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The Elliott (Eli) Kornhauser Family Foundation at a glance

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The Elliott (Eli) Kornhauser Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$49k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$121kEducation$34kArts & Culture$23kScience & Tech$3kPhilanthropy$2kHuman Services$2kFood & Nutrition$1kInternational$100
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
$1,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$457k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RADIANT HEALTH OCRA$25,000
CANADA ISRAEL CULTURE FOUNDATION$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION$5,500
LAGUNA ART MUSEUM$2,500
SEGERSTROM CENTER FOR THE ARTS$1,500
PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY OF OC$1,500
MEN ALIVE$1,050
LAGUNA FOOD PANTRY$500
PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK$500
LGBTQ CENTER OC$500
RAINBOW RAILROAD$100
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 (FY23–23, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE CENTER: $2k → 12%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.
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$165k · 8 repeat orgs$21k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
6

Total granted

$165k
$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+28%

Still filing today

88%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
Arts & CultureHealthEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $34k · revenue +51%
  • LA
    LAGUNA ART MUSEUM
    3× · 2019–2024 · $6k · revenue +17%
  • GAY & LESBIAN COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER OF ORANGE COUNTY
    4× · 2020–2024 · $2k · revenue +81%

Funded once

  • AF
    ACI FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +103%
  • IB
    IRVINE BARCLAY THEATER
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • TC
    THE CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +28%
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
Los Angeles Conservancy

The los angeles conservancy is a nonprofit membership organization that works through education and advocacy to recognize, preserve, and revitalize the historic architectural and cultural resources of los angeles county.

Arts & Culture
2
Sacramento Lgbt Community Center

The Center works to create a region where all LGBTQ+ people thrive; we support health and wellness,advocate for equity and justice, and work to uplift our diverse and culturally rich LGBTQ+ community.

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3
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…

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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
Latino Theater Company

The latino theater company operates the los angeles theatre center, whose mission is to provide a world class arts center for those pursuing artistic excellence; a laboratory where both tradition and innovation are honored and honed; a…

Arts & Culture
6
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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7
Los Angeles Master Chorale Association
Arts & Culture
8
Laguna College of Art & Design

Laguna college of art & design prepares individuals for careers as creative artists and designers in a culturally and ethnically diverse world through a curriculum that emphasizes acquiring skills based on observation, representation, and…

Education
9
Public Law Center

The public law center, orange county's pro bono law firm, is committed to providing access to justice for low income residents. through volunteers and staff, the public law center provides free civil legal services, including counseling,…

Crime & Legal
10
Riverside Arts Council

The promotion of the arts and cultural life in the city and county of Riverside, California.

Arts & Culture
11
Festival of Arts of Laguna Beach

To promote, produce, and sponsor events and activities that encourage the appreciation, study and performance of the arts.

Arts & Culture
12
The Laguna Playhouse

The laguna playhouse's mission is to enrich lives through the magic of live theatre, to provide educational opportunities for children and adults, and to create experiences that stimulate cultural and social interaction and inspire our…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Segerstrom Center for the Arts; the most unlike its peers is The Center. 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

12 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. 12 of the 17 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RADIANT HEALTH OCRA: $114,500 · OtherRADIANT HEALTH OCRACANADA ISRAEL CULTURE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherCANADA ISRAEL CULTURE FOUNDATION+6 more: $10,750 · Other+6 moreUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION: $33,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFO…LAGUNA ART MUSEUM: $5,500 · Arts & CulturePHILHARMONIC SOCIETY OF ORANGE COUNTY: $1,800 · Arts & CultureVOICESALIVE: $1,550 · Arts & CultureSegerstrom Center for the Arts: $1,500 · Arts & CulturePANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $4,500 · Health+1 more: $100 · HealthTHE CENTER: $1,500 · Human ServicesRAINBOW RAILROAD USA INC: $100 · Philanthropy
Other$135,250Education$33,500Arts & Culture$10,350Health$4,600Human Services$1,500Philanthropy$100

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION: $33,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLAGUNA ART MUSEUM: $5,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $4,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetACI FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGAY & LESBIAN COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER OF ORANGE COUNTY: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPHILHARMONIC SOCIETY OF ORANGE COUNTY: $1,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVOICESALIVE: $1,550 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSegerstrom Center for the Arts: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER: $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLAGUNA FOOD PANTRY: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAGUNA BEACH COMMUNITY CLINIC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAINBOW RAILROAD USA INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Orange County Communi…Macgillivray Family F…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Orange County Community FoundationCA15.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · Macgillivray Family Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Elliott (Eli) Kornhauser Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Elliott (Eli) Kornhauser Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.

    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 17 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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