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The Atlas Family Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.9M
Granted FY2020
31
Itemized grants FY2020
25
Organizations funded FY2020
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99% of The Atlas Family Foundation’s FY2022 grant dollars went to Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year The Atlas Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 14 organizations, $2M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

0
’19
14
’20
0
’21
2
’22

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Itemized, FY2020
$1.6M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2020
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2020
$175,000
States reached, FY2020
4
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
87% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2022.

Philanthropy$849kHealth$550kHuman Services$340kCommunity Improvement$227kArts & Culture$119kEducation$110kCivil Rights$63kSocial Science$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 15 grantees

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($750k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Atlas Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVenice Family Clinic: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLong Beach Day Nursery: $100,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Los Angeles: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAllies for Every Child Inc: $90,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAll for Kids Organization: $75,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFamilies Forward Learning Center: $60,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetCasa of Los Angeles: $60,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSkirball Cultural Center: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Rape Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHarmony Project: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWeitzman National Museum of American Jewish History: $4,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCangress Dba Los Angeles Community Action Network: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Women's Theatre: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFernando Pullum Community Arts Center: $750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFountain Theatre: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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 FoundationCA18.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Deutsch Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Los Angeles Universal Preschool · Weingart Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.

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How do I get to The Atlas Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Atlas Family 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.

About The Atlas Family Foundation

How much does The Atlas Family Foundation give?
The Atlas Family Foundation reported 31 itemized grants totaling $1,617,300, out of $1,925,266 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2020 IRS filing.
What does The Atlas Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2022, its largest causes are Philanthropy (15%), Health (10%), Human Services (6%).
Who are The Atlas Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2022: Venice Family Clinic ($100k), Long Beach Day Nursery ($100k), Planned Parenthood Los Angeles ($100k).
Does The Atlas Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Atlas Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, The Deutsch Foundation, The Ahmanson Foundation.
Where is The Atlas Family Foundation based?
The Atlas Family Foundation is based in CA.

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 29 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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