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Virginia Friedhofer Charitable Trust
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $320k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UC BERKELEY - RAUSSER COLLEGE OF NATURAL RESOURCES | $100,000 |
| AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION | $100,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST SILICON VALLEY | $50,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO OPERA | $25,000 |
| CANINE COMPANIONS | $25,000 |
| OSHMAN FAMILY JCC | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| LUCILLE PACKARD CHILD HEALTH | $25,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $25,000 |
| SAN DIEGO ZOO WILDLIFE ALLIANCE | $25,000 |
| YOUNG MUSICIANS' FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE PALO ALTO JUNIOR MUSEUM & ZOO | $10,000 |
| CALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| LIVING DESERT ZOO & GARDENS | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $90k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +52% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 13 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, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $296k 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
CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER5× · 2020–2024 · $250k · revenue +55%- WFWESTSIDE FOOD BANK3× · 2020–2022 · $125k · revenue +127%
- YMYOUNG MUSICIANS FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $120k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- GLGREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue -7%
- GOGRIFFITH OBSERVATORY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -4%
- ACAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETYone grant, 2020 · $15k
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.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
The adler planetarium ('adler') is a not-for-profit cultural institution whose mission is to connect people to the universe and each other under the sky we all share. it aspires to be the world's premier center for engaging in astronomy…
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…
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…
To advance the frontiers of astronomy and share our discoveries with the world. the two 10-meter telescopes of keck observatory are the world's largest optical and infrared telescopes. they have revolutionized our understanding of the…
To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).
The contemporary jewish museum (the cjm) makes the diversity of the jewish experience relevant for a twenty-first-century audience through innovative exhibitions and programs that educate, challenge, and inspire.
See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…
The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
Our mission is to build a unique institute that bridges basic research and drug discovery, and that attracts the best and brightest scientists, physicians and students to work together synergistically to find cures for neglected human…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Science Center Foundation and the most unlike its peers is San Francisco Opera Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 54 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 57 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 AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MUSICIANS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Beit T'Shuvah ↗
- Who funds OSHMAN FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds THE MAPLE COUNSELING CENTER ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GRIFFITH OBSERVATORY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES JEWISH HOME FOR THE AGING ↗
- Who funds OUR BIG KITCHEN LOS ANGELES ↗
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: The Ahmanson Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · California Community Foundation · Schlum Charitable Trust Ua Mar 5 1990 · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Virginia Friedhofer Charitable Trust 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% 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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