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The Unger Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $93k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UC BERKELEY | $93,333 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES | $20,000 |
| UCLA | $13,520 |
| TEMPLE EMANUEL OF BEVERLY HILLS | $11,788 |
| MUSEIQUE | $6,350 |
| ACLU FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| PHASE ONE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| WILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLE | $2,485 |
| HOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA | $2,000 |
| THE LAGRANT FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| THE GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE | $1,500 |
| LACMA | $1,300 |
| THE MUSIC CENTER | $1,000 |
| JEWISH CENTER FOR JUSTICE | $1,000 |
| DIDI HIRSCH MENTAL HEALTH SERV | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 80% of The Unger Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 19% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
49 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES9× · 2017–2025 · $358k · revenue +92%
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES6× · 2017–2024 · $18k · revenue +292%
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +116%
Funded once
- AGAJC GLOBAL JEWISH ADVOCACYone grant, 2019 · $5k
- AFALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTSgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +39%
- TFTHE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCHone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +16%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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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…
Arts for la leads communities, artists and organizations to advocate for an equitable, healthy, and creative los angeles region through the arts.
Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Andrew Goodman 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
73 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. 73 of the 100 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds MuseIque ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE RAPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PHASE ONE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA ↗
- Who funds THE LAGRANT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds FEMINIST MAJORITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds Feed My Poor Inc ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC COUNCIL ON INTERNATIONAL POLICY ↗
- Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Women Against Gun Violence ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRENTWOOD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds USAGAINSTALZHEIMER'S ↗
- Who funds Allies for Every Child Inc ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCACY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds EMPOWER HER NETWORK INC DBA EMPOWERED NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Jewish Center for Justice ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Weingart Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Adams Cowan Foundation · Hyman Levine Family Foundation L'Dor V'Dor · The California Wellness Foundation · The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Ahmanson Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · The Katie McGrath & Jj Abrams Family Foundation
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 Unger 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.
- Empower Her Network Inc Dba Empowered Network — 47% of income from government
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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