· Private foundation
Brad Lemons Foundation
Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SANTA MONICA COLLEGE FNDTN | $25,000 |
| AHA ATTITUDE HARMONY ACHIEVEMENT | $25,000 |
| IRAQAFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA | $25,000 |
| PARTNERSHIP WITH NATIVE AMERICANS | $25,000 |
| WESTMARK SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTL | $25,000 |
| FROSTIG CENTER | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FD | $15,000 |
| AUTRY MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WEST | $15,000 |
| UNIV OF ARIZONA FNDTN | $15,000 |
| SUSAN G KOMEN BREAST CANCER FNDTN | $15,000 |
| WEINGART CENTER ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| YOUTH SERVICES NETWORK | $15,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–21, $240k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
37 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2021, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- TSTHE SANTA MONICA COLLEGE FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2021 · $125k · revenue +130%
- LWLEARNING WITH A DIFFERENCE INC5× · 2017–2021 · $125k · revenue +41%
- MFMARIANNE FROSTIG CTR OF EDU THERAPY5× · 2017–2021 · $125k · revenue +79%
Funded once
- ANAUTRY NATIONAL CENTERone grant, 2017 · $10k
- SOSHARE OUR STRENGTHone grant, 2020 · $10k
- CICARE4Paws Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +99%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…
The mission of the santa barbara foundation (sbf) is to mobilize collective wisdom and philanthropic capital to build empathetic, inclusive and resilient communities.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
The air & space forces association (afa) is a nonprofit, independent, professional military, and aerospace education association. the association's mission is to promote dominant u.s. air and space forces as the foundation of a strong…
Our institutional mission is to educate and prepare students to be ethical leaders and socially responsible global citizens who incorporate the dominican values of study, reflection, community and service into their lives.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Barbara Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the most unlike its peers is Partnership With Native Americans. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 46 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE SANTA MONICA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEARNING WITH A DIFFERENCE INC ↗
- Who funds MARIANNE FROSTIG CTR OF EDU THERAPY ↗
- Who funds AHA ATTITUDE HARMONY ACHIEVEMENT ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Partnership With Native Americans ↗
- Who funds IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds THE INTREPID FALLEN HEROES FUND ↗
- Who funds OUR HOUSE GRIEF SUPPORT CENTER ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds WEINGART CENTER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds AUTRY MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WEST ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITY SHOPPE INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA HISTORICAL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · California Community Foundation · Rudi Schulte Family Foundation · S Mark Taper Foundation · Manitou Fund · The Ahmanson Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Brad Lemons Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.