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The Harry and Florence Sloan 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.

$770k
Granted FY2024still arriving
39
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$116k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Education$4.8MArts & Culture$1.3MInternational$360kHealth$200kCivil Rights$115kHuman Services$91kPublic Safety & Disaster$58kSocial Science$55kOther$0
02FY2024 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $370k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $366k
$10,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$785k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART$115,542
LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART$100,000
DESERT SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION$100,000
ASU FOUNDATION$50,000
FOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM$25,000
PACIFIC COUNCIL ON INTERNATIONAL POLICY$25,000
THE DAVID FOSTER FOUNDATION$25,000
FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES INC$25,000
PACIFIC COUNCIL ON INTERNATIONAL POLICY$25,000
CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION$25,000
HOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA$25,000
LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART$25,000
BABY2BABY$19,600
SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM$19,078
LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART$17,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $107k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%IFOSTER: $1k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF UNIT 669 INC: $7k → 16%A SENSE OF HOME: $2k → 14%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF UNIT 669 INC: $5k → 16%RIVET GLOBAL INC: $15k → 16%VISIONARY WOMEN: $1k → 14%VISIONARY WOMEN: $1k → 14%VISIONARY WOMEN: $1k → 14%VISIONARY WOMEN: $1k → 14%VISIONARY WOMEN: $1k → 14%UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $10k → 14%UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $1k → 14%LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $11k → 14%LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

IL
NY
MA
NV
IA
PA
NJ
CA
UT
AZ
DC
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.2M · 22 repeat orgs$581k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

22 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
44

Total granted

$2.2M
$342k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
0%

Still filing today

100%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $239k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureInternationalHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyHealthOther

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

  • MA
    MUSEUM ASSOCIATES
    5× · 2020–2024 · $848k · revenue +89%
  • ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2020–2024 · $175k · revenue +93%
  • JG
    JEWISH GRADUATE STUDENT INITIATIVE
    4× · 2020–2023 · $170k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • TU
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -11%
  • TP
    THE PACIFIC COUNCIL
    one grant, 2021 · $36k
  • TA
    THE ASIA SOCIETY
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -8%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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
2
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
3
Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles

We steward $1.5 billion in charitable assets through donor-advised funds, endowments, and other giving vehicles. partnering with 1,400 individuals, families, and organizations, we build enduring legacies and multigenerational impact. in…

Philanthropy
4
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
5
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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6
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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7
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…

International
8
American Israel Public Affairs Committee

To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.

International
9
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
10
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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11
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Aspen Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Feltheimer Family 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsJewish Community Organizati…Environmental Conservation …Women & Girls Leadership De…Animal Rescue and ShelterCancer Support ServicesVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Policy Research and AdvocacyFood Banks and PantriesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 29 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%3%<5yr15%14%5–10yr20%23%10–20yr17%23%20–35yr11%20%35–55yr13%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%2%5–10yr20%7%10–20yr17%9%20–35yr11%3%35–55yr13%79%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/72
the rest of the field
14%
26,002/186,906

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.

04the grantee network

71 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. 71 of the 83 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/71
Grantees still filing
39/71
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UCLA FOUNDATION — $2,288,045 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $2,025,200 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $175,000 · EducationJEWISH GRADUATE STUDENT INITIATIVE — $170,000 · Education+5 more — $128,000 · EducationMUSEUM ASSOCIATES — $847,641 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM ASSOCIATESFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC — $135,000 · Arts & CultureFACING HISTORY & OURS…Sundance Institute — $100,000 · Arts & CultureSundance InstituteSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION — $62,294 · Arts & CultureHOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA — $50,000 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $50,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more — $72,060 · Arts & Culture+6 morePACIFIC COUNCIL ON INTERNATIONAL POLICY — $271,800 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $32,500 · InternationalTHE ASIA SOCIETY — $25,000 · International+6 more — $19,000 · InternationalTHE PACIFIC COUNCIL — $36,000 · OtherBABY2BABY — $29,600 · OtherTHE DAVID FOSTER FOUNDATION — $25,000 · OtherCLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION — $25,000 · OtherMARINE CORPS MWTC FOUNDATION — $25,000 · OtherTHE MILKEN INSTITUTE — $25,000 · OtherKEEP BEL AIR BEAUTIFUL — $30,000 · OtherTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — $30,000 · OtherVOLUNTEER LEGAL ADVOCATES — $20,000 · OtherWOMEN'S GUILD CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $13,800 · OtherASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $15,000 · OtherCORO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC — $13,800 · Other+25 more — $86,559 · OtherMATTHEW SILVERMAN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $110,000 · PhilanthropyTHE FELTHEIMER FAMILY FOUNDATION — $5,000 · PhilanthropyEVERY ORG — $5,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $1,500 · PhilanthropyLOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION — $51,000 · Human ServicesRIVET GLOBAL INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN FRIENDS OF UNIT 669 INC — $12,200 · Human ServicesUNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN — $11,000 · Human ServicesCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesVISIONARY WOMEN — $5,000 · Human Services+3 more — $3,000 · Human ServicesFOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC — $25,000 · Civil RightsPEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $5,000 · Civil Rights
Education$4,786,245Arts & Culture$1,316,995International$348,300Other$374,759Philanthropy$121,500Human Services$107,200Civil Rights$40,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $2,288,045 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $2,025,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM ASSOCIATES — $847,641 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPACIFIC COUNCIL ON INTERNATIONAL POLICY — $271,800 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $175,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH GRADUATE STUDENT INITIATIVE — $170,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC — $135,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMATTHEW SILVERMAN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $110,000 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetSundance Institute — $100,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDESERT SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION — $62,294 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION — $51,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA — $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $32,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKEEP BEL AIR BEAUTIFUL — $30,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetBABY2BABY — $29,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ASIA SOCIETY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MILKEN INSTITUTE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVOLUNTEER LEGAL ADVOCATES — $20,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRIVET GLOBAL INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetWOMEN'S GUILD CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $13,800 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCORO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC — $13,800 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF UNIT 669 INC — $12,200 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetUNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN — $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKINDERTRANSPORT ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYESHIVA HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES CONSERVANCY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL THEATRE IN AMERICA INC — $9,560 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER FOR ART RESEARCH AND ALLIANCES INC — $8,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFeeding America — $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY — $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATPE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $5,500 over 1y, 41% of budgetOPENDOR MEDIA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCORE COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF EFFORT — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLILLY AWARDS FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetVISIONARY WOMEN — $5,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetEVERY ORG — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

California Community …Jewish Community Foun…The Ralph M Parsons F…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Jewish Communal FundThe Rosalinde and Art…Weingart FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…The California Wellne…Richard and Ellen San…Visionary WomenWasserman Foundation
California Community FoundationCA23.2× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The California Wellness Foundation · Richard and Ellen Sandler Family Foundation · Visionary Women · Wasserman 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 Harry and Florence Sloan 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Yeshiva High School for Girls Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Heroes to Heroes Foundation — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 83 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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