California · Private foundation
The Erwin Rautenberg 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.
- $3.4M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 61
- Grants FY2024
- 39
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
54% of The Erwin Rautenberg Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Jewish Community Foundation Of The Jewish Federation Council Of Greater Los Angeles, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 22 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $700,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 31 to 39
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $56M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 23% of the organizations The Erwin Rautenberg Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $186k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 40 | $1.6M | 23% |
| FY2023 | 39 | $1.5M | 23% |
| FY2022 | 32 | $1.4M | 25% |
| FY2021 | 35 | $1.4M | 29% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $1.9M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jvs Socal | $470,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Holocaust Museum La | $433,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles | $393,200 | 4 | 0% |
| Los Angeles Jewish Home for the Aging | $310,630 | 4 | 0% |
| The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc | $295,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Yeshiva Gedolah of Los Angeles | $265,000 | 5 | n/a |
| American Friends of Leket Israel Inc | $220,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Shalom Institute Camp & Conference Center | $220,000 | 5 | 1% |
| American Friends of Orr Shalom Inc | $200,000 | 5 | 6% |
| Chamah | $185,000 | 4 | n/a |
Show all 33 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Erwin Rautenberg Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Jewish Federation Council of Greater La · California Community Foundation · The Stanley & Joyce Black Family Foundation · The Cayton-Goldrich Family Foundation · Warren and Elaine Breslow Family Foundation · The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Lynn & Les Bider Family Foundation · Goldrich Family Foundation · The Diane and Guilford Glazer Foundation
How this is measured
About The Erwin Rautenberg Foundation
- How much does The Erwin Rautenberg Foundation give?
- The Erwin Rautenberg Foundation reported 61 grants totaling $3,383,655 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 39 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does The Erwin Rautenberg Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (59%), Human Services (10%), Health (8%).
- Who are The Erwin Rautenberg Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Jvs Socal ($470k), Holocaust Museum La ($434k), Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles ($393k).
- Does The Erwin Rautenberg Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Erwin Rautenberg Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Erwin Rautenberg Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles, Jewish Federation Council of Greater La, California Community Foundation.
- Where is The Erwin Rautenberg Foundation based?
- The Erwin Rautenberg Foundation is based in CA.
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