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THE SABAN CHARITABLE SUPPORT FUND

THE SABAN CHARITABLE SUPPORT FUND (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,880,617 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LOS ANGELES ($8,944,855). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$77k
Revenue FY2024
2
Funders on record
$9.9M
Grants received
$-1401963
Net assets
1/2 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year

Against its field

THE SABAN CHARITABLE SUPPORT FUND is better cushioned than half of the 7,170 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−251% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve25.1mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−45% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,170 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($5.1M) Expenses 100 ($4.0M) Net assets 100 ($3.6M)2018 Revenue 33 ($1.7M) Expenses 64 ($2.6M) Net assets 73 ($2.6M)2019 Revenue 14 ($705k) Expenses 35 ($1.4M) Net assets 56 ($2.0M)2020 Revenue 141 ($7.1M) Expenses 217 ($8.8M) Net assets 12 ($420k)2021 Revenue 90 ($4.5M) Expenses 78 ($3.1M) Net assets 49 ($1.8M)2022 Revenue 1 ($74k) Expenses 52 ($2.1M) Net assets -11 ($-392946)2023 Revenue 2 ($119k) Expenses 23 ($941k) Net assets -33 ($-1192156)2024 Revenue 2 ($77k) Expenses 7 ($271k) Net assets -39 ($-1401963)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Revenue (2)Expenses (7)Net assets (-39)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of THE SABAN CHARITABLE SUPPORT FUND’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (95% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,526 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.0M
17
$920k
18
$706k
19
$1.7M
20
$1.4M
21
$2.0M
22
$822k
23
$194k
24
25
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $455k → $7.1M.

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)91% 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 THE SABAN CHARITABLE SUPPORT FUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.

How concentrated its funding is

THE SABAN CHARITABLE SUPPORT FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% 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

91%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 55% · 2019 100% · 2020 100%broadly stable.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.

Where its funders are

100% of THE SABAN CHARITABLE SUPPORT FUND's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

17
18
19
20
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like THE SABAN CHARITABLE SUPPORT FUND

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In California

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

97% of spending goes to programs.

Program 97%Management 3%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
80%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Part of a family of 35 related entities

  • Bernard and Rena Shapiro Family Supt Org · exempt
  • Berke Family Foundation · exempt
  • Bill & Bonny Levine Foundation · exempt
  • Jack E & Rachel Gindi Foundation · exempt
  • Jewish Community Foundation · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE SABAN CHARITABLE SUPPORT FUND: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds THE SABAN CHARITABLE SUPPORT FUND?
THE SABAN CHARITABLE SUPPORT FUND (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,880,617 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LOS ANGELES ($8,944,855). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE SABAN CHARITABLE SUPPORT FUND have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $9,880,617 in grants to THE SABAN CHARITABLE SUPPORT FUND, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE SABAN CHARITABLE SUPPORT FUND?
JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LOS ANGELES is the largest funder on record, with $8,944,855 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE SABAN CHARITABLE SUPPORT FUND 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 2funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing