California · Private foundation
Richard and Ruth Lavine 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.
- $222k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 37
- Grants FY2025
- 37
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 37
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations Richard and Ruth Lavine Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 36 | $197k | 47% |
| FY2024 | 37 | $173k | 30% |
| FY2023 | 33 | $148k | 12% |
| FY2022 | 31 | $155k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 31 | $246k | 16% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $175k | 14% |
| FY2019 | 29 | $229k | 34% |
| FY2018 | 25 | $206k | 8% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Communities in Schools of Los Angeles Inc | $92,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Los Angeles Philharmonic Association | $90,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Brentwood School | $72,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles | $70,000 | 6 | 0% |
| St Joseph Center | $66,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Skirball Cultural Center | $50,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Harmony Project | $49,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Usagainstalzheimer's | $46,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Los Angeles Free Clinic | $29,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Mental Health Advocacy Services Inc | $27,500 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 41 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($885k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Richard and Ruth Lavine Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Annenberg Foundation · Hyman Levine Family Foundation L'Dor V'Dor · Weingart Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Unger Family Foundation · Peter H and Marietta K Bach Charitable Trust Conservatorship · Maccabee Task Force Foundation · The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation · The Katz Family Foundation · Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life
How this is measured
Compare Richard and Ruth Lavine Family Foundation with peer funders
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About Richard and Ruth Lavine Family Foundation
- How much does Richard and Ruth Lavine Family Foundation give?
- Richard and Ruth Lavine Family Foundation reported 37 grants totaling $221,700 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 37 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Richard and Ruth Lavine Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (35%), Education (24%), Arts & Culture (13%).
- Who are Richard and Ruth Lavine Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Communities in Schools of Los Angeles Inc ($93k), Los Angeles Philharmonic Association ($90k), Brentwood School ($72k).
- Does Richard and Ruth Lavine Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Richard and Ruth Lavine Family 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 Ruth Lavine Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles, The Annenberg Foundation.
- Where is Richard and Ruth Lavine Family Foundation based?
- Richard and Ruth Lavine Family Foundation is based in CA.
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