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The Annenberg Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k37 grants · $137k
- $10k–50k289 grants · $6.2M
- $50k–250k190 grants · $15M
- $250k+27 grants · $32M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE WALLIS ANNENBERG LEGACY FOUNDATION | $11,603,575 |
| NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION | $4,000,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION | $2,680,404 |
| ANIMAL WELLNESS FOUNDATION | $2,200,000 |
| WALLIS ANNENBERG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $1,428,572 |
| FALLEN JOURNALISTS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $1,300,000 |
| CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER | $1,166,667 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY OF PROVIDENCE | $833,333 |
| LOS ANGELES OPERA COMPANY | $750,000 |
| UTAH FILM CENTER DBA SALT LAKE CITY FILM CENTER AND | $700,000 |
| GORILLA REHABILITATION AND CONSERVATION EDUCATION CENTER INC | $425,000 |
| KATMAI CONSERVANCY | $402,000 |
| CASAPO | $351,000 |
| DREAMYARD PROJECT INC | $350,000 |
| MUSEUM ASSOCIATES | $340,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $8.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 49% of The Annenberg Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
814 repeat relationships — 325 still active in FY2024, 489 since wound down; 126 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TWTHE WALLIS ANNENBERG LEGACY FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $346M · revenue ×73 · 93% of their budget
PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION8× · 2017–2024 · $21M · revenue +52%- WAWALLIS ANNENBERG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS7× · 2017–2024 · $18M · revenue +71% · 55% of their budget
Funded once
- WAWallis Annenberg Ctr for PAone grant, 2020 · $2.6M
- LCLA County Museum of Ntrl Hist FDNone grant, 2020 · $1.1M
- LOLA Opera Companyone grant, 2020 · $1.1M
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
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…
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…
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…
The L.A. Co-op Lab is a collective that builds capacity for worker ownership in Los Angeles as a pathway toward a more equitable and democratic economy.
The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.
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…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Leadersup and the most unlike its peers is The Neue Galerie New York. 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.
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 29 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
1675 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. 1675 of the 2,000 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THE WALLIS ANNENBERG LEGACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WALLIS ANNENBERG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES OPERA COMPANY ↗
- Who funds ARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL WELLNESS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds PERFORMING ARTS CENTER OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY ↗
- Who funds DEBBIE ALLEN DANCE INC DEBBIE ALLEN DANCE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds KCRW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FALLEN JOURNALISTS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL PRESS CLUB JOURNALISM INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE DREAMYARD PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Katmai Conservancy ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Best Buddies International Inc ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN PARKS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES JEWISH HOME FOR THE AGING ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Sundance Institute ↗
- Who funds The Thacher School Inc ↗
- Who funds STREET POETS INC ↗
- Who funds POLAR BEARS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE MUSEES DES ARTS DECORATIFS INC ↗
- Who funds ACTOR'S GANG INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES URBAN LEAGUE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Green Foundation · S Mark Taper Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · United Way Inc · Elbridge Stuart Foundation Dba Stuart Foundation · The Deutsch Foundation · Durfee Foundation · The Crail-Johnson 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 Annenberg 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.
- Chesapeake Conservancy Inc — 27% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% of income from government
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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