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The Saban Charitable Support Fund

THE SABAN CHARITABLE SUPPORT FUND's giving is dedicated to the jewish community and community at large to benefit programs and institutions which have an emphasis on health, arts and culture, and social services.

$264k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$1.2MArts & Culture$1.0MInternational$950kPhilanthropy$868kEducation$672kHuman Services$529kCrime & Legal$501kReligion$396kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $150,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $263,867 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $113,867 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$100,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Friends of Blue and White$100,000
Harlem Lacrosse and Leadership Corp$50,000
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 (FY18–23, $635k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Kavod: $75k → 12%Kavod-Ensuring Dignity for Holocaust Survivors: $75k → 17%Tides Center: $25k → 10%Assistance League of Los Angeles: $50k → 14%ISRAELI AMERICAN COUNCIL: $100k → 14%ISRAELI AMERICAN COUNCIL: $52k → 14%Israeli AmR Council: $20k → 14%Dream Center Foundation: $50k → 14%Dream Center Foundation: $10k → 14%Everychild foundation: $6k → 14%Everychild foundation: $6k → 14%Everychild foundation: $6k → 14%Young Eisner Scholars: $50k → 14%Young Eisner Scholars: $50k → 14%Los angeles police foundation: $50k → 14%Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles: $10k → 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

WA
WI
NY
RI
CA
CO
NE
VA
MD
AZ
TN
DC
GA
FL

Grants abroad, by region: $100k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Middle East and North Africa$100k · 100% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: general support

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

45%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.9M · 20 repeat orgs$3.6M to everyone else

20 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
57

Total granted

$2.9M
$3.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+36%

Still filing today

100%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k 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 & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthInternationalCivil RightsOther
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

  • IE
    ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE
    3× · 2019–2021 · $500k · revenue +52%
  • GO
    GIFT OF LIFE MARROW REGISTRY INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $258k · revenue +193%
  • IP
    ISRAEL POLICY FORUM INC
    6× · 2018–2023 · $225k · revenue +181%

Funded once

  • GM
    GRAMMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2018 · $338k · revenue +17%
  • TC
    THE CORNING MUSEUM OF GLASSgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +41%
  • MU
    Marquette Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $250k · revenue +46%
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
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
2
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
3
University of Southern California Hillel Foundation

To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…

—
4
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

—
5
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
6
University of California Irvine Foundation

The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…

Education
7
Jewish Free Loan Association

The jewish free loan association of los angeles (jfla) offers interest-free loans on a non-sectarian basis to individuals and families whose needs are urgent and who may not qualify through normal financial resources. (see continuation on…

Unclassified
8
The Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation

The jonsson cancer center foundation is the single most important vehicle for raising private funds for cancer research at ucla and plays a key role in advancing cancer treatments and care. please see schedule o for additional information.

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9
Bureau of Jewish Education of Greater Los Angeles Inc

Bje enhances the quality of, increases access to, and encourages participation in jewish education throughout the jewish communities of greater los angeles. bje is an advocate, planner, catalyst, and creative leader for strengthening and…

Religion
10
Jewish Federation of San Diego County

Jewish federation of san diego county is dedicated to building a vibrant, caring, connected, and enduring jewish community.

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11
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
12
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles; the most unlike its peers is The Paul and Mareva Marciano 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.
04the grantee network

81 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. 81 of the 86 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)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
78/81
Grantees still filing
53/81
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE RAPE FOUNDATION: $305,000 · OtherTHE RAPE FOUNDATIONTHE CORNING MUSEUM OF GLASS: $250,000 · OtherTHE CORNING MUSEUM OF GLASSSTEPHEN WISE FREE SYNAGOGUE: $100,000 · OtherNational Black Empowerment Council Inc: $75,000 · OtherGindi Maimonides Academy: $250,000 · OtherGindi Maimonides AcademyCIA OFFICERS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherLegal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles: $96,000 · OtherZIONESS MOVEMENT INC: $75,000 · OtherLos Angeles Chargers Charities: $100,000 · OtherLos Angeles Team Mentoring Inc: $74,000 · Other+24 more: $717,500 · Other+24 moreISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $500,000 · InternationalISRAEL EMERGENC…ISRAEL POLICY FORUM INC: $225,000 · InternationalISRAEL POLICY F…WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $150,000 · InternationalWASHINGTON INST…RAZOM INC: $50,000 · International+2 more: $57,500 · International+2 moreGIFT OF LIFE MARROW REGISTRY INC: $258,000 · HealthGIFT OF LIFE M…FRIENDS OF THE LOS ANGELES FREE CLINIC: $200,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF THE…CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $120,000 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI M…PROJECT ANGEL FOOD: $100,000 · HealthPROJECT ANGEL …THE LOS ANGELES FREE CLINIC: $98,000 · HealthTHE LOS ANGELE…Children's Hospital Los Angeles: $93,000 · HealthChildren's Hos…+2 more: $35,000 · HealthJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES: $238,790 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUN…Social Impact Fund: $225,000 · PhilanthropySocial Impact…THE PAUL AND MAREVA MARCIANO FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 · PhilanthropyTHE PAUL AND …CHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropyCHAPEL & YORK…UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH…+3 more: $49,500 · Philanthropy+3 moreGRAMMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $337,724 · Arts & CultureGRAMMY MUSEU…The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $173,250 · Arts & CultureThe United S…ALGEMEINER INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureALGEMEINER I…SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureSIMON WIESEN…THE HARMONY PROGRAM INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHE HARMONY …+6 more: $87,000 · Arts & Culture+6 moreMarquette University: $250,000 · EducationMarquette Un…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $250,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY O…Friends of Blue and White: $100,000 · EducationFriends of B…LA PROMISE FUND: $100,000 · EducationLA PROMISE F…GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $35,000 · Education+4 more: $62,500 · Education+4 moreISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL: $171,800 · Human ServicesISRAELI-AM…Young Eisner Scholars: $100,000 · Human ServicesYoung Eisn…KAVOD: $75,000 · Human ServicesKAVODKAVOD: $75,000 · Human ServicesKAVODDREAM CENTER FOUNDATION: $60,000 · Human ServicesDREAM CENT…ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS ANGELES: $50,000 · Human ServicesASSISTANCE…LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Human ServicesLOS ANGELE…TIDES CENTER: $25,000 · Human Services+2 more: $28,000 · Human Services
Other$2,142,500International$982,500Health$904,000Philanthropy$813,290Arts & Culture$797,974Education$797,500Human Services$634,800

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 budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $500,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetGRAMMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $337,724 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTHE RAPE FOUNDATION: $305,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetGIFT OF LIFE MARROW REGISTRY INC: $258,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE CORNING MUSEUM OF GLASS: $250,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES: $238,790 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSocial Impact Fund: $225,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetISRAEL POLICY FORUM INC: $225,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE LOS ANGELES FREE CLINIC: $200,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $173,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL: $171,800 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $150,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE PAUL AND MAREVA MARCIANO FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 2y, 50% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $120,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Eisner Scholars: $100,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetFriends of Blue and White: $100,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetALGEMEINER INC: $100,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetCIA OFFICERS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL FOOD: $100,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLos Angeles Chargers Charities: $100,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetLA PROMISE FUND: $100,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE LOS ANGELES FREE CLINIC: $98,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLegal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles: $96,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $93,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNational Black Empowerment Council Inc: $75,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetZIONESS MOVEMENT INC: $75,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetKAVOD: $75,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetLos Angeles Team Mentoring Inc: $74,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDREAM CENTER FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS ANGELES: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE PROVIDENCE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCHRYSALIS CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetRAZOM INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJHPIEGO CORPORATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFJC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HARMONY PROGRAM INC: $50,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetJVS SOCAL: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARLEM LACROSSE AND LEADERSHIP CORPORATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBABY2BABY: $39,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLarger Than Life - LA Family: $32,500 over 1y, 5.3% 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.

Jewish Community Foun…California Community …The Annenberg Foundat…Jewish Communal FundThe Goldman Sachs Cha…Jewish Federation Cou…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Jewish Community Fede…The Ahmanson Foundati…The Ralph M Parsons F…Weingart FoundationThe Deutsch Foundation
Jewish Community Foundation of Los AngelesCA37.4× affinity18 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 · California Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Federation Council of Greater La · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Deutsch 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 Saban Charitable Support Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Saban Charitable Support Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 65%
  • Jhpiego Corporation: 65% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.
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How do I get to The Saban Charitable Support Fund?

Find your warmest path to The Saban Charitable Support Fund 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 86 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 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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