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Ernest Lieblich Foundation
Supporting organization to the california community foundation.
Read this first · the figures below need context
95% of Ernest Lieblich Foundation’s FY2019 grant dollars went to California Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2019 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2017, the last year Ernest Lieblich Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 9 organizations, $663k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2017
- Under $10k1 grant · $3k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $75k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $585k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $175,000 |
| LOS ANGELES NEIGHBORHOOD LAND TRUST | $150,000 |
| YOUNG ARTISTS INTERNATIONAL (IPALPITI ARTISTS INTERNATIONAL) | $100,000 |
| SAN FERNANDO VALLEY YOUTH CHORUS | $80,000 |
| LIVING LOVE ANIMAL RESCUE | $80,000 |
| HARMONY PROJECT | $15,000 |
| PROMISE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| TEJON RANCH CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| PASADENA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC | $10,000 |
| BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| HILLSIDES | $10,000 |
| J PAUL GETTY TRUST | $10,000 |
| CALVERT STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTA | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–18, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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.
4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2017, 0 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2017 (too recent to call). Read against FY2017, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2019, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- HHILLSIDES2× · 2017–2018 · $15k · revenue +31%
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY2× · 2017–2019 · $15k · revenue +31%
Pasadena Conservatory of Music2× · 2017–2018 · $15k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- LALos Angeles Neighborhood Land Trustone grant, 2017 · $150k · revenue +15%
- YAYOUNG ARTISTS INTERNATIONAL (IPALPITI ARTISTS INTERNATIONAL)one grant, 2017 · $100k
- SFSan Fernando Valley Youth Chorusgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $80k · revenue +96%
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.
The Wildlands Conservancy's dual mission is to preserve the beauty and biodiversity of the earth and to provide programs so that children may know the wonder and joy of nature.
Engage.Protect.Enhance.Weareonamissiontobringpeople,water,andnaturetogetherwhilepursuingasustainablerevitalization of the Los Angeles River corridor.
Los Angeles Center of Photography promotes photography through its educational programs, exhibits, and other creative opportunties and venues.
Nature collective's mission is to drive a passion for nature for all. we think inclusively and diversely when serving those devoid of nature those who remember nature and want to connect back to it and those who have an affinity with…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The Chile-California Council is a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to developing and promoting joint endeavors and cooperative relations between Chile and California, as well as individuals, legal entities and other institutions in…
Arlington Garden is a climate-appropriate, habitat garden offering learning, inspiration, and enjoyment for all.
The League of Women Voters, a nonpartisan political organization, encourages informed and active participation in government, works to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and…
Develop integrated and science-based solutions to complex environmental problems to protect natural lands, water, wildlife and human communities.
The organization is dedicated to energizing, educating and connecting angelenos through the dynamic stories of our homes, neighborhoods and architecture.
Through management of oakland zoo, the conservation society of california deepens connection with animals, saves wildlife, and inspires champions for the natural world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The J Paul Getty Trust. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 20 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 CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Los Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust ↗
- Who funds LIVING LOVE ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds San Fernando Valley Youth Chorus ↗
- Who funds GRIFFITH OBSERVATORY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HILLSIDES ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Pasadena Conservatory of Music ↗
- Who funds Harmony Project ↗
- Who funds THE J PAUL GETTY TRUST ↗
- Who funds Tejon Ranch Conservancy ↗
- Who funds PRENATAL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MUSIC GUILD ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds STUDENTS RUN AMERICA ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE WAYSTATION ↗
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: California Community Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Ernest Lieblich 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.
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