· Private foundation
Harvey and Leslie Wagner 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k26 grants · $73k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $142k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $675k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UC BERKELEY - AARON STREETS LAB | $175,000 |
| UC BERKELEY - DAN FLETCHER LAB | $150,000 |
| UC BERKELEY - DERFOGAIL DELCASSIAN LAB | $150,000 |
| UC BERKELEY - GUTHRIE RESEARCH | $100,000 |
| UC BERKELEY - LIANA LAREAU | $100,000 |
| CPMC AMBASSADOR SERVICES | $40,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA | $20,000 |
| SF MOMA | $12,000 |
| UCSF FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FINE ARTS MUSEUMS (DEYOUNG LEIGION) | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| STANFORD MEDICAL CENTER FUND | $10,000 |
| BERKELEY HIGH JAZZ BAND | $10,000 |
| NOTRE DAME BELMONT FUND SCHOLARSHIP | $10,000 |
| SERRA HS SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–23, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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 +27% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
76 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2025, 40 since wound down; 4 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- IVINCLINE VILLAGE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $172k · revenue +602%
- CPCALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2023 · $150k · revenue +112%
- OSOREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC4× · 2020–2023 · $55k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- UBUC BERKELEY - LIANA LAREAU LABone grant, 2023 · $50k
- NMNEVADA MUSEUM OF OF ARTone grant, 2021 · $10k
- KCKNPB CHANNEL 5 PUBLIC BROADCASTINGone grant, 2021 · $10k
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 association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…
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…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The Sacramento Region Community Foundation leads, serves, and inspires enduring philanthropy for a just and vibrant Sacramento region.
To provide a superior, student-centered learning experience integrating liberal arts and professional education and preparing individuals for lasting achievement and responsible leadership in their careers and communities.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Francisco Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Planned Parenthood. 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 35 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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 113 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 INCLINE VILLAGE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NORTH LAKE TAHOE ↗
- Who funds Nevada Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds Renown Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds Lake Tahoe School ↗
- Who funds 10000 DEGREES ↗
- Who funds THE PENINSULA BRIDGE PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds CHANNEL 5 PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO JAZZ ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ↗
- Who funds BENTLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TAHOE FAMILY SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds SAGE RIDGE SCHOOL ↗
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: Tahoe Community Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern Nevada · Wayne L Prim Foundation · Offerdahl Family Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Nell J Redfield Foundation · The E L Cord Foundation · Dave & Cheryl Duffield Foundation · NV Energy Charitable Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Dean C & Gloria Smith Foundation · Greater Nevada Credit Union
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 Harvey and Leslie Wagner 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.
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% 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.