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The Katz 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.

$530k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2024
6
Organizations funded FY2023
33%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$450,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 15
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$2.5M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations The Katz Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureInternationalFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther
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
FY2024still arriving8$530k50%
FY20236$495k33%
FY202213$1.1M46%
FY202115$444k67%
FY20204$347k50%
FY201912$261k83%
FY201810$364k100%
FY201713$342kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$1.4MEducation$680kAnimals$455kHealth$256kFood & Nutrition$232kInternational$212kPublic Safety & Disaster$157kHuman Services$92kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
NV
SD
IA
OH
PA
CA
CO
VA
AR
TN
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 36 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Katz Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPetersen Automotive Museum Foundation: $748,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetThe Willows Community School: $665,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetCalifornia Hospital Medical Center Foundation: $196,400 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $121,625 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSelf-Help International: $110,110 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetColorado Grand Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetAeta Tribe Foundation: $52,838 over 2y, 50% of budgetStrong Foodla Kitchen: $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFeeding America: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThree Square: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDignity Health Foundation: $27,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHeart of Los Angeles Youth Inc: $21,900 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetA Walk on Water Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetThe People Concern: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOne Tree Planted Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEbod Foundation Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetHeal the Bay: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Greater Flint: $5,206 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAls United Greater New York Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSoldiers' Angels: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDowntown Women's Center: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAIDS Project Los Angeles: $1,070 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLas Vegas Rescue Mission: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoston Rescue Mission Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJunior League of Los Angeles Inc: $350 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNew Moms Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFirst Book: $30 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 30.

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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 FoundationCA13.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good

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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How do I get to The Katz Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Katz 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.

About The Katz Foundation

How much does The Katz Foundation give?
The Katz Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $530,131 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 15 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Katz Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (37%), Education (18%), Animals (12%).
Who are The Katz Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Petersen Automotive Museum Foundation ($748k), The Willows Community School ($665k), California Hospital Medical Center Foundation ($196k).
Does The Katz Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Katz 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 Katz Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, The Bessemer Giving Fund, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
Where is The Katz Foundation based?
The Katz 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 57 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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