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Eric & Simone Lang 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $100k
- $10k–50k74 grants · $1.6M
- $50k–250k10 grants · $557k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAINEHEALTH | $90,000 |
| CALIFORNIA JAZZ CONSERVATORY | $67,000 |
| CENTER FOR VOLUNTEER & NONPROFIT LEADERS | $50,000 |
| NORTH COUNTRY SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK | $50,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA | $50,000 |
| SANTA ROSA JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| OWL'S HEAD TRANSPORTATION MUSEUM | $50,000 |
| CAMDEN AREA DISTRICT NURSING ASSOCIATION | $50,000 |
| FARNSWORTH ART MUSEUM | $50,000 |
| AREA INTERFAITH OUTREACH | $45,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE (IRC) | $35,000 |
| NATIONAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HOTLINE | $25,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND | $25,000 |
| WOMEN IN NEED | $25,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $299k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 83 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, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M 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
- MMaineHealth4× · 2022–2025 · $229k · revenue +20%
- NCNORTH COUNTRY SCHOOL INC8× · 2018–2025 · $169k · revenue +50%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC8× · 2018–2025 · $159k · revenue +89%
Funded once
- PBPen Bay Waldo Healthcare Foundationone grant, 2021 · $20k
- VCVOLUNTEER CTR OF SONOMA CTYone grant, 2020 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $5k
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.
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Educational & charitable. to provide legal and scientific information to public interest attorneys and scientists in numerous countries.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Convoy of Hope and the most unlike its peers is The William a Farnsworth Library and Art Museum Inc. 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 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
106 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. 106 of the 115 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 MaineHealth ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA JAZZ CONSERVATORY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH COUNTRY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds The Owls Head Transportation Museum ↗
- Who funds REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SANTA ROSA JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE WILLIAM A FARNSWORTH LIBRARY AND ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Camden Area District Nursing Association ↗
- Who funds AREA INTERFAITH OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds Center for Volunteer & Nonprofit Leadership ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds CRISIS TEXT LINE INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE ALLIANCE FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION ↗
- Who funds JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HOTLINE ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds CONVOY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds FIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds KIVA MICROFUNDS ↗
- Who funds New Museum of Contemporary Art ↗
- Who funds SAFE HORIZON INC ↗
- Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds VERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
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 · Maine Community Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Sonoma County Community Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · American Express Foundation · The Yelp 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 Eric & Simone Lang 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Jazz House Kids Inc — 29% of income from government
- United Way of Northeast Florida Inc — 2% of income from government
- New England Conservatory of Music — 1% of income from government
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.
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