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Rar 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.

$665k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$2.4MHuman Services$1.7MHousing & Shelter$802kEducation$435kArts & Culture$325kPhilanthropy$100kCrime & Legal$95kCivil Rights$40kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $335k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $320k
$45,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$8.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JONSSON CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION AT UCLA$100,000
ELIZABETH HOUSE$60,000
SABAN COMMUNITY CLINIC$60,000
SAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH$50,000
CAMPBELL HALL$50,000
VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES$45,000
CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE$45,000
AMERICAN-ITALIAN CANCER FOUNDATION$45,000
ASTORIAQUEENS SHARE-ING AND CARE-ING$45,000
OPEN PATHS COUNSELING CENTER$45,000
HARVEST HOME$40,000
SCO FAMILY OF SERVICES$30,000
VALLEY COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE$20,000
WATTS HEALTHCARE CORPORATION$20,000
YOU GOTTA BELIEVE$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $2.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE CHILDREN'S VILLAGE: $35k → 9%HARVEST HOME: $500k → 14%SCO FAMILY OF SERVICES: $50k → 6%THE CHILDREN'S VILLAGE: $31k → 9%SCO FAMILY OF SERVICES: $30k → 6%THE CHILDRENS VILLAGE INC: $25k → 9%HARVEST HOME: $93k → 14%SCO FAMILY OF SERVICES: $47k → 6%THE CHILDREN'S VILLAGE: $25k → 9%SCO FAMILY OF SERVICES: $46k → 6%HARVEST HOME: $40k → 14%VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $45k → 14%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $35k → 14%VITSA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $45k → 14%YOU GOTTA BELIEVE: $5k → 17%HARVEST HOME: $35k → 14%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $35k → 14%VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $45k → 14%HARVEST HOME: $35k → 14%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $30k → 14%VITSA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $40k → 14%HARVEST HOME: $25k → 14%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $30k → 14%VITSA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $30k → 14%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $25k → 14%VITSA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 14%ALEXANDRIA HOUSE: $250k → 14%FRIENDS & HELPERS FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%FRIENDS & HELPERS FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%FRIENDS & HELPERS FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%FRIENDS & HELPERS FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%FRIENDS & HELPERS FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%FRIENDS & HELPERS FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE: $45k → 14%CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE: $40k → 14%CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE: $40k → 14%CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE: $40k → 14%DREAM CENTER FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES: $20k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES: $20k → 14%SAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH: $53k → 14%SAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH: $50k → 14%SAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH: $45k → 14%UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $70k → 14%SAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH: $44k → 14%UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $40k → 14%SAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH: $30k → 14%UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $25k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.3M · 24 repeat orgs$675k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

24 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
22

Total granted

$5.3M
$630k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+21%

Still filing today

83%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionPhilanthropyInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • HH
    Harvest Home Inc
    6× · 2018–2025 · $728k · revenue +161%
  • TJ
    THE JONSSON CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $710k · revenue +50%
  • VENICE FAMILY CLINIC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $319k · revenue +110%

Funded once

  • AH
    ALEXANDRIA HOUSE
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +12%
  • IM
    INTERNATIONAL MYELOMA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +9%
  • EC
    ESPERANZA COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $40k · revenue +304%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Via Care Community Health Center

Providing health care services to the poor and underserved of los angeles.

Health
2
South Central Family Health Center

To improve the quality of life for the diverse communities we serve providing affordable and comprehensive healthcare and education in a welcoming multi-cultural environment.

Health
3
Pediatric and Family Medical Center Dba Eisner Health

Eisner health is a quality-focused, federally qualified nonprofit community health center dedicated to improving the physical, social, and emotional well-being of people in the communities we serve, regardless of income.

Health
4
Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd

Huntington Health stands for community. We stand for compassion. But more than anything, Huntington stands for health. Providing world-class health care is our specialty, and it's what we've been doing for the San Gabriel Valley since…

Health
5
Community Medical Centers Inc

The organization provides primary medical, behavior health, and dental care to the population of san joaquin, and solano counties without regard to patients' ability to pay.

Health
6
Jwch Institute Inc

The specific purposes of this organization are:(a) to provide outpatient primary health service in underserved areas and/or for medically underserved populations as a community clinic. (b) to develop, promote, and manage health care…

Health
7
Didi Hirsch Psychiatric Service

The roots of the los angeles didi hirsch psychiatric service dba didi hirsch mental health services ("dhmhs") extend back to the 1930s, when a group of women funded psychiatric care for people whose lives were devastated by the depression.…

Health
8
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
9
Clinica Msr Oscar a Romero

See schedule oour mission is to provide quality, affordable, community-sensitive health care and other services to the underserved communities of greater los angeles, regardless of their ability to pay, by upholding the legacy and…

Health
10
The Children's Clinic 'Serving Children and Their Families'

TCC Family Health mission is to provide innovative, integrated, quality health care that will contribute to a healthy community, focusing on those in need and working with patients and the community as partners in their overall well-being.

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11
San Fernando Community Hospital

Provides primary care, oral health, and behavioral health care, including health education to the community without regard to the ability to pay for services.

Health
12
Vip Community Mental Health Center Inc

Intervening to protect and treat all victims of violence

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint John's Health Center Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Performance Zone Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

42 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. 42 of the 50 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/42
Grantees still filing
33/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Harvest Home Inc: $728,000 · Human ServicesHarvest Home IncALEXANDRIA HOUSE: $250,000 · Human ServicesALEXANDRIA HOUSEVISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $225,000 · Human ServicesVISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICESSAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH INC: $221,600 · Human ServicesSAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH INCSCO FAMILY OF SERVICES: $173,240 · Human ServicesSCO FAMILY OF SERVICESCHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $165,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INCDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $155,000 · Human ServicesDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTERUNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $135,000 · Human ServicesUNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDRENTHE CHILDREN'S VILLAGE INC: $115,500 · Human Services+5 more: $120,000 · Human ServicesTHE JONSSON CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION: $710,017 · OtherTHE JONSSON CANCER CENTER FOUNDATI…CAMPBELL HALL -EPISCOPAL-: $430,000 · OtherCAMPBELL HALL -EPISCOPAL-ELIZABETH HOUSE: $320,000 · OtherELIZABETH HOUSEINTERNATIONAL MYELOMA FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL MYELOMA FOUNDATIONTHE RAPE FOUNDATION: $95,000 · OtherPROVIDENCE ST JOSEPH FOUNDATION: $95,000 · Other+7 more: $82,500 · OtherVENICE FAMILY CLINIC: $319,400 · HealthVENICE FAMILY CLINICOPEN PATHS COUNSELING CENTER: $265,000 · HealthOPEN PATHS COUNSELING CENTERAMERICAN-ITALIAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $255,000 · HealthAMERICAN-ITALIAN CANCER FOUNDATIO…THE LOS ANGELES FREE CLINIC: $240,000 · HealthTHE LOS ANGELES FREE CLINICCONEJO FREE CLINIC: $195,000 · HealthCONEJO FREE CLINICASTORIAQUEENS SHARE-ING AND CARE-ING INC: $160,000 · HealthASTORIAQUEENS SHARE-ING AND CARE-…PROJECT RENEWAL INC: $135,000 · HealthPROJECT RENEWAL INCChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $90,000 · Health+7 more: $97,500 · Health+7 moreESPERANZA COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION: $40,000 · Housing & ShelterSOCIAL JUSTICE LEARNING INSTITUTE: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterWESTSIDE FOOD BANK: $20,000 · Food & NutritionALMA BACKYARD FARM: $10,000 · Food & NutritionWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $25,000 · InternationalMGM RESORTS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropySPIRIT SERIES INC: $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Human Services$2,288,340Other$1,832,517Health$1,756,900Housing & Shelter$70,000Food & Nutrition$30,000International$25,000Philanthropy$10,000Arts & Culture$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHarvest Home Inc: $728,000 over 6y, 25% of budgetTHE JONSSON CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION: $710,017 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetVENICE FAMILY CLINIC: $319,400 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOPEN PATHS COUNSELING CENTER: $265,000 over 7y, 6.3% of budgetAMERICAN-ITALIAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $255,000 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetTHE LOS ANGELES FREE CLINIC: $240,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetVISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $225,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH INC: $221,600 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCONEJO FREE CLINIC: $195,000 over 6y, 7.6% of budgetSCO FAMILY OF SERVICES: $173,240 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $165,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetASTORIAQUEENS SHARE-ING AND CARE-ING INC: $160,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $155,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $135,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetPROJECT RENEWAL INC: $135,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S VILLAGE INC: $115,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MYELOMA FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE RAPE FOUNDATION: $95,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $90,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS AND HELPERS FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 7y, 7.1% of budgetESPERANZA COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION: $40,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIAL JUSTICE LEARNING INSTITUTE: $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTSIDE FOOD BANK: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVALLEY COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALMA BACKYARD FARM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDREAM CENTER FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTOGETHER RISING: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALZHEIMERS GREATER LOS ANGELES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMGM RESORTS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOU GOTTA BELIEVE - THE OLDER CHILD ADOPTION & PERMANENCY MOVEMENT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAIM Youth Mental Health: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTIAS HOPE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSPIRIT SERIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMAXIMUM HOPE FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

California Community …The Annenberg Foundat…The Ralph M Parsons F…Weingart FoundationThe California Wellne…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Cedars-Sinai Medical …The Rose Hills Founda…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Deutsch FoundationThe Angell FoundationUnihealth Foundation
California Community FoundationCA20.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Cedars-Sinai Medical Center · The Rose Hills Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Deutsch Foundation · The Angell Foundation · Unihealth Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Rar Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rar Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Rar Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Rar Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 50 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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