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The Fredric D Rosen and Nadine Schiff Family Foundation at a glance

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The Fredric D Rosen and Nadine Schiff Family 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.

$142k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
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, FY2019 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$352kReligion$350kHuman Services$209kEducation$160kHealth$126kCivil Rights$58kInternational$40kEnvironment$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $32k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$16,620
Median grant
3
States reached
$102k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UTAH FILM CENTER$50,000
SUNDANCE INSTITUTE$50,000
LACMA$16,620
UCLA$15,000
UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN$5,000
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES$5,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $205k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $75k → 14%UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $60k → 14%UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $40k → 14%UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $25k → 14%UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $5k → 14%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 27% of The Fredric D Rosen and Nadine Schiff Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 82% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 56%.

The Fredric D Rosen and Nadine Schiff Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
$1.2M · 13 repeat orgs$156k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
13

Total granted

$1.2M
$106k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-25%
+6%

Still filing today

54%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementEducationInternationalHuman 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

  • UF
    UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN
    5× · 2020–2024 · $205k · revenue +7%
  • ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2019–2022 · $37k · revenue +84%
  • AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $23k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue -45%
  • A
    ADL
    one grant, 2019 · $15k
  • PC
    PACIFIC COUNCIL ON INTERNATIONAL POLICY
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue -64%
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
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
2
Los Angeles World Affairs Council and Town Hall

The organization is a non-partisan, membership based speakers' forum that connects business leaders, community members, and engaged individuals with shared interest in local, national, and global affairs. it provides an open and accessible…

International
3
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

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4
The American Film Institute

The american film institute ("afi") is a national institute providing leadership in screen education and the recognition and celebration of excellence in the art of film, television and digital media.

Arts & Culture
5
Los Angeles Police Foundation

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)

Human Services
6
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
7
American Association of University Women Inc

Aauw advances gender equity for women and girls through research, education, and advocacy.

Education
8
Council On Foreign Relations Inc

The council on foreign relations (cfr) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and…

International
9
Arts for La

Arts for la leads communities, artists and organizations to advocate for an equitable, healthy, and creative los angeles region through the arts.

Arts & Culture
10
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
11
American Civil Liberties Union Inc

As noted in its articles of incorporation, the mission of the aclu is "to maintain and advance civil liberties, including, without limitation, the freedoms of association, press, religion and speech, and the rights to the franchise, to due…

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12
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Defense Fund; the most unlike its peers is Natural Resources Defense Council Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 27 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
7/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SINAI TEMPLE & SINAI AKIBA ACADEMY: $350,000 · OtherSINAI TEMPLE & SINAI AKIBA ACADEMYBROOKLYN LAW SCHOOL: $120,000 · OtherBROOKLYN LAW SCHOOLLACMA: $98,450 · OtherLACMAWOMEN'S GUILD CEDARS SINAI: $58,950 · OtherWOMEN'S GUILD CEDARS SINAIUCLA: $57,500 · OtherUCLA+9 more: $76,000 · Other+9 moreSundance Institute: $188,400 · Arts & CultureSundance InstituteUTAH FILM CENTER: $50,000 · Arts & CultureUTAH FILM CENTERGEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC: $9,800 · Arts & CultureUNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $205,250 · Human ServicesUNITED FRIENDS OF…FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $25,000 · InternationalPACIFIC COUNCIL ON INTERNATIONAL POLICY: $15,000 · InternationalARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $37,460 · EducationTHE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES: $2,500 · EducationAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $22,500 · Civil RightsCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND: $15,000 · Civil RightsKEEP BEL AIR BEAUTIFUL: $15,000 · Community ImprovementLOS ANGELES CLEANTECH INCUBATOR: $15,000 · Community ImprovementNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $5,000 · Environment
Other$760,900Arts & Culture$248,200Human Services$205,250International$40,000Education$39,960Civil Rights$37,500Community Improvement$30,000Environment$5,000

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 budgetUNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $205,250 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetSundance Institute: $188,400 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUTAH FILM CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $37,460 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKEEP BEL AIR BEAUTIFUL: $15,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RAPE FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLOS ANGELES CLEANTECH INCUBATOR: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC: $9,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetA WOMAN'S NATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES: $2,500 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Fidelity Investments …
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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 Fredric D Rosen and Nadine Schiff Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Fredric D Rosen and Nadine Schiff Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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 27 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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