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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.

$360k
Granted FY2025still arriving
55
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$38k
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.

Arts & Culture$350kHousing & Shelter$312kCivil Rights$304kHealth$291kInternational$236kFood & Nutrition$221kEducation$190kYouth Development$159kOther$0
02FY2025 · 55 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k46 grants · $168k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $193k
$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$434k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PROJECT ANGEL FOOD$37,500
LA REGIONAL FOODBANK$35,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY$25,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER LOS ANGELES$25,000
LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION$25,000
US VETS$15,000
AFTER-SCHOOL ALL STARS$10,000
FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK$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
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, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $10k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE FLORIDA: $967 → 13%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $9k → 15%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $6k → 14%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $2k → 15%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $2k → 14%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $1k → 14%GOOD PLUS FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $1k → 14%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $500 → 14%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $500 → 14%GOOD PLUS FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%US VETS: $25k → 14%GOOD FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $500 → 14%GOOD FOUNDATION: $500 → 17%A SENSE OF HOME: $8k → 14%A SENSE OF HOME: $3k → 14%ALEXANDRIA HOUSE: $1k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $10k → 14%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $5k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $5k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $5k → 14%PARA LOS NINOS: $5k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE OF CALIFORNIA: $3k → 14%CONVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $883 → 14%ROOM TO GROW: $1k → 17%NEW YORK CITY MISSION SOCIETY: $1k → 17%CORE: $7k → 14%ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC: $1k → 17%US VETS: $15k → 14%US VETS: $11k → 14%ST JOSEPH CENTER: $2k → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $900 → 14%ST JOSEPH CENTER: $2k → 14%US VETS: $4k → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $736 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $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

MN
IL
NY
MA
PA
CA
CO
KY
TN
DC
HI
AL
GA
TX
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 57 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +8% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
52

Total granted

$1.5M
$920k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+8%

Still filing today

86%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $154k 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
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEnvironmentFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • UH
    UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL
    3× · 2017–2019 · $171k · revenue +21%
  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    2× · 2017–2023 · $171k · revenue +81%
  • AL
    ALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2023 · $72k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • TF
    THE FILM FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $263k · revenue +4%
  • COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $184k · revenue +95%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $75k
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
Food Forward Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
2
The Anti-Recidivism Coalition

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,…

Crime & Legal
3
Interval House

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…

Human Services
4
Public Counsel

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…

Crime & Legal
5
Friends of the Earth

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…

Environment
6
Actionaid Usa

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…

Social Science
7
Cangress Dba Los Angeles Community Action Network

Community organizing, education, advocacy, leadership development, direct services and organizational development for communities faced with immense poverty.

Community Improvement
8
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
9
The Population Council Inc

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…

International
10
Alliance for Safety and Justice

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,…

Crime & Legal
11
Hollywood Food Coalition

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…

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12
Housing Works

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.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Partners; 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.
04the grantee network

95 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. 95 of the 139 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)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
92/95
Grantees still filing
66/95
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $183,901 · OtherCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INCACLU: $181,801 · OtherACLUIndividual grant recipient: $75,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION: $72,031 · OtherLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $62,647 · OtherAFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS: $49,796 · Other+85 more: $778,351 · Other+85 moreTHE FILM FOUNDATION INC: $262,741 · Arts & CultureTHE FILM FOUNDA…RIDEBACK RISE INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureRIDEBACK RISE I…INNER-CITY ARTS: $12,500 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $20,326 · Arts & Culture+6 moreInternational Rescue Committee INC: $170,801 · InternationalInternati…GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $33,946 · InternationalGLOBALGIV…+2 more: $8,000 · InternationalPROJECT ANGEL FOOD: $67,750 · HealthChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $48,420 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES: $32,848 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $10,000 · HealthHILARITY FOR CHARITY INC: $10,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $8,500 · Health+2 more: $7,000 · HealthUNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL: $171,000 · EducationLA'S BEST: $15,695 · Education+2 more: $3,000 · EducationUNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE: $54,847 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $23,883 · Human ServicesDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $20,863 · Human ServicesA SENSE OF HOME: $11,450 · Human ServicesBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $10,732 · Human ServicesCORE: $6,863 · Human Services+11 more: $29,603 · Human ServicesTHE DIVERSE FUTURE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Civil RightsTREVOR PROJECT INC: $9,000 · Civil RightsHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC: $6,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $5,915 · Civil Rights
Other$1,403,527Arts & Culture$345,567International$212,747Health$204,518Education$189,695Human Services$158,241Civil Rights$90,915

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 budgetTHE FILM FOUNDATION INC: $262,741 over 1y, 13% of budgetCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $183,901 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $170,801 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION: $72,031 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL FOOD: $67,750 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $62,647 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE: $54,847 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS: $49,796 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $48,420 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF VENICE: $36,866 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC: $35,150 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $33,946 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES: $32,848 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $23,883 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Habitat for Humanity Inc: $23,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $20,863 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK COMMON PANTRY: $20,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTREEPEOPLE INC: $19,650 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMANDA FOUNDATION: $19,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $17,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLA'S BEST: $15,695 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINNER-CITY ARTS: $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetA SENSE OF HOME: $11,450 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $10,732 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ALLIANCE FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION: $10,620 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJuntos y Unidos por Puerto Rico Inc: $10,207 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILARITY FOR CHARITY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $8,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERSIDE PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $8,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMUSICIANS ON CALL INC: $7,990 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF BALLONA WETLANDS: $7,250 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $6,376 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $5,915 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Atlanta Inc: $5,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHISTLE FARMS INC: $5,777 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 FoundationElbridge Stuart Found…The Annenberg Foundat…Great Public Schools …Mufg Union Bank Found…Liberty Hill Foundati…Weingart FoundationKaiser Foundation Hos…The Eli and Edythe Br…The Ahmanson Foundati…
California Community FoundationCA30.4× affinity16 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 · 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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Covenant House Florida Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
31report 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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Uta Foundation?

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.

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