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Ric & Suzanne Kayne 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.

$2.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
44
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$500k
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 2024.

Education$12MArts & Culture$742kEmployment$589kHealth$577kCivil Rights$503kPhilanthropy$242kCommunity Improvement$209kHousing & Shelter$200kOther$0
02FY2024 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $353k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.3M
$25,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMBAT HATE FOUNDATION$500,000
READY TO SUCCEED$461,160
STEINBERG INSTITUTE$300,000
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS$205,500
KCRW FOUNDATION INC$153,611
LA-TECHORG$129,250
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LONG BEACH RESEARCH FOUNDATION$125,000
CAMINO NUEVO CHARTER ACADEMY$120,000
IMAGINE LOS ANGELES$100,000
THE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES$100,000
SAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION$59,150
URBAN FOOD INITIATIVE$50,000
ALTASEA AT THE PORT LOS ANGELES$50,000
DESTINATION CRENSHAW$50,000
GREAT PUBLIC SCHOOLS NOW$50,000
02The need
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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 (FY19–24, $216k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE COLLEAGUES: $50k → 14%EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $18k → 14%EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $14k → 14%EXCEPTIIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $9k → 14%LUNCHBUNCH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%IMAGINE LOS ANGELES: $100k → 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

WA
MI
NY
MA
NV
CT
CA
VA
KS
DC
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 14% of Ric & Suzanne Kayne Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 87% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 73%.

Ric & Suzanne Kayne Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.9M · 12 repeat orgs$3.2M to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 37 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
34

Total granted

$7.9M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+49%

Still filing today

83%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.2M went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsOther
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

  • SI
    SCHOLARMATCH INC
    5× · 2018–2022 · $3.4M · revenue +26% · 33% of their budget
  • READY TO SUCCEED
    4× · 2021–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +969% · 56% of their budget
  • YEAR UP INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $450k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • YE
    Youth Entrepreneurs Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +16%
  • AM
    ART MUSEUM COUNCIL OF LACMA
    one grant, 2018 · $201k
  • LL
    LACMA - LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART
    one grant, 2017 · $200k
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.

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Association of California School Administrators

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.

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2
Alternative Schools Inc

To help each child reach his/her full potential by cultivating an active village of parents, community members, and stakeholders involved in providing an individual, personal, and conceptual learning environment for each student.

Education
3
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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4
Partnership for Los Angeles Schools

We transform schools to revolutionize school systems, empowering all students with a high-quality education. the partnership's goals are to 1) dramatically accelerate achievement for students in the district's highest need and historically…

Education
5
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
6
University of La Verne

The university of la verne offers a distinctive and relevant educational experience to a diverse population of traditional-age, adult, and graduate learners, preparing them for successful careers and a commitment to lifelong learning…

Education
7
California Competes

Established in 2011, our mission is to help transform the state's higher education system into an engine of economic opportunity that empowers all californians, particularly those from underserved communities, to achieve their full…

Education
8
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
9
Communities in Schools of Los Angeles Inc

To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. we work with public school systems, establishing relationship with superintendents, principals, educators, and community partners to…

Youth Development
10
Los Angeles Pacific University

Los angeles pacific university exists to deliver high quality, accessible christ-centered education to learners everywhere.

Education
11
Arts for La

Arts for la leads communities, artists and organizations to advocate for an equitable, healthy, and creative los angeles region through the arts.

Arts & Culture
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Freedom Reign Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

64 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 64 of the 85 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/64
Grantees still filing
40/64
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UCLA FOUNDATION: $4,038,350 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIONSCHOLARMATCH INC: $3,375,475 · EducationSCHOLARMATCH INCREADY TO SUCCEED: $3,221,394 · EducationREADY TO SUCCEEDAMERICA NEEDS YOU: $456,500 · EducationYEAR UP INC: $450,000 · Education+18 more: $802,250 · Education+18 moreART MUSEUM COUNCIL OF LACMA: $201,320 · OtherLACMA - LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART: $200,000 · OtherKCRW FOUNDATION INC: $153,611 · OtherJEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE: $35,000 · OtherTHE URBAN FOOD INITIATIVE INC: $50,000 · OtherALTASEA AT THE PORT OF LOS ANGELES: $50,000 · Other+32 more: $246,827 · OtherSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS: $206,500 · PhilanthropyLA-TECH ORG: $129,250 · PhilanthropyTHE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES: $100,000 · PhilanthropyPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropyDEBARTOLO FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $10,000 · PhilanthropyCOMBAT HATE FOUNDATION: $500,000 · Civil RightsSTEINBERG INSTITUTE: $300,000 · HealthSAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION: $59,150 · HealthVENICE FAMILY CLINIC: $25,000 · HealthPHASE ONE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Health+1 more: $10,000 · HealthImagine Los Angeles Inc: $100,000 · Human ServicesTHE COLLEAGUES INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesEXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $40,500 · Human ServicesLUNCH BUNCH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC: $69,700 · Arts & CultureDESTINATION CRENSHAW: $50,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $25,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DETROIT: $20,000 · Arts & CulturePACIFIC BATTLESHIP CENTER: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $2,620 · Arts & Culture
Education$12,343,969Other$936,758Philanthropy$570,750Civil Rights$500,000Health$414,150Human Services$215,500Arts & Culture$177,320

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 budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $4,038,350 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSCHOLARMATCH INC: $3,375,475 over 5y, 33% of budgetREADY TO SUCCEED: $3,221,394 over 4y, 56% of budgetCOMBAT HATE FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetAMERICA NEEDS YOU: $456,500 over 2y, 10% of budgetYEAR UP INC: $450,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSTEINBERG INSTITUTE: $300,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetYouth Entrepreneurs Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS: $206,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetKCRW FOUNDATION INC: $153,611 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLA-TECH ORG: $129,250 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetCAREERWORKS INC: $128,500 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LONG BEACH RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCAMINO NUEVO CHARTER ACADEMY: $120,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES: $100,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetImagine Los Angeles Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC: $69,700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION: $59,150 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COLLEAGUES INC: $50,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetTHE URBAN FOOD INITIATIVE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetALTASEA AT THE PORT OF LOS ANGELES: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGREAT PUBLIC SCHOOLS NOW: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetDESTINATION CRENSHAW: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $40,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLos Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDEBARTOLO FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetLA PROMISE FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTEP UP TUTORING: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetVENICE FAMILY CLINIC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCROSSROADS SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND SCIENCES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DETROIT: $20,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPHASE ONE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE CONNIE RICE INSTITUTE FOR URBAN PEACE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEAD STRONG PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMINDFUL SCHOOLS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPACIFIC BATTLESHIP CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJVS SOCAL: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOAK SPRING GARDEN FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGreen Dot Public Schools: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDa Vinci Schools: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN WILD HORSE PRESERVATION CAMPAIGN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLEGE TRACK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRIGHT STAR SCHOOLS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIPP SOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Jewish Community Foun…The Ralph M Parsons F…California Community …Joseph Drown Foundati…The Eli and Edythe Br…Great Public Schools …Weingart FoundationKayne Anderson Capita…Wm Keck FoundationThe Annenberg Foundat…The California Wellne…Johnny Carson Foundat…
Jewish Community Foundation of Los AngelesCA36.1× affinity17 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 · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · California Community Foundation · Joseph Drown Foundation · The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation · Great Public Schools Now · Weingart Foundation · Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors Foundation · Wm Keck Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · Johnny Carson 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 Ric & Suzanne Kayne Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ric & Suzanne Kayne Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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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How do I get to Ric & Suzanne Kayne Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Ric & Suzanne Kayne 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 85 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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