· Private foundation
The Herb Alpert 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 $10k12 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k53 grants · $1.3M
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.5M
- $250k+7 grants · $4.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UCLA FOUNDATION UCLA HERB ALPERT SCHOOL OF MUSIC | $1,300,000 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF ARTS | $1,152,400 |
| THE HARLEM SCHOOL OF THE ARTS | $800,000 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE SUMMER SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $424,300 |
| GOOD PEOPLE FUND | $400,000 |
| PACIFIC JAZZ ORCHESTRA | $250,000 |
| HERBIE HANCOCK INSTITUTE OF JAZZ | $250,000 |
| PS ARTS | $240,000 |
| CHRYSALIS | $200,000 |
| THE HARMONY PROJECT | $150,000 |
| LA CITY COLLEGE | $110,000 |
| FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $100,000 |
| THE JAZZ FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| LOUISIANA MUSEUM FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| TURNAROUND ARTS CALIFORNIA | $100,000 |
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, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
119 repeat relationships — 73 still active in FY2024, 46 since wound down; 12 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M 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
- HSHARLEM SCHOOL OF THE ARTS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $12M · revenue +6% · 81% of their budget
- CICALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS4× · 2017–2020 · $3.0M · revenue +30%
- VDVISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES5× · 2017–2022 · $2.0M · revenue +19%
Funded once
- HHHERBIE HANCOCK INSTITUTEone grant, 2020 · $500k
- NONEW ORLEANS ARTS & CULTURAL HOST COMMITTEEone grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue -57% · 58% of their budget
- TATHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICAone grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue -33%
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.
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…
As creative producers, we are devoted to the production and presentation of groundbreaking experiences in contemporary performance that use innovative approaches to collaboration, technology, and social engagement. As a service…
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 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…
The ojai music festival serves as a creative music laboratory for pioneering new works,championing adventurous programming, and working with today's emerging artists with events during the year and the ojai music festival serves as a…
Diavolo dance theatre is a creative movement production company that explores innovation by creating unique live, cinematic, digital and media experiences. its mission is to create socially relevant work that celebrates the diversity and…
See schedule 0founded in 1994, opera santa barbara is the signature provider of professional opera on the california central coast. we aspire to be a cultural leader in the santa barbara region, voicing and advancing our community's spirit…
Inner-city arts believes that the arts and creativity are transformational, and we envision a society that honors the human capacity for creativity, and values its cultivation in the education of young people. inner-city arts uses arts…
The colburn school's founding principle of "access to excellence" provides a performance-centered education with unparalleled faculty and facilities for all levels of development, instills the joy and discipline of the performing arts,…
Sound art dba in the band is dedicated to empowering the youth of los angeles and beyond through access to music education and mentoring in community centers, schools and online. founded to fulfill the need for an affordable and culturally…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arts for La and the most unlike its peers is Stratton Petit 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 27 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
127 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 127 of the 215 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 HARLEM SCHOOL OF THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds PS ARTS ↗
- Who funds The Louisiana Museum Foundation ↗
- Who funds Pacific Jazz Orchestra ↗
- Who funds Harmony Project ↗
- Who funds TURNAROUND ARTS CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds HERBIE HANCOCK INSTITUTE OF JAZZ ↗
- Who funds HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE PAINTED TURTLE ↗
- Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JAZZ HOUSE KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VENICE ARTS ↗
- Who funds ASCAP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS ARTS & CULTURAL HOST COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds PLAZA DE LA RAZA INC ↗
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: The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Elbridge Stuart Foundation Dba Stuart Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The J Paul Getty Trust · Perenchio Foundation · Snap Foundation · Thelma Pearl Howard Foundation · The Meredith and Rosemary Willson Charit (Aka the Music Man 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 Herb Alpert 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.
- Jazz House Kids Inc — 29% of income from government
- Berklee College of Music Inc — 1% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise 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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