Morris & Rae Spivak Foundation
Beverly Hills, CA · EIN 95-6122693. Reported 191 grants totalling $217,136 to 62 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Morris & Rae Spivak Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $100. Half of everything it gave fell between $100 and $500; the smallest was $36 and the largest $30,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kmd Spivak Educational Center | Los Angeles, CA | $120,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $48,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Anti-Defamation League | Los Angeles, CA | $4,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Hias | New York, NY | $4,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank | San Diego, CA | $3,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Los Angeles Regional Food Bank | Los Angeles, CA | $2,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Roadrunner Food Bank | Albuquerque, NM | $2,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| World Central Kitchen | Washington, DC | $2,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Mazon | Los Angeles, CA | $2,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Sova Food Pantry | Los Angeles, CA | $2,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Freestore Foodbank | Cincinnati, OH | $1,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Simon Wiesenthal Center | Los Angeles, CA | $1,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| American Kidney Fund | Sherman Oaks, CA | $1,200 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Amit Women | Los Angeles, CA | $1,200 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | Los Angeles, CA | $1,100 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Boys Town Jerusalem | New York, NY | $1,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Cedars-Sinai Medical Center | Los Angeles, CA | $1,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Children's Hospital of Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $1,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| La Voice | Los Angeles, CA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Painted Turtle | Santa Monica, CA | $1,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| World Jewish Congress | New York, NY | $1,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Planned Parenthood | New York, NY | $800 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| ACLU Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $600 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Beverly Hills Firefighters Association | Beverly Hills, CA | $600 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Beth Israel of San Diego | San Diego, CA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Guardians of the Flame | Los Angeles, CA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Meals on Wheels | Santa Monica, CA | $500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| American Committee for Shaare Zedek Med Ctr | New York, NY | $400 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| American Committee of Weiszmann Instof Science (acwis) | New York, NY | $400 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| American Friends of the Hebrew University | Los Angeles, CA | $400 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Apla Health | Los Angeles, CA | $400 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Braille Institute of America | Los Angeles, CA | $400 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| City of Hope | Altadena, CA | $400 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Los Angeles Fire Dept Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $400 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Macular Degeneration Research | Clarksburg, MD | $400 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Make a Wish Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $400 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Ronald Mcdonald House | Los Angeles, CA | $400 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Shriners Hospital | Pasadena, CA | $400 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| St Jude Children Hospital | Garden Grove, CA | $400 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Susan G Komen for the Cure | Dallas, TX | $400 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | Washington, DC | $400 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Birthright Israel Foundation | New York, NY | $350 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| American Friends of Tel Aviv University | Los Angeles, CA | $300 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| American Jewish Historical Society | New York, NY | $300 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| American Society for Yad Vashem | New York, NY | $300 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Bet Tzedek | Los Angeles, CA | $300 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Jewish Family Service | Los Angeles, CA | $300 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Jewish Free Loan Association | Los Angeles, CA | $300 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Museum of Tolerance | Los Angeles, CA | $300 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Special Olympics | Raleigh, NC | $300 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| American Assoc of Ben Gurion University | New York, NY | $200 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Beverly Hills Police Benevolent Fund | Beverly Hills, CA | $200 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Jewish War Veterans of the USA Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $200 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| New Mexico Religious Coalition | Albuquerque, NM | $200 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Yiddish Book Center | Amherst, MA | $200 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Junior Blind of America | Los Angeles, CA | $150 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Chmol | Brooklyn, NY | $136 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| American Friends of Rabin Medical Center | New York, NY | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bar-Ilan University | Beverly Hills, CA | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Friends of United Hatzalah | New York, NY | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hatzolah of Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| La Jewish Home for the Aging | Reseda, CA | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
53 of 62 (85%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 83%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Kmd Spivak Educational Center
HEALTH, EDUCATION & WELFARE - Macular Degeneration Research
HEALTH, WELFARE & EDUCATION
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 88 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 53 | $58,486 | $100 |
| 2022 | 49 | $53,150 | $100 |
| 2023 | 50 | $54,100 | $100 |
| 2024 | 39 | $51,400 | $200 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 92% of this one's giving went to organizations in California. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $100. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in California.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Morris & Rae Spivak Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 9401 Wilshire Boulevard 555, Beverly Hills, CA, 90212. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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