Max Factor Family Foundation
Los Angeles, CA · EIN 95-6030779. Reported 69 grants totalling $2,705,000 to 56 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. Max Factor Family 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 $25,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $20,000 and $25,000; the smallest was $10,000 and the largest $275,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Jewish Federation | Los Angeles, CA | $1,130,000 | 7 | 4 | 2024 |
| Bet Tzedek | Los Angeles, CA | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Constitutional Rights Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| FARM2PEOPLE | Los Angeles, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| First Place for Youth | Los Angeles, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Fuente Latina | Miami, FL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Holocaust Museum Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Jewish Council for Public Affairs | New York, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Los Angeles Jewish Home for the Aging | Reseda, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mlk Community Health Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Organization for Social Media Safety | West Hills, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Para Los Ninos Student Support | Los Angeles, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Dance and Dialogue | Ls, CA | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Los Angeles Philharmonic Association | Los Angeles, CA | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Tree People | Beverly Hills, CA | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Music Center | Los Angeles, CA | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Covenant House California | Los Angeles, CA | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| American Jewish University | Los Angeles, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cystic Fibrosis Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| East Los Angeles Womens Center | Los Angeles, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Educate California | Montebello, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| El Nido Family Centers | Los Angeles, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Etta | North Hollywood, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Heal the Bay | Santa Monica, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Jewish Graduate Initiative | Los Angeles, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jvs Social | Los Angeles, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Kids Community Dental Clinic | Burbank, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| La Regional Food Bank | Los Angeles, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| La Trust for Children's Health | Los Angeles, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mend | Pacoima, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| My Hero | Laguna Beach, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Proyecto Pastoral | Los Angeles, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Resetting the Table | New York, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Teach Democracy | Los Angeles, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Southern California | Los Angeles, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Achievable Health | Culver City, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Crop Swap La | Ls, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Csun Foundation | Northridge, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Junior Blind of America | Los Angeles, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Lapms | Beverly Hills, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lmu | Los Angeles, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Maple Counseling | Los Angeles, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Maternal Mental Health Now | North Hollywood, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| New Ways to Work | Culver City, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Opica | Los Angeles, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Red Hen Press | Pasadena, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sccc | Los Angeles, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Sierra Madre Playhouse | Sierra Madre, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Achievable Foundation | Culver City, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Wayfinder | Los Angeles, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Judaic Sacred Music Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Shoes That Fit | Claremont, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| A Sense of Home | Hawthorne, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cedars Sanai Psychological Trauma | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Nfte | Glendale, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| UCLA Jccf | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
8 of 56 (14%) 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 13%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. 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.
- The Jewish Federation
TO SUPPORT THE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE NETWORK, SUPPORTING VULNERABLE COMMUNITY MEMBERS. - First Place for Youth
TO SUPPORT THE CA YOUTH VOICE PROGRAM - Organization for Social Media Safety
TO SUPPORT SOCIAL MEDIA SAFETY; PROTECTING LA JEWISH STUDENTS MENTAL HEALTH AND WELL BEINGS. - FARM2PEOPLE
TO PROVIDE FRESH FRUIT AND VEGETABLES TO UNDERSERVED POPULATIONS IN LOS ANGELES - Jewish Council for Public Affairs
TO AWARD A ONE YEAR GRANT SUPPORTING THE BUILDING BRIDGES INITIATIVE. - Para Los Ninos Student Support
TO SUPPORT THE EXPANSION OF PLN CHARTER SCHOOLS STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICES.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 35 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 15 | $625,000 | $25,000 |
| 2022 | 16 | $650,000 | $25,000 |
| 2023 | 18 | $700,000 | $25,000 |
| 2024 | 20 | $730,000 | $20,000 |
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. 95% 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 $25,000. 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 Max Factor Family 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: 6505 Wilshire Boulevard 1200, Los Angeles, CA, 90048. 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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