· Private foundation
Chet & Jon Lappen Foundation Dba Lappen Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k45 grants · $81k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTER FOR CHILDHOOD | $38,500 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA MONICA | $11,800 |
| FOCUS FOR DEMOCRACY | $9,000 |
| MACCABI USA | $7,000 |
| LA REGIONAL FOODBANK | $5,000 |
| SAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE | $4,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $3,000 |
| ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $3,000 |
| BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| TEMPLE BETH SHALOM | $3,000 |
| UCLA SCHOOL OF LAW | $2,500 |
| COLORADO ACADEMY | $2,500 |
| VAR ORGANIZED CHARITIES | $2,330 |
| UNIVERSITY HIGH EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| 24TH STREET THEATRE | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.
66 repeat relationships: 41 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LALOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK9× · 2017–2025 · $54k · revenue +315%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA MONICA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $39k · revenue +197%
- CACOLORADO ACADEMY9× · 2017–2025 · $22k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- HLHARVARD LAW SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $25k
- ACACCELERATE CHANGE INCone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -7%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $2k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
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Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
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The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…
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How this is measured
76 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 76 of the 123 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CENTER FOR CHILDHOOD ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA MONICA INC ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLORADO ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds PSYCHOTHERAPY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds PETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MACCABI USA INC ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds FOCUS FOR DEMOCRACY FUND ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE CHIMPS INC ↗
- Who funds JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC ↗
- Who funds WINDWARD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL FUND ↗
- Who funds ACCELERATE CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · California Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · East Bay Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Sempra Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Jewish Communal Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Chet & Jon Lappen Foundation Dba Lappen Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chet & Jon Lappen Foundation Dba Lappen Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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