· Private foundation
The Donald T Sterling Charitable 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 you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $1k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $150k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $350k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LOS ANGELES SHERIFFS FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| THE UCLA FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| LOS ANGELES MISSION | $50,000 |
| CHABAD OF CALABASAS | $50,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES | $50,000 |
| PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| FRIENDS OF MALIBU URGENT CARE | $25,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| SAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER INC | $25,000 |
| LOS ANGELES COUNTY DA FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| CREATIVE ARTS TEMPLE | $20,000 |
| SHARE INC | $10,000 |
| THE ACADEMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–22, $71k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
22 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 1 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CHChildren's Hospital Los Angeles5× · 2017–2024 · $225k · revenue +78%
- FOFRIENDS OF MALIBU URGENT CARE CENTER5× · 2019–2024 · $170k · revenue +138%
- PUPEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY3× · 2020–2024 · $150k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $50k
- CHCEDARS-SINAI HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2020 · $50k
- AMACCESS MAMMOTHone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +14%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…
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…
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.
Excellence in senior care reflective of jewish values.
A not-for-profit, long-term acute care specialty healthcare organization is to improve the quality of life for patients with respiratory and other diseases that may require prolonged acute hospitalization of specialized treatment.
The mission of lapf is to create partnerships to provide resources and programs that help the police perform at their highest level and to enhance lapd-community relations.(see schedule o)
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…
Mission: we provide high quality healthcare without discrimination, and contribute to the health and well-being of our communities in an ethical, safe, and fiscally prudent manner in recognition of our charitable purpose.
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.
The organization's mission statement is to provide support for the ucla programs and patients.
Our children's hospital foundation is dedicated to supporting loma linda university children's hospital's mission to bring whole-child healthcare to the region and beyond.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint John's Health Center Foundation and the most unlike its peers is American Friends of Bnai Levy 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 29 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
24 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. 24 of the 38 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 Beat the Streets Inc ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES SHERIFFS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MALIBU URGENT CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds JEFFREY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHARE INC ↗
- Who funds ACCESS MAMMOTH ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES JEWISH HOME FOR THE AGING ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATES FOR BREAST & PROSTATE CANCER STUDIES ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S BURN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BHPOA BENEVOLENT FUND ↗
- Who funds THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BNAI LEVY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY-POLICE RELATIONS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INSPIRING CHILDREN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Wrestle Like a Girl Inc ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PEACE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION OF VENTURA COUNTY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Stanley & Joyce Black Family Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Bernard and Rena Shapiro Family Support Organization · The Sandra & Lawrence Post Family Foundation · California Community Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund
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 Donald T Sterling Charitable 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.
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
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.
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