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Lear Family 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 $10k15 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $203k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $140k
- $250k+1 grant · $402k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SUNDANCE INSTITUTE | $401,750 |
| LACMA | $140,000 |
| BALLET HISPANICO | $25,000 |
| CEDAR SINAI MEDICAL CENTER | $25,000 |
| CREATIVE VISIONS | $25,000 |
| PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY | $20,000 |
| PAL-O-MINE EQUESTRIAN INC | $20,000 |
| ADVANCE DEMOCRACY INC | $20,000 |
| YOUTH REPRESENT | $15,500 |
| THE CLIMATE REALITY PROJECT | $12,500 |
| BELLA VITA RESCUE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| RICE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| THE POLLINATION PROJECT | $10,000 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| PEN AMERICA | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $348k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 34% 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 +46% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
73 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 60 since wound down; 14 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $82k 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
Sundance Institute8× · 2017–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +1%- UFUTAH FILM CENTER6× · 2017–2022 · $1.2M · revenue +167%
- PEPAL-O-MINE EQUESTRIAN INC8× · 2017–2024 · $214k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- UAUSC ANNENBERG SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $674k
- PPBSWNETone grant, 2021 · $115k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $50k
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 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…
Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.
The california film institute celebrates film and videos as art and education. its goal is to present and support emerging and established independent filmakers whose works address issues relevant to contemporary society. this is…
The organization is a non-partisan, membership based speakers' forum that connects business leaders, community members, and engaged individuals with shared interest in local, national, and global affairs. it provides an open and accessible…
The moving picture institute is a nonprofit production company and talent incubator that creates high-impact films designed to entertain, inspire, and educate audiences with captivating stories about human freedom.
CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.
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.
See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…
To invest in america's finest artists and illuminate the value of artists to society.
The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…
To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…
Transforming global storytelling by using data-driven research, education, and advocacy to mitigate bias, inspiring authentic portrayals in entertainment, advertising, and gaming that reflect the true diversity of the population.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Climate Resolve and the most unlike its peers is Mandeville Foundation. 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 30 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
167 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. 167 of the 270 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Sundance Institute ↗
- Who funds UTAH FILM CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PAL-O-MINE EQUESTRIAN INC ↗
- Who funds ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BALLET HISPANICO OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds RAINFOREST ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH REPRESENT INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY ↗
- Who funds WOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC ↗
- Who funds ADVANCE DEMOCRACY INC ↗
- Who funds THE ALLIANCE FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION ↗
- Who funds MuseIque ↗
- Who funds GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Social Impact Fund ↗
- Who funds OJAI PLAYWRIGHTS CONFERENCE ↗
- Who funds THE IMAGEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIVING ARCHIVES INC ↗
- Who funds FILM INDEPENDENT ↗
- Who funds SCHUMACHER CENTER FOR A NEW ECONOMICS INC ↗
- Who funds IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY FOUNDATION ↗
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 Annenberg Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Adams Cowan Foundation · Tides Foundation · The Mark E Pollack Foundation · The J Paul Getty Trust · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The California Endowment
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 Lear Family 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Emerson College — 0% of income from government
- Ceres 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.
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