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The Jane and Marc Nathanson Family 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.

$184k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2025
2
Organizations funded FY2024
100%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 6
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$2.6M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 100% of the organizations The Jane and Marc Nathanson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $113k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’24
Arts & CultureHealthEducationPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving4$159k75%
FY20242$113k100%
FY20221$100k0%
FY20214$166k100%
FY20203$265k100%
FY20196$13kn/a
100% 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$457kHousing & Shelter$250kEducation$215kHealth$76kFood & Nutrition$5kEnvironment$5kHuman Services$3kInternational$500

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 17 grantees

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($2k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Jane and Marc Nathanson Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles: $250,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetThe Mayor's Fund for Los Angeles: $250,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMuseum Associates: $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $13,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPark Century School: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetArizona State University Foundation for a New American University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLos Angeles Regional Food Bank: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLos Angeles Cleantech Incubator: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCedars-Sinai Medical Center: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Sheba Medical Center Inc: $3,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Institute Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Brent Shapiro Foundation for Drug Awareness: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBreakthrough T1d: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSage-Ing International: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNational Multiple Sclerosis Society: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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About The Jane and Marc Nathanson Family Foundation

How much does The Jane and Marc Nathanson Family Foundation give?
The Jane and Marc Nathanson Family Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $183,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 6 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does The Jane and Marc Nathanson Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (45%), Housing & Shelter (25%), Education (21%).
Who are The Jane and Marc Nathanson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles ($250k), The Mayor's Fund for Los Angeles ($250k), Museum Associates ($200k).
Does The Jane and Marc Nathanson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Jane and Marc Nathanson Family 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 Jane and Marc Nathanson Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is The Jane and Marc Nathanson Family Foundation based?
The Jane and Marc Nathanson Family Foundation is based in CA.

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 19 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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