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Snl 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.

$205k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$26k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Crime & Legal$109kInternational$65kFood & Nutrition$54kCivil Rights$48kEducation$42kArts & Culture$31kEnvironment$25kPublic Benefit$9kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $176k
$5,076
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Food Forward$25,866
Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression$25,045
Just Detention International$25,041
MOCA$25,027
The Marshall Project$25,000
Amnesty International USA$25,000
UCLA Foundation$15,130
New Village Grls Academy$10,000
CalMatters$7,500
RepresentUS$5,076
Global Health Partners$5,000
University of Southern California$3,000
Human Rights Watch$2,809
Center for Study Political Graphics$2,500
ACLU Foundation of Southern Califor$1,860
02The need
03

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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 92% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%RepresentUS: $5k → 12%University of Pennsylvania: $387 → 22%CalMatters: $8k → 12%Food Forward: $28k → 14%California Rural Legal Assistance: $1k → 15%Global Health Partners: $5k → 17%Climate Psychiatry Alliance: $25k → 12%The Nature Conservancy: $110 → 7%University of Pennsylvania: $330 → 22%Food Forward: $26k → 14%Global Health Partners: $5k → 17%Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression: $25k → 22%Food Forward: $216 → 14%Global Health Partners: $344 → 17%Center for Study Political Graphics: $3k → 14%Center for Study Political Graphics: $1k → 14%Amnesty International USA: $25k → 17%MOCA: $25k → 14%Amnesty International USA: $25k → 17%University of Southern California: $3k → 14%University of Southern California: $3k → 14%Turnaround Arts: $160 → 14%UCLA Foundation: $15k → 14%New Village Grls Academy: $10k → 14%New Village Grls Academy: $10k → 14%UCLA Foundation FBO Center Duchenne: $5k → 14%Hammer Museum: $544 → 14%Just Detention International: $25k → 14%Just Detention International: $20k → 14%Just Detention International: $10k → 14%Just Detention International: $3k → 14%Western Center on Law and Poverty: $1k → 14%Western Center on Law and Poverty: $1k → 14%JDI: $263 → 14%ACLU Foundation of Southern Califor: $5k → 14%ACLU Foundation: $5k → 14%ACLU Foundation of Southern Califor: $2k → 14%Public Counsel: $500 → 14%ACLU Foundation of Southern Califor: $921 → 14%USC: $117 → 14%Los Angeles Public Library: $122 → 14%Youth Policy Institute: $5k → 14%Human Rights Watch: $2k → 14%The Marshall Project: $25k → 14%Los Angeles Public Library: $100 → 14%Craft Contemporary: $5k → 14%YPI: $176 → 14%The Marshall Project: $25k → 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.

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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$262k · 12 repeat orgs$110k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
15

Total granted

$262k
$47k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+13%

Still filing today

58%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’22’23’24’25
Crime & LegalCivil RightsInternationalArts & CultureFood & NutritionEducationOther

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

  • FF
    FOOD FORWARD INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $54k · revenue +33%
  • GH
    GLOBAL HEALTH PARTNERS INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $10k · revenue +35%
  • AH
    ARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $611 · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • CP
    Climate Psychiatry Alliance
    2× · 2024–2025 · $25k
  • YP
    YOUTH POLICY INSTITUTE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • CC
    CRAFT CONTEMPORARY
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -53%

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.

1
California Western School of Law

California western school of law is an independent, aba/aals and wasc senior college and university commission (wscuc) accredited s.d. law school that prepares graduates for the practice of law through a carefully sequenced program of…

Education
2
Public Policy Institute of California

Inform and improve public policy in california through independent, objective, nonpartisan research

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3
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
4
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
5
University of Redlands

We welcome, educate, and empower a diverse community of learners for lives of meaning, impact, and joy.

Education
6
Federation for American Immigration Reform

The federation for american immigration reform's (fair) mission is to educate the public about the economic, sociological, environmental, demographic and other effects of mass immigration to the united states.

International
7
Occidental College

See schedule othe mission of occidental college is to provide a gifted and diverse group of students with a total educational experience of the highest quality - one that prepares them for leadership in an increasingly complex,…

Education
8
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
9
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

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10
American Law Institute

The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…

Crime & Legal
11
California Changelawyers

To build a better justice system for all californians.

Social Science
12
First Amendment Coalition

The first amendment coalition protects and promotes a free press, freedom of expression and the people's right to know. continued on schedule o.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression Inc. 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

21 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. 21 of the 36 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
10/21
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Amnesty International USA — $50,022 · OtherAmnesty International USAMOCA — $25,027 · OtherMOCAClimate Psychiatry Alliance — $25,000 · OtherClimate Psychiatry AllianceNew Village Grls Academy — $20,224 · OtherNew Village Grls AcademyACLU Foundation of Southern Califor — $8,156 · Other+16 more — $30,372 · Other+16 moreJUST DETENTION INTERNATIONAL — $57,641 · Crime & LegalJUST DETENTION IN…+3 more — $3,500 · Crime & Legal+3 moreFOOD FORWARD INC — $54,315 · Food & NutritionFOOD FORWARD IN…THE MARSHALL PROJECT INC — $50,030 · Community ImprovementTHE MARSHALL P…FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC — $25,045 · Civil RightsFOUNDATIO…CalMatters — $7,500 · Civil RightsCalMatter…+1 more — $55 · Civil RightsUCLA FOUNDATION — $15,168 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $5,989 · Education+2 more — $733 · EducationGLOBAL HEALTH PARTNERS INC — $10,344 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $5,069 · International
Other$158,801Crime & Legal$61,141Food & Nutrition$54,315Community Improvement$50,030Civil Rights$32,600Education$21,890International$15,413

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJUST DETENTION INTERNATIONAL — $57,641 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetFOOD FORWARD INC — $54,315 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARSHALL PROJECT INC — $50,030 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC — $25,045 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $15,168 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL HEALTH PARTNERS INC — $10,344 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $5,989 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $5,069 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCRAFT CONTEMPORARY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWestern Center on Law & Poverty Inc — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA RURAL LEGAL ASSISTANCE INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $717 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC — $611 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC COUNSEL — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $110 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $55 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $21 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW VILLAGE CHARTER SCHOOL INC — $16 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.

California Community …Weingart FoundationThe California Wellne…The California Endowm…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
California Community FoundationCA14.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · The California Endowment · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Snl 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.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    5report 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

    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.

    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 36 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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