· Private foundation
Sheila and Stanford L Kurland Family 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
77% of Sheila and Stanford L Kurland Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Ucla Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 7 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $153k
- $250k+1 grant · $531k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UCLA Foundation | $530,625 |
| Sinai Akiba Academy | $25,000 |
| New Mexico State University Rodeo | $25,000 |
| Wilshire Boulevard Temple | $25,000 |
| Birthright Israel Foundation | $18,000 |
| ALS Network | $10,000 |
| American Friends of Sheba | $10,000 |
| Stand With Us | $10,000 |
| Hualalai Ohana Foundation | $10,000 |
| THE LEUKEMIA LYMPHOMA SOCIETY INC | $10,000 |
| American Heart Association | $10,000 |
| United States Holocaust Memorial Mu | $6,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $81k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WBWILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLE3× · 2022–2024 · $273k
- NMNew Mexico State University Rodeo3× · 2022–2024 · $75k
- BIBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2024 · $43k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- CSCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +130%
- VDVERBUM DEI JESUIT HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $50k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $25k
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.
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.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
The uc merced foundation was formed for the purpose of encouraging voluntary private gifts, trusts, and bequests for the benefit of the university of california, merced.
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…
To unite donors' passions with the university of hawai'i's (uh) aspirations by raising philanthropic support and managing investments to benefit uh, the people of hawai'i and our future generations.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…
As an integral member of the san jose state university community, the san jose state university research foundation provides an entrepreneurial framework through which local, state and federal agencies, businesses and private foundations…
The sarnoff cardiovascular research foundation is dedicated to cultivating the next generation of physician-leaders in cardiovascular medicine by funding and supporting medical students and physicians engaged in transformative research.
Aauw advances gender equity for women and girls through research, education, and advocacy.
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 27 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IAN'S FRIENDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HUALALAI OHANA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ACCESS MAMMOTH ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds ALS Network ↗
- Who funds JUDITH CREED HORIZONS FOR ACHIEVING INDEPENDENCE ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA STUDENT AID FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds VIJAY AMRITRAJ 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.
Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sheila and Stanford L Kurland Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sheila and Stanford L Kurland Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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