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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.

$53M
Granted FY2024still arriving
543
Grants FY2024still arriving
37
States reached
$12M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$359MArts & Culture$140MEducation$64MAnimals$35MEnvironment$20MHealth$19MReligion$17MHuman Services$17MOther$0
02FY2024 · 543 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k37 grants · $137k
  • $10k–50k289 grants · $6.2M
  • $50k–250k190 grants · $15M
  • $250k+27 grants · $32M
$25,000
Median grant
37
States reached
$1.5B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $8.4M) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Project Home: $80k → 22%Latino Center for Prevention & Action in Health & Welfare: $100k → 10%Center for Youth Services Incorporated: $75k → 14%Reunion Center: $250k → 21%Mary D Fund Inc: $200k → 7%Boulder Crest Retreat Foundation: $1.0M → 7%New Directions for People with Disabilities Inc: $105k → 14%New Directions for People with Disabilities Inc: $105k → 14%Service Dog Project Inc: $150k → 10%El Sol Neighborhood Educational Center: $75k → 14%New Directions for People with Disabilities Incorporated: $105k → 14%Jacobin Foundation Ltd: $100k → 20%SERVICE DOG PROJECT INC: $150k → 10%FREEDOM OF THE PRESS FOUNDATION: $100k → 20%Service Dog Project Inc: $150k → 10%El Sol Neighborhood Educational Center: $75k → 14%Jacobin Foundation Ltd: $100k → 20%Service Dog Project Incorporated: $150k → 10%Lift To Rise: $75k → 11%Freedom House: $75k → 21%Service Dog Project Inc: $150k → 10%Service Dog Project Inc: $150k → 10%Mixteco Indigena Community Organizing Project: $160k → 10%Service Dog Project Inc: $116k → 10%Mixteco Indigena Community Organizing Project: $150k → 10%LATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100k → 10%First Place for Youth: $75k → 10%Latino Community Foundation: $100k → 10%Freedom of the Press Foundation: $100k → 10%First Place for Youth: $75k → 10%Freedom of the Press FDN: $100k → 10%University Muslim Medical Association Inc: $100k → 14%Koreatown Youth and Community Center Inc: $75k → 14%UNIVERSITY MUSLIM MEDICAL ASSOCIATION INC: $75k → 14%Para Los Ninos: $75k → 14%PARA LOS NINOS: $75k → 14%University Muslim Medical Association Incorporated: $100k → 14%The Achievable Foundation: $75k → 14%Asian Youth Center: $80k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $125k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $125k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $100k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $100k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $100k → 14%Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Long Beach: $100k → 14%One Voice: $100k → 14%Central American Resource Center - Carecen - of California: $100k → 14%Los Angeles Police Foundation: $115k → 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

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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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 49% of The Annenberg Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Annenberg Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$654M · 813 repeat orgs$60M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

813 repeat relationships: 325 still active in FY2024, 488 since wound down; 127 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

813
1012

Total granted

$654M
$54M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+28%

Still filing today

92%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentAnimalsHealthOther
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

  • TW
    THE WALLIS ANNENBERG LEGACY FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $346M · revenue ×73 · 93% of their budget
  • PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $21M · revenue +52%
  • WA
    WALLIS ANNENBERG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
    7× · 2017–2024 · $18M · revenue +71% · 55% of their budget

Funded once

  • WA
    Wallis Annenberg Ctr for PA
    one grant, 2020 · $2.6M
  • LC
    LA County Museum of Ntrl Hist FDN
    one grant, 2020 · $1.1M
  • LO
    LA Opera Company
    one grant, 2020 · $1.1M
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.

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Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

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.

Crime & Legal
2
California Forward

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,…

Public Benefit
3
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
4
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
5
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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6
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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7
Cooperation L a

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.

Arts & Culture
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The American Institute of Architects California

The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.

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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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United States Naval Institute

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.

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Friends of the Earth

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…

Environment
12
California Dental Association Foundation

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.

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Leadersup; 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.
05the grantee network

1670 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. 1670 of the 2,000 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.

63
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
476
Early backer (in before they grew)
1614/1670
Grantees still filing
1183/1670
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE WALLIS ANNENBERG LEGACY FOUNDATION: $346,381,525 · PhilanthropyTHE WALLIS ANNENBERG LEGACY FOUNDATION+12 more: $10,040,716 · PhilanthropyPHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $21,150,021 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA ORCHES…WALLIS ANNENBERG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $18,345,489 · Arts & CultureWALLIS ANNENBERG CE…LOS ANGELES OPERA COMPANY: $8,500,000 · Arts & CultureLOS ANGELES OPERA C…ARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC: $7,867,500 · Arts & CultureARMAND HAMMER MUSEU…Museum of Modern Art: $5,775,000 · Arts & CultureLOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY FOUNDATION: $4,688,483 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION: $4,515,000 · Arts & Culture+39 more: $39,454,075 · Arts & Culture+39 moreUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $24,297,000 · EducationUNIVERSIT…UCLA FOUNDATION: $6,276,279 · EducationUCLA FOUN…DEBBIE ALLEN DANCE INC DEBBIE ALLEN DANCE ACADEMY: $3,030,333 · EducationDEBBIE AL…THE NATIONAL PRESS CLUB JOURNALISM INSTITUTE INC: $2,600,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $1,955,999 · Education+22 more: $17,037,264 · Education+22 moreWILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLE: $15,450,000 · OtherWILSHIRE BOULE…KCRW FOUNDATION INC: $2,856,725 · OtherCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $3,960,001 · Other+85 more: $58,470,410 · Other+85 moreNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $8,550,000 · AnimalsANIMAL WELLNESS FOUNDATION: $5,844,000 · AnimalsPOLAR BEARS INTERNATIONAL: $1,750,000 · AnimalsAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC: $1,100,000 · AnimalsGORILLA REHABILITATION CONSERVATION EDUCATION (GRACE) CENTER INC: $875,000 · AnimalsRAPTOR RESOURCE PROJECT: $850,000 · AnimalsWILLIAM HOLDEN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $750,000 · Animals+6 more: $2,737,000 · AnimalsCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $2,983,600 · Community ImprovementBROWN UNIVERSITY: $2,586,667 · Community ImprovementLOS ANGELES JEWISH HOME FOR THE AGING: $2,026,666 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY COALITION FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT: $460,000 · Community ImprovementGRAMEEN AMERICA INC: $310,000 · Community ImprovementKatmai Conservancy: $2,452,000 · EnvironmentOcean Alliance Inc: $725,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $572,000 · EnvironmentGREENPEACE FUND INC: $500,000 · EnvironmentAMAZON FRONTLINES: $465,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $415,000 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICE: $375,000 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAKE CONSERVANCY INC: $300,000 · Environment
Philanthropy$356,422,241Arts & Culture$110,295,568Education$55,196,875Other$80,737,136Animals$22,456,000Community Improvement$8,366,933Environment$5,804,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE WALLIS ANNENBERG LEGACY FOUNDATION: $346,381,525 over 8y, 93% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $24,297,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $21,150,021 over 8y, 6.4% of budgetWALLIS ANNENBERG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $18,345,489 over 7y, 55% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $8,550,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES OPERA COMPANY: $8,500,000 over 7y, 5.2% of budgetARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC: $7,867,500 over 5y, 9.9% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $6,276,279 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetANIMAL WELLNESS FOUNDATION: $5,844,000 over 8y, 86% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $5,775,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetLOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY FOUNDATION: $4,688,483 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetCALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION: $4,515,000 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $3,960,001 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM ASSOCIATES: $3,457,733 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetPERFORMING ARTS CENTER OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY: $3,205,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetDEBBIE ALLEN DANCE INC DEBBIE ALLEN DANCE ACADEMY: $3,030,333 over 8y, 18% of budgetMetropolitan Opera Association Inc: $3,025,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $2,983,600 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetKCRW FOUNDATION INC: $2,856,725 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetFALLEN JOURNALISTS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $2,600,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetTHE NATIONAL PRESS CLUB JOURNALISM INSTITUTE INC: $2,600,000 over 3y, 54% of budgetTHE DREAMYARD PROJECT INC: $2,595,000 over 8y, 5.9% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $2,586,667 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetKatmai Conservancy: $2,452,000 over 6y, 55% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $2,255,776 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $2,225,500 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetAFRICAN PARKS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $2,050,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetLOS ANGELES JEWISH HOME FOR THE AGING: $2,026,666 over 7y, 3.1% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $1,990,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $1,955,999 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSundance Institute: $1,800,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetThe Thacher School Inc: $1,775,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetPOLAR BEARS INTERNATIONAL: $1,750,000 over 7y, 9.6% of budgetSTREET POETS INC: $1,750,000 over 4y, 62% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE MUSEES DES ARTS DECORATIFS INC: $1,743,355 over 5y, 10.0% of budgetACTOR'S GANG INC: $1,675,000 over 8y, 14% of budgetLOS ANGELES URBAN LEAGUE: $1,460,000 over 7y, 12% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1,443,667 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $1,390,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS: $1,365,000 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $1,350,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $1,332,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $1,325,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $1,300,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetORANGUTAN FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL: $1,300,000 over 8y, 11% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF COVENT GARDEN THE ROYAL BALLET INC: $1,283,664 over 5y, 14% of budgetENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION: $1,200,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCitizens of the World Charter Schools Los Angeles: $1,166,667 over 5y, 1.1% 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.

  • 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 POLAR BEARS INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds STREET POETS INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE MUSEES DES ARTS DECORATIFS INC ↗
  • Who funds ACTOR'S GANG INC ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES URBAN LEAGUE ↗

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.

The Ralph M Parsons F…The Ahmanson Foundati…Weingart FoundationThe Rose Hills Founda…The Green FoundationS Mark Taper Foundati…Liberty Hill Foundati…United Way IncElbridge Stuart Found…The Deutsch FoundationDurfee FoundationThe Crail-Johnson Fou…
The Ralph M Parsons FoundationCA174.6× affinity244 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
48report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Annenberg Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Annenberg 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 2000 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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