How much does The Held Foundation give?

The Held Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $94,720 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 43 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Held Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (29%), International (19%), Education (18%).

Who are The Held Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: American Israel Education Foundation Inc ($210k), American Jewish University ($134k), Wayfinder Family Services ($132k).

Does The Held Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Held Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Held Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, Wurwand Foundation, The Rose Hills Foundation.

Where is The Held Foundation based?

The Held Foundation is based in CA.

The Held Foundation

The Held Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Held 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.

$95k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$61k

Largest

01What it funds

0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$515kInternational$329kEducation$313kHuman Services$204kArts & Culture$124kHealth$104kFood & Nutrition$57kHousing & Shelter$42kOther$0

02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k7 grants · $9k
$10k–50k1 grant · $25k
$50k–250k1 grant · $61k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$7.0M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
WAYFINDER FAMILY SERVICES	$61,000
AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATIO	$25,000
LA Jewish Home	$5,000
NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY	$1,000
Sinai Temple	$1,000
Rett Syndrome Research Trust	$720
JVS	$500
STEVEN S WISE TEMPLE	$250
MADD	$250

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $160k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

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.

$1.5M · 42 repeat orgs$118k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

42 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.5M

$117k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%

+22%

Still filing today

50%

57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesInternationalHealthEducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther

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

WF
Wayfinder Family Services
8× · 2017–2024 · $132k · revenue +62%
TR
TEAM RUBICON INC
3× · 2017–2021 · $105k · revenue +18%
DH
DIDI HIRSCH PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE
2× · 2022–2023 · $45k · revenue +47%

Funded once

ZC
Ziman Center For Real Estate AT UCL
one grant, 2019 · $20k
HS
HASS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
one grant, 2017 · $10k
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +21%

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.

South Central Family Health Center

To improve the quality of life for the diverse communities we serve providing affordable and comprehensive healthcare and education in a welcoming multi-cultural environment.

Health

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

The Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation

The jonsson cancer center foundation is the single most important vehicle for raising private funds for cancer research at ucla and plays a key role in advancing cancer treatments and care. please see schedule o for additional information.

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University of Southern California Hillel Foundation

To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…

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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

The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy

The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America

The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…

International

Altamed Health Services Corporation

To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.

Health

California Dental Association Foundation

The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.

Science & Tech

University of California Irvine Foundation

The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…

Education

California Healthcare Foundation

Chcf is dedicated to advancing meaningful, measurable improvements in the way the health care delivery system provides care to the people of california, particularly those with low incomes and those whose needs are not well served by the…

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City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Safe Place for Youth Inc; the most unlike its peers is Antelope Valley Futbol Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

55 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. 55 of the 100 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

54/55

Grantees still filing

43/55

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$772,073Education$298,250International$237,500Human Services$159,900Arts & Culture$124,500Public Safety & Disaster$105,000Health$58,920

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

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 FoundationCA22× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Wurwand Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · Warren and Elaine Breslow Family Foundation · Peter H and Marietta K Bach Charitable Trust Conservatorship · The Michael and Lori Milken Family Foundation · The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert 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 Held Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Held Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

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

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How do I get to The Held Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Held 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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home