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Saul Brandman Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$25M
Granted FY2023
32
Grants FY2023
10
States reached
$9.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Education$32MHealth$14MHuman Services$6.5MInternational$1.5MHousing & Shelter$262kAnimals$255kArts & Culture$222kPhilanthropy$217kOther$0
02FY2023 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k15 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $96k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $618k
  • $250k+7 grants · $25M
$10,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$241M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSI$9,514,500
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSI$8,994,280
EISENHOWER MEDICAL CENTER$4,000,000
UCLA FOUNDATION$555,000
Individual grant recipient$500,000
GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$500,000
CHILDREN OF FALLEN PATRIOTS$500,000
ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION$222,000
Individual grant recipient$220,000
VISTA DEL MAR CHILD SVCS$125,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSI$50,961
INTERNATIONAL HEARING DOG INC$30,000
JEWISH HOME FOR THE AGING$24,500
JEWISH FEDERATION$11,000
CAYLON'S CHILDEN MUSEUM$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $352k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Israel Guide Dog Center: $25k → 6%RIDE ON THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP: $100 → 10%INTERNATIONAL HEARING DOG INC: $30k → 10%THE MULLIGANEERS: $500 → 7%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLI: $10k → 6%International Hearing Dog Inc: $24k → 10%INTERNATIONAL HEARING DOG INC: $15k → 10%INTERNATIONAL HEARING DOG INC: $20k → 10%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $200 → 14%MEALS ON WHEELS WEST: $250 → 14%LOS ANGELES MEDICAL MISSION TEAM: $100k → 14%MEALS ON WHEELS WEST: $1k → 14%MEALS ON WHEELS WEST: $300 → 14%GUIDE DOGS OF AMERICA: $100k → 14%Guide Dogs of America: $20k → 14%DREAM STREET FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%BEVERLY HILLS WOMENS CLUB: $300 → 14%THE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $100 → 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

IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
SD
IA
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
TN
DC
GA
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 36% of Saul Brandman Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Saul Brandman Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$42M · 48 repeat orgs$12M to everyone else

48 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2023, 35 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
60

Total granted

$42M
$654k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+33%

Still filing today

63%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11M went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23
HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureInternationalAnimalsOther
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

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $16M · revenue +40%
  • EM
    Eisenhower Medical Center
    5× · 2018–2023 · $9.4M · revenue +77%
  • BT
    Beit T'Shuvah
    5× · 2017–2021 · $2.7M · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2017 · $125k
  • AI
    AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue -31%
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES MEDICAL MISSION TEAM INC
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +20% · 54% of their budget
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
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
2
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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3
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
4
Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd

Huntington Health stands for community. We stand for compassion. But more than anything, Huntington stands for health. Providing world-class health care is our specialty, and it's what we've been doing for the San Gabriel Valley since…

Health
5
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
6
Children's Hospital Los Angeles Medical Group

To be the preeminent pediatric, multispecialty medical group in the nation, dedicated to providing the highest quality medical care to infants, children and adolescents; and supporting the finest teaching and research endeavors of our…

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7
Altamed Health Services Corporation

To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.

Health
8
Doheny Eye Institute

To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).

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9
Usc Care Medical Group Inc

To promote health by engaging in the practice of medicine for patients of hospitals affiliated with the university of southern california keck school of medicine and elsewhere. to provide medical care to the sick and injured who may come…

Health
10
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
11
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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12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Greater Los Angeles; the most unlike its peers is The Amy Van Dyken Foundation. 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

80 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. 80 of the 128 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
77/80
Grantees still filing
56/80
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSI: $9,514,500 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSIJEWISH HOME FOR THE AGING: $4,007,200 · OtherJEWISH HOME FOR THE AGINGBeit T'Shuvah: $2,680,089 · OtherBeit T'ShuvahLOS ANGELES JEWISH HOME: $2,037,975 · OtherLOS ANGELES JEWISH HOME+75 more: $3,109,333 · Other+75 moreAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $16,370,820 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVER…+3 more: $395,000 · InternationalEisenhower Medical Center: $9,408,900 · HealthEisenhower Medical Ce…CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $1,026,500 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL …+17 more: $411,350 · HealthUCLA FOUNDATION: $2,355,000 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATI…UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS GLOBAL: $2,000,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF…AMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY: $1,503,800 · EducationAMERICAN JEWI…The George Washington University: $500,000 · EducationThe George Wa…Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation: $500,000 · EducationChildren of F…+8 more: $113,250 · EducationInternational Guiding Eyes Inc DBA Guide Dogs of America: $120,000 · Human ServicesLOS ANGELES MEDICAL MISSION TEAM INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesPARAGON SERVICE DOGS: $89,000 · Human ServicesISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $35,000 · Human Services+7 more: $7,758 · Human ServicesNew Directions for Youth Inc: $95,000 · EmploymentCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $83,749 · Community Improvement
Other$21,349,097International$16,765,820Health$10,846,750Education$6,972,050Human Services$351,758Employment$95,000Community Improvement$83,749

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 budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $16,370,820 over 6y, 11% of budgetEisenhower Medical Center: $9,408,900 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBeit T'Shuvah: $2,680,089 over 5y, 9.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $2,355,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS GLOBAL: $2,000,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY: $1,503,800 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $1,026,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University: $500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren of Fallen Patriots Foundation: $500,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetHELPS INTERNATIONAL: $290,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $222,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Guiding Eyes Inc DBA Guide Dogs of America: $120,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES MEDICAL MISSION TEAM INC: $100,000 over 1y, 54% of budgetNew Directions for Youth Inc: $95,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetPARAGON SERVICE DOGS: $89,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $83,749 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $79,050 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL ADVISORY COUNCIL OF GREATER LONG BEACH AND WEST ORANGE COUNTY INC: $73,000 over 3y, 8.0% of budgetCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND ACADEMY OF TORAH INC: $55,000 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW DIRECTIONS INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM: $35,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $35,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTOWER CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $33,100 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetRANCHO MIRAGE WRITERS FESTIVAL: $25,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetRETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHarmony Project: $11,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMERONA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVENICE FAMILY CLINIC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPUBLIC COUNSEL: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDREAM STREET FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMISSION FLIGHT: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetJHA GERIATRIC SERVICES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPBS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE WORLD'S JEWISH MUSEUM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMIAMI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC FKA MIAMI YOUTH MUSEUM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL BREAST CANCER COALITION: $2,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetLEARNING BY DESIGN INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLewis University: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL: $2,000 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.

California Community …Jewish Community Foun…The Stanley & Joyce B…The Green FoundationCedars-Sinai Medical …The Ahmanson Foundati…Kayne Anderson Capita…Greater HorizonsWeingart FoundationThe Annenberg Foundat…Sempra FoundationMorgan Stanley Global…
California Community FoundationCA22.7× affinity12 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 Stanley & Joyce Black Family Foundation · The Green Foundation · Cedars-Sinai Medical Center · The Ahmanson Foundation · Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors Foundation · Greater Horizons · Weingart Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Saul Brandman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Saul Brandman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Miami Children's Museum Inc Fka Miami Youth Museum: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Saul Brandman Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Saul Brandman Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 128 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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