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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
Amnesty International USA$25,000
The Marshall Project$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

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:

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

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • 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%
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
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Community Foundation; 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 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. 21 of the 36 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
9/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetCalMatters: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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
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.

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

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 Snl Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Snl Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
    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 36 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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