EARLY EDUCATION$72,750
EARTHJUSTICE$50,000
THE ANTI-RECIDIVISM COALITION$50,000
BEVERLY HILLS POLICE FOUNDATION$50,000
COLEL CHABAD$50,000
HOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA$40,000
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 (FY20–24, $547k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $13k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION: $148k → 17%JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION: $50k → 17%JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION: $22k → 17%GROWGOOD INC: $20k → 14%VISIONARY WOMEN: $100k → 14%VISIONARY WOMEN: $50k → 14%VISIONARY WOMEN: $50k → 14%CAREYES FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%CAREYES FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%CAREYES FOUNDATION: $10k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

NY
MA
NV
PA
CA
VA
MD
AZ

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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.9M · 21 repeat orgs$3.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against -8% for the ones you funded once.

21 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
34

Total granted

$7.9M
$2.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
-8%

Still filing today

71%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $938k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionArts & CultureInternationalCrime & LegalOther

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

  • FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +110%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +127%
  • TC
    THE CENTER FOR EARLY EDUCATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $881k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M
  • U
    UCSF
    one grant, 2022 · $500k
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue +112%

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
Food Allergy Science Initiative Inc

To accelerate the development of breakthrough discoveries that will transform the lives of people living with food allergies.

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2
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
3
Public Health Institute

Public health institute generates and promotes research, leadership and partnerships to build capacity for strong public health policy, programs, systems and practices.

Health
4
Los Angeles World Affairs Council and Town Hall

The organization is a non-partisan, membership based speakers' forum that connects business leaders, community members, and engaged individuals with shared interest in local, national, and global affairs. it provides an open and accessible…

International
5
The California Medical Innovations Institute Inc

The Institute is a scientific research center dedicated to conducting basic and applied research to advance the understanding of human disease and the improvement of human health. The Institute fosters an innovative research environment…

Education
6
Ucla Foundation

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…

Education
7
University of Southern California

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…

Education
8
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
9
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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10
Beyond Us & Them

To offer programs and training that resource individuals and organizations in self-awareness, self-regulation, effective communication and to promote structures of belonging, utilizing council and other practices, to encourage social…

Human Services
11
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
12
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Compassion Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is Planet Buyback. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%2%<5yr15%9%5–10yr20%24%10–20yr19%31%20–35yr12%18%35–55yr11%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%6%<5yr15%1%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr19%30%20–35yr12%27%35–55yr11%27%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/50
the rest of the field
13%
12,873/96,155

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

46 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. 46 of the 66 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/46
Grantees still filing
21/46
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL — $1,000,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICALFRIENDS OF THE ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCE — $890,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCEEM HABANIM SEPHARDIC CONGREGATION — $575,000 · OtherEM HABANIM SEPHARDIC CONGREGATIONUCSF — $500,000 · OtherUCSFSEPHARDIC JEWISH COMMUNITY & BROTHERHOOD OF LOS ANGELES — $306,955 · OtherSEPHARDIC JEWISH COMMUNITY & BROTHERHOOD OF LO…KISS THE GROUND — $220,000 · OtherGindi Maimonides Academy — $160,000 · Other+34 more — $1,063,391 · Other+34 moreFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $1,500,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISR…FRIENDS OF ELNET — $350,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF ELNET+1 more — $35,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC — $1,460,123 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF UNI…+3 more — $70,000 · Arts & CultureCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $500,000 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER INC — $500,000 · HealthAMERICAN FRI…VIP COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC — $185,000 · HealthVIP COMMUNIT…ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · Health+4 more — $56,000 · HealthTHE CENTER FOR EARLY EDUCATION — $880,500 · Education+1 more — $15,000 · EducationAMERICA ISRAEL DEMOCRACY COALITION — $500,000 · PhilanthropyTHE SKATEPARK PROJECT — $150,000 · PhilanthropyARMENIA FUND INC — $100,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION — $244,600 · Human ServicesVISIONARY WOMEN — $200,000 · Human ServicesCAREYES FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Human ServicesCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC — $32,500 · Human ServicesGROWGOOD INC — $20,000 · Human Services
Other$4,715,346International$1,885,000Arts & Culture$1,530,123Health$1,291,000Education$895,500Philanthropy$750,000Human Services$547,100

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 budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $1,500,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC — $1,460,123 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR EARLY EDUCATION — $880,500 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $500,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICA ISRAEL DEMOCRACY COALITION — $500,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER INC — $500,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF ELNET — $350,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetTHE JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION — $244,600 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetKISS THE GROUND — $220,000 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetVISIONARY WOMEN — $200,000 over 3y, 9.3% of budgetVIP COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC — $185,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetTHE SKATEPARK PROJECT — $150,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetBEVERLY HILLS POLICE FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetARMENIA FUND INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE — $65,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ANTI-RECIDIVISM COALITION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCAREYES FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFOOD FORWARD INC — $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHARKHAM-GAON ACADEMY — $45,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetHOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA — $40,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHIAS INC — $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC — $32,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKELLER RESTAURANT RELIEF FUND — $25,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetNew Roots Institute — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTrauma Resource Institute Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTRIPLE AUGHT FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RON FINLEY PROJECT — $20,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetCITY GROWERS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetNAMI National — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGROWGOOD INC — $20,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetAGBU MANOOGIAN-DEMIRDJIAN SCHOOL — $16,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMULTIDISCIPLINARY ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHEDELIC STUDIES INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDeep Medicine Circle — $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBHPOA BENEVOLENT FUND — $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCOMPASSION INSTITUTE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC — $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANET BUYBACK — $5,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetSHAREWELL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES URBAN LEAGUE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLos Angeles County Police Canine Assoc — $2,250 over 1y, 2.1% 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.

Jewish Community Foun…California Community …The Maurice Marciano …The Sassoon Family Fo…The Stanley & Joyce B…Hyman Jebb Levy Found…Jewish Communal FundGuess FoundationThe Marilyn and Jeffr…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Clif Family FoundationWeingart Foundation
Jewish Community Foundation of Los AngelesCA26× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · California Community Foundation · The Maurice Marciano Family Foundation · The Sassoon Family Foundation · The Stanley & Joyce Black Family Foundation · Hyman Jebb Levy Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Guess Foundation · The Marilyn and Jeffrey Katzenberg Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Clif Family Foundation · Weingart Foundation

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 Paul Marciano 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 · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 88%
  • Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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 66 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.

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