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Wasserman 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k65 grants · $255k
- $10k–50k96 grants · $1.6M
- $50k–250k23 grants · $2.2M
- $250k+13 grants · $9.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UCLA Foundation | $2,000,000 |
| UCLA Foundation | $1,500,000 |
| UCLA Foundation | $1,500,000 |
| Choose Chicago Foundation | $1,000,000 |
| The Metropolitan Museum of Art | $757,000 |
| LACMA | $500,000 |
| LACMA | $500,000 |
| Bill Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation | $500,000 |
| LACMA | $340,000 |
| Academy Museum Foundation | $250,000 |
| Brentwood School | $250,000 |
| LA-Aretz | $250,000 |
| City of Hope | $250,000 |
| The Shed | $200,000 |
| Edward Charles Foundation | $200,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $5.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 17% of Wasserman Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +30% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
163 repeat relationships — 92 still active in FY2024, 71 since wound down; 71 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.2M 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
- BHBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $3.3M · revenue +13%
- MPMOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND4× · 2019–2022 · $2.9M · revenue +67%
- PFPARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS6× · 2019–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +94%
Funded once
- LALOS ANGELES SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT COMMISSIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue +127%
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCESgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $525k · revenue +115%- LSLIFE SKILLS FORE THE YOUTH OF COLORADO SPRINGSgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +49% · 70% of their budget
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 foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
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…
Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…
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 organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…
The leadership foundation, inc. (the foundation), established in 1990, is the mechanism by which iwf members advance the next generation of women leaders. the foundation accelerates the careers of top-performing women by offering…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Greater Los Angeles and the most unlike its peers is The Kintsugi Foundation. 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 26 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% 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.
365 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. 365 of the 455 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds THE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds SHED NYC INC ↗
- Who funds BRENTWOOD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds CHOOSE CHICAGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PGA TOUR FIRST TEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FEMINIST MAJORITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds CHAMPIONS OF THE COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds TONY BLAIR AFRICA GOVERNANCE INITIATIVE -US D/B/A TONY BLAIR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Qualia The School for Deeper Learning ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC ↗
- Who funds THE MISSION CONTINUES ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE TRACK ↗
- Who funds WOMEN IN SPORTS AND EVENTS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIFE SKILLS FORE THE YOUTH OF COLORADO SPRINGS ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS AND SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds LA-ARETZ ↗
- Who funds CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
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: Pga Tour Inc · Pledgeling Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Annenberg Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · California Community Foundation · Gibson Gives Foundation Dba Gibson Gives · The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation · Nfl Foundation Inc · The Marilyn and Jeffrey Katzenberg Foundation · National Basketball Players Association Foundation · Weingart 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 Wasserman 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.
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Wefam United 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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