· Private foundation
The Fran & Ray Stark 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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $390k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $745k
- $250k+4 grants · $2.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART | $983,337 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $800,000 |
| ACADEMY FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| CONNECTICUT COLLEGE | $250,000 |
| THE WILLOWS COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $235,000 |
| HAMMER MUSEUM | $229,850 |
| HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES | $105,000 |
| LOS ANGELES LGBTQ CENTER | $75,000 |
| MUSEUM OF MODERN ART - ANNUAL FUND | $50,000 |
| MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART | $50,000 |
| LOS ANGELES NOMADIC DIVISION | $30,000 |
| LIBRARY OF AMERICA | $25,000 |
| MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND | $25,000 |
| UCLA FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| MUSEUM OF MODERN ART - INTL COUNCIL | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $644k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
56 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 8 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
- MAMUSEUM ASSOCIATES8× · 2017–2024 · $4.4M · revenue +89%
- AFACADEMY FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +6%
- CCCONNECTICUT COLLEGE5× · 2017–2024 · $860k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA - THEATREone grant, 2017 · $650k
- ULUCLA LAB SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $50k
- GPGEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +43%
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 Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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…
The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…
Lace both champions and challenges the art of our time by fostering artists who innovate, explore, and risk. we move within and beyond our four walls to provide opportunities for diverse publics to engage deeply with contemporary art. in…
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.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
The museum of contemporary art san diego invites all audiences to experience our world, our region, and ourselves through the prism of contemporary art.
The specific purpose of this corporation is to: expand knowledge and appreciation of modern and contemporary latin american tine art that has been created since world war ii; to operate a museum; to collect and display latin american…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ucla Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Farrah Fawcett Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
69 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. 69 of the 100 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 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES ↗
- Who funds ARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND ↗
- Who funds THE WILLOWS COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds THE COLLEAGUES INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES NOMADIC DIVISION ↗
- Who funds THE JOHN THOMAS DYE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FULFILLMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds MARLBOROUGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds THE HOUSE INSTITUTE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEARST CASTLE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds YO SAN UNIVERSITY OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds TATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION ↗
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: California Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · The Joseph Fidler Walsh & Majorie Walsh Foundation · The David Geffen Foundation · The Otis Booth Foundation · The J Paul Getty Trust · The Ahmanson Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Lauren and Richard King Charitable Trust · Moss Foundation · Hale Thornhill Foundation · Lear Family 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 Fran & Ray Stark 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.
- Connecticut College — 0% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation — 0% 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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