· Private foundation
Steven Gordon Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $160k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES | $1,801,627 |
| THE JEWISH FEDERATION | $100,000 |
| WILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLE | $60,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE INC | $25,000 |
| KARSH CENTER OF WILSHIRE BLVD | $25,000 |
| BEIT T'SHUVAH | $10,000 |
| PHASE ONE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BEVERLY HILLS FIREFIGHTERS' ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| COLLINS AND KATZ YMCA | $5,000 |
| TOWER CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| COLLEGE MATCH | $5,000 |
| BELOVED BUILDERS | $3,600 |
| AUDREY IRMAS PAVILION AT WILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLE | $2,500 |
| BUILDERS OF JEWISH EDUCATION | $1,000 |
| ONE FAMILY FUND | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–18, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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.
38 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 4 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ACAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC2× · 2020–2021 · $150k · revenue +135%
- WGWOMEN'S GUILD CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER5× · 2019–2023 · $66k · revenue +12%
- CHChildren's Hospital Los Angeles2× · 2017–2018 · $50k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- FFFREEDOM FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $25k
- HAHILLEL AT UCLAone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +16%
- WIWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICYone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -12%
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.
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How this is measured
40 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. 40 of the 79 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 JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S GUILD CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds JAZZ AT ASPEN-SNOWMASS ↗
- Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds TOWER CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HILLEL AT UCLA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN YOUTH SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY ↗
- Who funds THE MAPLE COUNSELING CENTER ↗
- Who funds DIDI HIRSCH PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE ↗
- Who funds Beit T'Shuvah ↗
- Who funds THE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds BUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES INC ↗
- Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
- Who funds PHASE ONE 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: California Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Shapiro Family Charitable Foundation · Hyman Levine Family Foundation L'Dor V'Dor · The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation · Jewish Federation Council of Greater La · The Ahmanson Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · David & Janet Polak Foundation · David & Sylvia Weisz Foundation · The Michael and Lori Milken Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles Group
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Steven Gordon Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Steven Gordon Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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