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The Neu Foundation of California Inc at a glance

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The Neu Foundation of California Inc

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.

$250k
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$293kPhilanthropy$258kHealth$224kArts & Culture$160kInternational$90kSocial Science$75kHuman Services$75kReligion$63kOther$0
02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $170k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$6,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MERCY SHIPS FOUNDATION$50,000
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY$25,000
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES$25,000
THE PINGRY SCHOOL$25,000
TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE$25,000
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY$20,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
CONGREGATION B'NAI JESHURUN$10,000
VASSAR COLLEGE$10,000
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$10,000
NEWARK ACADEMY$10,000
CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER$6,000
BETH JACOB CONGREGATION$2,500
NJ CONSERVATION FOUNDATION$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $28k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%American Red Cross: $5k → 14%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $1k → 14%american red cross: $1k → 14%Union Rescue Misison: $1k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
IL
NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
DC
LA
TX
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 54 repeat orgs$195k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

54 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 40 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
29

Total granted

$1.2M
$120k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+10%

Still filing today

69%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentOther
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

  • CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $91k · revenue +63%
  • VC
    VASSAR COLLEGE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +19%
  • AL
    ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
    6× · 2019–2024 · $60k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL NEW YORK
    one grant, 2017 · $30k
  • CR
    CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue -7%
  • TM
    THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELESgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +74%
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
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
2
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
3
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
4
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
5
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
6
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
7
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
8
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
9
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
10
Doheny Eye Institute

To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).

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11
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation

Committed to innovation, the solomon r. guggenheim foundation (the "foundation") collects, (continued on schedule o)

Arts & Culture
12
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Judaea Sprout Lake Camp Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Retina Vitreous Foundation. 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

58 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 58 of the 94 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/58
Grantees still filing
38/58
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VASSAR COLLEGE: $80,000 · OtherVASSAR COLLEGEThe Pingry School: $75,000 · OtherThe Pingry SchoolBOSTON UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS: $75,000 · OtherBOSTON UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICSTRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $45,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGECONGREGATION BNAI JESHURUN: $45,000 · OtherCONGREGATION BNAI JESHURUNTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $35,000 · OtherUNITED JEWISH APPEAL NEW YORK: $30,000 · OtherUnited Jewish Fund of New York: $30,000 · Othervista del mar foundation: $30,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $35,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES JEWISH HOME FOR THE AGING: $30,000 · Other+53 more: $333,300 · Other+53 moreJEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA: $60,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION …JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $60,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH UNITED FUND…Mercy Ships Foundation: $50,000 · PhilanthropyMercy Ships Founda…THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERAT…MD Anderson Foundation: $25,000 · PhilanthropyMD Anderson Founda…CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $15,000 · PhilanthropyCARDIOVASCULAR RES…+2 more: $7,500 · PhilanthropyCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $90,500 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI…THE RETINA VITREOUS FOUNDATION: $65,000 · HealthTHE RETINA V…+4 more: $8,000 · HealthMUSEUM ASSOCIATES: $55,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES: $10,000 · Arts & CultureARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $6,250 · Arts & CultureMuseum of Modern Art: $5,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM: $5,000 · Arts & CultureAmerican Museum of Natural History: $3,750 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $4,690 · Arts & CultureANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $60,000 · Civil RightsNew York University: $30,000 · EducationNEWARK ACADEMY: $25,000 · EducationTEAM WALKER INC: $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentFOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMP INC: $2,500 · Youth Development
Other$843,300Philanthropy$242,500Health$163,500Arts & Culture$99,690Civil Rights$60,000Education$55,000Youth Development$42,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $90,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetVASSAR COLLEGE: $80,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RETINA VITREOUS FOUNDATION: $65,000 over 2y, 75% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM ASSOCIATES: $55,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTEAM WALKER INC: $40,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES JEWISH HOME FOR THE AGING: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $26,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMD Anderson Foundation: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNEWARK ACADEMY: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARC MORRIS COUNTY CHAPTER NEW JERSEY INC: $21,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $6,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJACKSON HILL MAIN STREET MANAGEMENT CORPORATION: $5,100 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetEMPLOYMENT HORIZONS INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBEVERLY HILLS FIREMENS ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDSAVE INTERNATIONAL INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCHP 11-99 FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGLORYA KAUFMAN FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNEW JERSEY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH FUND OF THE DAMON RUNYON-WALTER WINCHELL FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBEVERLY HILLS POLICE OFFICERS ASSN INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $3,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Israel Philharmonic Orchestra: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBHPOA BENEVOLENT FUND: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RAPE FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLYFORD CAY FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TWO HUNDRED CLUB OF MORRIS COUNTY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMP INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG JUDAEA SPROUT LAKE CAMP INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAR HILLS-BEDMINSTER FIRST AID SQUADINC: $2,500 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNION RESCUE MISSION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KEVIN CORDASCO FOUNDATION INC DBA SOMETHING YELLOW: $2,000 over 2y, 2.4% 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.

  • Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds VASSAR COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE RETINA VITREOUS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM ASSOCIATES ↗
  • Who funds Mercy Ships Foundation ↗
  • Who funds TEAM WALKER INC ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
  • Who funds New York University ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES JEWISH HOME FOR THE AGING ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds MD Anderson Foundation ↗
  • Who funds NEWARK ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds THE ARC MORRIS COUNTY CHAPTER NEW JERSEY INC ↗
  • Who funds CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES ↗
  • Who funds ARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds JACKSON HILL MAIN STREET MANAGEMENT CORPORATION ↗

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.

Jewish Community Foun…Lynn & Les Bider Fami…The Stanley & Joyce B…The Rosalinde and Art…Community Foundation …Jewish Communal FundAmerican Gift FundCalifornia Community …National Philanthropi…The Ayco Charitable F…Verizon FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…
Jewish Community Foundation of Los AngelesCA16.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Lynn & Les Bider Family Foundation · The Stanley & Joyce Black Family Foundation · The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Jewish Communal Fund · American Gift Fund · California Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc

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 Neu Foundation of California Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Neu Foundation of California Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 68%
  • Employment Horizons Inc: 90% of income from government
  • Team Walker Inc: 68% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

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 94 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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