· Private foundation
Lafetra Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $218k
- $50k–250k17 grants · $1.5M
- $250k+2 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAFD FOUNDATION | $713,142 |
| CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY | $300,000 |
| POLAR BEARS INTERNATIONAL | $200,000 |
| DOC SOCIETY | $125,000 |
| COMMUNITY OF WRITERS | $100,000 |
| CLIMATE AND CLEAN ENERGY EQUITY FUND | $100,000 |
| GRIST | $100,000 |
| VOTE SOLAR | $100,000 |
| ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| CHICKEN AND EGG PICTURES INC | $100,000 |
| FOR THE FISHES | $100,000 |
| WINDWARD FUND | $100,000 |
| ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $75,000 |
| WILDLANDS CONSERVANCY | $75,000 |
| ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS | $50,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +26% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k 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
- LALOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $1.9M · revenue ×13
- CFCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +127%
- PBPOLAR BEARS INTERNATIONAL8× · 2017–2024 · $904k · revenue +173%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $100k
- TOTHE OCEAN CLEAN UPone grant, 2023 · $100k
- BABAY AREA BOOK FESTIVALone grant, 2021 · $100k
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 union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.
California ocean science trust (ost) is a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating progress towards a healthy and productive ocean future for california. created by state legislation, ost bridges the gap between cutting-edge…
The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.
Cdp north america, inc. 's ("cdp-na") vision for the future is a thriving economy that works for people and planet in the long term. we focus investors and companies on taking urgent action to build a truly sustainable economy by measuring…
Supporting industry transformation towards climate-positive and make green careers transitions and driving the adoption of green workforce development practices broadly.
The trust for public land creates parks and protects land for people, ensuring healthy, livable communities for generations to come. in the past year, we helped communities to plan for parks and conservation, fund parks and conservation,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Venture Fund and the most unlike its peers is Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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.
62 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. 62 of the 77 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 LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF LA VERNE ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds POLAR BEARS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds FOR THE FISHES ↗
- Who funds CHICKEN & EGG FILMS INC ↗
- Who funds Community of Writers ↗
- Who funds NEST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OCEANA INC ↗
- Who funds The Center for Investigative Reporting Inc ↗
- Who funds DOC SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Grist Magazine Inc ↗
- Who funds BERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds THE ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Vote Solar ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds California Native Plant Society ↗
- Who funds The Wildlands Conservancy ↗
- Who funds WINDWARD FUND ↗
- Who funds CLIMATE AND CLEAN ENERGY EQUITY FUND ↗
- Who funds WOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC ↗
- Who funds ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds The Berkeley School ↗
- Who funds FAIRWARNING INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
- Who funds MISSION FILMS ↗
- Who funds Rocky Mountain Institute ↗
- Who funds SONOMA LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds PROTEUS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds RARE ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds POWER SHIFT NETWORK ↗
- Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
- Who funds Shadhika Project ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
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: The San Francisco Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · California Humanities · The California Wellness Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Fleishhacker Foundation · Wallace Global Fund II · Resources Legacy Fund · United States Energy 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 Lafetra 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.