· Private foundation
The Candy and Aaron Spelling 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $26k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHARITABLE PLEDGES CLOSE OUT FOUNDATION | $25,636 |
| UCLA MEDICAL HOSPITALITY PROGRAM | $8,700 |
| SINAI TEMPLE | $6,155 |
| SHARE INC | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $28k) 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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 11% of The Candy and Aaron Spelling Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 55% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 45%.
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 +89% since the first grant, against +38% for those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AHAMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION5× · 2017–2022 · $72k · revenue +120%
- LALOS ANGELES PARKS FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2022 · $43k · revenue +12%
- LALOS ANGELES BALLET INC3× · 2019–2021 · $30k · revenue +49%
Funded once
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $281k · revenue +40%- CFCENTER FOR ANIMAL LAW STUDIESone grant, 2023 · $11k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $10k
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 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…
The university of la verne offers a distinctive and relevant educational experience to a diverse population of traditional-age, adult, and graduate learners, preparing them for successful careers and a commitment to lifelong learning…
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Los angeles pacific university exists to deliver high quality, accessible christ-centered education to learners everywhere.
Lcda serves as an advocate and resource to corporate boards, search firms, private equity, and institutional investors interested in gaining access to exceptional latino board talent.
To foster relationships among alumni, students and community by providing services and activities that build loyalty, support and a lifelong connection to the university.
Spcala is dedicated to the prevention of cruelty to animals through education, law enforcement, intervention and advocacy.
The latino corporate directors education foundation (lcdef) is the affiliated foundation of lcda. together with lcda, the foundation is committed to paving the way for the next generation of us corporate directors. its strategic priority…
To advance the educational, cultural, scholarly, and creative activities and the role of community service of csula by increasing private funding, responsibly managing donated resources and supporting the university and its diverse and…
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
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…
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 24 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 TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL AND TOWN HALL ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRO DE NINOS INC ↗
- Who funds SHARE INC ↗
- Who funds LA'S BEST ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds LEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DIABETES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BRENT SHAPIRO FOUNDATION FOR DRUG AWARENESS ↗
- Who funds Wags and Walks ↗
- Who funds LEADERS IN FURTHERING EDUCATION INC ↗
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: California Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Candy and Aaron Spelling Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Candy and Aaron Spelling Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- Lewis & Clark College: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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