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Cypress Lawn Cemetery Association at a glance

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Cypress Lawn Cemetery Association

Cypress lawn memorial park was established in 1892 as an answer to a need for a place where people could bury their loved ones with dignity and respect.

$317k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$197k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$1.2MArts & Culture$220kMembership Benefit$162kHealth$32kCommunity Improvement$31kEducation$20kPublic Benefit$15k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $283,019, the rows itemized in this filing. The $317,482 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $34,463 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $80k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $197k
$17,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$400M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CYPRESS LAWN HERITAGE FOUNDATION$196,533
MOONSTAR CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION$20,000
SAN MATEO COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION$17,500
CEMETERY AND MORTUARY ASSOCIATION OF CALIFORNIA$17,000
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CEMETERIES$15,645
LEADERSHIP COUNCIL SAN MATEO COUNTY$10,341
SAN MATEO COUNTY HEALTH FOUNDATION$6,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 3% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LEADERSHIP COUNCIL SAN MATEO COUNTY: $11k → 7%VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE - SAN FRANCISCO: $15k → 10%CEMETERY AND MORTUARY ASSOCIATION OF CALIFORNIA: $17k → 12%Seton Medical Center: $10k → 14%NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CEMETERIES: $43k → 4%LEADERSHIP COUNCIL SAN MATEO COUNTY: $10k → 7%ACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 10%CEMETERY AND MORTUARY ASSOCIATION OF CALIFORNIA: $15k → 12%NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CEMETERIES (DBA ICCFA): $37k → 4%LEADERSHIP COUNCIL SAN MATEO COUNTY: $10k → 7%COLUMBUS DAY CELEBRATION INC: $36k → 10%CEMETERY AND MORTUARY ASSOCIATION OF CALIFORNIA: $12k → 12%NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CEMETERIES: $34k → 4%SAN MATEO COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $35k → 7%CALIFORNIA LAW ENFORCEMENT COLUMBIA ASSOCIATION: $10k → 10%CEMETERY AND MORTUARY ASSOCIATION OF CALIFORNIA: $8k → 12%NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CEMETERIES: $16k → 4%SAN MATEO COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $33k → 7%COLUMBUS DAY CELEBRATION INC: $6k → 10%Cemetery & Mortuary Association of California: $7k → 12%ICCFA Educational Foundation: $14k → 4%SAN MATEO COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $30k → 7%SAN MATEO COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $26k → 7%SAN MATEO COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $25k → 7%SAN MATEO COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $18k → 7%San Mateo County Historical Association: $13k → 7%SAN MATEO COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $8k → 7%CYPRESS LAWN HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $277k → 7%CYPRESS LAWN HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $270k → 7%CYPRESS LAWN HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $242k → 7%CYPRESS LAWN HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $213k → 7%CYPRESS LAWN HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $197k → 7%CYPRESS LAWN HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $168k → 7%CYPRESS LAWN HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $78k → 7%TOWN OF COLMA: $15k → 7%LEADERSHIP COUNCIL SAN MATEO COUNTY: $10k → 7%SAN MATEO COUNTY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $6k → 7%KIDS FIRST EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%MOONSTAR CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION: $20k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 6 repeat orgs$96k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +203% since the first grant, against -45% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
6

Total granted

$1.9M
$70k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+203%
-45%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CulturePhilanthropyPublic BenefitFood & NutritionHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CL
    CYPRESS LAWN HERITAGE FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +106% · 97% of their budget
  • SM
    SAN MATEO COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $186k · revenue +203%
  • NA
    NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CEMETERIES DBA ICCFA
    5× · 2017–2025 · $143k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • VI
    VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE - SAN FRANCISCO
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -45%
  • TO
    TOWN OF COLMA
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • SM
    SETON MEDICAL CENTER HOWARD B GROBSTEIN LIQUIDATING TRUSTEE
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
San Mateo County Genealogical Society

To provide members with genealogical information.

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2
San Mateo County Medical Association

The Organizations mission is to promote and develop the science and art of medicine to conserve and promote public health and to assess and maintain the social and economic responsibilities of the profession.

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3
Santa Monica Historical Society

Historical nbsp;preservation nbsp;and nbsp;education

Arts & Culture
4
Santa Cruz Island Foundation
Community Improvement
5
California Hotel & Lodging Association Hospitality Foundation
Education
6
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
7
San Marino Motor Classic

SMMC was organized to promote and present a concours-type automobile show and other events all presented by volunteers the net proceeds of which support a number of charitable organizational organizations.

Philanthropy
8
California Health M R C
Community Improvement
9
Olvera Street Merchants Association Foundation

Recognize and promote the endeavors of those who contributed to the

Arts & Culture
10
San Francisco Filipino Cultural Center
Arts & Culture
11
Sonoma Botanical Garden
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12
Santa Monica Mountains Natural History Association
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Italian Heritage Celebration Inc; the most unlike its peers is Cypress Lawn Heritage Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 14 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CYPRESS LAWN HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $1,443,820 · PhilanthropyCYPRESS LAWN HERITAGE FOUNDATIONSAN MATEO COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $185,500 · OtherSAN MATEO COUNTY HISTORI…NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CEMETERIES DBA ICCFA: $143,145 · OtherNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF …Cemetery & Mortuary Association of California: $58,000 · OtherCemetery & Mortuary Asso…TOWN OF COLMA: $15,000 · Other+4 more: $36,250 · Other+4 moreITALIAN HERITAGE CELEBRATION INC: $41,500 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA LAW ENFORCEMENT COLUMBIA ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureLEADERSHIP COUNCIL SAN MATEO COUNTY: $40,959 · Public BenefitMOONSTAR CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION: $20,000 · Food & NutritionVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE - SAN FRANCISCO: $15,000 · Health
Philanthropy$1,443,820Other$437,895Arts & Culture$51,500Public Benefit$40,959Food & Nutrition$20,000Health$15,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCYPRESS LAWN HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $1,443,820 over 8y, 97% of budgetSAN MATEO COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $185,500 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CEMETERIES DBA ICCFA: $143,145 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetCemetery & Mortuary Association of California: $58,000 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetITALIAN HERITAGE CELEBRATION INC: $41,500 over 2y, 28% of budgetLEADERSHIP COUNCIL SAN MATEO COUNTY: $40,959 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetMOONSTAR CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION: $20,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE - SAN FRANCISCO: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSETON MEDICAL CENTER HOWARD B GROBSTEIN LIQUIDATING TRUSTEE: $10,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA LAW ENFORCEMENT COLUMBIA ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS FOUNDATION INC NO CA CHAP: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSan Mateo County Health Foundation: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Cypress Lawn Cemetery Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cypress Lawn Cemetery Association. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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