· Private foundation
Peter & Masha Plotkin 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $138k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INNER-CITY ARTS | $31,000 |
| CHILDREN CAN ACHIEVE | $15,000 |
| HUMA HOUSE INC | $12,000 |
| TRABUCO HILLS HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| IRVINE VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| LAGUNA COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN | $10,000 |
| LAGUNA HILLS HIGH SCHOOL ART PROGRAM | $10,000 |
| APA MUSIC THEATER GUILD FUND | $10,000 |
| IRVINE HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| KIDSINGERS | $10,000 |
| LOS ANGELES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| VISTAMAR SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| ENCORE THEATRE GROUP | $2,500 |
| EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $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 (FY21–24, $8k) 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.
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.
19 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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
- LCLAGUNA COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN7× · 2017–2024 · $77k · revenue +322%
- IAINNER-CITY ARTS4× · 2019–2024 · $67k · revenue +27%
- KKIDSINGERS5× · 2019–2024 · $47k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- THTHE H E ART PROJECT dba ARTWORXLAone grant, 2023 · $22k · revenue -14%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $20k
- WCWISH CHARTER SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $15k
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.
San Francisco Arts and Science Academy (ASA) provides TK5 grade students with a strong foundation in the arts, language, math, and science, fostering creativity, curiosity, and character development. Our bilingual, hands-on curriculum…
Tk-12 charter public school focused on educational equity and success for all students with a priority on tradionally underserved populations.
To prepare students for leadership in the arts and business; where creativity, academic knowledge and financial literacy are essential for success. we are providing an education that integrates the four lenses of learning: academics, arts,…
Hollywood Schoolhouse knows, values, and encourages fearless curiosity. Through a blended program of innovative academics and structured learning, our diverse community inspires students to be academically strong, artistically proud,…
White Hall Arts Academy Foundations mission is to use the power of the arts to educate empower and encourage low income communities. We strive to bridge the gap between mental health social emotional learning arts development and creative…
Calarts is a multidisciplinary community of artists. our ongoing educational endeavor is grounded in openness, experimentation, critical engagement, and creative freedom. through artistic practice, we transform ourselves, each other, and…
To establish and maintain a positive school culture in which all students are motivated to learn, support each other, and have structures in place that assist students in accessing their full artistic and academic potential.
To initiate and develop musci education programs for Hermosa Beach youth.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Inner-City Arts and the most unlike its peers is Fair Burn Youth Association. 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 21 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 44 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 AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LAGUNA COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN ↗
- Who funds INNER-CITY ARTS ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KIDSINGERS ↗
- Who funds WESTCHESTER ENRICHED SCIENCE MAGNETS SCHOOL PTO ↗
- Who funds THE H E ART PROJECT dba ARTWORXLA ↗
- Who funds WISEBURN EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF PLAYA VENICE SUNRISE ↗
- Who funds FAIR BURN YOUTH ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds VISTAMAR SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Huma House Inc ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE INNOVATIVE SCHOOL HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Irvine Valley College Foundation ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Academy of Music Inc ↗
- Who funds Apa Musical Theater Guild Fund ↗
- Who funds EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAX COASTAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GRAMMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION 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 · Sempra Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Peter & Masha Plotkin 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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