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The Unger Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$170k
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$93k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$406kHealth$385kReligion$127kArts & Culture$68kCivil Rights$46kPhilanthropy$27kCrime & Legal$14kHuman Services$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k20 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $93k
$1,300
Median grant
4
States reached
$285k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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 GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE$1,500
THE LAGRANT FOUNDATION$1,500
LACMA$1,300
THE MUSIC CENTER$1,000
EMPOWERED NETWORK$1,000
DIDI HIRSCH MENTAL HEALTH SERV$1,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%EMPOWERED NETWORK: $1k → 9%EMPOWER HER NETWORK INC: $500 → 9%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $500 → 14%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $250 → 14%ALLIES FOR EVERY CHILD INC: $1k → 14%ALLIES FOR EVERY CHILD INC: $500 → 14%MANIFESTWORKS: $250 → 14%MOTION PICTURE TELEVISION FUND: $250 → 14%JEWISH CENTER FOR JUSTICE: $1k → 14%JEWISH CENTER FOR JUSTICE: $250 → 14%UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN (UFC): $1k → 14%UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN (UFC): $100 → 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

NH
MN
NY
MA
CT
CA
VA
AZ
KS
DC
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.
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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 80% of The Unger Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 19%.

The Unger Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 49 repeat orgs$33k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +15% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
45

Total granted

$1.0M
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+15%

Still filing today

71%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationInternationalCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES
    9× · 2017–2025 · $358k · revenue +92%
  • NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES
    6× · 2017–2024 · $18k · revenue +292%
  • AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE
    2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +116%

Funded once

  • AG
    AJC GLOBAL JEWISH ADVOCACY
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • AF
    ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTSgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +31%
  • TA
    THE ANDREW GOODMAN FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%
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
Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center Inc

The hammer museum at ucla believes in the promise of art and ideas to illuminate our lives and build a more just world.

Arts & Culture
2
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
3
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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4
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
5
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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6
Arts for La

Arts for la leads communities, artists and organizations to advocate for an equitable, healthy, and creative los angeles region through the arts.

Arts & Culture
7
Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.

Health
8
The Uc Davis Foundation

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

Education
9
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…

—
10
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
11
The California Channel

To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…

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12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Community Foundation; 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.
05the grantee network

73 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. 73 of the 100 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
73/73
Grantees still filing
50/73
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UC BERKELEY: $279,333 · OtherUC BERKELEYTEMPLE EMANUEL OF BEVERLY HILLS: $93,548 · OtherTEMPLE EMANUEL OF BEVERLY HILLSUCLA: $91,970 · OtherUCLATEMPLE EMANUEL: $28,753 · Other+52 more: $122,832 · Other+52 morePLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES: $358,175 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES+12 more: $24,050 · Health+12 moreMuseIque: $16,800 · Arts & CultureGEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC: $9,950 · Arts & CultureHOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA: $4,000 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS: $3,500 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $3,100 · Arts & Culture+8 more: $4,050 · Arts & CultureUCLA FOUNDATION: $29,600 · EducationBRENTWOOD SCHOOL: $1,500 · Education+4 more: $1,940 · EducationAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $10,000 · Civil RightsEMPOWER HER NETWORK INC DBA EMPOWERED NETWORK: $1,500 · Human ServicesAllies for Every Child Inc: $1,500 · Human ServicesJewish Center for Justice: $1,250 · Human ServicesUNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $1,100 · Human ServicesDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $750 · Human ServicesMANIFESTWORKS: $250 · Human ServicesMOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND: $250 · Human ServicesPACIFIC COUNCIL ON INTERNATIONAL POLICY: $2,375 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $1,500 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $1,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $1,000 · International
Other$616,436Health$382,225Arts & Culture$41,400Education$33,040Civil Rights$10,000Human Services$6,600International$5,875

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES: $358,175 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $29,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES: $18,300 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMuseIque: $16,800 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC: $9,950 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RAPE FOUNDATION: $9,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPHASE ONE FOUNDATION: $9,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LAGRANT FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $3,100 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFeed My Poor Inc: $2,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFEMINIST MAJORITY FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC COUNCIL ON INTERNATIONAL POLICY: $2,375 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $2,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWomen Against Gun Violence: $2,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE AMERICA INC: $1,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEMPOWER HER NETWORK INC DBA EMPOWERED NETWORK: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUSAGAINSTALZHEIMER'S: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH ADVOCACY SERVICES INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBRENTWOOD SCHOOL: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAllies for Every Child Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Center for Justice: $1,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ANDREW GOODMAN FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER CORPORATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES: $1,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMON SENSE MEDIA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF LOS ANGELES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY DOMINGUEZ HILLS PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR A BETTER COMMUNITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTeach Democracy: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWALLIS ANNENBERG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetACADEMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $570 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetONE ARROYO FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHILLEL AT UCLA: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCATALYST CALIFORNIA: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH FOR OUR LIVES FOUNDATION: $500 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.

  • 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 THE LAGRANT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
  • Who funds Feed My Poor Inc ↗
  • Who funds FEMINIST MAJORITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ↗
  • 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 EMPOWER HER NETWORK INC DBA EMPOWERED NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds USAGAINSTALZHEIMER'S ↗
  • Who funds MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCACY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds BRENTWOOD SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Allies for Every Child Inc ↗
  • Who funds Jewish Center for Justice ↗

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.

Weingart FoundationCalifornia Community …The Ralph M Parsons F…Adams Cowan FoundationHyman Levine Family F…The California Wellne…The Rosalinde and Art…Jewish Community Foun…The Ahmanson Foundati…Liberty Hill Foundati…The Annenberg Foundat…The Katie McGrath & J…
Weingart FoundationCA38.2× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 47%
  • Empower Her Network Inc Dba Empowered Network: 47% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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 Unger Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Unger 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 100 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home