Does Richard and Harriet Orkand Charitable & Educational Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Richard and Harriet Orkand Charitable & Educational Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles, The Ralph M Parsons Foundation.

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Richard and Harriet Orkand Charitable & Educational 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.

$68k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 53
Grants FY2025: 53
Organizations funded FY2024: 4%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $1,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $12,500
Organizations funded a year: 49 to 56; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 9
Total assets, FY2025: $1.3M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 4% of the organizations Richard and Harriet Orkand Charitable & Educational Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesPublic BenefitCivil RightsOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	52	$67k	2%
FY2024	53	$69k	4%
FY2023	55	$72k	11%
FY2022	49	$148k	2%
FY2021	51	$251k	0%
FY2020	53	$61k	6%
FY2018	56	$91k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Health$299kHousing & Shelter$122kInternational$74kArts & Culture$72kEducation$62kCivil Rights$60kHuman Services$25kReligion$20kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Venice Family Clinic	$255,000	7	0%
The People Concern	$109,500	6	0%
Pepperdine University	$50,170	2	0%
International Medical Corps	$28,000	7	0%
Southern California Public Radio	$17,500	7	0%
Jewish World Watch	$17,500	7	0%
Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc	$12,500	7	0%
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc	$10,500	7	0%
American Friends of Neve Shalomwahat Al-Salam Inc	$10,500	7	0%
League of Women Voters Education Fund	$10,000	7	0%

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All grantees of Richard and Harriet Orkand Charitable & Educational Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Venice Family Clinic	$255,000	7	0%
The People Concern	$109,500	6	0%
Pepperdine University	$50,170	2	0%
International Medical Corps	$28,000	7	0%
Southern California Public Radio	$17,500	7	0%
Jewish World Watch	$17,500	7	0%
Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc	$12,500	7	0%
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc	$10,500	7	0%
American Friends of Neve Shalomwahat Al-Salam Inc	$10,500	7	0%
League of Women Voters Education Fund	$10,000	7	0%
The Rand Corporation	$8,000	6	0%
The Everychild Foundation	$7,500	3	0%
Casa of Los Angeles	$7,500	3	0%
Wise and Healthy Aging	$7,000	7	0%
J Street Education Fund Inc	$7,000	7	0%
Upward Bound House	$7,000	7	0%
Children's Institute Inc	$6,000	3	0%
Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice	$6,000	6	0%
Skirball Cultural Center	$5,050	7	0%
Temple Isaiah	$5,000	1	n/a
The World Union for Progressive Judaism Ltd	$4,500	3	n/a
Lupus la Co Emerge	$3,500	7	0%
American Jewish University	$3,500	7	0%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc	$3,500	7	0%
People for the American Way Foundation	$3,500	7	0%
School on Wheels Inc	$3,500	7	0%
Affordable Living for the Aging	$3,500	7	0%
Parkinson's Foundation Inc	$3,500	7	0%
Community Health Alliance of Pasadena	$3,500	7	1%
Teen Cancer America Inc	$3,500	7	0%
Fulfillment Fund	$3,000	6	0%
The Retina Vitreous Foundation	$2,000	3	16%
American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association	$1,750	7	0%
Homeboy Industries	$1,750	7	0%
Common Cause Education Fund	$1,500	3	0%
Breed Street Shul Project Inc	$1,500	6	1%
The Natural History Museum Santa Maria California	$1,050	7	1%
Kintsugi Village	$1,000	1	n/a
Greater Los Angeles Zoological Association	$700	7	0%
Los Angeles Conservancy	$700	7	0%
The Interfaith Alliance Foundation Inc	$500	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($122k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Richard and Harriet Orkand Charitable & Educational Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 38.

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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 FoundationCA24× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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.

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About Richard and Harriet Orkand Charitable & Educational Foundation

How much does Richard and Harriet Orkand Charitable & Educational Foundation give?: Richard and Harriet Orkand Charitable & Educational Foundation reported 53 grants totaling $67,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 49 and 56 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Richard and Harriet Orkand Charitable & Educational Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (39%), Housing & Shelter (16%), International (10%).
Who are Richard and Harriet Orkand Charitable & Educational Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Venice Family Clinic ($255k), The People Concern ($110k), Pepperdine University ($50k).
Does Richard and Harriet Orkand Charitable & Educational Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Richard and Harriet Orkand Charitable & Educational Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Richard and Harriet Orkand Charitable & Educational Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles, The Ralph M Parsons Foundation.
Where is Richard and Harriet Orkand Charitable & Educational Foundation based?: Richard and Harriet Orkand Charitable & Educational Foundation is based in CA.