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The David Vickter 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.

$430k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$103k
Largest
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 2024.

Health$1.3MHuman Services$716kEducation$607kArts & Culture$248kHousing & Shelter$190kReligion$186kCrime & Legal$180kFood & Nutrition$137kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $180k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $208k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$9.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UCLA WOMEN'S CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER$102,500
UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN$55,000
UCLA FOUNDATION$50,000
WHEELS FOR HUMANITY$40,000
PROJECT ANGEL FOOD$25,000
STEP UP ON SECOND$20,000
RONALD MCDONALD CHARITIES$15,000
ANGEL CITY CHORALE$15,000
CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE$15,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$10,000
YIDDISH BOOK CENTER$10,000
CHABAD OF NEWPORT BEACH$10,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS HEBREW UNIVERSITY$10,000
CHABAD OF CALIFORNIA$10,000
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER$7,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $771k) 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 its 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%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: $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
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

NY
MA
IA
CA
KY
TN
DC
AL
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.
$3.9M · 38 repeat orgs$280k to everyone else

38 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
25

Total granted

$3.9M
$280k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+89%

Still filing today

50%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureInternationalAnimalsReligionOther
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

  • UF
    UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN
    9× · 2017–2025 · $510k · revenue +29%
  • MW
    MOMENTUM WHEELS FOR HUMANITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $336k · revenue +144%
  • SU
    STEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $195k · revenue +400%

Funded once

  • AA
    ALS ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • AL
    AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSNgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +178%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +98%
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
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
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
5
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
6
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A global nonprofit biomedical research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
7
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…

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8
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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9
Arc Research Institute

Our mission is to accelerate scientific progress, understand the root causes of disease, and narrow the gap between discoveries and impact on patients.

Health
10
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
11
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
12
Usc Health System

The Corporation is a nonprofit public benefit corporation and is not organized for the private gain of any person. It is organized under the Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation Law for public and charitable purposes. The Corporation is…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Friends of the Children; 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.
04the grantee network

30 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. 30 of the 65 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/30
Grantees still filing
25/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 CTRUCLA WOMEN'S CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER: $182,500 · OtherUCLA WOMEN'S CARDIOVASCULAR CENTERStroke Recovery Center dba Neuro Vitality Center: $112,500 · OtherStroke Recovery Center dba Neuro Vitality CenterIndividual grant recipient: $95,000 · OtherAMER FRIENDS HEBREW UNIV: $78,250 · OtherJEWISH HOME FOR THE AGING: $75,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD CHARITIES: $75,000 · Other+33 more: $612,350 · Other+33 moreMOMENTUM WHEELS FOR HUMANITY: $335,600 · HealthMOMENTUM WHEELS FOR HUM…VIP COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC: $180,000 · HealthVIP COMMUNITY MENTAL HE…PROJECT ANGEL FOOD: $160,900 · 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: $47,000 · Health+1 more: $5,000 · HealthUNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $510,000 · Human ServicesUNITED FRIENDS OF THE…STEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC: $195,000 · Human ServicesSTEP UP ON SECOND STR…CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $80,000 · Human ServicesCANINE COMPANIONS FOR…YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $61,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN…+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesANGEL CITY CHORALE: $102,800 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC: $90,000 · Arts & CultureSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $38,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $5,000 · Arts & CultureUCLA FOUNDATION: $208,000 · Education+1 more: $6,000 · EducationDIRECT RELIEF: $65,000 · InternationalAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $25,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $20,000 · InternationalUNITED PEGASUS FOUNDATION: $31,000 · Animals
Other$2,090,600Health$911,500Human Services$851,000Arts & Culture$235,800Education$214,000International$110,000Animals$31,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $510,000 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetMOMENTUM WHEELS FOR HUMANITY: $335,600 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $208,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSTEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC: $195,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetVIP COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC: $180,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL FOOD: $160,900 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetStroke Recovery Center dba Neuro Vitality Center: $112,500 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetANGEL CITY CHORALE: $102,800 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetNATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC: $90,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $80,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $75,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $65,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $61,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCROSSROADS INC: $58,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $47,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFVO SOLUTIONS INC: $43,000 over 4y, 7.8% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $38,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED PEGASUS FOUNDATION: $31,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSWIM WITH MIKE FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% 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 budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $4,000 over 2y, 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
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 UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds MOMENTUM WHEELS FOR HUMANITY ↗
  • Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds STEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC ↗
  • Who funds VIP COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
  • 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 CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
  • Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds CROSSROADS INC ↗
  • Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds FVO SOLUTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED PEGASUS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA 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.

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

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 David Vickter Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The David Vickter Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • National Yiddish Book Center Inc: 2% 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, 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.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 65 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.

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