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Shulamit Nazarian 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.

$10k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
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States reached
$10k
Largest

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100% of Shulamit Nazarian Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to New Israel Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Arts & Culture$130kInternational$40kPhilanthropy$5kHealth$5kHuman Services$5kEducation$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$10,000
Median grant
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States reached
$160k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW ISRAEL FUND$10,000
02The need
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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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–21, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 14%FARHANG FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%MINISTRY OF KORDADA INC: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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Where the work is directed

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

About 100% of Shulamit Nazarian Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 43% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Shulamit Nazarian Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

38%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$60k · 3 repeat orgs$98k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +288% since the first grant, against +51% for the ones you funded once.

3 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2023, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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Total granted

$60k
$98k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+288%
+51%

Still filing today

67%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalEducationHealthOther

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

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    ARTIS
    4× · 2020–2023 · $40k
  • BP
    BIDOUN PROJECTS INC
    2× · 2018–2020 · $15k · revenue +288%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM
    2× · 2018–2023 · $5k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • MO
    MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART CHICAGO
    one grant, 2018 · $40k
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ARTS
    one grant, 2017 · $12k
  • UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +64%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
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Artis Contemporary Israeli Art Fundinc

Artis is an independent nonprofit organization that supports contemporary artists from israel whose work addresses aesthetic, social and political questions to inspire reflection and debate. www.artis.art

Arts & Culture
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Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation

Committed to innovation, the solomon r. guggenheim foundation (the "foundation") collects, (continued on schedule o)

Arts & Culture
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California Institute of Contemporary Art
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United Federation of Artistic Minds
Arts & Culture
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Berggruen Institute
Education
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Artpace Inc (Audit)

Artpace san antonio is a nonprofit residency program which supports texas, national, and international artists in the creation of new art. see schedule o for continuation.

Arts & Culture
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Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art
Arts & Culture
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Artists in Residence Inc

Support an open exchange of ideas and risk-taking by women and non-binary artists in order to provide support and visibility. as an artist-run organization, artists in residence fosters involvement through multiple tiers of representation:…

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Institute of Contemporary Art Miami Inc

The institute of contemporary art, miami (ica miami), is dedicated to promoting the work of contemporary artists, and to the exchange of art and ideas throughout the miami region and internationally. through an energetic calendar of…

Arts & Culture
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Amigos Del Museo Del Barrio Inc El Museo Del Barrio

El museo's mission is to preserve, interpret, and promote the artistic heritage of puerto ricans and all latin americans in the united states by means of exhibitions, public programs, publications, and educational activities.

Arts & Culture
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The Contemporary Jewish Museum

The contemporary jewish museum (the cjm) makes the diversity of the jewish experience relevant for a twenty-first-century audience through innovative exhibitions and programs that educate, challenge, and inspire.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of the Israel Museum and the most unlike its peers is The Fountainhead Residency Inc. 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

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 20172026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART CHICAGO — $40,000 · OtherMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART CHICAGOARTIS — $40,000 · OtherARTISLOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ARTS — $12,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ARTSDELFINA FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Other+1 more — $750 · OtherNEW ISRAEL FUND — $30,000 · InternationalNEW ISRAEL FUNDUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $5,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR U…OMID FOUNDATION USA — $5,000 · InternationalOMID FOUNDATION USABIDOUN PROJECTS INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureBIDOUN PROJECTS …AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM — $4,800 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN FRIENDS…RESIDENCY UNLIMITED INC — $4,000 · Arts & CultureRESIDENCY UNLIMI…THE JEWISH MUSEUM — $3,200 · Arts & CultureTHE JEWISH MUSEU…+1 more — $750 · Arts & CultureVISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES — $5,000 · Human ServicesVISTA DEL…THE MINISTRY OF THE KORDADA INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE MINIS…FARHANG FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Human ServicesFARHANG F…EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA — $5,000 · HealthOTIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN — $2,500 · Education
Other$97,750International$40,000Arts & Culture$27,750Human Services$15,000Health$5,000Education$2,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBIDOUN PROJECTS INC — $15,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MINISTRY OF THE KORDADA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetOMID FOUNDATION USA — $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFARHANG FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM — $4,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRESIDENCY UNLIMITED INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM — $3,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOTIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA4.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Shulamit Nazarian 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 22%
  • Epilepsy Foundation of America22% of income from government
  • The Fountainhead Residency Inc3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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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How do I get to Shulamit Nazarian Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Shulamit Nazarian 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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