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Leonard Hill Charitable Trust
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
- $10k–50k8 grants · $95k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $764k
- $250k+9 grants · $4.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLLEGE TRACK LOS ANGELES | $825,000 |
| PARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS | $755,000 |
| PARTNERS IN SCHOOL INNOVATION | $560,000 |
| NEW ISRAEL FUND | $500,000 |
| CITY YEAR INC | $500,000 |
| PLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED | $500,000 |
| READING PARTNERS | $500,000 |
| YMCA | $378,000 |
| J STREET EDUCATION FUND INC | $250,000 |
| SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE | $200,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $180,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR NOPROFIT NEWS | $100,000 |
| AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS | $80,000 |
| IKAR | $54,000 |
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, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 20% of Leonard Hill Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 63% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 71% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +49% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 4 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k 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
- PFPARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS6× · 2019–2024 · $4.5M · revenue +94%
CITY YEAR INC6× · 2019–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +0%- BSBIG SKY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION2× · 2018–2020 · $1.5M · revenue +318% · 82% of their budget
Funded once
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOMone grant, 2023 · $410k · revenue -51%
- NCNATIONAL COLLEGE ADVISING CORPS INCone grant, 2022 · $295k · revenue -61%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +21%
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 common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…
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…
California education partners seeds and grows collaborations among california's school systems, so that they innovate, improve, and build internal capacity as learning organizations in order to close gaps and lead high performing,…
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
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…
To help each child reach his/her full potential by cultivating an active village of parents, community members, and stakeholders involved in providing an individual, personal, and conceptual learning environment for each student.
Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.
To increase educational equity by providing joyful, enriching learning experiences for middle school students, aspiring teachers, and experienced educators.
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
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;…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Partners in School Innovation and the most unlike its peers is Keshet Chaim Dance Ensemble. 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 26 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 1% 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.
53 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. 53 of the 74 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 PARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds PLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED ↗
- Who funds BIG SKY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds J STREET EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds READING PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
- Who funds THE BIG PICTURE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds CureCervicalCancer ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF LOS ANGELES INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN SCHOOL INNOVATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds A PLACE CALLED HOME ↗
- Who funds COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COLLEGE ADVISING CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds National Education Opportunity Network Inc ↗
- Who funds PS ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE MATCH ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT NEWS ↗
- Who funds Pitzer College ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR FIELD RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds READY TO SUCCEED ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds VIP COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER 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: California Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Liberty Hill Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · Great Public Schools Now · Elbridge Stuart Foundation Dba Stuart Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Gates 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 Leonard Hill Charitable Trust 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% 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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