· Private foundation
Lescure 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAFAYETTE-ORINDA PRESBYTERIAN CHURC | $24,600 |
| KQED | $4,000 |
| CONTRA COSTA FOOD BANK | $2,000 |
| CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL | $2,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $2,000 |
| SAN RAMON VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATI | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| A CURE IN SIGHT | $2,000 |
| MONUMENT CRISIS CENTER | $2,000 |
| TURN-THE UNTILITY REFORM NETWORK | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 5 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CCContra Costa Interfaith Transitional Housing Inc6× · 2017–2022 · $19k · revenue +917%
- MOMEALS ON WHEELS INC7× · 2017–2023 · $17k · revenue +76%
- LALOAVES AND FISHES5× · 2017–2021 · $13k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- AHANTIOCH HISTORICAL SOCIETYone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -43%
- CHCALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL TRUSTone grant, 2022 · $3k
- CSCONSERVATION SOCIETY OF CALIFORNIAgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +59%
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.
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.
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…
At Yosemite Rivers Alliance, we unite conservation and community to protect and restore the three rivers that ?ow through the Yosemite Regionthe Tuolumne, Stanislaus, and Merced.
We conserve the lands and waters of California's heartland.
The mission of the California Farmland Trust is to help farmers protect the best farmland in the world.
The purpose of the organization is to monitor, manage, and preserve conservation easements it stewards in northern california. the organization acquires conservation easements in land exhibiting important natural features to protect and…
The California Wilderness Coalition protects the natural landscapes that make California unique, providing clean air and water, a home to wildlife, and a place for recreation and spiritual renewal.
California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.
The Santa Clara River Conservancy represents the diverse interests of the Santa Clara River, from the flood plain to the highest tributaries, and seeks to secure, sustain, and manage significant lands and waters that provide habitat for…
Promote conservation easements and resource management plans that conserve agriculture lands, forestlands, wildlife habitat, open space, and other natural resources, in perpetuity.
To advane the conservation and orderly development of Land, Water, and other natural resources in California and to create statewide awareness of the urgency for conserving and developing California's natural resources
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 24 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Contra Costa Interfaith Transitional Housing Inc ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds LOAVES AND FISHES ↗
- Who funds John Muir Land Trust prev Muir Heritage Land Trust ↗
- Who funds ANTIOCH HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MONUMENT CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION SOCIETY OF CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL ↗
- Who funds A Cure in Sight ↗
- Who funds SAN RAMON VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOREST SERVICE EMPLOYEES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS INC ↗
- Who funds Central Sierra Environmental Resource Center Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Antioch Community Foundation Attn Keith Archuleta · East Bay Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lescure Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lescure Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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