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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK$100,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$100,000
LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION$100,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS LOS ANGELES CHAPTER$100,000
GOFUNDMEORG 2025 WILDFIRE RELIEF FUND$100,000
PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY$100,000
CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$100,000
WINGS OF RESCUE$50,000
PASADENA HUMANE$50,000
STREAM FOR A CAUSE$30,000
ONE VOICE$25,000
NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$20,000
IDAHO RIVERS UNITED$20,000
HAPPY TRAILS FOR KIDS$10,000
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.

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Its 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. Its 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%RWANDA GIRLS INITIATIVE: $10k → 9%BAY AREA WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S CENTER: $10k → 10%TORY BURCH FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%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
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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
MN
MI
NY
MA
CT
RI
CA
CO
VA
NM
NC
DC
OK
AL
GA
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
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

  • 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
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
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…

—
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…

—
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.

—
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

55 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. 55 of the 82 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/55
Grantees still filing
33/55
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · OtherLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $100,000 · OtherGOFUNDMEORG 2025 WILDFIRE RELIEF FUND: $100,000 · OtherTHE OPEN HAND FOUNDATION IN THE NAME OF KAREN REID KHALIL: $100,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS LOS ANGELES CHAPTER: $100,000 · OtherDENVER FILM - I WAS BORN THIS WAY PROJECT: $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 · AnimalsPASADENA HUMANE: $50,000 · AnimalsWINGS OF RESCUE INC: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACADEMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT 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 budgetBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPERFECT PET RESCUE: $30,000 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetSCREEN ACTORS GUILD-AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TELEVISION AND RADIO ARTISTS FOUND: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBay Area Womens and Childrens Center: $20,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetAMERICAN WHEELCHAIR FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetRwanda Girls Initiative: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTOLUCA LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTA: $15,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetALLIANCE COLLEGE-READY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJohn Burton Advocates for Youth: $12,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFILM INDEPENDENT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRILOS RESCUE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetTORY BURCH FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRHODE ISLAND DREAM CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetCLAREMATRIX: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAIDEN FACTOR FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF LOS ANGELES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNEW YORK WOMEN IN FILM & TELEVISION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPEN AMERICAN CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA PLACE CALLED HOME: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALLIANCE FOR HOUSING AND HEALING: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEverstrong Prevention: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVALENTINES DAY WIDOW OUTREACH CO: $5,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetSKYLIGHT THEATRE COMPANY: $3,500 over 2y, 0.4% 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 …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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
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.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 82 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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