· Private foundation
Elizabeth E Bettelheim 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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 59% of ELIZABETH E BETTELHEIM FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| CHABAD OF EL CERRITO | $30,000 |
| ALPHA EPSILON PHI FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF COACHELLA VALLEY | $25,000 |
| MARIN TREATMENT CENTER | $20,000 |
| MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM | $20,000 |
| SCHURIG CENTER FOR BRAIN INJURY RECOVERY | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| OAKLAND ZOO | $10,000 |
| PASADENA HUMANEORG | $10,000 |
| CONGREGATION BETH EL SAN ANTONIO TEXAS | $5,000 |
| LAS TRAMPAS SAVE THE CREEK | $5,000 |
| NEW LEADERSHIP PROGRAM AT SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–23, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
12 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 7 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, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k 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
- CSCONSERVATION SOCIETY OF CALIFORNIA5× · 2017–2025 · $70k · revenue +25%
- SBSide By Side3× · 2017–2021 · $60k · revenue +19%
- MBMarin Brain Injury Network Schurig Center for Brain Injury Recovery4× · 2020–2025 · $45k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEYone grant, 2022 · $151k
- AFALLIANCE FOR THE STUDY OF THE HOLOCAUST AND GENOCIDEone grant, 2022 · $35k
- DDDIAVOLO DANCE THEATREone grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue -8%
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.
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.
Bay Nature connects the people of the San Francisco Bay Area to our natural world and motivates people to solve problems with nature in mind. Our vision is that all people have a close relationship with theirnatural world.
California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.
The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.
The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
SFFILM is a nonprofit organization whose mission ensures independent voices in film are welcomed, heard, and given the resources to thrive. SFFILM connects and inspires audiences, students and teachers, and filmmakers through our film…
Alaska Whale Foundation is dedicated to marine mammal conservation through research monitoring and education.
The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
Marin open studios is a non-profit visual arts organization dedicated to engaging and supporting marin county artists and their audiences through events, programs and services. marin open studios champions a diverse and inclusive community…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Usa Swimming Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jefferson Historical Society & Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
52 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. 52 of the 92 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 JEWISH GEN INC ↗
- Who funds Alpha Epsilon Phi Foundation ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Jefferson Historical Society & Museum ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION SOCIETY OF CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds Side By Side ↗
- Who funds Marin Brain Injury Network Schurig Center for Brain Injury Recovery ↗
- Who funds DIAVOLO DANCE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COACHELLA VALLEY ↗
- Who funds JOY IN MOTION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds KENSINGTON COMMUNITY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds The Excelsior Foundation ↗
- Who funds Surfers Healing Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Marin Treatment Center ↗
- Who funds SHE SHOULD RUN ↗
- Who funds BANANAS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds USA Swimming Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds World Arts West ↗
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: Marin Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation · Bothin Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · McNabb Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Hobsonlucas Family Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation
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 Elizabeth E Bettelheim Family 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.