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The Maurice Marciano 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.

$2.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$5.0MInternational$2.5MHealth$1.5MEnvironment$813kReligion$595kHuman Services$565kFood & Nutrition$230kPublic Safety & Disaster$169kOther$0
02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 28 grants below total $2,238,248 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,638,248 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $400,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $234k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $510k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.5M
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES$500,000
AMERICA-ISRAEL COALITION$500,000
FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH$476,448
MOCA$100,000
FIBERSHED$85,000
REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE ALLIANCE$75,000
VISIONARY WOMEN$50,000
GINDI MAIMONIDES ACADEMY$50,000
ONE EARTH PHILANTHROPY$50,000
BEVERLY HILLS POLICE FOUNDATION$50,000
NRDC$50,000
HAMMER MUSEUM$48,500
ARTADIA THE ART COUNCIL$25,000
STEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC$25,000
COLEL CHABAD$25,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $425k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%ISRAEL SPECIAL KIDS FUND: $5k → 7%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $13k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $13k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION: $50k → 17%ISRAEL SPECIAL KIDS FUND: $5k → 17%CHARITY WATER: $120k → 17%STEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC: $25k → 14%STEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC: $25k → 14%VISIONARY WOMEN: $50k → 14%VISIONARY WOMEN: $50k → 14%VISIONARY WOMEN: $25k → 14%SAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

MN
IL
NY
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
MO
MD
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.0M · 25 repeat orgs$3.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.

25 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
43

Total granted

$6.0M
$2.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+31%

Still filing today

88%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $762k 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
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalHealthEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther

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

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +55%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $1.0M · revenue +112%
  • F
    FIBERSHED
    4× · 2020–2024 · $381k · revenue +78%

Funded once

  • MA
    MARCIANO ART FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $500k
  • CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +31%
  • WC
    WEST COAST TORAH CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $250k

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

04Your field

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.

1
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
2
Artis Contemporary Israeli Art Fundinc

Artis is an independent nonprofit organization that supports contemporary artists from israel whose work addresses aesthetic, social and political questions to inspire reflection and debate. www.artis.art

Arts & Culture
3
Actionaid Usa

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…

Social Science
4
Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles

We steward $1.5 billion in charitable assets through donor-advised funds, endowments, and other giving vehicles. partnering with 1,400 individuals, families, and organizations, we build enduring legacies and multigenerational impact. in…

Philanthropy
5
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
6
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
7
Los Angeles World Affairs Council and Town Hall

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…

International
8
Observer Research Foundation America

Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…

International
9
Hollywood Foreign Press Association Charitable Trust
Philanthropy
10
International Crisis Group

Crisis group works to prevent and resolve deadly conflict around the world by informing and influencing the perceptions and actions of policymakers and other key conflict actors. to this end, we endeavour to talk to all sides and provide…

International
11
Food Forward Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
12
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Safe Place for Youth Inc and the most unlike its peers is Vienna Secession American Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr15%14%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr18%26%20–35yr12%26%35–55yr13%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr15%4%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr18%27%20–35yr12%28%35–55yr13%20%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/64
the rest of the field
15%
15,090/102,303

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.

04the grantee network

58 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. 58 of the 80 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/58
Grantees still filing
34/58
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MARCIANO ART FOUNDATION — $500,000 · OtherMARCIANO ART FOUNDATIONAMERICA-ISRAEL COALITION — $500,000 · OtherAMERICA-ISRAEL COALITIONFRIENDS OF THE ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCES — $125,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH OF ISRAEL — $125,000 · OtherARTADIA THE ART COUNCIL — $115,000 · OtherEM HABANIM SEPHARDIC CONGREGATION — $100,000 · OtherPAUL AND MAREVA FOUNDATION — $100,000 · OtherMOCA — $100,000 · OtherBEVERLY HILLS POLICE FOUNDATION — $100,000 · OtherTHE BUCKLEY SCHOOL — $100,000 · OtherARMENIA FUND INC — $100,000 · OtherTHE PAUL AND MAREVA MARCIANO FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · Other+31 more — $730,461 · Other+31 moreFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $1,500,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAE…FRIENDS OF ELNET — $150,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF ELNET+4 more — $45,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC — $1,251,448 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF UNITED H…UTAH FILM CENTER — $150,000 · Arts & CultureUTAH FILM CENTERARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC — $93,500 · Arts & CultureARMAND HAMMER MUSEU…+8 more — $140,000 · Arts & Culture+8 moreAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER INC — $1,000,000 · HealthAMERICAN FRIENDS …CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $250,000 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDI…Craig Hospital Foundation — $100,000 · HealthCraig Hospital Fo…Deep Medicine Circle — $50,000 · Health+2 more — $48,800 · HealthFIBERSHED — $380,500 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $151,000 · EnvironmentONE EARTH PHILANTHROPY — $100,000 · EnvironmentMISSOURI CONSERVATION HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $54,000 · EnvironmentTOMPKINS CONSERVATION — $50,000 · EnvironmentCHARITY GLOBAL INC — $360,000 · Human ServicesVISIONARY WOMEN — $125,000 · Human ServicesCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC — $60,000 · Human ServicesTHE JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Human ServicesSTEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC — $50,000 · Human Services+2 more — $20,000 · Human ServicesWEST COAST TORAH CENTER — $250,000 · ReligionGindi Maimonides Academy — $160,000 · Religion
Other$2,795,461International$1,695,000Arts & Culture$1,634,948Health$1,448,800Environment$735,500Human Services$665,000Religion$410,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $1,500,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC — $1,251,448 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER INC — $1,000,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetFIBERSHED — $380,500 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetCHARITY GLOBAL INC — $360,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $151,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF ELNET — $150,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetUTAH FILM CENTER — $150,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetVISIONARY WOMEN — $125,000 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetARMENIA FUND INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCraig Hospital Foundation — $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE PAUL AND MAREVA MARCIANO FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 50% of budgetONE EARTH PHILANTHROPY — $100,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetBEVERLY HILLS POLICE FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetTHE BUCKLEY SCHOOL — $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC — $93,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPeople Food and Land Foundation — $85,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetKISS THE GROUND — $75,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetREGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE ALLIANCE — $75,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC — $60,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN MENDING HEARTS INC — $60,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetMISSOURI CONSERVATION HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $54,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetTHE JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetDeep Medicine Circle — $50,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetSTEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RON FINLEY PROJECT — $50,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetTHE BRICK — $40,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSt Helena Hospital Foundation — $38,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSHERIFFS YOUTH FOUNDATION — $32,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetISRAFEST FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetTrauma Resource Institute Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCEMENT IN THE ARTS INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF COMPTON YAL INC — $15,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetLOS ANGELES NOMADIC DIVISION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPUSHING FOR PINK — $10,800 over 1y, 24% of budgetFeeding America — $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Artists Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICA-ISRAEL FRIENDSHIP LEAGUE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPROJECT HEALTHY MINDS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVIENNA SECESSION AMERICAN FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetSAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL SPECIAL KIDS FUND — $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRINTED MATTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
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.

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.

California Community …Jewish Community Foun…Paul Marciano Foundat…Guess FoundationThe Stanley & Joyce B…Hyman Jebb Levy Found…The Sassoon Family Fo…Silicon Valley Commun…Marin Community Found…The Schmidt Family Fo…Clif Family FoundationThe Goldman Sachs Cha…
California Community FoundationCA23.9× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Paul Marciano Foundation · Guess Foundation · The Stanley & Joyce Black Family Foundation · Hyman Jebb Levy Foundation · The Sassoon Family Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Clif Family Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund

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 Maurice Marciano 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
11report 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

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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How do I get to The Maurice Marciano Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Maurice Marciano Family 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 80 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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