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The Greenberg Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
106
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$289k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$4.0MEducation$300kEnvironment$189kCrime & Legal$150kCivil Rights$95kInternational$82kPublic Benefit$81kHealth$63kOther$0
02FY2025 · 106 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k84 grants · $86k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $301k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $390k
  • $250k+1 grant · $289k
$1,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$8.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO$289,000
LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART$200,000
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS$140,000
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION$50,000
HAMMER MUSEUM$39,850
J PAUL GETTY TRUST$33,585
URBAN GLASS$25,000
AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM$25,000
CRAFT IN AMERICA$25,000
TURN AROUND ARTS CALIFORNIA$15,000
CRAFT CONTEMPORARY$15,000
MUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION$15,000
HARRIETT BUHAI CENTER FOR FAMILY LAW$15,000
CATALYST CALIFORNIA$12,500
RETREAT$10,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $86k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%RETREAT: $10k → 7%WORKMONEY FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%PEOPLE CONCERN: $1k → 14%PEOPLE CONCERN: $1k → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $1k → 14%PEOPLE CONCERN: $500 → 14%PEOPLE CONCERN: $500 → 14%WORKMONEY FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COUNSELING CENTER: $1k → 14%WELLS BRING HOPE: $7k → 14%WELLS BRING HOPE: $6k → 14%WELLS BRING HOPE: $6k → 14%WELLS BRING HOPE: $6k → 14%WELLS BRING HOPE: $6k → 14%WELLS BRING HOPE: $6k → 14%WELLS BRING HOPE: $6k → 14%CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $5k → 14%SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COUNSELING CENTER: $1k → 14%SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COUNSELING CENTER: $1k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
WA
MN
WI
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
NM
AR
DC
AL
TX
FL
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 100% of The Greenberg Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 80% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 0%.

The Greenberg 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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.7M · 117 repeat orgs$370k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

117 repeat relationships: 89 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

117
85

Total granted

$4.7M
$305k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+14%

Still filing today

88%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthInternationalCivil RightsCrime & LegalOther
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

  • SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO
    7× · 2019–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +31%
  • MA
    MUSEUM ASSOCIATES
    5× · 2019–2025 · $863k · revenue +89%
  • CI
    CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS
    7× · 2019–2025 · $678k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • C
    CLIENTEARTH
    one grant, 2019 · $44k
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
    one grant, 2019 · $36k · revenue -17%
  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $33k · revenue +76%
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
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

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…

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2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
4
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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5
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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6
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
7
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
8
Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco

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…

Arts & Culture
9
American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Founded in 1780, the american academy of arts and sciences honors excellence and convenes leaders from every field of human endeavor to examine new ideas, address issues of importance to the nation and the world, and work together "to…

Social Science
10
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

The museum of contemporary art san diego invites all audiences to experience our world, our region, and ourselves through the prism of contemporary art.

Arts & Culture
11
California College of the Arts

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…

Education
12
American Law Institute

The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Autry Museum of the American West; the most unlike its peers is Unatti Foundation. 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

174 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 174 of the 222 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
30
Early backer (in before they grew)
172/174
Grantees still filing
117/174
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO: $1,043,480 · Arts & CultureSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIOMUSEUM ASSOCIATES: $863,171 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM ASSOCIATESCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS: $677,750 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTSARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC: $509,626 · Arts & CultureARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INCSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $126,500 · Arts & Culture+38 more: $456,206 · Arts & Culture+38 moreSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTENATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY: $76,710 · OtherSMITHSONIAN I…J PAUL GETTY MUSEUM: $69,385 · OtherJ PAUL GETTY …CLIENTEARTH: $44,333 · OtherCLIENTEARTHADAT ARI EL: $30,550 · OtherTHE INVISIBLE DOG ART CENTER: $25,000 · OtherWOMEN LAWYERS ASSN OF LOS ANGELES FOUNDATION: $20,570 · OtherAPPALACHIAN PEACE EDUCATION CENTER INC: $25,000 · OtherCATALYST CALIFORNIA: $23,500 · Other+100 more: $300,783 · Other+100 moreREED INSTITUTE: $125,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY LAW LIBRARY: $97,155 · EducationCivic Nation: $40,000 · EducationWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $25,000 · EducationICIVICS INC: $15,000 · Education+21 more: $53,450 · EducationCLIENTEARTH USA INC: $115,000 · EnvironmentNEW VENTURE FUND: $35,000 · Environment+4 more: $10,880 · EnvironmentTHE J PAUL GETTY TRUST: $155,983 · Philanthropy+2 more: $4,750 · PhilanthropyHARRIETT BUHAI CENTER FOR FAMILY LAW: $115,000 · Crime & LegalBRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $5,500 · Crime & Legal+5 more: $10,250 · Crime & LegalWELLS BRING HOPE: $44,000 · Human ServicesWORKMONEY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesRetreat Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE PEOPLE CONCERN: $4,000 · Human ServicesSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COUNSELING CENTER: $3,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,100 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$3,676,733Other$615,831Education$355,605Environment$160,880Philanthropy$160,733Crime & Legal$130,750Human Services$87,100

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO: $1,043,480 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetMUSEUM ASSOCIATES: $863,171 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS: $677,750 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC: $509,626 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetTHE J PAUL GETTY TRUST: $155,983 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $126,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetREED INSTITUTE: $125,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCLIENTEARTH USA INC: $115,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetHARRIETT BUHAI CENTER FOR FAMILY LAW: $115,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY LAW LIBRARY: $97,155 over 7y, 8.3% of budgetCRAFT CONTEMPORARY: $91,000 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetAMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM: $75,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetURBANGLASS NEW YORK CONTEMPORARY GLASS CENTER INC: $55,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetWELLS BRING HOPE: $44,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetCivic Nation: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $36,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $33,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTURNAROUND ARTS CALIFORNIA: $30,500 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetMUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAPPALACHIAN PEACE EDUCATION CENTER INC: $25,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetCATALYST CALIFORNIA: $23,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWORKMONEY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF LOS ANGELES INC: $17,627 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetICIVICS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetACCELERATE CHANGE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Boat Company Ltd: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNTAIN THEATRE: $14,500 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetPLAYPENN INC: $14,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $11,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN KOSOVO FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetCENTER FOR CIVIC POLICY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $9,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFair Elections Center: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $6,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEDUCATION LAW CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLos Angeles River Revitalization Corporation dba River LA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER LOS ANGELES EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PEOPLE CONCERN: $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGuttmacher Institute Inc: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $4,000 over 4y, 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.

California Community …The Ralph M Parsons F…The Annenberg Foundat…The Ahmanson Foundati…Weingart FoundationLiberty Hill Foundati…The J Paul Getty TrustJewish Community Foun…Achieving America Fam…The Rosalinde and Art…The Eli and Edythe Br…The California Wellne…
California Community FoundationCA44× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · The J Paul Getty Trust · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Achieving America Family Foundation · The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation · The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation · The California Wellness 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 Greenberg Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Greenberg Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Icivics Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Portland Art Museum: 1% of income from government
  • Reed Institute: 1% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
37report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Greenberg Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Greenberg Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 222 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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where grant money is based, and what stays home