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Ronald W Burkle Foundation at a glance

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Ronald W Burkle Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$100k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$733kArts & Culture$595kHealth$425kHuman Services$105kCommunity Improvement$104kInternational$100kYouth Development$68kCrime & Legal$56kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$10k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMED KHAN FOUNDATION$100,000
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 (FY23–24, $200k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%AMED KHAN FOUNDATION: $100k → 6%EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $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.
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 Ronald W Burkle Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Ronald W Burkle Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 4.4% directed abroad (not shown)
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.

20%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$337k · 4 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +63% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
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Total granted

$337k
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+31%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

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

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

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EducationHealthPhilanthropyEnvironmentHuman ServicesInternationalOther
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

  • CH
    Children's Hospital Los Angeles
    2× · 2018–2020 · $200k · revenue +27%
  • CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER
    3× · 2017–2019 · $75k · revenue +63%
  • TA
    TOURETTE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC
    2× · 2019–2021 · $50k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • BO
    BRING ON THE MUSIC INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $200k · revenue +36%
  • SC
    Silverlake Conserv (Bring on the Music Inc)
    one grant, 2017 · $200k
  • RA
    ROBERT A TOIGO FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue -1%
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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Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…

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2
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Foundation

The charitable arm of the tv academy, the academy of television arts & sciences foundation, is dedicated to preserving television while educating and inspiring future leaders.

Arts & Culture
3
University of California Irvine Foundation

The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…

Education
4
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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5
California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy

To harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…

Health
6
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
7
The Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation

The jonsson cancer center foundation is the single most important vehicle for raising private funds for cancer research at ucla and plays a key role in advancing cancer treatments and care. please see schedule o for additional information.

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8
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
9
The California Medical Innovations Institute Inc

The Institute is a scientific research center dedicated to conducting basic and applied research to advance the understanding of human disease and the improvement of human health. The Institute fosters an innovative research environment…

Education
10
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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11
Altamed Foundation

To support the activities and purposes of altamed health services corporation, a california nonprofit public benefit corporation "ahsc", a section 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization.

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12
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts North America Inc

The specific purposes for which bafta na is organized is to promote, maintain, improve and advance original and creative work among individuals employed professionally in film and television production and allied industries, to create and…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is After-School All-Stars; the most unlike its peers is Yucaipa Valley Lions Club. 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

25 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. 25 of the 30 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
20/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UCLA FOUNDATION: $616,910 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIONBRING ON THE MUSIC INC: $200,000 · EducationBRING ON THE MUSIC INCROBERT A TOIGO FOUNDATION: $100,000 · EducationROBERT A TOIGO FOUNDATION+2 more: $15,000 · EducationSilverlake Conserv (Bring on the Music Inc): $200,000 · OtherSilverlake Conserv (Br…SHARE OUR STRENGTH: $50,000 · OtherSHARE OUR STRENGTHALL IT TAKES CO BOSTON BOOKKEEPING SERVICES: $50,000 · OtherALL IT TAKES CO BOSTON…TRIBECA FILM INSTITUTE INC: $50,000 · OtherTRIBECA FILM INSTITUTE…FRIENDS OF ROBINSON GARDENS INC: $25,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF ROBINSON GA…MEN HAVING BABIES INC: $25,000 · OtherMEN HAVING BABIES INC+9 more: $62,715 · Other+9 moreChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $200,000 · HealthChildren's Hospi…CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $75,000 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MED…TOURETTE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC: $50,000 · HealthTOURETTE ASSOCIA…BORN THIS WAY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropyBORN THIS …PRINCESS GRACE FOUNDATION - USA: $100,000 · PhilanthropyPRINCESS G…PARENTS OF WATTS WORKING W YOUTH AND ADULTS: $12,000 · PhilanthropyPARENTS OF…AMED KHAN FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesAMED KHAN…EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Human ServicesEDWARD CH…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $100,000 · InternationalLegal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles: $50,000 · Crime & Legal
Education$931,910Other$462,715Health$325,000Philanthropy$212,000Human Services$200,000International$100,000Crime & Legal$50,000

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: $616,910 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBRING ON THE MUSIC INC: $200,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROBERT A TOIGO FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetBORN THIS WAY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetAMED KHAN FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetPRINCESS GRACE FOUNDATION - USA: $100,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTOURETTE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetLegal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetALL IT TAKES CO BOSTON BOOKKEEPING SERVICES: $50,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetTRIBECA FILM INSTITUTE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF ROBINSON GARDENS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetPARENTS OF WATTS WORKING W YOUTH AND ADULTS: $12,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetTHE ALLIANCE FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget826LA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetA PLACE CALLED HOME: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGINA ROSE MONTALTO MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetBABY2BABY: $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.

Weingart FoundationThe Annenberg Foundat…California Community …Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Weingart FoundationCA15.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Weingart Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · California Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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

2024
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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.

    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 30 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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