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The Broder 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.

$173k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$95k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Religion$697kAnimals$515kHealth$513kEducation$140kCrime & Legal$42kYouth Development$29kArts & Culture$25kHuman Services$22kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $53k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $95k
$7,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE DIANE FOSSEY GORILLA FUND INTERNATIONAL$95,000
SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST$15,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES$15,000
WILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLE$13,070
NO LIMITS FOR DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING CHILDREN$10,000
PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK$7,500
MARTHA'S FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY$5,000
JHPIEGO$5,000
THE ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS$3,500
JEWISH FEDERATION LOS ANGELES$2,500
LOS ANGELES LEADERSHIP PRIMARY ACADEMY$1,500
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 (FY17–24, $67k) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $7k → 14%EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $6k → 14%EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%PARA LOS NINOS: $3k → 14%PARA LOS NINOS: $1k → 14%WESPARK: $3k → 14%YOUNG EISNER SCHOLARS: $3k → 14%UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $1k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES: $15k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES: $3k → 14%THE CENTER AT BLESSED SACRAMENT: $4k → 14%THE CENTER AT BLESSED SACRAMENT: $2k → 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.

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.9M · 28 repeat orgs$58k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

28 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
25

Total granted

$1.9M
$47k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+18%

Still filing today

79%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentAnimalsOther

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

  • DF
    Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $476k · revenue +98%
  • C
    CLAREMATRIX
    2× · 2018–2019 · $34k · revenue +76%
  • EC
    EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2023 · $34k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • TE
    THE ELLEN FUND
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -99%
  • TK
    THE KINTSUGI FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $3k

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
California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy

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…

Health
2
The Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation

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.

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3
Children's Hospital Los Angeles Medical Group

To be the preeminent pediatric, multispecialty medical group in the nation, dedicated to providing the highest quality medical care to infants, children and adolescents; and supporting the finest teaching and research endeavors of our…

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4
South Central Family Health Center

To improve the quality of life for the diverse communities we serve providing affordable and comprehensive healthcare and education in a welcoming multi-cultural environment.

Health
5
University of Southern California

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…

Education
6
Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric Aids Foundation

The elizabeth glaser pediatric aids foundation (egpaf) is a proven leader in the fight against pediatric hiv/aids and has reached over 33 million pregnant women with services to prevent transmission of hiv to their babies. to date, egpaf…

Health
7
Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd

Huntington Health stands for community. We stand for compassion. But more than anything, Huntington stands for health. Providing world-class health care is our specialty, and it's what we've been doing for the San Gabriel Valley since…

Health
8
Communities in Schools of Los Angeles Inc

To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. we work with public school systems, establishing relationship with superintendents, principals, educators, and community partners to…

Youth Development
9
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
10
La Jolla Institute for Immunology

At la jolla institute for immunology, our scientists focus on understanding how the immune system works in order to promote human health and prevent disease. our discoveries apply to many diseases, ranging from diabetes to heart disease,…

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11
Los Angeles Conservation Corps

The la conservation corps creates equitable opportunities for young people to build resilience in themselves, their communities and the environment through a program of work, education and support.

Employment
12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pediatric and Family Medical Center Dba Eisner Health and the most unlike its peers is Martha's Farm Animal Sanctuary. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFaith-Based Community Cente…Dog Rescue and WelfareCharter and Independent Sch…International Child WelfarePublic Interest Advocacy Or…Performing Arts Organizatio…Community Health CentersHomeless Services & SupportUniversity & College Founda…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%0%<5yr16%14%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr17%23%20–35yr10%12%35–55yr12%33%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%0%<5yr16%47%5–10yr20%2%10–20yr17%4%20–35yr10%32%35–55yr12%15%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% 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 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/46
the rest of the field
16%
8,097/52,042

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

44 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. 44 of the 58 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/44
Grantees still filing
32/44
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLE — $696,730 · OtherWILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLEDian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc — $476,155 · OtherDian Fossey Gorilla Fund International IncFRIENDS OF THE SABAN FREE CLINIC — $315,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE SABAN FREE CLINIC+22 more — $186,400 · Other+22 moreUCLA FOUNDATION — $80,000 · EducationPrivate School Axis — $30,000 · EducationTHE CENTER FOR EARLY EDUCATION — $19,000 · EducationEVERYBODY DANCE LA — $5,000 · Education+1 more — $2,500 · EducationCLAREMATRIX — $34,000 · HealthVENICE FAMILY CLINIC — $17,500 · HealthPEDIATRIC AND FAMILY MEDICAL CENTER DBA EISNER HEALTH — $7,500 · HealthPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC — $7,500 · HealthRETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC — $7,000 · HealthTHE KINTSUGI FOUNDATION — $3,475 · Health+5 more — $6,600 · HealthEXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $33,500 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES — $17,500 · Human ServicesTHE CENTER IN HOLLYWOOD — $6,200 · Human ServicesPARA LOS NINOS — $3,500 · Human ServicesWESPARK INC — $2,500 · Human ServicesYoung Eisner Scholars — $2,500 · Human Services+1 more — $1,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN MENDING HEARTS INC — $16,390 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER LOS ANGELES — $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentGEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC — $14,500 · Arts & CultureLOS ANGELES CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY — $6,500 · Arts & CultureOMNIPEACE FOUNDATION INC — $1,500 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $1,000 · Arts & CultureREISENBACH PHILANTHROPIES INC — $17,500 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA — $2,500 · PhilanthropyLIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION — $2,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,674,285Education$136,500Health$83,575Human Services$66,700Youth Development$23,890Arts & Culture$23,500Philanthropy$22,000

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 budgetDian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc — $476,155 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RAPE FOUNDATION — $38,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCLAREMATRIX — $34,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $33,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJHPIEGO CORPORATION — $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPrivate School Axis — $30,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR EARLY EDUCATION — $19,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVENICE FAMILY CLINIC — $17,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetREISENBACH PHILANTHROPIES INC — $17,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES — $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN MENDING HEARTS INC — $16,390 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetGEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC — $14,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMARTHA'S FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY — $8,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetPEDIATRIC AND FAMILY MEDICAL CENTER DBA EISNER HEALTH — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER LOS ANGELES — $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC — $7,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY — $6,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetLos Angeles Room & Board — $6,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CENTER IN HOLLYWOOD — $6,200 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEVERYBODY DANCE LA — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ELLEN FUND — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARA LOS NINOS — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JAMES INN — $2,600 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESPARK INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPARK CENTURY SCHOOL — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Eisner Scholars — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSansum Diabetes Research Institute — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOMNIPEACE FOUNDATION INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFORUM ON LIFE CULTURE & SOCIETY INC — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCheetah Conservation Fund — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArt Division — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAFRICAN KIDS IN NEED INC — $300 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPLUNUM HEALTH — $100 over 1y, 0.1% 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 …The Ahmanson Foundati…The Ralph M Parsons F…Jewish Community Foun…Diane and Dorothy Bro…Cedars-Sinai Medical …The Rose Hills Founda…Weingart FoundationChuck Lorre Family Fo…Joseph Drown Foundati…Morgan Stanley Global…Gs Donor Advised Phil…
California Community FoundationCA31.6× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Diane and Dorothy Brooks Foundation · Cedars-Sinai Medical Center · The Rose Hills Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Chuck Lorre Family Foundation · Joseph Drown Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc

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 Broder Foundation 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 · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 65%
  • Jhpiego Corporation — 65% of income from government
  • Epilepsy Foundation of America — 22% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Broder Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Broder 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 58 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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