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Shulamit Nazarian Foundation at a glance

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Shulamit Nazarian Foundation

Its FY2025 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
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

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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’17
3
’18
3
’19
2
’20
3
’21
1
’22
1
’23
0
’24

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

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 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$168k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW ISRAEL FUND$10,000
02The need
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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 (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 its 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
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 100% of Shulamit Nazarian Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 43% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 0%.

Shulamit Nazarian 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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +288% since the first grant, against +51% for those funded once.

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

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
14

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
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

  • A
    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
  • OF
    OMID FOUNDATION USA
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -10%
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.

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Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
2
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
3
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation

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

Arts & Culture
4
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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5
United Federation of Artistic Minds
Arts & Culture
6
Berggruen Institute
Education
7
Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art
Arts & Culture
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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
9
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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10
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
11
Bamah

BAMAH is a charitable/educational organization that provides fellowship grants to artists from Israel to support academic residencies and the teaching of art forms from Israel while also providing art workshops for the general public…

Education
12
International Contemporary Art Foundatio
Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of the Israel Museum; 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 grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 FUNDOMID FOUNDATION USA: $5,000 · InternationalOMID FOUNDATION USAUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $5,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR U…BIDOUN 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 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 budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBIDOUN PROJECTS INC: $15,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetOMID FOUNDATION USA: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetVISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MINISTRY OF THE KORDADA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetFARHANG FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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
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.

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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 Shulamit Nazarian Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shulamit Nazarian 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%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Epilepsy Foundation of America: 22% of income from government
  • The Fountainhead Residency Inc: 3% 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, 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

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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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