Skip to content
The Bilger Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Bilger 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.

$298k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$2.2MInternational$915kCrime & Legal$644kPhilanthropy$626kEducation$423kReligion$281kSocial Science$200kHealth$155kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $95k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$61k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER$100,000
THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES$50,000
BET TZEDEK$50,000
THE SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
SINAI TEMPLE$25,000
RETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST$10,000
URBAN GATEWAYS$10,000
MOTHER CABRINI STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP$2,500
02The need
03

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 (FY17–18, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%VISTA DEL MAR: $1k → 14%SHALVA: $500 → 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

IL
WI
NY
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
AZ
NC
DC
LA
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.0M · 28 repeat orgs$354k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against +0% for those funded once.

28 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
48

Total granted

$5.0M
$302k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+0%

Still filing today

68%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalHealthCivil RightsHuman ServicesOther
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

  • CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2022 · $1.2M · revenue +95%
  • SC
    SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER
    9× · 2017–2025 · $850k · revenue +26%
  • IE
    ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE
    7× · 2017–2023 · $675k · revenue +122%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • CF
    COLLEGE FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION FUND AT ECHOING GREEN
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • I
    ISRAAID
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
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.

1
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

—
2
Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles

We steward $1.5 billion in charitable assets through donor-advised funds, endowments, and other giving vehicles. partnering with 1,400 individuals, families, and organizations, we build enduring legacies and multigenerational impact. in…

Philanthropy
3
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
4
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
5
Bureau of Jewish Education of Greater Los Angeles Inc

Bje enhances the quality of, increases access to, and encourages participation in jewish education throughout the jewish communities of greater los angeles. bje is an advocate, planner, catalyst, and creative leader for strengthening and…

Religion
6
University of Southern California Hillel Foundation

To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…

—
7
The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America

The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…

International
8
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
9
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

—
10
American Society for Technion Israel Institute of Technology Inc

The american technion society supports the technion's critical research and (continued on sch o)

International
11
American Israel Public Affairs Committee

To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.

International
12
Artis Contemporary Israeli Art Fundinc

Artis is an independent nonprofit organization that supports contemporary artists from israel whose work addresses aesthetic, social and political questions to inspire reflection and debate. www.artis.art

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Simon Wiesenthal Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Los Angeles Press Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

49 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. 49 of the 84 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/49
Grantees still filing
32/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION: $1,207,163 · Arts & CultureCREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATIONSKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER: $850,000 · Arts & CultureSKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTERURBAN GATEWAYS: $95,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $42,925 · Arts & CultureTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $570,360 · OtherTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER LOS ANGE…BET TZEDEK: $423,750 · OtherBET TZEDEKSINAI TEMPLE: $248,860 · OtherSINAI TEMPLETHE RAPE FOUNDATION: $215,000 · OtherTHE RAPE FOUNDATIONTHE MILKEN INSTITUTE: $200,000 · OtherTHE MILKEN INSTITUTE+48 more: $483,505 · Other+48 moreISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $675,000 · InternationalISRAEL EMERGENC…FRIENDS OF ELNET: $80,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF ELNE…BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $50,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRA…+3 more: $12,000 · InternationalTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $375,000 · EducationTHE CENTER FOR EARLY EDUCATION: $15,000 · Education+4 more: $10,600 · EducationRETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC: $90,000 · HealthPROJECT ANGEL FOOD: $30,000 · HealthTOURETTE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC: $20,000 · Health+2 more: $2,100 · HealthJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $45,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $10,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $1,100 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $30,000 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $10,000 · Civil Rights
Arts & Culture$2,195,088Other$2,141,475International$817,000Education$400,600Health$142,100Philanthropy$56,100Civil Rights$40,000

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 budgetCREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION: $1,207,163 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetSKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER: $850,000 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $675,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetBET TZEDEK: $423,750 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $375,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RAPE FOUNDATION: $215,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetTHE MILKEN INSTITUTE: $200,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetURBAN GATEWAYS: $95,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetRETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC: $90,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF ELNET: $80,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetThe reThink Israel Initiative Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $45,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL FOOD: $30,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBABY2BABY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTOURETTE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR EARLY EDUCATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES POLICE RESERVE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISRAAID US GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH WORLD WATCH: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLegal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Israel Philharmonic Orchestra: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetL A THEATRE WORKS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRIBE MEDIA CORP: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEARTH RESTORATION ALLIANCE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLOS ANGELES PRESS CLUB: $3,600 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv Univ: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTOWER CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJason Motte Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetWISE READERS TO LEADERS: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLCREST COUNTRY CLUB CHARITABLE FUND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHALVA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTRONG FOODLA KITCHEN: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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 CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds BET TZEDEK ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds THE RAPE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE MILKEN INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds URBAN GATEWAYS ↗
  • Who funds RETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF ELNET ↗
  • Who funds The reThink Israel Initiative Inc ↗
  • Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT ANGEL FOOD ↗
  • Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds BABY2BABY ↗
  • Who funds TOURETTE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR EARLY EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES POLICE RESERVE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds ISRAAID US GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION 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.

California Community …Weingart FoundationThe Ahmanson Foundati…Jewish Communal FundLiberty Hill Foundati…Jewish Community Foun…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…The Bank of America C…
California Community FoundationCA18.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Liberty Hill Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Bilger Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bilger Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.

    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 84 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

    Play a game based on Bilger’s filings →

    More from the funding graph

    The unnamed billions
    grants reported with no recipient in the public record
    The regranting layer
    51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
    The DAF merry-go-round
    $9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
    The endowment market
    who holds foundation money, and what just moved
    The camps
    funders cluster by geography, not ideology
    By state
    where grant money is based, and what stays home