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The Adi and Jerry Greenberg Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$600k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Education$3.4MArts & Culture$3.3MHealth$492kCivil Rights$300kCrime & Legal$215kPhilanthropy$140kYouth Development$80kInternational$80kOther$0
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $48k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $161k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.1M
$10,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$38M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Geffen Playhouse Inc$600,000
No Limits Theater Group Inc$295,500
Jewish Institute for Liberal Values$250,000
American Jewish Committee$50,000
Windward School$50,000
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy$25,000
Cedars-Sinai$25,000
Present Now$20,000
California Community Foundation$20,000
The One Step Closer Foundation$11,000
Pulse Ensemble Theatre$10,000
Social Giving Network Inc$10,000
Sugar Ray Leonard Foundation$10,000
Jewish Federation of Los Angeles$10,000
Hualalai 'Ohana 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 (FY20–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%First Place for Youth: $1k → 10%Present Now: $20k → 14%Present Now: $1k → 14%Present Now: $1k → 14%Present Now: $1k → 14%Present Now: $1k → 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

IL
NY
NV
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
TN
SC
DC
HI
AL
TX

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.2M · 26 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

26 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
21

Total granted

$6.2M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+11%

Still filing today

88%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $385k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentInternationalReligionOther

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

  • GP
    GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +9%
  • BS
    BRENTWOOD SCHOOL
    4× · 2020–2023 · $1.5M · revenue +28%
  • NL
    NO LIMITS THEATER GROUP INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF MCGILL UNIVERSITY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +169%
  • EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE
    2× · 2021–2022 · $200k · revenue -40%
  • WS
    Windward School Innovation Campaign
    one grant, 2022 · $200k

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
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
4
University of California Irvine Foundation

The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…

Education
5
California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy

To harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…

Health
6
The Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation

The jonsson cancer center foundation is the single most important vehicle for raising private funds for cancer research at ucla and plays a key role in advancing cancer treatments and care. please see schedule o for additional information.

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7
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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8
La Jolla Institute for Immunology

At la jolla institute for immunology, our scientists focus on understanding how the immune system works in order to promote human health and prevent disease. our discoveries apply to many diseases, ranging from diabetes to heart disease,…

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9
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
10
The Scripps Research Institute

The scripps research institute ("tsri") performs high impact basic biomedical research, improves the human condition by fostering translation of its discoveries into useful products and engages in the highest quality graduate scientific…

Health
11
University of Southern California Hillel Foundation

To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…

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12
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech

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

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%5%<5yr15%5%5–10yr20%15%10–20yr17%33%20–35yr11%15%35–55yr13%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%4%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%3%10–20yr17%53%20–35yr11%9%35–55yr13%32%55yr+

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

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/48
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,930

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

45 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. 45 of the 58 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/45
Grantees still filing
28/45
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC — $2,077,000 · Arts & CultureGEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INCNO LIMITS THEATER GROUP INC — $1,110,500 · Arts & CultureNO LIMITS THEATER GROUP INC+3 more — $80,000 · Arts & CultureBRENTWOOD SCHOOL — $1,465,000 · EducationBRENTWOOD SCHOOLFRIENDS OF MCGILL UNIVERSITY INC — $500,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF MCGILL UNIVERSITY INCWINDWARD SCHOOL — $450,000 · EducationWINDWARD SCHOOL+4 more — $85,000 · EducationYALE UNIVERSITY — $650,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYWindward School Innovation Campaign — $200,000 · OtherWindward School Innov…Modern Diet and Psychology Research Center — $175,000 · OtherModern Diet and Psych…MDPRC Inc — $175,000 · OtherMDPRC Inc+24 more — $316,000 · Other+24 moreJEWISH INSTITUTE FOR LIBERAL VALUES INC — $250,000 · ReligionMITZVAH MATTERS — $55,000 · ReligionEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $200,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $50,000 · Civil RightsSUGAR RAY LEONARD FOUNDATION — $30,000 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $25,000 · HealthBEAUTY BUS FOUNDATION — $20,500 · HealthTHE LOS ANGELES FREE CLINIC — $20,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $15,000 · HealthPHASE ONE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · HealthThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc — $10,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $7,500 · HealthWILL ROGERS MOTION PICTURE PIONEERS FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Health+2 more — $3,500 · HealthCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $80,000 · PhilanthropyJUST KEEP LIVIN FOUNDATION — $10,000 · PhilanthropyTHE SOCIAL GIVING NETWORK — $10,000 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$3,267,500Education$2,500,000Other$1,516,000Religion$305,000Civil Rights$250,000Health$146,500Philanthropy$100,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC — $2,077,000 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetBRENTWOOD SCHOOL — $1,465,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetNO LIMITS THEATER GROUP INC — $1,110,500 over 5y, 21% of budgetFRIENDS OF MCGILL UNIVERSITY INC — $500,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetWINDWARD SCHOOL — $450,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetJEWISH INSTITUTE FOR LIBERAL VALUES INC — $250,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $80,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMITZVAH MATTERS — $55,000 over 5y, 8.7% of budgetPULSE ENSEMBLE THEATRE INC — $50,000 over 5y, 87% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUALALAI OHANA FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetCHILDREN MENDING HEARTS INC — $35,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetSUGAR RAY LEONARD FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC — $25,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPRESENT NOW — $24,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetBEAUTY BUS FOUNDATION — $20,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF LOS ANGELES INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LOS ANGELES FREE CLINIC — $20,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCITY YEAR INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RAPE FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF GIVAT HAVIVA — $12,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMACCABI USA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUST KEEP LIVIN FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIN A PERFECT WORLD — $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTHE SOCIAL GIVING NETWORK — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPHASE ONE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBIA GRAMMAR AND PREPARATORY SCHOOL — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $7,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWILL ROGERS MOTION PICTURE PIONEERS FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVALKYRIE GIVES — $5,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetKEAUKAHA ONE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetKISS THE GROUND — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVIP COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC — $1,000 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.

Gs Donor Advised Phil…California Community …Jewish Community Foun…Greater HorizonsMorgan Stanley Global…The Annenberg Foundat…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Jewish Communal FundCharities Aid Foundat…Silicon Valley Commun…Enterprise Holdings F…
Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY17× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · California Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Greater Horizons · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Annenberg Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Enterprise Holdings 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 The Adi and Jerry Greenberg 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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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Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Adi and Jerry Greenberg Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Adi and Jerry Greenberg Foundation 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 58 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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