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UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HILLEL FOUNDATION

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HILLEL FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,834,838 to it, the largest being Jewish Federation Council of Greater LA ($1,277,375). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$1.5M
Revenue FY2025
37
Funders on record
$5.8M
Grants received
$5.8M
Net assets
17/37 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 70%

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.1M) Expenses 100 ($764k) Net assets 100 ($4.6M)2018 Revenue 79 ($886k) Expenses 121 ($925k) Net assets 102 ($4.7M)2019 Revenue 127 ($1.4M) Expenses 145 ($1.1M) Net assets 110 ($5.0M)2020 Revenue 80 ($898k) Expenses 124 ($944k) Net assets 112 ($5.1M)2021 Revenue 96 ($1.1M) Expenses 108 ($827k) Net assets 132 ($6.0M)2022 Revenue 98 ($1.1M) Expenses 144 ($1.1M) Net assets 124 ($5.7M)2023 Revenue 105 ($1.2M) Expenses 175 ($1.3M) Net assets 120 ($5.5M)2024 Revenue 138 ($1.5M) Expenses 186 ($1.4M) Net assets 130 ($6.0M)2025 Revenue 137 ($1.5M) Expenses 254 ($1.9M) Net assets 127 ($5.8M)
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Revenue (137)Expenses (254)Net assets (127)

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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$354k
17
$38k
18
$311k
19
$46k
20
$244k
21
$9k
22
$166k
23
$121k
24
$411k
25
3.8
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $525k → $634k.

14 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)69% 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 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HILLEL FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 funders by total. 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

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HILLEL FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

92% 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 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HILLEL FOUNDATION.

22%
largest funder
60%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 27% · 2019 23% · 2020 35% · 2021 41% · 2022 37% · 2023 32%diversifying over time.

“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.

How long its funders stay

47% of UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HILLEL FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

69% of UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HILLEL FOUNDATION'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 $1.8M that is directly attributable, 81% of it comes from funders outside California, across 9 states.

IL
NY
NV
PA
NJ
CA
DC
LA
FL

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

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18
19
20
21
22
23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 statesis 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.

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. Your 37 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HILLEL FOUNDATION

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

67% of spending goes to programs.

Program 67%Management 26%Fundraising 7%

Governance

20
board members
95%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

83%

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

  • Usc Hillel Real Estate LLC · disregarded

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HILLEL FOUNDATION: 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 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HILLEL FOUNDATION?
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HILLEL FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,834,838 to it, the largest being Jewish Federation Council of Greater LA ($1,277,375). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HILLEL FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $5,834,838 in grants to UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HILLEL FOUNDATION, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HILLEL FOUNDATION?
Jewish Federation Council of Greater LA is the largest funder on record, with $1,277,375 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HILLEL FOUNDATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 37funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing