· Private foundation
The Katie McGrath & Jj Abrams Family 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k31 grants · $121k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $460k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $925k
- $250k+5 grants · $3.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PRO PUBLICA INC | $1,500,000 |
| HOPEWELL FUND | $1,000,000 |
| COMMUNITY COALITION | $555,545 |
| ARRAY ALLIANCE | $500,000 |
| THE 19TH NEWS | $250,000 |
| THE OBAMA FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| MOTION PICTURE & TELEVISION FUND | $100,000 |
| NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND INC | $100,000 |
| THE UCLA FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| NATIONAL DOMESTIC WORKERS ALLIANCE | $75,000 |
| SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| NATIONAL WOMENS LAW CENTER | $50,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER LOS ANGELES | $50,000 |
| CROSSROADS SCHOOL FOR ARTS & SCIENCES | $50,000 |
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, $2.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 80% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of The Katie McGrath & Jj Abrams Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
102 repeat relationships — 48 still active in FY2024, 54 since wound down; 25 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $488k 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
PRO PUBLICA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $9.9M · revenue +48%
COMMUNITY COALITION FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT8× · 2017–2024 · $5.1M · revenue +72%- CSCROSSROADS SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND SCIENCES8× · 2017–2024 · $5.0M · revenue +24%
Funded once
- IFINTEGRITY FIRST FOR AMERICA INCone grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue -93%
- AIAMERICAN IMPACT CAPITAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $250k
- 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.
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…
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.
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.
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…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
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.
The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Actors' Fund of America and 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.
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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
198 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. 198 of the 263 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 PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COALITION FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL FUND ↗
- Who funds SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ARRAY ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND ↗
- Who funds THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds SIMMONS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE ARCHER SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds THE 19TH NEWS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds INTEGRITY FIRST FOR AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUBIN PICTURES INC ↗
- Who funds National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds LA PROMISE FUND ↗
- Who funds THE PALEY CENTER FOR MEDIA ↗
- Who funds BARNARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds THE ANTI-RECIDIVISM COALITION ↗
- Who funds THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE MALALA FUND ↗
- Who funds ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAIR COUNT INC ↗
- Who funds STORYCORPS INC ↗
- Who funds THE MISSION CONTINUES ↗
- Who funds US-IRELAND ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE NEW YORK OPPORTUNITY NETWORK INC DBA THE OPPORTUNITY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY ↗
- Who funds CHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION ↗
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: California Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Marilyn and Jeffrey Katzenberg Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · The David Geffen Foundation · The Hearthland Foundation · Entertainment Industry Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The J Paul Getty Trust
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 Katie McGrath & Jj Abrams Family 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.
- Jhpiego Corporation — 65% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Montclair Film Festival Inc — 2% of income from government
- Simmons University — 1% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 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.