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The David Geffen 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.

$112M
Granted FY2024still arriving
93
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$50M
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 FY2018–2024.

Arts & Culture$306MEducation$242MHealth$23MCivil Rights$7.0MReligion$3.7MHuman Services$1.4MInternational$1.3MCrime & Legal$584kOther$0
02FY2024 · 93 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k41 grants · $191k
  • $10k–50k34 grants · $519k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $400k
  • $250k+13 grants · $111M
$10,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$333M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LA COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART$50,000,000
YALE UNIVERSITY$15,000,000
UCLA FOUNDATION$10,049,100
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER$10,000,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$8,333,333
MILKEN CENTER FOR ADVANCING THE AMERICAN DREAM$6,000,000
ACADEMY FOUNDATION$5,000,000
92ND STREET Y$3,000,000
ASSOCIATION FOR FRONTOTEMPORAL DEGENERATION$1,000,000
MOTION PICTURE & TELEVISION FUND$1,000,000
ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION$1,000,000
NATIONAL LIBRARY OF ISRAEL USA$700,000
UCLA FOUNDATION (GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE)$300,000
SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER$100,000
HARLEM SCHOOL OF THE ARTS$100,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $3.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ELEANOR WHITMORE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER: $10k → 7%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $10k → 14%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $10k → 14%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $10k → 14%LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL & TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER: $25k → 17%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $10k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF LOS ANGELES: $10k → 14%EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION - KAYNE ERAS CENTER DIVISION: $10k → 14%JEWISH HEALING AND HOSPICE CENTER OF LOS ANGELES: $20k → 14%JEWISH HEALING AND HOSPICE CENTER OF LOS ANGELES: $20k → 14%JEWISH HEALING AND HOSPICE CENTER OF LOS ANGELES: $20k → 14%JEWISH HEALING AND HOSPICE CENTER OF LOS ANGELES: $20k → 14%JEWISH HEALING AND HOSPICE CENTER OF LOS ANGELES: $20k → 14%JEWISH HEALING AND HOSPICE CENTER OF LOS ANGELES: $20k → 14%JEWISH HEALING AND HOSPICE CENTER OF LOS ANGELES: $20k → 14%SAFE HORIZON: $20k → 17%SAFE HORIZON: $20k → 17%SAFE HORIZON: $15k → 17%SAFE HORIZON: $15k → 17%SAFE HORIZON: $15k → 17%SAFE HORIZON: $15k → 17%HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE: $25k → 17%HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE: $25k → 17%HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE: $25k → 17%YOUNG EISNER SCHOLARS: $300k → 14%HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE: $25k → 17%YOUNG EISNER SCHOLARS: $100k → 14%YOUNG EISNER SCHOLARS: $100k → 14%HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE: $25k → 17%YOUNG EISNER SCHOLARS: $100k → 14%HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE: $25k → 17%HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE: $25k → 17%MOTION PICTURE & TELEVISION FUND: $1.0M → 14%PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS: $20k → 14%PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS: $20k → 14%EXCEPTIONAL MINDS: $50k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF LOS ANGELES: $25k → 14%YOUNG EISNER SCHOLARS: $900k → 14%YOUNG EISNER SCHOLARS: $100k → 14%YOUNG EISNER SCHOLARS: $100k → 14%HOMELESS NOT TOOTHLESS: $10k → 14%HOMELESS NOT TOOTHLESS: $10k → 14%HOMELESS NOT TOOTHLESS: $10k → 14%HOMELESS NOT TOOTHLESS: $10k → 14%HOMELESS NOT TOOTHLESS: $10k → 14%HOMELESS NOT TOOTHLESS: $10k → 14%PROYECTO PASTORAL AT DOLORES MISSION: $50k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF LOS ANGELES: $25k → 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

WA
IL
NY
MA
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NE
VA
MD
NM
TN
NC
DC
LA
TX

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$365M · 153 repeat orgs$45M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

153 repeat relationships — 70 still active in FY2024, 83 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

153
136

Total granted

$365M
$13M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+24%

Still filing today

76%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32M went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEducationInternationalCivil RightsOther

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

  • MO
    Museum of Modern Art
    6× · 2018–2023 · $80M · revenue +28%
  • TY
    THE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2018–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +40%
  • ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • WT
    WORLD TRADE CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10M · revenue +172% · 29% of their budget
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
    one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue -51%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER INC
    one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue -59%

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
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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2
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
3
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
4
Los Angeles Opera Company

To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…

Arts & Culture
5
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
6
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
7
Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy

To improve the skills, wages, and working conditions of workers in the tourism industry and to assure that the benefits of tourism contribute equitably to the economic and social development of all communities in the greater los angeles…

Health
8
New York Foundation for the Arts Inc

Established in 1971, the mission of the new york foundation for the arts (nyfa) is to empower artists in all disciplines, as well as cultural workers, to achieve success on their own terms by providing critical support, resources, and…

Arts & Culture
9
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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10
Arts for La

Arts for la leads communities, artists and organizations to advocate for an equitable, healthy, and creative los angeles region through the arts.

Arts & Culture
11
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
12
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Actors' Fund of America and the most unlike its peers is John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 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 38 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%2%<5yr15%4%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr19%25%20–35yr12%34%35–55yr11%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%5%10–20yr19%4%20–35yr12%18%35–55yr11%73%55yr+

The field is 23% 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 — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.8%2/252
the rest of the field
14%
13,392/98,643

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

244 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. 244 of the 315 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
29
Early backer (in before they grew)
241/244
Grantees still filing
169/244
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LA COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART — $100,000,000 · OtherLA COUNTY MUSEUM OF ARTLINCOLN CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS — $90,075,000 · OtherLINCOLN CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTSYALE UNIVERSITY — $45,000,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYYALE UNIVERSITY — $15,000,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER — $10,000,000 · Other+109 more — $13,841,105 · OtherUCLA FOUNDATION — $143,657,630 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIONTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $33,333,332 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSIT…+10 more — $3,280,500 · EducationMuseum of Modern Art — $80,000,000 · Arts & CultureMuseum of Modern ArtACADEMY FOUNDATION — $20,000,000 · Arts & CultureACADEMY FOUNDATIONWORLD TRADE CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC — $10,000,000 · Arts & CultureWORLD TRADE CENTER PE…+25 more — $3,414,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ASSOCIATION FOR FRONTOTEMPORAL DEGENERATION — $7,000,000 · HealthELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC — $2,073,000 · Health+15 more — $875,000 · HealthYoung Eisner Scholars — $1,700,000 · Human ServicesMOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND — $1,000,000 · Human ServicesTHE HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE INC — $175,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH HEALING AND HOSPICE CENTER OF LOS ANGELES INC — $140,000 · Human Services+12 more — $585,500 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION — $3,047,500 · ReligionWORLD JEWISH CONGRESS (AMERICAN SECTION) INC — $250,000 · Religion+1 more — $50,000 · ReligionPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION — $2,000,000 · Philanthropy+9 more — $334,000 · Philanthropy
Other$273,916,105Education$180,271,462Arts & Culture$113,414,000Health$9,948,000Human Services$3,600,500Religion$3,347,500Philanthropy$2,334,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $143,657,630 over 7y, 4.9% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art — $80,000,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $33,333,332 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetACADEMY FOUNDATION — $20,000,000 over 4y, 6.4% of budgetWORLD TRADE CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC — $10,000,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetTHE ASSOCIATION FOR FRONTOTEMPORAL DEGENERATION — $7,000,000 over 7y, 12% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION — $3,047,500 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetNLI USA INC — $2,800,000 over 4y, 8.5% of budgetELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC — $2,073,000 over 6y, 4.9% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION — $2,000,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetYoung Eisner Scholars — $1,700,000 over 5y, 38% of budgetSTATUE OF LIBERTY ELLIS ISLAND FOUNDATION INC — $1,500,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetMOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND — $1,000,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE — $505,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $370,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD JEWISH CONGRESS (AMERICAN SECTION) INC — $250,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC — $225,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC — $205,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE INC — $175,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetCITY YEAR INC — $155,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER INC — $150,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetJEWISH HEALING AND HOSPICE CENTER OF LOS ANGELES INC — $140,000 over 7y, 15% of budgetSKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER — $130,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetThe ONE Campaign — $125,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC — $125,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC — $125,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWEST HOLLYWOOD COMMUNITY HOUSING CORP — $110,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetHILLEL AT UCLA — $105,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $103,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVENICE FAMILY CLINIC — $102,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHARLEM SCHOOL OF THE ARTS INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSAFE HORIZON INC — $100,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Bridge School — $100,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetAWAKENING RECOVERY INC — $100,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY — $100,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL FOOD — $100,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGLAAD INC — $100,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES — $90,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC — $85,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S DIABETES FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetONE ARCHIVES FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetAMERICA NEEDS YOU — $75,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $75,000 over 3y, 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.

  • Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds ACADEMY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WORLD TRADE CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ASSOCIATION FOR FRONTOTEMPORAL DEGENERATION ↗
  • Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds NLI USA INC ↗
  • Who funds ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Young Eisner Scholars ↗
  • Who funds STATUE OF LIBERTY ELLIS ISLAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
  • Who funds WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS (AMERICAN SECTION) INC ↗
  • Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
  • Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH HEALING AND HOSPICE CENTER OF LOS ANGELES INC ↗
  • Who funds SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds The ONE Campaign ↗
  • Who funds SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC ↗
  • Who funds ARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds WEST HOLLYWOOD COMMUNITY HOUSING CORP ↗
  • Who funds HILLEL AT UCLA ↗

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.

The Ahmanson Foundati…The Ralph M Parsons F…The Annenberg Foundat…California Community …Weingart FoundationThe Stanley & Joyce B…The Marilyn and Jeffr…The Rose Hills Founda…The Katie McGrath & J…Jewish Community Foun…Hobsonlucas Family Fo…Broadway Caresequity …
The Ahmanson FoundationCA50.3× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ahmanson Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · California Community Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Stanley & Joyce Black Family Foundation · The Marilyn and Jeffrey Katzenberg Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Katie McGrath & Jj Abrams Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Hobsonlucas Family Foundation · Broadway Caresequity Fights AIDS 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 David Geffen 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 · 20%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
50report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The David Geffen Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The David Geffen 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 315 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.

Source object · view filing

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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