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The Louise M Flicker and Perry G Flicker Foundation U/T/A Dated 05/27/97 at a glance

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The Louise M Flicker and Perry G Flicker Foundation U/T/A Dated 05/27/97

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.

$54k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$24k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$76kArts & Culture$57kHousing & Shelter$45kHuman Services$33kCrime & Legal$18kEnvironment$7kCommunity Improvement$7kRecreation & Sports$4kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $24k
$3,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$113k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PASADENA MEDIA FOUNDATION$23,650
EL SERENO COMMUNITY LAND TRUST$6,000
HUNTINGTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL$5,000
NATIONAL TRUST LEGAL DEFENSE FUND$5,000
CATALYST'S INSTITUTE$3,000
SENECA FAMILY OF AGENCIES$3,000
SOUTH PASADENA PRESERVATION FOUNDATION$3,000
FOUNDATION FOR ECONOMIC JUSTICE$2,000
SOUTH PASADENA TOURNAMENT OF ROSES$1,500
SOUTH PASADENA PRIDE BASEBALL$1,000
SAN RAMON BOYS WATER POLO$500
PASADENA HUMANE SOCIETY$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–22, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ALLIANCE ON AGING: $5k → 12%Alliance on Aging: $5k → 12%ALLIANCE ON AGING: $5k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

51%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$131k · 9 repeat orgs$127k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against -6% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
16

Total granted

$131k
$97k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
-6%

Still filing today

78%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Housing & ShelterPhilanthropyHealthCommunity ImprovementAnimalsPublic BenefitOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • PH
    Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd
    5× · 2020–2024 · $25k · revenue +17%
  • SP
    SOUTH PASADENA PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $21k · revenue +45%
  • SF
    SENECA FAMILY OF AGENCIES
    2× · 2020–2024 · $8k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • KS
    KECK SCHOOL OF MEDICINE OF USC
    one grant, 2023 · $35k
  • HH
    HERITAGE HOUSING PARTNERSgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +119%
  • NT
    National Trust for Historic Preserv
    one grant, 2020 · $7k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
2
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
3
Sutter Bay Medical Foundation

Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…

Health
4
Scripps Health

Founded in 1924 by philanthropist Ellen Browning Scripps, Scripps Health is a $4.9 billion, private not-for-profit integrated health system in San Diego, Ca. (see Sch O)

Health
5
South Central Family Health Center

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.

Health
6
Cedars-Sinai Health System

To support certain specified nonprofit health care organizations organized for the purpose of establishing, maintaining, sponsoring and promoting activities relating to the improvement of human health and (see schedule o for…

Health
7
Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.

Health
8
The California Endowment
Philanthropy
9
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

As a leading academic healthcare organization, our mission is to elevate the health status of the communities we serve.(see schedule o for continuation)(continued)-we deliver exceptional healthcare enhanced by research and education-we…

Health
10
Pasadena Bio Collaborative Incubator

Pasadena bio collaborative incubator is a nonprofit organization focused on economic development and job creation in southern california. we encourage the growth of an innovative biotechnology industry by providing educational/training…

Science & Tech
11
Council for Watershed Health

Council for watershed health advances the health and sustainability of the region's watersheds, rivers, streams, and habitats - in both natural areas and urban neighborhoods - through science-based research, education, and inclusive…

Environment
12
Cedars-Sinai Marina Hospital

The hospital's mission is to elevate the health status of the communities served.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heritage Housing Partners; the most unlike its peers is Foundation for Economic Justice. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 32 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
8/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KECK SCHOOL OF MEDICINE OF USC: $35,000 · OtherKECK SCHOOL OF MEDICINE OF USCSOUTH PASADENA PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $21,000 · OtherSOUTH PASADENA PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INCNATIONAL TRUST LEGAL DEFENSE FUND: $18,000 · OtherNATIONAL TRUST LEGAL DEFENSE FUNDKINSHIP CENTER: $9,000 · OtherKINSHIP CENTERSENECA FAMILY OF AGENCIES: $8,000 · OtherSENECA FAMILY OF AGENCIESNational Trust for Historic Preserv: $7,000 · OtherKeck USC Hospital Research: $7,000 · OtherEast Los Angeles Community Corp: $6,500 · OtherSteinbeck Center the National: $5,000 · Other+13 more: $23,267 · Other+13 moreEL SERENO COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $29,918 · Housing & ShelterEL SERENO COMMUNITY…HERITAGE HOUSING PARTNERS: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterHERITAGE HOUSING PA…Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd: $25,000 · HealthPasadena Ho…BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,000 · HealthPASADENA MEDIA FOUNDATION: $23,650 · AnimalsPASADENA M…+1 more: $500 · AnimalsALLIANCE ON AGING INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesActive San Gabriel Valley: $6,500 · Community ImprovementSOUTH PASADENA TOURNAMENT OF ROSES ASSOC: $1,200 · Community ImprovementUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $5,000 · Education
Other$139,767Housing & Shelter$44,918Health$26,000Animals$24,150Human Services$15,000Community Improvement$7,700Education$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEL SERENO COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $29,918 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetPasadena Hospital Association Ltd: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPASADENA MEDIA FOUNDATION: $23,650 over 1y, 12% of budgetSOUTH PASADENA PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $21,000 over 5y, 22% of budgetALLIANCE ON AGING INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHERITAGE HOUSING PARTNERS: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSENECA FAMILY OF AGENCIES: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARITY ON TOP FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR ECONOMIC JUSTICE: $2,892 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetTeam Hydro Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSOUTH PASADENA TOURNAMENT OF ROSES ASSOC: $1,200 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVTC ENTERPRISES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPASADENA HUMANE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRANCHO CIELO INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLESTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA LEAGUE INC: $375 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO4.2× affinity6 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Louise M Flicker and Perry G Flicker Foundation U/T/A Dated 05/27/97 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Louise M Flicker and Perry G Flicker Foundation U/T/A Dated 05/27/97. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    Find your warmest path to The Louise M Flicker and Perry G Flicker Foundation U/T/A Dated 05/27/97 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.

    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 32 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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