· Private foundation
The Landau Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $77k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE DIVIDED SKY FOUNDATION | $17,642 |
| PUPS WITHOUT BORDERS | $17,500 |
| SHAMBHALA USA | $16,500 |
| THE BUCKLEY SCHOOL | $15,544 |
| CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF LOS ANGELES | $10,000 |
| SHAMBHALA MEDITATION CENTER | $6,200 |
| BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY | $5,227 |
| GIRAFFE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION | $5,220 |
| MARINE MAMMAL CARE CENTER | $5,182 |
| SEQUOYAH SCHOOL | $5,182 |
| CATSKILL ANIMAL SANCTUARY | $5,165 |
| FIRE AID | $5,000 |
| HUMANE WORLD for ANIMALS INC | $5,000 |
| FARM SANCTUARY | $5,000 |
| STAND UP TO CANCER | $1,047 |
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, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
58 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 44 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- GLGREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION7× · 2018–2024 · $187k · revenue +26%
- CHChildren's Hospital Los Angeles8× · 2018–2025 · $101k · revenue +27%
- TBTHE BUCKLEY SCHOOL4× · 2022–2025 · $72k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- SSHAMBHALAone grant, 2023 · $11k
ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +231%
HOMEBOY INDUSTRIESone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +1%
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 bring animals out of crisis and strengthen the bond between people and animals through emergency sheltering, disaster relief services, financial assistance and education. redrover accomplishes its mission by engaging volunteers and…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.
Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.
To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.
We exist to end the abuse of animals raised for food. this mission is executed by persuading companies and institutions to adopt animal welfare policies through negotiation and pressure campaigns, and then holding them accountable to their…
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…
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.
Protection of animal rights
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Farm Sanctuary Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Big Bear Valley. 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 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
101 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. 101 of the 157 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 GREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds THE BUCKLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PITMAN ANIMAL RESCUE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds CATSKILL ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds PUPS WITHOUT BORDERS ↗
- Who funds DRALA MOUNTAIN CENTER Formerly Shambhala Mountain Center ↗
- Who funds GRIFFITH OBSERVATORY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds FARM SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds BIDEAWEE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF VENTURA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE DIVIDED SKY FOUNDATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE MAMMAL CARE CENTER LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC ↗
- Who funds ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES ↗
- Who funds TOURETTE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA 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: California Community Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Greater Good Charities · The Annenberg Foundation · Stern Sidney Memorial Tuw · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Owsley Brown III Philanthropic Found · Thornton S Jr and Katrina D Glide Foundation · Rsf Social Finance Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Pledgeling 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 Landau 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.
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America 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.
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