· Private foundation
The Arvey Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $97k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UCLA FOUNDATION DIVISION OF DIGESTIVE DISEASES | $25,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ART | $20,000 |
| OPERA SANTA BARBARA | $12,000 |
| DIRECT RELIEF | $10,000 |
| J PAUL GETTY TRUST | $10,000 |
| EASY LIFT TRANSPORTATION | $10,000 |
| UCLA FOUNDATION COTSEN INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY | $10,000 |
| GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE | $5,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA COTTAGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA WILFIRE PROTECTION TEAM | $5,000 |
| LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART (LACMA) | $5,000 |
| GRANADA THEATRE | $3,000 |
| MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST | $3,000 |
| ART HISTORY SOCIETY OF CAL STATE LA | $2,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
26 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MAMUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST6× · 2017–2025 · $31k · revenue +18%
DIRECT RELIEF5× · 2017–2025 · $30k · revenue +94%- MAMUSEUM ASSOCIATES4× · 2017–2025 · $25k · revenue +89%
Funded once
- LALos Angeles Operaone grant, 2022 · $10k
- LOLA OPERAone grant, 2017 · $10k
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOMone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -51%
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.
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.
The hammer museum at ucla believes in the promise of art and ideas to illuminate our lives and build a more just world.
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…
To integrate art into the lives of people, fostering imagination, stimulating thought, and creating personally rewarding experiences.
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…
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.
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
The museum of contemporary art san diego invites all audiences to experience our world, our region, and ourselves through the prism of contemporary art.
The Chile-California Council is a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to developing and promoting joint endeavors and cooperative relations between Chile and California, as well as individuals, legal entities and other institutions in…
The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…
The monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.
How this is measured
23 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. 23 of the 45 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 J PAUL GETTY TRUST ↗
- Who funds MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds EASY LIFT TRANSPORTATION INC ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds OPERA SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA WILDFIRE PROTECTION TEAM ↗
- Who funds ETHNIC ARTS COUNCIL OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE FOR CULTURAL POLICY INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds National Kidney Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA COURTHOUSE LEGACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE PROJECT FOR RESILIENT COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds Weiss Memorial Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds SAN CARLOS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Mosher Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Arvey Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Arvey Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
How this is measured
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