· 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.
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $601k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $973k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LA | $700,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER LA | $700,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LA | $350,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELE | $155,000 |
| THE HOLOCAUST MUSIUM LA | $137,500 |
| JVS SOCAL | $110,000 |
| LOS ANGELES JEWISH HEALTH | $100,000 |
| MILKEN COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION | $70,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $70,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $70,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTI | $60,000 |
| YESHIVA GEDOLAH OF LOS ANGELES | $50,000 |
| SHALOM INSTITUE CAMP AND COMFERENCE | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET | $45,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $408k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 11% of The Erwin Rautenberg Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 9 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $197k 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
- JSJVS SOCAL5× · 2020–2024 · $470k · revenue +56%
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES4× · 2020–2024 · $393k · revenue +55%
- LALOS ANGELES JEWISH HOME FOR THE AGING4× · 2020–2023 · $311k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY PROGRAM OF LAone grant, 2020 · $650k
- UHUCLA HILLELone grant, 2020 · $45k
- BMBJE MARCH OF THE LIVING SCHOLARSHIPone grant, 2022 · $25k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles and the most unlike its peers is Braid 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 30 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 72 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 JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA ↗
- Who funds JVS SOCAL ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES JEWISH HOME FOR THE AGING ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds SHALOM INSTITUTE CAMP & CONFERENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ORR SHALOM INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BET TZEDEK ↗
- Who funds HILLEL AT UCLA ↗
- Who funds BEAUTY BUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MILKEN COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ELNET ↗
- Who funds Braid Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHAI LIFELINE INC ↗
- Who funds JQ INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds SHAREWELL ↗
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 · 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
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 Erwin Rautenberg 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.
- Sharsheret Inc — 4% 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.