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Resnick 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.

$78M
Granted FY2025still arriving
152
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$20M
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$63MEducation$50MArts & Culture$23MScience & Tech$20MSocial Science$19MReligion$15MEnvironment$9.0MInternational$4.6MOther$0
02FY2025 · 152 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k30 grants · $136k
  • $10k–50k62 grants · $1.3M
  • $50k–250k37 grants · $3.5M
  • $250k+23 grants · $73M
$25,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UCLA Foundation$20,245,000
Bard College$10,000,000
Individual grant recipient$9,659,754
Aspen Institute$5,050,000
National Philanthropic Trust$4,055,000
Los Angeles County Museum of Art$4,000,000
WONDERFUL COLLEGE PREP ACADEMY - Delano$3,235,000
California Community Foundation$3,000,000
FIJI Water Foundation$2,770,223
Milken Institute$2,500,000
NLI USA INC$2,000,000
California State University Fresno Foundation$1,000,000
Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation$1,000,000
American Friends of IDC$782,960
Los Angeles Police Foundation$620,000
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 (FY20–25, $8.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%safe place for youth: $150k → 11%The People Concern: $271k → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $256k → 14%UP VALLEY FAMILY CENTERS OF NAPA COUNTY: $25k → 9%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $250k → 14%BANCROFT: $42k → 12%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $250k → 14%Kings Community Action Organization Inc: $20k → 18%Kings Community Action Organization Inc: $16k → 18%HARVEST HOME INC: $100k → 14%LYNNE COHEN FOUNDATION FOR OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH: $25k → 14%NEWS: $25k → 9%A Sense of Home: $50k → 14%NEWS: $25k → 9%Expressions of Hope: $20k → 9%On The Move: $17k → 9%EL CAMINO HOMELESS ORGANIZATION: $40k → 12%EL CAMINO HOMELESS ORGANIZATION: $39k → 12%COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF KERN: $1.6M → 18%Community Action Partnership of Kern: $1.6M → 18%PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS: $25k → 14%Community Action Partnership of Kern: $160k → 18%Community Action Partnership of Kern: $100k → 18%COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF KERN: $75k → 18%Westside Family Preservation Services Network: $50k → 19%Westside Family Preservation Services Network: $50k → 19%OPEN DOOR NETWORK: $240k → 18%Open Door Network: $230k → 18%Alliance Against Family Violence & Sexual Assault: $71k → 18%Marjaree Mason Center INC: $50k → 19%Shoes That Fit: $30k → 14%Marjaree Mason Center Inc: $50k → 19%safe place for youth: $150k → 14%Marjaree Mason Center INC: $50k → 19%UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $30k → 14%SAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH: $100k → 14%MARJAREE MASON CENTER INC: $25k → 19%United Friends of the Children: $30k → 14%Marjaree Mason Center INC: $25k → 19%UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $30k → 14%UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $30k → 14%MIDNIGHT MISSION: $25k → 14%United Friends of the Children: $30k → 14%Los Angeles Police Foundation: $620k → 14%LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $120k → 14%Los Angeles Police Foundation: $120k → 14%LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $120k → 14%CHANGE REACTION: $200k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

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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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$206M · 222 repeat orgs$14M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

222 repeat relationships: 84 still active in FY2025, 138 since wound down; 61 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

222
654

Total granted

$206M
$9.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+13%

Still filing today

61%
24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.6M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthEnvironmentInternationalOther
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

  • BARD COLLEGE
    3× · 2023–2025 · $25M · revenue +206%
  • THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $16M · revenue +193%
  • MA
    MUSEUM ASSOCIATES
    5× · 2020–2025 · $12M · revenue +89%

Funded once

  • NL
    NATIONAL LIBRARY OF ISRAEL LTD
    one grant, 2021 · $2.0M
  • JF
    JEWISH FEDERATION OF SNJ
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M
  • CP
    CALY POLY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $500k
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
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
2
The California Channel

To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…

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3
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
4
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
5
California College of the Arts

California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…

Education
6
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
7
California Dental Association Foundation

The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.

Science & Tech
8
California Dental Association

The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.

Community Improvement
9
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.

Philanthropy
10
League of California Community Foundations

The league of california community foundations promotes and strengthens community foundations in california. through collaboration and shared learning among member foundations and building partnerships with private and public entities, we…

Philanthropy
11
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

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…

Education
12
The American Institute of Architects California

The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Farrah Fawcett Foundation. 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

361 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. 361 of the 958 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)
61
Early backer (in before they grew)
354/361
Grantees still filing
210/361
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $40,345,008 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLE: $13,000,000 · OtherWILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLETHE MILKEN INSTITUTE: $10,000,000 · OtherTHE MILKEN INSTITUTEFIJI Water Foundation: $9,533,732 · OtherFIJI Water FoundationWONDERFUL COLLEGE PREP ACADEMY - Delano: $4,582,918 · Other+108 more: $28,452,285 · Other+108 moreBARD COLLEGE: $25,000,000 · EducationBARD COLLEGEUCLA FOUNDATION: $24,660,911 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIONNLI USA INC: $8,000,000 · EducationNLI USA INCWONDERFUL COLLEGE PREP ACADEMY: $7,527,559 · EducationWONDERFUL COLLEGE PREP ACADEMYCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION: $6,012,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FR…CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $3,000,000 · Education+17 more: $4,804,698 · Education+17 moreNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $24,323,729 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHILA…JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY: $5,000,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERAT…Central Valley Community Foundation A Corporation: $3,550,636 · PhilanthropyCentral Valley…CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,025,000 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA COM…+7 more: $1,349,488 · PhilanthropyMUSEUM ASSOCIATES: $12,475,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM AS…ARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC: $12,000,000 · Arts & CultureARMAND HA…+19 more: $1,630,220 · Arts & Culture+19 moreAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $18,000,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF REICHMAN UNIVERSITY INC: $3,282,960 · International+9 more: $1,959,150 · InternationalTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $16,402,400 · Social ScienceCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF KERN: $3,635,200 · Human ServicesTHE PEOPLE CONCERN: $1,026,500 · Human ServicesLOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $995,000 · Human ServicesTHE OPEN DOOR NETWORK: $546,330 · Human ServicesSAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH INC: $400,000 · Human Services+15 more: $1,423,058 · Human Services
Other$105,913,943Education$79,005,168Philanthropy$37,248,853Arts & Culture$26,105,220International$23,242,110Social Science$16,402,400Human Services$8,026,088

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBARD COLLEGE: $25,000,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $24,660,911 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $24,323,729 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $18,000,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $16,402,400 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetMUSEUM ASSOCIATES: $12,475,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC: $12,000,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetTHE MILKEN INSTITUTE: $10,000,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetNLI USA INC: $8,000,000 over 3y, 28% of budgetWONDERFUL COLLEGE PREP ACADEMY: $7,527,559 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION: $6,012,000 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY: $5,000,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF KERN: $3,635,200 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetCentral Valley Community Foundation A Corporation: $3,550,636 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF REICHMAN UNIVERSITY INC: $3,282,960 over 6y, 5.5% of budgetASSOCIATION OF THE GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY: $3,182,592 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,025,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $3,000,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $2,000,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $1,375,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION: $1,300,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetTHE PEOPLE CONCERN: $1,026,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA AGRICULTURAL LEADERSHIP FOUND: $1,000,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $995,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetAWAKENING RECOVERY INC: $850,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $660,988 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $650,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OPEN DOOR NETWORK: $546,330 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetCENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOOD BANK: $521,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv Univ: $500,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Fresno Inc: $480,000 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $445,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH INC: $400,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetKAKENYA CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE: $371,998 over 6y, 6.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $356,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMUST: $350,000 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $350,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAELI NAVY SEALS INC: $300,000 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetACUMEN FUND INC: $300,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetPS ARTS: $263,779 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetFARMLINK PROJECT: $250,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $250,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDRAKE UNIVERSITY: $250,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $200,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBakersfield Symphony Orchestra Inc: $200,000 over 4y, 7.1% of budgetMARJAREE MASON CENTER INC: $200,000 over 5y, 0.3% 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.

  • Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM ASSOCIATES ↗
  • Who funds ARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MILKEN INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds NLI USA INC ↗
  • Who funds WONDERFUL COLLEGE PREP ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF KERN ↗
  • Who funds Central Valley Community Foundation A Corporation ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF REICHMAN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds ASSOCIATION OF THE GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
  • Who funds CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds THE PEOPLE CONCERN ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA AGRICULTURAL LEADERSHIP FOUND ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AWAKENING RECOVERY INC ↗
  • Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE OPEN DOOR NETWORK ↗

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.

Kern Community FoundationCA58.4× affinity30 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kern Community Foundation · Sonoma County Community Foundation · The Virginia and Alfred Harrell Foundation · Sonoma County Vintners Foundation · The Community Foundation San Luis Obispo · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Dignity Health · McNabb Foundation · Sierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program Management · Educational Employees Credit Union · Bothin Foundation · Central California Food Bank

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 Resnick Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Resnick Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%13%28%50%funder's 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
68report 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
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.
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Find your warmest path to Resnick 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 958 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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