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Sheila and Milton Hyman Foundation at a glance

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Sheila and Milton Hyman Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$21k
Granted FY2024still arriving
33
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$6k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Public Benefit$43kEducation$23kHealth$8kArts & Culture$7kHuman Services$7kFood & Nutrition$7kRecreation & Sports$4kCivil Rights$4kOther$0
02FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$250
Median grant
5
States reached
$36k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
United Jewish Fund$6,000
UCLA Foundation Alan D Leve CJS$5,000
Washington Instit Near East Policy$1,500
Camp Ramah in California$800
Los Angeles Opera$500
Mazon$500
Alzheimers Association$500
Jewish Family Service ofLos Angeles$500
Anti Defamation League$500
Planned Parenthood Los Angeles$500
SOVA Kosher PantryJew Fam Service$500
People Assisting the Homeless$500
Westside Food Bank$500
Parkinson Disease Foundation$500
The Advot Project$360
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 (FY20–24, $5k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%People Assisting the Homeless: $500 → 14%People Assisting the Homeless: $500 → 14%People Assisting the Homeless: $500 → 14%People Assisting the Homeless: $500 → 14%People Assisting the Homeless: $500 → 14%Jewish Family Service of Los Angele: $500 → 14%Jewish Family Service ofLos Angeles: $500 → 14%Jewish Family Service ofLos Angeles: $500 → 14%Jewish Family Service ofLos Angeles: $500 → 14%Jewish Family Service ofLos Angeles: $500 → 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.
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.
$104k · 35 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else

35 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
6

Total granted

$104k
$2k

Still filing today

43%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthFood & NutritionCivil RightsCrime & 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

  • CR
    CAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $4k · revenue +122%
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES
    5× · 2020–2024 · $3k · revenue +34%
  • WF
    WESTSIDE FOOD BANK
    5× · 2020–2024 · $3k · revenue +127%

Funded once

  • ST
    Sinai Temple
    one grant, 2023 · $720
  • MF
    Masorti Found for Conserv Judaism
    one grant, 2020 · $500
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $500
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
Los Angeles Opera Company

To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…

Arts & Culture
2
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
3
League of Women Voters of Los Angeles

The League of Women Voters, a nonpartisan political organization, encourages informed and active participation in government, works to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and…

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4
University of Southern California Hillel Foundation

To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…

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5
Latino Theater Company

The latino theater company operates the los angeles theatre center, whose mission is to provide a world class arts center for those pursuing artistic excellence; a laboratory where both tradition and innovation are honored and honed; a…

Arts & Culture
6
Arts for La

Arts for la leads communities, artists and organizations to advocate for an equitable, healthy, and creative los angeles region through the arts.

Arts & Culture
7
Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles

We steward $1.5 billion in charitable assets through donor-advised funds, endowments, and other giving vehicles. partnering with 1,400 individuals, families, and organizations, we build enduring legacies and multigenerational impact. in…

Philanthropy
8
Long Beach Community Players Inc

To celebrate the human experience while encouraging the participation of artist and audience in theatre productions.

Arts & Culture
9
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
10
Bureau of Jewish Education of Greater Los Angeles Inc

Bje enhances the quality of, increases access to, and encourages participation in jewish education throughout the jewish communities of greater los angeles. bje is an advocate, planner, catalyst, and creative leader for strengthening and…

Religion
11
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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12
Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy

To improve the skills, wages, and working conditions of workers in the tourism industry and to assure that the benefits of tourism contribute equitably to the economic and social development of all communities in the greater los angeles…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles; the most unlike its peers is University of Michigan. 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

17 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. 17 of the 44 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
14/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

United Jewish Fund: $30,750 · OtherUnited Jewish FundUCLA Foundation Alan D Leve CJS: $25,000 · OtherUCLA Foundation Alan D Leve CJSWashington Instit Near East Policy: $7,500 · OtherWashington Instit Near East PolicyCAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC: $3,660 · Other+29 more: $24,670 · Other+29 moreJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES: $2,500 · Human ServicesPATH: $2,500 · Human ServicesPLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES: $2,750 · HealthWESTSIDE FOOD BANK: $2,500 · Food & NutritionANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $2,500 · Civil RightsPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $1,800 · EducationWILL GEERS THEATRICUM BOTANICUM: $500 · Arts & CultureLOS ANGELES CONSERVANCY: $500 · Arts & CultureA Noise Within: $300 · Arts & CultureTHEATRE PALISADES INC: $100 · Arts & CultureADVOT: $1,080 · Crime & Legal
Other$91,580Human Services$5,000Health$2,750Food & Nutrition$2,500Civil Rights$2,500Education$1,800Arts & Culture$1,400Crime & Legal$1,080

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 budgetCAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC: $3,660 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES: $2,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWESTSIDE FOOD BANK: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPATH: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $1,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION: $1,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetADVOT: $1,080 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNTAIN THEATRE: $1,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWILL GEERS THEATRICUM BOTANICUM: $500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL AT UCLA: $500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES CONSERVANCY: $500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetA Noise Within: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHEATRE PALISADES 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 CAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES ↗
  • Who funds WESTSIDE FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES ↗
  • Who funds MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger ↗
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds PATH ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds ADVOT ↗
  • Who funds FOUNTAIN THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds WILL GEERS THEATRICUM BOTANICUM ↗
  • Who funds HILLEL AT UCLA ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds University of Michigan ↗
  • Who funds A Noise Within ↗

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 Ahmanson Foundati…The Ralph M Parsons F…The Annenberg Foundat…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
California Community FoundationCA16.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Sheila and Milton Hyman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sheila and Milton Hyman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
9report 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 44 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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