· Private foundation
Youssef and Kamel Mawardi Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $206k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Blind Children's Center Inc | $30,000 |
| Big BrothersBig Sisters of the IE | $30,000 |
| Aspires West - Pasadena | $25,800 |
| Reaching New Heights Foundation Inc | $20,000 |
| Five Acres Boy Girls Society of LA | $20,000 |
| Inspire Life Skills Training Inc | $20,000 |
| Olive Crest Inland Desert Communiti | $18,596 |
| Streetlights | $16,500 |
| Cal Poly Pomona Philanthropic Found | $15,000 |
| Glendale College Foundation Inc | $10,000 |
| A Noise Within | $5,000 |
| Council on Foundations | $3,000 |
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 (FY19–19, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 9% of Youssef and Kamel Mawardi Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 89% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 77%.
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 +58% since the first grant, against -6% for those funded once.
24 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 2 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TBThe Blind Childrens Center Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $261k · revenue +46%
- FAFive Acres The Boys and Girls' Aid Society of Los Angeles County4× · 2018–2021 · $120k · revenue +23%
- ILInspire Life Skills Training Inc5× · 2018–2024 · $88k · revenue +200%
Funded once
- GPGo Philanthropic Charitable Find Inone grant, 2021 · $40k
- LHLAURENT HOUSE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue -6%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $30k
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.
The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.
To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…
The California Housing Partnership Corporation creates and preserves affordable and sustainable homes for Californians with low incomes by providing expert financial and policy solutions to nonprofit and public partners.
The organization develops and operates high quality affordable housing and provides resident services for low-income families, seniors and people with special needs.
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
The los angeles conservancy is a nonprofit membership organization that works through education and advocacy to recognize, preserve, and revitalize the historic architectural and cultural resources of los angeles county.
Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.
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…
Pasadena bio collaborative incubator is a nonprofit organization focused on economic development and job creation in southern california. we encourage the growth of an innovative biotechnology industry by providing educational/training…
The la conservation corps creates equitable opportunities for young people to build resilience in themselves, their communities and the environment through a program of work, education and support.
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…
How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 50 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 The Blind Childrens Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Whole Child International ↗
- Who funds Five Acres The Boys and Girls' Aid Society of Los Angeles County ↗
- Who funds STREETLIGHTS ↗
- Who funds Inspire Life Skills Training Inc ↗
- Who funds REACHING NEW HEIGHTS FOUNDATIO ↗
- Who funds UNITE-LA INC ↗
- Who funds OLIVE CREST ↗
- Who funds THE CAMPBELL CENTER ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF GLENDALE AND PASADENA ↗
- Who funds THE PASADENA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Glendale College Foundation ↗
- Who funds LAURENT HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds A Noise Within ↗
- Who funds CAL POLY POMONA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAL POLY POMONA PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Council on Foundations Inc ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE INFANT-FAMILY NETWORK ↗
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: California Community Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · Sempra Foundation · S Mark Taper Foundation · The Green Foundation · Pasadena Community Foundation · In-N-Out Burgers Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Youssef and Kamel Mawardi Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Youssef and Kamel Mawardi Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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