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The Saban Family Foundation at a glance

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The Saban Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$2.0M
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, FY2019 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$19MInternational$14MPhilanthropy$6.0MHealth$5.5MHuman Services$1.0MCrime & Legal$600kReligion$250kSocial Science$28kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $250k+4 grants · $3.3M
$380,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$69k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ACADEMY FOUNDATIONACADEMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION$2,000,000
THE JERUSALEM RAPE CRISIS CENTER$600,000
SABAN COMMUNITY CLINIC$380,000
FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES$300,000
ISRAEL ON CAMPUS COALITION$5,522
02The need
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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 (FY19–21, $1.0M) 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%A SENSE OF HOME: $1k → 14%ISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL: $334k → 14%ISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL: $333k → 14%ISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL: $333k → 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
IL
NY
RI
CA
VA
AZ
TN
DC
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of The Saban Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 53% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 44%.

The Saban Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 42% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$43M · 11 repeat orgs$4.2M to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
16

Total granted

$43M
$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+32%

Still filing today

100%
94%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.6M went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthInternationalArts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationSocial ScienceOther
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

  • AO
    Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Foundation
    4× · 2019–2022 · $17M · revenue +3% · 86% of their budget
  • FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
    6× · 2019–2024 · $11M · revenue +115%
  • BH
    BILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2021 · $6.0M · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER INC
    one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +6%
  • IF
    INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $250k · revenue +169%
  • NL
    NER L HOREINU INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +45%
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.

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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
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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3
Sherit Isroel
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4
American Society for Technion Israel Institute of Technology Inc

The american technion society supports the technion's critical research and (continued on sch o)

International
5
Hadassah the Women's Zionist Org of America Inc

Hadassah, the women's zionist organization of america, inc., a new york not-for-profit corporation ("hwzoa") enhances the health and lives of people in israel, the united states and worldwide through education, advocacy, women's…

Community Improvement
6
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
7
Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech
8
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
9
Middle East Media and Research Institute Inc

The middle east media research institute (memri) explores the middle east through its media, providing timely translations from arabic, farsi, urdu, pashtu, and turkish media and publishing original analysis of political, ideological,…

International
10
Access to Advanced Health Institute

Aahi is a nonprofit biotech research institute, bringing together the best experts, technologies, and platforms to create accessible, high-quality products and solutions for harnessing the immune system to alleviate disease.

Health
11
Hand in Hand American Friends of the Center for Jewish-Arab Education in Isra

To promote partnership and coexistence among jewish and arab citizens of israel by providing support for integrated schools and providing funding for and assisting in program development in connection with israeli nonprofits with similar…

International
12
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Israel Education Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Brookings Institution. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 31 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
20/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Foundation: $17,022,712 · Arts & CultureAcademy of Television Arts and Sciences F…+2 more: $255,346 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $10,554,416 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FOR…BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $2,000,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATIONAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $1,200,000 · InternationalAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDAT…+3 more: $10,000 · InternationalBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION: $6,000,000 · HealthBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLIN…THE LOS ANGELES FREE CLINIC: $4,340,000 · HealthTHE LOS ANGELES FREE CLINICFRIENDS OF TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER INC: $500,000 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $400,000 · Health+4 more: $16,000 · HealthACADEMY FOUNDATIONACADEMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $2,000,000 · OtherTHE JERUSALEM RAPE CRISIS CENTER: $600,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC: $250,000 · OtherMELANOMA RESEARCH ALLIANCE: $236,980 · Other+6 more: $35,204 · OtherISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL: $1,000,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesNER L HOREINU INC: $250,000 · ReligionTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $27,590 · Social Science
Arts & Culture$17,278,058International$13,764,416Health$11,256,000Other$3,122,184Human Services$1,001,000Religion$250,000Social Science$27,590

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAcademy of Television Arts and Sciences Foundation: $17,022,712 over 4y, 86% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $10,554,416 over 6y, 4.8% of budgetBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION: $6,000,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetTHE LOS ANGELES FREE CLINIC: $4,340,000 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $2,000,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $1,200,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL: $1,000,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER INC: $500,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $400,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNER L HOREINU INC: $250,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPILCHUCK GLASS SCHOOL: $250,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $27,590 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTER PARTNERSHIP INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL ON CAMPUS COALITION INC: $9,204 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUSICARES FOUNDATION INC: $5,346 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAIRBNBORG INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF LOS ANGELES LYCEE INTERNATIONAL DE LOS ANGELES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Miriam Hospital Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetISRAEL POLICY FORUM INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA SENSE OF HOME: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
American Endowment FoundationOH10.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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 · 0–20%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Saban Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Saban 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 31 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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