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The David Vickter 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.

$443k
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$105k
Largest
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Health$1.3MHuman Services$716kEducation$607kArts & Culture$248kHousing & Shelter$190kReligion$186kCrime & Legal$180kFood & Nutrition$137kOther$0
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $46k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $187k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $210k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$9.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UCLA FOUNDATION$105,000
UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN$55,000
UCLA GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION I$50,000
WHEELS FOR HUMANITY$40,000
STEP UP ON SECOND$20,000
PROJECT ANGEL FOOD$20,000
CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE$15,000
ANGEL CITY CHORALE$15,000
RONALD MCDONALD CHARITIES$15,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$12,000
CHABAD OF CALIFORNIA$10,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS HEBREW UNIVERSITY$10,000
LOS ANGELES JEWISH HEALTH$10,000
YIDDISH BOOK CENTER$10,000
CHABAD OF NEWPORT BEACH$10,000
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 (FY17–24, $696k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%OC UNITED: $5k → 10%STEP UP ON SECOND: $35k → 14%STEP UP ON SECOND: $20k → 14%STEP UP ON SECOND: $20k → 14%STEP UP ON SECOND: $20k → 14%STEP UP ON SECOND: $20k → 14%STEP UP ON SECOND: $20k → 14%STEP UP ON SECOND: $20k → 14%STEP UP ON SECOND: $20k → 14%UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $75k → 14%UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $75k → 14%UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $55k → 14%UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $55k → 14%UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $55k → 14%UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $55k → 14%UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $50k → 14%UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $35k → 14%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOC: $15k → 14%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOC: $15k → 14%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOC: $11k → 14%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOC: $10k → 14%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOC: $10k → 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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MA
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CA
KY
TN
DC
AL

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.6M · 37 repeat orgs$282k to everyone else

37 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
23

Total granted

$3.6M
$265k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+89%

Still filing today

49%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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 & CultureInternationalAnimalsReligionOther

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

  • UF
    UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN
    8× · 2017–2024 · $455k · revenue +29%
  • MW
    MOMENTUM WHEELS FOR HUMANITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $296k · revenue +144%
  • VC
    VIP COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $180k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • AA
    ALS ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • AL
    AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSNgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +178%
  • UD
    UCLA DEPARTMENT OF NEUROLOGY
    one grant, 2017 · $20k

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
Altamed Health Services Corporation

To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.

Health
2
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
3
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
4
America's Health Insurance Plans Inc

Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…

Membership Benefit
5
Usc Care Medical Group Inc

To promote health by engaging in the practice of medicine for patients of hospitals affiliated with the university of southern california keck school of medicine and elsewhere. to provide medical care to the sick and injured who may come…

Health
6
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
7
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…

8
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce

Chamber's mission: design and advance opportunities and solutions for a thriving regional economy that are inclusive and globally competitive. 1) advocacy - be a bold advocate for business as a driver of a strong economy that enables…

9
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
10
Allosource

Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.

Health
11
The California Channel

To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…

12
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.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canine Companions for Independence Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jewish Music 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 40 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%7%10–20yr18%32%20–35yr11%32%35–55yr12%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%0%10–20yr18%43%20–35yr11%37%35–55yr12%20%55yr+

The field is 23% 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 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/32
the rest of the field
14%
13,676/98,266

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

30 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 65 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/30
Grantees still filing
25/30
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UCLA GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION I — $400,000 · OtherUCLA GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION IUCLA DEPARTMENT OF UROLOGY — $250,000 · OtherUCLA DEPARTMENT OF UROLOGYUCLA MDAALS CLINIC RESEARCH CTR — $210,000 · OtherUCLA MDAALS CLINIC RESEARCH CTRStroke Recovery Center dba Neuro Vitality Center — $112,500 · OtherStroke Recovery Center dba Neuro Vitality CenterIndividual grant recipient — $95,000 · OtherUCLA WOMEN'S CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER — $80,000 · OtherAMER FRIENDS HEBREW UNIV — $78,250 · OtherJEWISH HOME FOR THE AGING — $75,000 · Other+34 more — $621,350 · Other+34 moreMOMENTUM WHEELS FOR HUMANITY — $295,600 · HealthMOMENTUM WHEELS FOR HUM…VIP COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC — $180,000 · HealthVIP COMMUNITY MENTAL HE…PROJECT ANGEL FOOD — $135,900 · HealthPROJECT ANGEL FOODChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $75,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Los…CROSSROADS INC — $58,000 · HealthCROSSROADS INCAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN — $50,000 · HealthAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCL…American Heart Association Inc — $37,000 · Health+1 more — $5,000 · HealthUNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN — $455,000 · Human ServicesUNITED FRIENDS OF THE…STEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC — $175,000 · Human ServicesSTEP UP ON SECOND STR…CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $65,000 · Human ServicesCANINE COMPANIONS FOR…YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — $61,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN…+1 more — $5,000 · Human ServicesANGEL CITY CHORALE — $87,800 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC — $80,000 · Arts & CultureSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC — $30,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $5,000 · Arts & CultureUCLA FOUNDATION — $156,500 · Education+1 more — $4,000 · EducationDIRECT RELIEF — $60,000 · InternationalAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC — $20,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $20,000 · InternationalUNITED PEGASUS FOUNDATION — $31,000 · Animals
Other$1,922,100Health$836,500Human Services$761,000Arts & Culture$203,300Education$160,500International$100,000Animals$31,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN — $455,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetMOMENTUM WHEELS FOR HUMANITY — $295,600 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetVIP COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC — $180,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSTEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC — $175,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $156,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL FOOD — $135,900 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetStroke Recovery Center dba Neuro Vitality Center — $112,500 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetANGEL CITY CHORALE — $87,800 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetNATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC — $80,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $75,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $65,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — $61,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF — $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCROSSROADS INC — $58,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFVO SOLUTIONS INC — $43,000 over 4y, 7.8% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $37,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED PEGASUS FOUNDATION — $31,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC — $30,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFORBADGES — $5,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetAMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOC UNITED TOGETHER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSWIM WITH MIKE FOUNDATION — $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDSHIP CIRCLE — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Music Foundation — $300 over 1y, 16% 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 UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN
  • Who funds MOMENTUM WHEELS FOR HUMANITY
  • Who funds VIP COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC
  • Who funds STEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC
  • Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds PROJECT ANGEL FOOD
  • Who funds Stroke Recovery Center dba Neuro Vitality Center
  • Who funds ANGEL CITY CHORALE
  • Who funds NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles
  • Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC
  • Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds DIRECT RELIEF
  • Who funds CROSSROADS INC
  • Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN
  • Who funds FVO SOLUTIONS INC
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc
  • Who funds UNITED PEGASUS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC
  • Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC

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 FoundationCA18.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 David Vickter 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 2%
  • National Yiddish Book Center Inc2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
8report 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, FY2025

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

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How do I get to The David Vickter Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The David Vickter 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 65 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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