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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.
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 $10k4 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $57k
- $250k+1 grant · $450k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CITY OF ANGELS MONUMENT FOUNDATION | $450,000 |
| CALIFORNIA HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $27,000 |
| CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL | $15,000 |
| THE COLORADO GRAND INC | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,775 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER FLINT | $5,206 |
| FLINT RIVER WATERSHED COALITION | $5,150 |
| THE WILLOWS COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–23, $148k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
13 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 4 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, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $468k 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
- PAPETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2023 · $748k · revenue +3%
- TWTHE WILLOWS COMMUNITY SCHOOL7× · 2017–2024 · $665k · revenue +24%
- SISELF-HELP INTERNATIONAL3× · 2017–2022 · $110k · revenue +80%
Funded once
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesone grant, 2018 · $122k · revenue +9%
- LPLANTERN PROJECTSone grant, 2022 · $113k
- LPLANTERN PROJECTS INC LANTERN PROJECTSone grant, 2017 · $68k · revenue -50%
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 organization's mission is to mobilize resources to fight hunger in our community. to fulfill its mission, the food bank:* sources and acquires nutritious food and other products and distribute them to people experiencing nutrition…
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
Our mission is to create housing and service options that model, with respect and dignity, sustainable, environmentally sensitive, affordable communities for people of limited resources.
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
Hunger action los angeles ends hunger and promotes healthy eating through advocacy, education, and appropriate direct service. the chief program area currently is the market match prgram operated by hala at 22 farmers markets in la county…
Apla health restores dignity and trust within underserved communities by providing world-class lgbtq+ empowering healthcare, hiv specialty care, food, housing and other essential support services.
The anti-recidivism coalition (arc) works to end mass incarceration in california. to ensure our communities are safe, healthy, and whole, arc empowers formerly and currently incarcerated people to thrive by providing a support network,…
Hollywood food coalition welcomes people to dinner each night. we rescue and redistribute food daily to other organizations. we care for our immediate community through our wellness program. we build community with and through our…
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.
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.
Community organizing, education, advocacy, leadership development, direct services and organizational development for communities faced with immense poverty.
Dedicated to providing comprehensive primary medical care, dental services and care coordination for the care and well-being of all los angeles residents. the organization provides high quality, comprehensive primary and preventative…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Moms Inc and the most unlike its peers is California Highway Patrol. 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 32 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) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 11% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 57 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
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 PETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE WILLOWS COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds SELF-HELP INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds COLORADO GRAND INC ↗
- Who funds LANTERN PROJECTS INC LANTERN PROJECTS ↗
- Who funds AETA TRIBE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STRONG FOODLA KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL ↗
- Who funds THREE SQUARE ↗
- Who funds DIGNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds HEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds A WALK ON WATER INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE STREET ↗
- Who funds ONE TREE PLANTED INC ↗
- Who funds THE PEOPLE CONCERN ↗
- Who funds HEAL THE BAY ↗
- Who funds EBOD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER FLINT ↗
- Who funds Flint River Watershed Coalition ↗
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 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
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 Katz 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.
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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