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FRIENDS OF VILLA AURORA & THOMAS MANN HOUSE INC

FRIENDS OF VILLA AURORA & THOMAS MANN HOUSE INC (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,000 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$1.3M
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$18k
Net assets
$5.9M
0/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Friends of Villa Aurora & Thomas Mann House Inc does

Mission

To promote and foster german-american cultural exchange and to remember european exiles who settled in california, and to preserve the residences located at 520 paseo miramar and 1550 san remo drive, pacific palisades, ca

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Expenditures were used to maintain or improve "villa aurora", the historical and cultural monument to nazi exiles lion and marta feuchtwanger, and to promote german-american cultural exchange.

    $174,950 spentof which $43,593 as grants
    18% of program spending
  2. Expenditures were used to maintain or improve "thomas mann house,to promote german-america cultural exchange

    $803,351 spent
    82% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $978,301.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($1.7M) Expenses 100 ($1.2M) Net assets 100 ($7.7M)2019 Revenue 60 ($1.0M) Expenses 120 ($1.4M) Net assets 95 ($7.3M)2020 Revenue 61 ($1.1M) Expenses 101 ($1.2M) Net assets 94 ($7.2M)2021 Revenue 84 ($1.5M) Expenses 130 ($1.5M) Net assets 94 ($7.2M)2022 Revenue 67 ($1.2M) Expenses 136 ($1.6M) Net assets 85 ($6.5M)2023 Revenue 69 ($1.2M) Expenses 127 ($1.5M) Net assets 81 ($6.2M)2024 Revenue 74 ($1.3M) Expenses 137 ($1.6M) Net assets 76 ($5.9M)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (74)Expenses (137)Net assets (76)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $7.2M to $6.5M (−9%).

$7.7M
$7.3M
$7.2M
$7.2M
$6.5M
$6.2M
$5.9M
2018201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of FRIENDS OF VILLA AURORA & THOMAS MANN HOUSE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$585k
’18
−$351k
’19
−$108k
’20
−$39k
’21
−$420k
’22
−$276k
’23
−$302k
’24
0.0
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Jakob Scherer

Executive director/ director

Board chair

Dr Markus Klimmer

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

2018201920202021202220232024
Listed7666668
Joined·+2+2+0+1+0+2
No longer listed·320100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 83% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of FRIENDS OF VILLA AURORA & THOMAS MANN HOUSE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

FRIENDS OF VILLA AURORA & THOMAS MANN HOUSE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

83% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund FRIENDS OF VILLA AURORA & THOMAS MANN HOUSE INC.

56%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

83% of FRIENDS OF VILLA AURORA & THOMAS MANN HOUSE INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $3k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 1 state.

DE

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FRIENDS OF VILLA AURORA & THOMAS MANN HOUSE INC's revenue fell 26% between 2018 and 2024.

Operating margin−23% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−5% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

61% of spending goes to programs.

Program 61%Management 39%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Villa Aurora & Thomas Mann House eV · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds FRIENDS OF VILLA AURORA & THOMAS MANN HOUSE INC?
FRIENDS OF VILLA AURORA & THOMAS MANN HOUSE INC (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,000 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does FRIENDS OF VILLA AURORA & THOMAS MANN HOUSE INC have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $18,000 in grants to FRIENDS OF VILLA AURORA & THOMAS MANN HOUSE INC.
Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF VILLA AURORA & THOMAS MANN HOUSE INC?
GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FRIENDS OF VILLA AURORA & THOMAS MANN HOUSE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing