· Private foundation
Selma & Manuel Udko 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k25 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE ASSOCIATION OF THE LAJH | $10,000 |
| STEPHEN WISE TEMPLE | $7,045 |
| VILLAGE SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| CROSS ROADS SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND SCI | $2,500 |
| KEHILLAT ISRAEL | $2,135 |
| NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM | $1,800 |
| JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION | $1,800 |
| GREATER LOS ANGELES ZOO ASSOC | $1,800 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER | $1,200 |
| MY FRIENDS PLACE | $1,000 |
| VISTA DEL MAR | $1,000 |
| MYCHALS LEARNING PLACE | $1,000 |
| INDEPENDENT LIVING RESOURCE CENTER | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–22, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% 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.
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.
30 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2022, 11 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- JFJEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION6× · 2017–2022 · $14k · revenue +89%
- VSVILLAGE SCHOOL INC3× · 2020–2022 · $13k · revenue +136%
- LSLARCHMONT SCHOOLS3× · 2017–2020 · $10k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $10k
- BSBRENTWOOD SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +6%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $2k
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.
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…
Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.
Carlthorp school is an independent, nonprofit day school for children in grades k-6. carlthorp school provides a strong academic foundation in a diverse and nurturing school community that emphasizes traditional values, disciplined work…
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…
San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.
Wns is committed to creating a deeply caring community of lifelong learners that nurtures students from diverse backgrounds to reach their full potential, develop cultural competency, and inspire the world with their curiosity, innovation,…
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.
Our mission is to "empower children to fulfill their unlimited, god-given potential as fearless scholars and conscientious citizens."
To improve the quality of life for the diverse communities we serve providing affordable and comprehensive healthcare and education in a welcoming multi-cultural environment.
We cultivate the boundless potential of highly gifted children, nurture their passions and talents, and develop a diverse community of creative and constructive lifelong learners.
Spcala is dedicated to the prevention of cruelty to animals through education, law enforcement, intervention and advocacy.
To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. we work with public school systems, establishing relationship with superintendents, principals, educators, and community partners to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vista Del Mar Child and Family Services and the most unlike its peers is Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 55 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 JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds LARCHMONT SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM SANTA MARIA CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds BRENTWOOD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HEAL THE BAY ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds MYCHALS LEARNING PLACE ↗
- Who funds CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Access Central Coast formerly Independent Living Resource Ctr ↗
- Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Beit T'Shuvah ↗
- Who funds VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE FOR VETS ↗
- Who funds THE PAINTED TURTLE ↗
- Who funds Sharsheret 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 Group · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Billie & Richard Udko Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Selma & Manuel Udko 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.
- Sharsheret Inc — 4% of income from government
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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