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Uta 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 $10k46 grants · $168k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $193k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PROJECT ANGEL FOOD | $37,500 |
| LA REGIONAL FOODBANK | $35,000 |
| LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY | $25,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER LOS ANGELES | $25,000 |
| US VETS | $15,000 |
| FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK | $10,000 |
| AFTER-SCHOOL ALL STARS | $10,000 |
| OUR BIG KITCHEN LA | $10,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,064 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,064 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,064 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,064 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,064 |
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, $158k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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.
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 +46% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
57 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 29 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, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $154k 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
- UHUNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL3× · 2017–2019 · $171k · revenue +21%
- IRInternational Rescue Committee INC2× · 2017–2023 · $171k · revenue +81%
- ALALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2023 · $72k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- TFTHE FILM FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $263k · revenue +4%
COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $184k · revenue +95%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $75k
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.
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
The anti-recidivism coalition (arc) works to end mass incarceration in california. to ensure our communities are safe, healthy, and whole, arc empowers formerly and currently incarcerated people to thrive by providing a support network,…
The mission of the organization is to ensure safety and stability for people who are battered, abused, homeless or at risk; to create public awareness about the epidemic of violence; and to mobilize the community to prevent violence and…
Public counsel is a nonprofit public interest law firm dedicated to advancing civil rights and racial and economic justice, as well as to amplifying the power of our clients through comprehensive legal advocacy. (see sch o for…
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Community organizing, education, advocacy, leadership development, direct services and organizational development for communities faced with immense poverty.
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…
We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…
Just safe's mission is to educate the public about the needs of communities most impacted by crime, violence, and incarceration; and promote new safety solutions through community-building, leadership development, grassroots mobilization,…
Hollywood food coalition welcomes people to dinner each night. we rescue and redistribute food daily to other organizations. we care for our immediate community through our wellness program. we build community with and through our…
Our mission is to create housing and service options that model, with respect and dignity, sustainable, environmentally sensitive, affordable communities for people of limited resources.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Partners and the most unlike its peers is Core. 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 35 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% 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.
95 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. 95 of the 139 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 THE FILM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds ALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ANGEL FOOD ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds THE DIVERSE FUTURE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RIDEBACK RISE INC ↗
- Who funds AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF VENICE ↗
- Who funds HEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds Houston Habitat for Humanity Inc ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK COMMON PANTRY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TREEPEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMANDA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds LA'S BEST ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER ↗
- Who funds INNER-CITY ARTS ↗
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: California Community Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Pledgeling Foundation · Elbridge Stuart Foundation Dba Stuart Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Great Public Schools Now · Mufg Union Bank Foundation Ag · Liberty Hill Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation · The Ahmanson 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 Uta 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.
- Covenant House Florida Inc — 1% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% 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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Find your warmest path to Uta Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
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