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S & a Agate Foundation Inc at a glance

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S & a Agate Foundation Inc

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.

$326k
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$280k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$1.9MReligion$82kPhilanthropy$56kEducation$49kArts & Culture$25kFood & Nutrition$4kAnimals$4kHuman Services$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k28 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $250k+1 grant · $280k
$555
Median grant
11
States reached
$3.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER$280,379
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES$10,000
TEMPLE EMANU-EL STREICKER CENTER$6,630
WILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLE$5,170
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY$5,000
TOWER CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION$2,500
RETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST$2,500
EI FOUNDATION$2,500
THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION$2,500
BABY2BABY$1,036
Individual grant recipient$1,010
PROJECT HEALTHY MINDS$1,000
THE GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE$1,000
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$1,000
UNICEF$555
02The need
03

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 (FY19–25, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 5% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%VISTA DEL MAR: $255 → 10%THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $3k → 6%BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS FOUNDATION: $107 → 15%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $74 → 17%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $3k → 6%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $3k → 6%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $3k → 6%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $3k → 6%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $3k → 6%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $500 → 14%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $3k → 6%COVENANT HOUSE: $100 → 17%FOOD ON FOOT INC: $50 → 14%FOOT ON FOOT INC: $25 → 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

NH
IL
WI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
TN
NC
DC
OK
TX
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 29 repeat orgs$36k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

29 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
50

Total granted

$2.1M
$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+14%

Still filing today

62%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationInternationalArts & CultureCrime & LegalOther
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

  • CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER
    7× · 2019–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +50%
  • NY
    New York University
    6× · 2019–2025 · $35k · revenue +51%
  • ML
    MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION
    7× · 2019–2025 · $18k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • JF
    JEWISH FEDERATION GREATER LOS ANGELES
    one grant, 2019 · $7k
  • HC
    HILLCREST COUNTRY CLUB CHARITABLE FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -1%
  • CE
    CONGREGATION EMANU-EL OF CITY OF NEW YORK
    one grant, 2019 · $4k
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.

1
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
2
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
3
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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4
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
5
Food Allergy Science Initiative Inc

To accelerate the development of breakthrough discoveries that will transform the lives of people living with food allergies.

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6
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
7
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
8
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc

Susan g. komen has an unmatched, comprehensive 360-degree approach to fighting breast cancer across all fronts and supporting millions of people in the u.s. and in countries worldwide. we advocate for policies to protect patients, drive…

Health
9
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
10
Global Down Syndrome Foundation

To significantly improve the lives of people with down syndrome through research, medical care, education and advocacy. an important part of this mission is to support the global affiliate organizations that we helped establish and…

Health
11
Lung Cancer Research Foundation

The mission of the lung cancer research foundation is to improve lung cancer outcomes by funding research for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure of lung cancer.

Health
12
The Translational Genomics Research Institute

Please see schedule o

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Services Inc; the most unlike its peers is J L Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

57 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. 57 of the 91 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/57
Grantees still filing
34/57
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $1,407,029 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER+14 more: $39,894 · HealthBARBRA STREISAND WOMEN'S HEART CENTER: $425,000 · OtherBARBRA STREISAND WOMEN'S HEART …WILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLE: $42,620 · OtherWILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLECONGREGATION EMANU-EL OF CITY OF NY: $26,180 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $25,826 · Other+53 more: $78,234 · Other+53 moreNew York University: $35,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $5,501 · EducationHILLCREST COUNTRY CLUB CHARITABLE FUND: $5,000 · EducationDALTON SCHOOLS INC: $3,500 · Education+2 more: $621 · EducationMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $17,500 · Human Services+6 more: $1,111 · Human ServicesGEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC: $9,000 · Arts & CulturePROJECT HEALTHY MINDS: $2,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $150 · Arts & CultureTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $3,500 · AnimalsThe Labelle Foundation Inc: $500 · AnimalsFeeding America: $2,050 · Food & Nutrition
Health$1,446,923Other$597,860Education$49,622Human Services$18,611Arts & Culture$11,150Animals$4,000Food & Nutrition$2,050

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 budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $1,407,029 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $35,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $17,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTOWER CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $17,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetRETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC: $14,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetGEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC: $9,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFriends Of L A R C: $8,500 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $5,501 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHILLCREST COUNTRY CLUB CHARITABLE FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $3,530 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $3,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDALTON SCHOOLS INC: $3,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBABY2BABY: $2,554 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJ L FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $2,050 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HEALTHY MINDS: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAA FOUNDATION: $1,951 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MAPLE COUNSELING CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $555 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Alliance On Mental Illness: $510 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Labelle Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLOS ANGELES SHERIFFS FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES: $500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIf You Heard What I Heard Inc: $371 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPHASE ONE FOUNDATION: $259 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $255 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPPORTUNITY NETWORKS INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBELIEVE IN A CURE INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSharsheret Inc: $193 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAELI NAVY SEALS INC: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAROL M BALDWIN BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC: $109 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS FOUNDATION: $107 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE LOS ANGELES FREE CLINIC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC COUNSEL: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $100 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.

  • Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds New York University ↗
  • Who funds MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TOWER CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds RETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds Friends Of L A R C ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds HILLCREST COUNTRY CLUB CHARITABLE FUND ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
  • Who funds DALTON SCHOOLS INC ↗
  • Who funds BABY2BABY ↗
  • Who funds J L FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds Feeding America ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT HEALTHY MINDS ↗
  • Who funds CAA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds THE MAPLE COUNSELING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
  • Who funds National Alliance On Mental Illness ↗
  • Who funds The Labelle Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES SHERIFFS FOUNDATION ↗

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…David & Janet Polak F…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…The Pfizer Foundation…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Community Foundation of Los AngelesCA14.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · David & Janet Polak Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 S & a Agate Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from S & a Agate Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Tulsa Community Foundation: 11% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • Sharsheret Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
13report 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.

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 91 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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