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The David Geffen Foundation

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$332.8M
in grants paid: 281
grants: 158
recipients: 2022–2024
filing years

Recent grants

The 100 largest recent grants from this foundation’s filings, newest year first.

$50.0M
La County Museum of Art · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
General support
$15.0M
Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2024
General support
$10.0M
UCLA Foundation · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
General support
$10.0M
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center · New York, NY · 2024
General support
$8.3M
Columbia University · New York, NY · 2024
General support
$6.0M
Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream · Santa Monica, CA · 2024
General support
$5.0M
Academy Foundation · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
General support
$3.0M
92nd Street Y · New York, NY · 2024
General support
$1.0M
Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration · Radnor, PA · 2024
General support
$1.0M
Motion Picture & Television Fund · Woodland Hills, CA · 2024
General support
$1.0M
Elton John AIDS Foundation · New York, NY · 2024
General support
$700,000
National Library of Israel USA · New York, NY · 2024
General support
$300,000
UCLA Foundation (Geffen Playhouse) · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
General support
$100,000
Harlem School of the Arts · New York, NY · 2024
General support
$100,000
Simon Wiesenthal Center · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
General support
$100,000
Skirball Cultural Center · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
General support
$50,000
Lambda Legal Defenseeduc Fnd · New York, NY · 2024
General support
$50,000
Anti-Defamation League · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$25,000
Jazz Foundation of America · New York, NY · 2024
General support
$25,000
One Campaig · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$25,000
Hammer Museum · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
General support
$25,000
Glaad · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
General support
$25,000
Encorps STEM Teachers Program · Redondo Beach, CA · 2024
General support
$25,000
Hetrick-Martin Institute · New York, NY · 2024
General support
$24,000
Bucks Rock Camp · New Milford, CT · 2024
General support
$20,000
World Jewish Congress American Section · New York, NY · 2024
General support
$20,000
Jewish Healing and Hospice Center of Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
General support
$20,000
American Friends of the Israel Sports Center for the Disabled · Northfield, IL · 2024
General support
$20,000
Jenkins Penn Haitian Relief Organization · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
General support
$20,000
People for the American Way Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$20,000
Safe Horizon · New York, NY · 2024
General support
$20,000
Sage · New York, NY · 2024
General support
$15,000
Music Center · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
General support
$10,000
St Jude Children'S Research Hospital · Memphis, TN · 2024
General support
$10,000
Angels at Risk · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
General support
$10,000
Ali Forney Center · New York, NY · 2024
General support
$10,000
Baby 2 Baby · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
General support
$10,000
Breast Cancer Research Foundation · New York, NY · 2024
General support
$10,000
Creative Time · New York, NY · 2024
General support
$10,000
Downtown Women'S Center · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
General support
$10,000
Equality California Institute · Sacramento, CA · 2024
General support
$10,000
Food Forward · North Hollywood, CA · 2024
General support
$10,000
Guild Hall of East Hampton · East Hampton, NY · 2024
General support
$10,000
Homeless Not Toothless · Brentwood, CA · 2024
General support
$10,000
National September 11 Memorial and Museum at the World Trade Center · New York, NY · 2024
General support
$10,000
Rape Foundation · Santa Monica, CA · 2024
General support
$10,000
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum · Cleveland, OH · 2024
General support
$10,000
Sansum Clinic · Santa Barbara, CA · 2024
General support
$10,000
Students Run Americastudents Run La · Tarzana, CA · 2024
General support
$10,000
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
General support
$10,000
West Hollywood Community Housing Corporation · West Hollywood, CA · 2024
General support
$7,500
Museum of Television & Radio · New York, NY · 2024
General support
$7,500
The Meserve-Kunhardt Foundation the Gordon Parks Foundation · Pleasantville, NY · 2024
General support
$7,500
Municipal Art Society of New York · Katonah, NY · 2024
General support
$6,000
Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
General support
$6,000
American Cinematheque · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
General support
$5,000
New York Restoration Project · New York, NY · 2024
General support
$5,000
New Jewish Home · New York, NY · 2024
General support
$5,000
Friends of United Hatzalah · New York, NY · 2024
General support
$5,000
Gay Lesbian & Straight Education Network · New York, NY · 2024
General support
$5,000
Breast Cancer Research Foundation · Pasadena, CA · 2024
General support
$5,000
Pen America · New York, NY · 2024
General support
$5,000
California-Hawaii Elks Major Projects · Playa Del Rey, CA · 2024
General support
$5,000
University of Southern California - Neighborhood Academic Initiative · Beverly Hills, CA · 2024
General support
$5,000
Venice Family Clinic · Venice, CA · 2024
General support
$5,000
Algemeiner · New York, NY · 2024
General support
$5,000
City Year · Dorchester, MA · 2024
General support
$5,000
Children'S Action Network · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
General support
$5,000
Hawn Foundation the · Santa Monica, CA · 2024
General support
$5,000
National Breast Cancer Coalition · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$5,000
St Joseph Center · Venice, CA · 2024
General support
$5,000
Heal the Bay · Santa Monica, CA · 2024
General support
$5,000
Beverly Hills Police Officers Association · Beverly Hills, CA · 2024
General support
$5,000
Beverly Hills Fireman'S Relief Fund · Beverly Hills, CA · 2024
General support
$5,000
Liberty Hill Foundation · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
General support
$5,000
Los Angeles County Police Canine Association · Santa Monica, CA · 2024
General support
$5,000
Bet Tzedek · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
General support
$5,000
Feminist Majority Foundation · Beverly Hills, CA · 2024
General support
$5,000
Camp Bravo · Northridge, CA · 2024
General support
$5,000
Human Rights Campaign Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$5,000
Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
General support
$5,000
New York Public Library · New York, NY · 2024
General support
$5,000
Chabad of Calfornia · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
General support
$5,000
Songwriters Hall of Fame · Katonah, NY · 2024
General support
$3,000
New York Landmarks Conservancy · New York, NY · 2024
General support
$3,000
Actors' Fund of America · New York, NY · 2024
General support
$2,500
International Myeloma Foundation · Studio City, CA · 2024
General support
$2,000
Roundabout Theatre Company · New York, NY · 2024
General support
$2,000
Aclu Foundation of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
General support
$1,500
Saban Community Clinic · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
General support
$1,500
Jewish Big Brothers of Los Angeles Jewish Big Brothers Big Sisters of Los · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
General support
$1,250
Vida School the · Agoura Hills, CA · 2024
General support
$50.0M
La County Museum of Art · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
General support
$30.0M
Museum of Modern Art · New York, NY · 2023
General support
$15.8M
UCLA Foundation · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
General support
$15.0M
Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2023
General support
$8.3M
Columbia University · New York, NY · 2023
General support
$5.0M
Academy Foundation · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
General support
$1.0M
Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration · Radnor, PA · 2023
General support
$1.0M
Elton John AIDS Foundation · New York, NY · 2023
General support

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Source: IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV, as filed by the foundation. These are grants already paid — a record of what this funder backs, not an open call. Most private foundations do not accept unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.