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Syzygy Foundation Inc

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.

$1.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.

Food & Nutrition$1.2MArts & Culture$867kPublic Safety & Disaster$535kRecreation & Sports$500kCivil Rights$390kPhilanthropy$351kAnimals$245kEnvironment$211kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $135k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $800k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$50,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$494k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LA CLIPPERS FOUNDATION$500,000
PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY$100,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$100,000
LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION$100,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS LOS ANGELES CHAPTER$100,000
CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$100,000
GOFUNDMEORG 2025 WILDFIRE RELIEF FUND$100,000
LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK$100,000
WINGS OF RESCUE$50,000
PASADENA HUMANE$50,000
STREAM FOR A CAUSE$30,000
ONE VOICE$25,000
IDAHO RIVERS UNITED$20,000
NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$20,000
KCRW FOUNDATION$10,000
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:

Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $130k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%AMERICAN WHEELCHAIR: $10k → 10%VALENTINES DAY WIDOW OUTREACH: $5k → 10%RHODE ISLAND DREAM CENTER: $10k → 14%RWANDA GIRLS INITIATIVE: $10k → 9%AMERICAN WHEELCHAIR: $10k → 10%BAY AREA WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S CENTER: $10k → 10%TORY BURCH FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%RWANDA GIRLS INITIATIVE: $10k → 9%BAY AREA WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S CENTER: $10k → 10%THE MAIDEN FACTOR FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%HAPPY TRAILS FOR KIDS: $10k → 14%ONE VOICE: $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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

37%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.7M · 28 repeat orgs$3.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

28 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
40

Total granted

$1.7M
$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
0%

Still filing today

86%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureAnimalsHealthEnvironmentPublic Safety & DisasterOther

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

  • PF
    PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY
    7× · 2018–2025 · $300k · revenue +7%
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    4× · 2019–2025 · $230k · revenue ×11
  • FM
    FREE MOM HUGS INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $158k · revenue +390% · 29% of their budget

Funded once

  • RT
    RISE TO THE CHALLENGE - PROJECT ANGEL FOOD
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M
  • TA
    THE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2024 · $146k · revenue +14%
  • NY
    NEW YORK PUBLIC THEATER
    one grant, 2023 · $120k

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
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
2
Arts for La

Arts for la leads communities, artists and organizations to advocate for an equitable, healthy, and creative los angeles region through the arts.

Arts & Culture
3
Los Angeles World Affairs Council and Town Hall

The organization is a non-partisan, membership based speakers' forum that connects business leaders, community members, and engaged individuals with shared interest in local, national, and global affairs. it provides an open and accessible…

International
4
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…

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5
The California Channel

To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…

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6
Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy

To improve the skills, wages, and working conditions of workers in the tourism industry and to assure that the benefits of tourism contribute equitably to the economic and social development of all communities in the greater los angeles…

Health
7
Uc Riverside Foundation

To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.

Education
8
Hollywood Food Coalition

Hollywood food coalition welcomes people to dinner each night. we rescue and redistribute food daily to other organizations. we care for our immediate community through our wellness program. we build community with and through our…

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9
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce

Chamber's mission: design and advance opportunities and solutions for a thriving regional economy that are inclusive and globally competitive. 1) advocacy - be a bold advocate for business as a driver of a strong economy that enables…

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10
Hollywood Foreign Press Association Charitable Trust
Philanthropy
11
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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12
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Open Hand Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAnimal Rescue and ShelterPolicy Research and AdvocacyCancer Support ServicesCommunity Arts CentersWomen & Girls Leadership De…Independent K-12 SchoolsEnvironmental Conservation …Lgbtq+ Community SupportCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%4%<5yr15%8%5–10yr20%26%10–20yr17%18%20–35yr11%22%35–55yr13%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%1%<5yr15%8%5–10yr20%26%10–20yr17%26%20–35yr11%24%35–55yr13%15%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/58
the rest of the field
14%
26,002/186,920

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

55 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. 55 of the 82 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/55
Grantees still filing
36/55
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

RISE TO THE CHALLENGE - PROJECT ANGEL FOOD — $1,000,000 · OtherRISE TO THE CHALLENGE - PROJECT ANGEL FOODPEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY — $300,000 · OtherPEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAYNEW YORK PUBLIC THEATER — $120,000 · OtherGOFUNDMEORG 2025 WILDFIRE RELIEF FUND — $100,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK — $100,000 · OtherDENVER FILM - I WAS BORN THIS WAY PROJECT — $100,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS LOS ANGELES CHAPTER — $100,000 · OtherTHE OPEN HAND FOUNDATION IN THE NAME OF KAREN REID KHALIL — $100,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION — $100,000 · Other+48 more — $796,500 · Other+48 moreFREE MOM HUGS INC — $157,500 · Arts & CultureFREE MOM HUG…THE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE — $146,000 · Arts & CultureTHE AMERICAN…ACADEMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION — $100,000 · Arts & CultureACADEMY MUSE…Art Division — $60,000 · Arts & CultureArt DivisionSCREEN ACTORS GUILD-AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TELEVISION AND RADIO ARTISTS FOUND — $25,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $33,500 · Arts & Culture+4 moreLA CLIPPERS FOUNDATION — $500,000 · Recreation & SportsLA CLIPPERS…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $230,000 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc — $20,000 · InternationalMYRIAD USA INC — $10,000 · InternationalCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $110,000 · PhilanthropyOpen Hand Foundation — $65,000 · PhilanthropySTREAM FOR A CAUSE INC — $55,000 · PhilanthropyNORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $20,000 · PhilanthropyPAW WORKS INC — $105,000 · AnimalsWINGS OF RESCUE INC — $50,000 · AnimalsPASADENA HUMANE — $50,000 · AnimalsPERFECT PET RESCUE — $30,000 · AnimalsRILOS RESCUE INC — $10,000 · AnimalsWOOD RIVER LAND TRUST CO — $101,000 · EnvironmentIDAHO RIVERS UNITED — $80,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $30,000 · Environment
Other$2,816,500Arts & Culture$522,000Recreation & Sports$500,000International$260,000Philanthropy$250,000Animals$245,000Environment$211,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY — $300,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $230,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFREE MOM HUGS INC — $157,500 over 6y, 29% of budgetTHE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE — $146,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $110,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPAW WORKS INC — $105,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetWOOD RIVER LAND TRUST CO — $101,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetACADEMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC — $90,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetIDAHO RIVERS UNITED — $80,000 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetKCRW FOUNDATION INC — $70,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetOpen Hand Foundation — $65,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL FOOD — $60,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetArt Division — $60,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetSTREAM FOR A CAUSE INC — $55,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $32,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPERFECT PET RESCUE — $30,000 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSCREEN ACTORS GUILD-AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TELEVISION AND RADIO ARTISTS FOUND — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBay Area Womens and Childrens Center — $20,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetNORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRwanda Girls Initiative — $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN WHEELCHAIR FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetALLIANCE COLLEGE-READY PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTOLUCA LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTA — $15,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetJohn Burton Advocates for Youth — $12,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTORY BURCH FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMAIDEN FACTOR FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK WOMEN IN FILM & TELEVISION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRHODE ISLAND DREAM CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetPEN AMERICAN CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF LOS ANGELES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRILOS RESCUE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetCLAREMATRIX — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFILM INDEPENDENT — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALLIANCE FOR HOUSING AND HEALING — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVALENTINES DAY WIDOW OUTREACH CO — $5,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA PLACE CALLED HOME — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEverstrong Prevention — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSKYLIGHT THEATRE COMPANY — $3,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $3,500 over 2y, 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 …The Rose Hills Founda…The Ralph M Parsons F…Johnny Carson Foundat…The Eli and Edythe Br…Marin Community Found…The Ahmanson Foundati…Silicon Valley Commun…The James Irvine Foun…The Annenberg Foundat…Conrad N Hilton Found…Gs Donor Advised Phil…
California Community FoundationCA24.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Johnny Carson Foundation · The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc

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 Syzygy Foundation Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Berklee College of Music Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
15report 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.

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How do I get to Syzygy Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Syzygy Foundation Inc 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 82 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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