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Y&S Nazarian 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.

$3.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
36
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$9.0MHealth$2.6MArts & Culture$2.4MInternational$696kReligion$523kPublic Safety & Disaster$460kPhilanthropy$334kHuman Services$195kOther$0
02FY2024 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $47k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $215k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $327k
  • $250k+3 grants · $2.5M
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER$2,000,000
GULLIVER PREPATORY SCHOOL$300,000
SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER$250,000
IMA FOUNDATION$142,146
VISIONARY WOMEN$85,000
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$50,000
THE WASHINGTON INSTITUTE$50,000
EMINA'S HAND FOUNDATION$45,000
AID COALITION$25,000
RENEW DEMOCRACY INITIATIVE$25,000
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART$20,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC$18,000
UC REGENTS$17,400
HAMMER MUSEUM$15,000
ARTIS$10,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $109k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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%ALBANIAN & AMERICAN OPEN HAND ASSOCIATION INC: $5k → 28%Crowdsourcing Human Rights: $5k → 14%Para Los Ninos: $3k → 14%American Friends of Beit Issie Shapiro: $1k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT ISSIE SHAPIRO INC: $1k → 17%FARHANG FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%VISIONARY WOMEN: $85k → 14%Visionary Women: $1k → 14%VISIONARY WOMEN: $1k → 14%Visonary Women: $1k → 14%LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $5k → 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

AK
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
MO
VA
MD
DC
MS
GA
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.

31%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.1M · 28 repeat orgs$11M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

28 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
57

Total granted

$5.1M
$8.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+22%

Still filing today

61%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.5M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • SC
    SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER
    2× · 2022–2024 · $255k · revenue +67%
  • The Rand Corporation
    2× · 2020–2021 · $100k · revenue +21%
  • VW
    VISIONARY WOMEN
    4× · 2020–2024 · $88k · revenue +241%

Funded once

  • CS
    California State University Fresno Alumni Association Incorporated
    one grant, 2023 · $6.3M · revenue -41%
  • BS
    Bezalel School of Design
    one grant, 2021 · $600k
  • FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCESgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $508k · revenue +211%
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.

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Artis Contemporary Israeli Art Fundinc

Artis is an independent nonprofit organization that supports contemporary artists from israel whose work addresses aesthetic, social and political questions to inspire reflection and debate. www.artis.art

Arts & Culture
2
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
3
University of Southern California Hillel Foundation

To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…

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4
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

—
5
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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6
Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech
7
Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles

We steward $1.5 billion in charitable assets through donor-advised funds, endowments, and other giving vehicles. partnering with 1,400 individuals, families, and organizations, we build enduring legacies and multigenerational impact. in…

Philanthropy
8
Yivo Institute for Jewish Research Inc

Yivo's mission is to study the thousand-year history of jewish life in eastern europe and russia in all its aspects: language, history, religion, folkways and material culture. yivo's archive and library preserves a significant collection…

Religion
9
National Center for Jewish Filminc

The national center for jewish film is a unique, independent nonprofit motion picture archive, distributor, resource center and exhibitor. ncjf's ongoing mission is the collection, preservation and exhibition of films with artistic and…

Arts & Culture
10
American Israel Public Affairs Committee

To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.

International
11
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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12
The Israel Institute Inc

The israel institute, inc. (the institute) enhances knowledge about modern israel by ensuring that more students have access to courses about israel during their time on campus.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Hebrew University Inc; the most unlike its peers is Terasaki Inst for Biomedical Innovation. 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

69 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. 69 of the 111 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
68/69
Grantees still filing
47/69
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

California State University Fresno Alumni Association Incorporated: $6,287,087 · OtherCalifornia State University Fresno Alumni Association IncorporatedIma Foundation: $2,280,883 · OtherIma FoundationSHEBA MEDICAL CENTER: $2,000,000 · OtherSHEBA MEDICAL CENTERBezalel School of Design: $600,000 · OtherWIZO: $526,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $513,400 · Other+56 more: $1,670,404 · Other+56 moreUCLA FOUNDATION: $1,197,500 · EducationUCLA FOUNDAT…AMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY: $400,000 · EducationAMERICAN JEW…GULLIVER PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $300,000 · EducationGULLIVER PRE…+7 more: $61,800 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $508,000 · InternationalHIAS INC: $55,000 · InternationalWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $50,000 · International+5 more: $60,625 · InternationalCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $500,000 · Health+6 more: $37,500 · HealthSKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER: $255,000 · Arts & CultureARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC: $61,300 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES: $42,667 · Arts & CultureMARCH ON WASHINGTON FILM FESTIVAL: $30,000 · Arts & CultureTHE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM ASSOCIATES: $19,000 · Arts & Culture+10 more: $57,250 · Arts & CultureVISIONARY WOMEN: $88,250 · Human ServicesLOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Human ServicesOPEN HAND ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesZIVVY NEWS INC CROWDSOURCING HUMAN RIGHTS: $5,000 · Human Services+3 more: $5,500 · Human ServicesThe Rand Corporation: $100,000 · Public Benefit
Other$13,877,774Education$1,959,300International$673,625Health$537,500Arts & Culture$490,217Human Services$108,750Public Benefit$100,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $1,197,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $508,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY: $400,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetGULLIVER PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $300,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER: $255,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetThe Rand Corporation: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVISIONARY WOMEN: $88,250 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $76,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC: $61,300 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHIAS INC: $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES: $42,667 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMARCH ON WASHINGTON FILM FESTIVAL: $30,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetThe Renew Democracy Initiative Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICA ISRAEL DEMOCRACY COALITION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJQ INTERNATIONAL: $22,500 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $18,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIRANIAN AMERICAN JEWISH FEDERATION OF NEW YORK INC: $17,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVENICE FAMILY CLINIC: $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA: $16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSERPENTINE AMERICAS FOUNDATION FKA AMERICAS FOUNDATION OF THE SERPENTINE GA: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetIRANIAN JEWISH WOMENS ORGANIZATION: $12,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetHILLEL AT UCLA: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCROSSROADS SCHOOL DBA CROSSROADS COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGLOBAL JEWRY LTD: $10,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetInstitute for Jewish & Community Research DBA Bechol Lashon: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetRESIDENCY UNLIMITED INC: $9,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTOWER CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYOUTH RENEWAL FUND: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC COUNCIL ON INTERNATIONAL POLICY: $5,625 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCROSSROADS SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND SCIENCES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL OF AMERICAN JEWISH MUSEUMS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetVENICE ARTS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTERASAKI INST FOR BIOMEDICAL INNOVATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKCRW FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN INCORPORATED: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetZIONESS MOVEMENT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Jewish Community Foun…California Community …Jewish Communal FundThe Rosalinde and Art…The Goldman Sachs Cha…The Stanley & Joyce B…The Shimon Ben Joseph…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Silicon Valley Commun…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Vanguard Charitable E…
Jewish Community Foundation of Los AngelesCA19.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · California Community Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Stanley & Joyce Black Family Foundation · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Y&S Nazarian Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Y&S Nazarian Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Gulliver Preparatory School Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.
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How do I get to Y&S Nazarian Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Y&S Nazarian Family 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 111 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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