· Private foundation
William and Sonia Pindler Family 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARMENIAN GENERAL BENEVOLENT UNION | $1,500 |
| BEL-AIR PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $1,500 |
| ARMENIAN MISSIONARY ASSOC OF AMER INC | $1,500 |
| ARARAT HOME OF LOS ANGELES INC | $1,000 |
| MIRMAN SCHOOL FOR GIFTED CHILDREN | $1,000 |
| UNION RESCUE MISSION | $1,000 |
| PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA | $900 |
| CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE | $850 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $800 |
| CITY OF HOPE | $750 |
| AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH | $750 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION INC | $750 |
| CHILDRENS HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES | $750 |
| MIDNIGHT MISSION | $750 |
| SAHAG-MESROB ARMENIAN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $750 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +76% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.
60 repeat relationships: 49 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- URUNION RESCUE MISSION8× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +125%
- TMTHE MIRMAN SCHOOL FOR GIFTED CHILDREN8× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +64%
- AHARARAT HOME OF LOS ANGELES8× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +82%
Funded once
- BABIRTHRIGHT ARMENIA INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $750 · revenue +31%
- SISPCA INTERNATIONAL INCone grant, 2020 · $750 · revenue -8%
- HLHEALTH LIFELINE INCone grant, 2018 · $750
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.
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.
To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
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,…
The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.
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 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…
Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
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…
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.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
How this is measured
47 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 47 of the 72 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds UNION RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds THE MIRMAN SCHOOL FOR GIFTED CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds ARARAT HOME OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds THE MIDNIGHT MISSION ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust ↗
- Who funds IN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA VAUGHAN CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Our Daily Bread Ministries Foundation ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH ↗
- Who funds Sahag Mesrob Armenian Christian School ↗
- Who funds Turning Point for God ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN GENERAL BENEVOLENT UNION ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds VALLEY CAREGIVER RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · California Community Foundation · Servant Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization William and Sonia Pindler Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William and Sonia Pindler Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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