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The Audrey Irmas Foundation for Social Justice

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
36
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$296k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 42% of THE AUDREY IRMAS FOUNDATION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $477k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $875k
  • $250k+3 grants · $796k
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$39M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HEART OF LOS ANGELES$295,985
LA FAMILY HOUSING$250,000
PUBLIC COUNSEL$250,000
ACLU FOUNDATION$200,000
USC NORRIS COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER$200,000
AFRICA FOUNDATION USA$150,000
BET TZEDEK$150,000
A PLACE CALLED HOME$100,000
NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES LOS ANGELES$75,000
LITTLE KIDS ROCK - MUSIC WILL$45,000
STRIVE$40,000
ONE JUSTICE$30,000
USC ANNENBERG SCHOOL FOR COMMUNICATION AND JOURNALISM$30,000
MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCACY SERVICES$30,000
BRESEE FOUNDATION$30,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $192k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%YOUTH VILLAGESJANIES FUND: $20k → 17%YOUTH VILLAGESJANIES FUND: $10k → 17%VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 14%THE BRIGID ALLIANCE: $50k → 17%THE BRIGID ALLIANCE: $25k → 17%VOLUNTEER COLLECTIVE: $25k → 14%VOLUNTEER COLLECTIVE: $10k → 14%VOLUNTEER COLLECTIVE: $5k → 14%FIRST STAR INC: $25k → 14%DREAM STREET FOUNDATION: $500 → 14%ABILITYFIRST: $10k → 14%GO CAMPAIGN: $2k → 14%ABILITYFIRST: $5k → 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

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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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$11M · 31 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.

31 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
19

Total granted

$11M
$980k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+27%

Still filing today

87%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $154k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’22’23’24
Human ServicesCrime & LegalHealthYouth DevelopmentInternationalEducationOther

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

  • HO
    HEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +6%
  • LF
    LA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION
    5× · 2019–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +100%
  • PUBLIC COUNSEL
    4× · 2019–2024 · $954k · revenue +66%

Funded once

  • US
    USC SCHOOL OF LAW
    one grant, 2019 · $500k
  • AC
    AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $200k · revenue +29%
  • OF
    ONE FAIR WAGE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -23%

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
Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice

The survivor justice center secures justice for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault and empowers them to create their own future.

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2
Legal Aid Association of California

The Legal Aid Association of California, the statewide membership of legal services nonprofits, serves its members through advocacy and other support in efforts to provide legal assistance to low-income Californians and ensure access to…

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3
Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area

As one of the most enduring civil rights institutions on the West Coast, we work to dismantle systems of oppression and racism, and build an equitable and just society.

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4
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
5
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
6
Los Angeles County Bar Association (Lacba)

Meeting the professional needs of los angeles lawyers, and improving the administration of justice.

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7
Aclu Foundation of Southern California

See schedule o for detailsthe organization defends the civil liberties enshrined in the us constitution and the bill of rights through litigation, policy advocacy, media advocacy, and organizing. it fights to secure and protect the civil…

Civil Rights
8
League of Women Voters of Los Angeles

The League of Women Voters, a nonpartisan political organization, encourages informed and active participation in government, works to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and…

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9
Counsel for Justice

CFJ promotes access to justice for underserved communities seeking to assert their legal rights. Our pro bono-based projects bridge the gap for underserved communities seeking safety, stability, and justice. CFJ engages volunteer attorneys…

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10
Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles

Jfsla's mission is to provide life-improving services that help the people of los angeles live with dignity and exercise self-determination. we believe in and strive for a more compassionate los angeles where no one has to navigate life…

Human Services
11
Los Angeles Innocence Project Inc

The purpose is to exonerate the wrongly convicted, uncover and remedy past misuse of evidence in the courtroom, and improve the dialogue among stakeholders in the criminal legal system to prevent future injustice.

Crime & Legal
12
Legal Link

Legal Link removes legal barriers that prolong poverty by adding critically needed capacity to the legal ecosystem.

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Mayor's Fund for Los Angeles and the most unlike its peers is Volunteer Collective. 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 33 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%2%<5yr16%10%5–10yr20%10%10–20yr17%33%20–35yr11%27%35–55yr13%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr16%2%5–10yr20%4%10–20yr17%47%20–35yr11%26%35–55yr13%21%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/53
the rest of the field
15%
9,467/62,764

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

52 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. 52 of the 64 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/52
Grantees still filing
32/52
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION — $1,851,050 · OtherLA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATIONUSC NORRIS COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER — $1,020,645 · OtherUSC NORRIS COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTERUSC SCHOOL OF LAW — $500,000 · OtherUSC SCHOOL OF LAWA PLACE CALLED HOME — $400,000 · OtherA PLACE CALLED HOMEBET TZEDEK — $350,000 · OtherBET TZEDEKNEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES LOS ANGELES — $325,500 · OtherNEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES LOS ANGELESAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $200,000 · Other+35 more — $998,500 · Other+35 moreHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC — $3,166,565 · Youth DevelopmentHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INCSTRIVE FOUNDATION — $206,950 · Youth DevelopmentSTRIVE FOUNDATIONC5 YOUTH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC — $150,000 · Youth Development+1 more — $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentPUBLIC COUNSEL — $953,500 · Crime & LegalPUBLIC CO…Western Center on Law & Poverty Inc — $50,000 · Crime & Legal+4 more — $11,500 · Crime & LegalAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $800,000 · Civil RightsONE FAIR WAGE INC — $100,000 · Civil RightsAFRICA FOUNDATION (USA) — $600,000 · InternationalT'RUAH — $60,000 · InternationalA JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE — $25,000 · International+1 more — $12,500 · InternationalJEWISH WORLD WATCH — $100,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $100,000 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATION — $65,000 · EducationTHE PLAY EQUITY FUND — $25,000 · EducationNEW VILLAGE CHARTER SCHOOL INC — $15,000 · EducationTHE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES — $219,000 · Philanthropy
Other$5,645,695Youth Development$3,583,515Crime & Legal$1,015,000Civil Rights$900,000International$697,500Education$305,000Philanthropy$219,000

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 budgetHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC — $3,166,565 over 5y, 15% of budgetLA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION — $1,851,050 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetPUBLIC COUNSEL — $953,500 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $800,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAFRICA FOUNDATION (USA) — $600,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetA PLACE CALLED HOME — $400,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetBET TZEDEK — $350,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES — $219,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSTRIVE FOUNDATION — $206,950 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $200,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetC5 YOUTH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC — $150,000 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetOneJustice — $150,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetJEWISH WORLD WATCH — $100,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetONE FAIR WAGE INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPF Bresee Foundation — $90,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC — $75,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMUSIC WILL INC — $70,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $65,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTUDENTS RUN AMERICA — $60,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH ADVOCACY SERVICES INC — $60,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetT'RUAH — $60,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetWestern Center on Law & Poverty Inc — $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL FOOD — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWRIGHT INSTITUTE LOS ANGELES — $49,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetJEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION — $45,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetVOLUNTEER COLLECTIVE — $40,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetPOPSTHECLUBCOM INC — $30,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetYOUTH VILLAGES FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST STAR INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetLOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PLAY EQUITY FUND — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger — $18,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Whole Child - Mental Health & Housing Services — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetABILITYFIRST — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW VILLAGE CHARTER SCHOOL INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGET LIT - WORDS IGNITE INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS LILITH FUND — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NARRATIVE METHOD GROUP — $10,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetVENICE FAMILY CLINIC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BAIL PROJECT INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLegal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIND INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES INC — $2,000 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.

California Community …Liberty Hill Foundati…The Ralph M Parsons F…Weingart FoundationThe Annenberg Foundat…The Ahmanson Foundati…The Rosalinde and Art…The Rose Hills Founda…The California Endowm…The Mark Hughes Found…La Clippers FoundationThe Los Angeles Dodge…
California Community FoundationCA32.8× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The California Endowment · The Mark Hughes Foundation · La Clippers Foundation · The Los Angeles Dodgers 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 Audrey Irmas Foundation for Social Justice 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 · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    16report 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

    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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    How do I get to The Audrey Irmas Foundation for Social Justice?

    Find your warmest path to The Audrey Irmas Foundation for Social Justice 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 64 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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