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Jacob L and Lillian Holtzmann Foundation at a glance

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Jacob L and Lillian Holtzmann 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.

$978k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$978k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Science & Tech$2.7MArts & Culture$1.2MEducation$829kPhilanthropy$435kHealth$321kInternational$167kFood & Nutrition$140kEnvironment$128kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$978,400
Median grant
1
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DAFgiving360$978,400
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%AVENIDAS: $1k → 8%SUNNYVALE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
WA
NY
MA
NV
PA
CT
CA
CO
MD
DC
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.7M · 39 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

39 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
48

Total granted

$4.7M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+24%

Still filing today

85%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationEnvironmentHealthCivil RightsArts & CultureInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • FH
    FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $1.0M · revenue +18%
  • HS
    HOLDERNESS SCHOOL
    6× · 2017–2022 · $150k · revenue +38%
  • MO
    MAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENERS ASSOCIATION
    6× · 2017–2022 · $120k · revenue +71%

Funded once

  • TH
    The Holtzmann Fund
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M
  • RM
    RE-IMAGINING MIGRATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -69%
  • TV
    THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $23k · revenue +55%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
2
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
3
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
6
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
7
United States Naval Institute

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.

—
8
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
9
Public Advocates Inc

For more than five decades, public advocates has challenged the systemic causes of poverty and racial discrimination by strengthening community voices in public policy and achieving tangible legal victories advancing education, housing,…

—
10
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
11
Association of California School Administrators

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.

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12
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Accelerate Change Inc; the most unlike its peers is Global Lives Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

76 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 76 of the 92 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
75/76
Grantees still filing
49/76
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DAFgiving360: $1,694,400 · OtherDAFgiving360The Holtzmann Fund (DAF): $1,000,000 · OtherThe Holtzmann Fund (DAF)PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $215,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD+51 more: $888,800 · Other+51 moreFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $1,035,000 · Arts & CultureFACING HISTORY & OUR…KQED INC: $85,000 · Arts & CultureKQED INC+4 more: $27,750 · Arts & CultureHOLDERNESS SCHOOL: $150,000 · EducationHOLDERNESS…THE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND: $130,000 · EducationTHE UNIVER…SIMMONS UNIVERSITY: $105,000 · EducationSIMMONS UN…RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $70,000 · EducationRYE COUNTR…FOUNDATION FOR A COLLEGE EDUCATION: $36,000 · EducationFOUNDATION…RE-IMAGINING MIGRATION INC: $25,000 · EducationWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $20,000 · Education+4 more: $42,500 · Education+4 moreSilicon Valley Community Foundation: $221,000 · PhilanthropyTHE PALO ALTO COMMUNITY FUND: $75,000 · PhilanthropySEATTLE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropyFOOTHILL-DEANZA COMMUNITY COLLEGES FOUNDATION: $14,500 · Philanthropy+3 more: $25,000 · PhilanthropyHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $140,000 · InternationalAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $16,000 · International+3 more: $15,000 · InternationalMAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENERS ASSOCIATION: $120,000 · Food & NutritionECUMENICAL HUNGER PROGRAM: $9,500 · Food & NutritionBAY AREA CANCER CONNECTIONS: $27,000 · HealthADOLESCENT COUNSELING SERVICES: $16,500 · HealthMOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL: $15,000 · HealthThe Meg Foundation: $12,500 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC: $10,000 · HealthGO2 For Lung Cancer: $5,000 · HealthMOUNT DESERT NURSING ASSOC: $5,000 · Health
Other$3,798,200Arts & Culture$1,147,750Education$578,500Philanthropy$355,500International$171,000Food & Nutrition$129,500Health$91,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $1,035,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetSilicon Valley Community Foundation: $221,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOLDERNESS SCHOOL: $150,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $140,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND: $130,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENERS ASSOCIATION: $120,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetTHE BAY SCHOOL: $120,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetSIMMONS UNIVERSITY: $105,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA: $100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSOUTHWEST HARBOR PUBLIC LIBRARY: $90,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetKQED INC: $85,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PALO ALTO COMMUNITY FUND: $75,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetRYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $70,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNOVA INSTITUTE INC: $43,000 over 6y, 43% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR A COLLEGE EDUCATION: $36,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetRAMAPO FOR CHILDREN INC: $36,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLIFEMOVES: $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBAY AREA CANCER CONNECTIONS: $27,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetRE-IMAGINING MIGRATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetYOUTH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $24,500 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetJOSEPH SLIFKA CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AT: $23,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPALO ALTO ART CENTER FOUNDATION: $22,750 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $22,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVOTEORG: $22,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSEATTLE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATUREBRIDGE: $18,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetADOLESCENT COUNSELING SERVICES: $16,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BAY SCHOOL: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Education Trust Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOOTHILL-DEANZA COMMUNITY COLLEGES FOUNDATION: $14,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEnvironmental Volunteers Inc: $13,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetThe Meg Foundation: $12,500 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetPOLICYLINK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOGOREA TE LAND TRUST: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENT CALIFORNIA RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOOD COLLEGE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVOTO LATINO FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOSHMAN FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJ STREET EDUCATION FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC ↗
  • Who funds Silicon Valley Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds HOLDERNESS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND ↗
  • Who funds MAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENERS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds THE BAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds SIMMONS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHWEST HARBOR PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds KQED INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PALO ALTO COMMUNITY FUND ↗
  • Who funds RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds NOVA INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR A COLLEGE EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds RAMAPO FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds LIFEMOVES ↗
  • Who funds REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BAY AREA CANCER CONNECTIONS ↗
  • Who funds RE-IMAGINING MIGRATION INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds JOSEPH SLIFKA CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AT ↗
  • Who funds PALO ALTO ART CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER ↗
  • Who funds VOTEORG ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
  • Who funds NATUREBRIDGE ↗
  • Who funds ADOLESCENT COUNSELING SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds MOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds THE CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BAY SCHOOL ↗

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.

The David and Lucile …Jewish Community Fede…Los Altos Mountain Vi…Silicon Valley Commun…Philanthropic Venture…Gordon E and Betty I …The Palo Alto Communi…Stephen S Smith and P…Embarcadero Media Fou…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The William & Flora H…Marin Community Found…
The David and Lucile Packard FoundationCA33.3× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Philanthropic Ventures Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · The Palo Alto Community Fund · Stephen S Smith and Paula K Smith Family Foundation · Embarcadero Media Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Marin Community 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Jacob L and Lillian Holtzmann Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jacob L and Lillian Holtzmann Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Simmons University: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 92 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home