· 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 54% of RICHARD AND RUTH LAVINE FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k28 grants · $92k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $130k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| USC GOLD SCHOOL OF LAW | $20,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES | $20,000 |
| ST JOSEPHS CENTER | $15,000 |
| LA PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| ANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $10,000 |
| LA FIRE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| UCLA LUSKIN SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE | $5,000 |
| HARMONY PROJECT | $5,000 |
| WESTSIDE FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER | $5,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF LOS ANGELES | $5,000 |
| US AGAINST ALZHEIMERS | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $164k) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
47 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $92k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- CICOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF LOS ANGELES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $93k · revenue +48%
- LALOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION8× · 2017–2024 · $90k · revenue +14%
- BSBRENTWOOD SCHOOL8× · 2017–2025 · $72k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- TBTHE BRENTWOOD FUNDone grant, 2018 · $12k
- CMCABRILLO MUSIC THEATRE INCone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -27%
- ECEARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER OF WILSHIRE BLVD TEMPLEone grant, 2024 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles and the most unlike its peers is Kind Footprint. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 84 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF LOS ANGELES INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BRENTWOOD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH CENTER ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Harmony Project ↗
- Who funds USAGAINSTALZHEIMER'S ↗
- Who funds THE LOS ANGELES FREE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCACY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN GROUPS ↗
- Who funds UNITED IN HARMONY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds HEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds Western Center on Law & Poverty Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MAPLE COUNSELING CENTER ↗
- Who funds CENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Richard and Ruth Lavine Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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