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The William Morris Endeavor Entertainment Foundation

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.

$365k
Granted FY2023
10
Grants FY2023
6
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Arts & Culture$800kCivil Rights$533kEducation$451kCommunity Improvement$402kPublic Safety & Disaster$251kCrime & Legal$237kEmployment$210kYouth Development$180kOther$0
02FY2023 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $115k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $250k
$50,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$387k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Brain Behavior Research Foundation$50,000
WeCoach$50,000
National Association of Latino Inde$50,000
Inevitable Foundation$50,000
Get Lit Words Ignite Inc$50,000
Minds Matter New York City$25,000
Women In Film$25,000
Fashion Minority Alliance Incorpora$25,000
Nashville Children's Theatre$25,000
LA's Best$15,000
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 (FY17–22, $147k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Jewish Family Service of San Diego: $200 → 11%Trellis Supportive Care: $500 → 15%The Blue Card Inc: $140 → 17%The Blue Card Inc: $100 → 17%Westside Children's Center Inc: $75 → 14%American Corporate Partners: $20k → 17%Innocence Project: $50k → 17%ManifestWorks: $50k → 14%ManifestWorks: $25k → 14%Children's Institute Inc: $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

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OK
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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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 45 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.

45 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2023, 37 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
103

Total granted

$2.6M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+33%

Still filing today

64%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesAnimalsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • BS
    Big Sunday
    2× · 2018–2019 · $355k · revenue +47%
  • CO
    COLOR OF CHANGEORG EDUCATION FUND
    2× · 2020–2021 · $305k · revenue +62%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    2× · 2017–2020 · $250k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $300k
  • NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC
    one grant, 2020 · $125k · revenue -54%
  • EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -66%
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
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…

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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
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
4
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
5
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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6
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
7
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
8
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
9
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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10
United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

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11
AI4ALL

Ai4all's mission is to ensure that the next generation of ai leaders reflects humanity. ai4all is transforming the pipeline of ai practitioners who will shape ai for the benefit of humanity.

Youth Development
12
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Institute Inc; the most unlike its peers is No Stray Left Behind. 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

105 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. 105 of the 152 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)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
103/105
Grantees still filing
77/105
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $300,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCity Hearts: $115,000 · OtherCity HeartsEducation Through Music - LA: $100,000 · OtherEducation Through Music - LA24th Street Theatre: $98,000 · Other24th Street TheatreBrain Behavior Research Foundation: $90,000 · OtherFashion Minority Alliance Incorpora: $65,000 · OtherTHE ANTI-RECIDIVISM COALITION: $75,000 · OtherHOLLYWOOD CINEMA PRODUCTIONS RESOURCES: $75,000 · Other+94 more: $907,717 · Other+94 moreCOLOR OF CHANGEORG EDUCATION FUND: $305,000 · Civil RightsCOLOR OF CHANGE…NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $125,000 · Civil RightsNAACP LEGAL DEF…EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $100,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE I…VOTEORG: $20,000 · Civil Rights+3 more: $713 · Civil RightsAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $250,050 · Human ServicesAmerican Na…MANIFESTWORKS: $75,000 · Human ServicesMANIFESTWOR…THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesTHE INNOCEN…AMERICAN CORPORATE PARTNERS: $20,000 · Human Services+6 more: $2,115 · Human ServicesBig Sunday: $354,916 · Community ImprovementBig Sunday+1 more: $7,500 · Community ImprovementNASHVILLE ACADEMY THEATRE AND NASHVILLE CHILDREN'S THEATRE ASSOC: $124,600 · Arts & CultureNASHVILLE…GET LIT - WORDS IGNITE INC: $82,500 · Arts & CultureGET LIT -…WOMEN IN FILM: $53,111 · Arts & CultureWOMEN IN …MUSICARES FOUNDATION INC: $31,400 · Arts & CultureMUSICARES…THE NEW 42ND STREET INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NEW 4…ARTSCONNECTION INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureCAROLYN GLASOE BAILEY FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $2,300 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LATINO INDEPENDENT PRODUCERS INC: $127,500 · EducationSTREET POETS INC: $75,000 · EducationWECOACH INC: $50,000 · EducationLA'S BEST: $30,000 · EducationDetermined to Succeed: $17,000 · Education+7 more: $8,241 · EducationENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION: $85,000 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyINEVITABLE FOUNDATION: $50,000 · PhilanthropyHands on Atlanta Inc: $23,000 · PhilanthropyPABLOVE FOUNDATION INC: $7,237 · Philanthropy+4 more: $895 · Philanthropy
Other$1,825,717Civil Rights$550,713Human Services$397,165Community Improvement$362,416Arts & Culture$345,911Education$307,741Philanthropy$216,132

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 budgetBig Sunday: $354,916 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetCOLOR OF CHANGEORG EDUCATION FUND: $305,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $250,050 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LATINO INDEPENDENT PRODUCERS INC: $127,500 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $125,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNASHVILLE ACADEMY THEATRE AND NASHVILLE CHILDREN'S THEATRE ASSOC: $124,600 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION: $85,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGET LIT - WORDS IGNITE INC: $82,500 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetTHE ANTI-RECIDIVISM COALITION: $75,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMANIFESTWORKS: $75,000 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetSTREET POETS INC: $75,000 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $59,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetHAROLD ROBINSON FOUNDATION: $58,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetWOMEN IN FILM: $53,111 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWECOACH INC: $50,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINEVITABLE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $47,794 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIN THE BLK COALITION INC: $40,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetPS ARTS: $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetYOUNG STORYTELLERS: $35,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetMUSICARES FOUNDATION INC: $31,400 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetL A WORKS INC: $30,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetLA'S BEST: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NEW 42ND STREET INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES LACROSSE LEAGUE: $23,950 over 2y, 32% of budgetHands on Atlanta Inc: $23,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN CORPORATE PARTNERS: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVOTEORG: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED: $19,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDetermined to Succeed: $17,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetARTSCONNECTION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCAROLYN GLASOE BAILEY FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetFeeding Children Everywhere Inc: $11,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOUNCIL ON THE ENVIRONMENT INC: $11,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN OF NEW YORK CITY INC: $11,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNEW YORK RESTORATION PROJECT: $10,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COUNCIL OF URBAN PROFESSIONALS INSTITUTE: $7,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPABLOVE FOUNDATION INC: $7,237 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $3,984 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCharley Foundation Inc: $3,350 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetGirl Scouts of Greater NY Inc: $3,000 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.

California Community …The Ralph M Parsons F…Pledgeling FoundationThe Annenberg Foundat…Snap FoundationHollywood Foreign Pre…Jewish Community Foun…Weingart FoundationHollywood Foreign Pre…The Katie McGrath & J…The Deutsch FoundationThe Hearthland Founda…
California Community FoundationCA32× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Pledgeling Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Snap Foundation · Hollywood Foreign Press Association · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Weingart Foundation · Hollywood Foreign Press Association Charitable Trust · The Katie McGrath & Jj Abrams Family Foundation · The Deutsch Foundation · The Hearthland 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 William Morris Endeavor Entertainment Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The William Morris Endeavor Entertainment Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Impact Melanoma Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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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Find your warmest path to The William Morris Endeavor Entertainment 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 152 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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