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Ernest Lieblich Foundation

Supporting organization to the california community foundation.

$663k
Granted FY2017
13
Grants FY2017
12
Organizations funded FY2017
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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

9
’17
9
’18
3
’19

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2017
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2017
$175,000
States reached, FY2017
3
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Philanthropy$837kArts & Culture$225kEnvironment$165kAnimals$113kScience & Tech$20kHealth$16kHuman Services$15kYouth Development$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 16 grantees
All grantees of Ernest Lieblich Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Los Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust$150,00013%
Living Love Animal Rescue$95,000344%
San Fernando Valley Youth Chorus$80,0001n/a
Griffith Observatory Foundation$20,00010%
Best Friends Animal Society$15,00020%
Harmony Project$15,00010%
Pasadena Conservatory of Music$15,00020%
Hillsides$15,00020%
The J Paul Getty Trust$10,00010%
Tejon Ranch Conservancy$10,00012%
Prenatal University$6,00016%
Human Rights Campaign Foundation$5,00010%
Students Run America$5,00010%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$5,00010%
The Music Guild$5,0001n/a
Wildlife Waystation$3,00010%

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($113k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Ernest Lieblich Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLos Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust: $150,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetLiving Love Animal Rescue: $95,000 over 3y, 44% of budgetGriffith Observatory Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBest Friends Animal Society: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHarmony Project: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPasadena Conservatory of Music: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHillsides: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe J Paul Getty Trust: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTejon Ranch Conservancy: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetPrenatal University: $6,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetHuman Rights Campaign Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStudents Run America: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWildlife Waystation: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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.

California Community FoundationCA18× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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How do I get to Ernest Lieblich Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Ernest Lieblich Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Ernest Lieblich Foundation

How much does Ernest Lieblich Foundation give?
Ernest Lieblich Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $663,000 in its FY2017 IRS filing.
What does Ernest Lieblich Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2019, its largest causes are Philanthropy (60%), Arts & Culture (16%), Environment (12%).
Who are Ernest Lieblich Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2019: Los Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust ($150k), Living Love Animal Rescue ($95k), San Fernando Valley Youth Chorus ($80k).
Which funders back the same organizations as Ernest Lieblich Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, The Ralph M Parsons Foundation, The Rose Hills Foundation.
Where is Ernest Lieblich Foundation based?
Ernest Lieblich Foundation is based in CA.

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 20 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 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2017, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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