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Henry and Arline Gluck Foundation

Los Angeles, CA · EIN 95-4509348. Reported 34 grants totalling $255,080 to 17 recipients across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$5,000median grant
$255,080granted, 2021-2024
17recipients, as named on its returns
58%of grantees funded again the next year
$2,311,664assets, latest filing

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. Henry and Arline Gluck 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.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $5,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $100 and $11,500; the smallest was $100 and the largest $30,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
14 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
2 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
5 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
10 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
3 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
The UCLA FoundationLos Angeles, CA$91,000442024
Wilshire Boulevard TempleLos Angeles, CA$65,390442024
Wags and Walks RescueW Hollywood, CA$27,545332023
Open Heart FoundationEdmond, OK$25,010332023
Maman NonprofitEncino, CA$15,000112023
American Heart AssociationLos Angeles, CA$10,000112023
Venables FoundationSan Francisco, CA$6,235112021
Anti Defamation LeagueNew York, NY$5,000112022
National Breast Cancer FoundationDallas, TX$5,000112022
Safe at HomeLos Angeles, CA$3,000112023
Bel Air AssociationLos Angeles, CA$700222022
Paralyzed Veterans of AmericaWashington, DC$300332023
Wounded Warrior ProjectSan Diego, CA$300332023
GO2 for Lung CancerBoston, MA$200222023
University of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia, PA$200222022
Disabled Veterans National FoundationLanham, MD$100112022
The Pennsylvania GazettePhiladelphia, PA$100112024

9 of 17 (53%) 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 58%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 22 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Philanthropy & Grantmaking
4 grants
Education
4 grants
Religion
4 grants
Medical Research
3 grants
Human Services
3 grants
International Affairs
1 grant
Civil Rights
1 grant
Health Care
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
20219$63,290$5,010
202212$74,350$2,675
202310$94,670$10,000
20243$22,770$1,000

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

86% of its giving went to organizations in California. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

California
$219K
Oklahoma
$25K
New York
$5K
Texas
$5K
District of Columbia
$300
Pennsylvania
$300
Massachusetts
$200
Maryland
$100

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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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

National Philanthropic Trust5 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program4 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc4 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc4 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund3 shared recipientsMorgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc3 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in California.
  3. 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.
  4. 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 Henry and Arline Gluck Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: 2121 Avenue of the Stars 2200, Los Angeles, CA, 90067. 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.

EIN 95-4509348 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded.

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