· Private foundation
Elman Legacy Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $36k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATURAL RESOURCES | $50,000 |
| GARDENS OF GOLDEN GATE PARK | $25,800 |
| FRIENDS OF GREAT HIGHWAY PARK | $10,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO PARKS ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
| CIRCUS CENTER | $5,000 |
| ACROSPORTS | $5,000 |
| WALKSF | $5,000 |
| GOLDEN GATE PARK BAND | $2,500 |
| PRESIDIO HILL SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| CIRCUS BELLA | $2,500 |
| FRIENDS OF CAMP MATHER | $2,100 |
| CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES | $1,500 |
| STERN GROVE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO JAZZ CENTER | $500 |
| MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM | $295 |
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 (FY19–20, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k 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
- BBBLUE BEAR SCHOOL of MUSIC2× · 2021–2022 · $100k · revenue +30%
- TNTHE NATURAL RESOURCES ALL FAMILIES FOUNDATION INC2× · 2019–2020 · $27k · revenue +9%
- CACALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES4× · 2020–2024 · $15k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- ITILLUMINATE THE ARTSgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue +149%
- SFSAN FRANCISCO JAZZ ORGone grant, 2022 · $5k
- CSCALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +5%
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.
To connect all people with wildlife, inspire caring for nature, and advance conservation action.
Since 1978, our mission has been to preserve and perpetuate San Francisco's history and folklore and to celebrate its rich history of cultural diversity.
San Francisco Green Film Festival's (SFGFF) mission is to educate and connect communities through forward thinking programs of environmental films, dialogues, and action opportunities.
San Francisco Arts and Science Academy (ASA) provides TK5 grade students with a strong foundation in the arts, language, math, and science, fostering creativity, curiosity, and character development. Our bilingual, hands-on curriculum…
See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…
The museum's mission is to inspire all californians to create a more vibrant future for themselves and their communities. through collections, exhibitions, education programs, and public dialogue, we inspire people of all ages and…
The mission of Randall Museum Friends, incorporated in 1957, is to advocate on behalf of the museum and to raise additional funds to support the museum's operations, programming, and facilities.
The monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Francisco Parks Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Internet Archive. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 27 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 BLUE BEAR SCHOOL of MUSIC ↗
- Who funds ILLUMINATE THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE NATURAL RESOURCES ALL FAMILIES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY AT STRYBING ARBORETUM ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SUNSET DUNES FKA FRIENDS OF GREAT HIGHWAY PARK INC ↗
- Who funds CIRCUS CENTER ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO PARKS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Circus Bella ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN GATE PARK BAND ↗
- Who funds PRESIDIO HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Friends of Camp Mather ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Internet Archive ↗
- Who funds Girls on the Run of the Bay Area Inc ↗
- Who funds The Roxie Theater ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION ↗
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: The Yelp Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Elman Legacy 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.