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· Private foundation
Leslie & Bernard Bonar Family Foundation
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$5k
Granted FY2024
3
Grants
2
Communities
$3k
Largest
01What you fund
0187% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.
Animals$12kHuman Services$8kInternational$4kArts & Culture$777Environment$550Education$130Other$4k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
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2020
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2021
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2022
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2023
galgos
2024
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 3 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$1,175
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
- Galgopod Inc$3,000
- Galgos Del Sol USA$1,175
- She Angels Foundation$925
02The need
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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.
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Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Leslie & Bernard Bonar Family Foundation’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, 79% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 73% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Leslie & Bernard Bonar Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient addressRecipient 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.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$24k · 8 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else
8 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
8
12
Total granted
$24k
$5k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+1%
+46%
Still filing today
88%
50%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
AnimalsInternationalHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureEnvironmentOther
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
- SAShe Angels Foundation4× · 2021–2024 · $8k · revenue +55%
- GDGalgos Del Sol USA4× · 2020–2024 · $3k · revenue +220%
- ECEcolife Conservation2× · 2018–2020 · $550 · revenue +1%
Funded once
- KMK Michelle Andradaone grant, 2019 · $2k
- SASave A Galgo Espanolone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue -9%
- PPPaniolo Preservation Societygraduatedone grant, 2023 · $777 · revenue +368%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
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Bacan dog rescue
Dog Rescue and adoptions
Animals
2
RAGS2RESCUED
No dog should endure pain & suffering of a life of abandonment & neglect
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3
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
4
Southern California Shiba Inu Rescue
Southern California Shiba Inu Rescue is a group of volunteer dog lovers whose mission is to rescue, provide sanctuary, and ultimately to re-home abandoned, stray and neglected dogs. Whenever possible we also assist dogs who, because of…
Animals
5
Playa Animal Rescue
Fund operations of "no kill" rescue shelter including rescuing abandoned street dogs many injured or in poor health. Care and training of animals and preparation for adoption.
Animals
6
Crossing Guardians
Crossing Guardians is a nonprofit animal rescue and charitable organization. The purpose of our organization is to save and improve the lives of abused, neglected, and homeless animals suffering and struggling to survive along the…
Animals
7
Agave Dogs Rescue
Agave Dogs rescues adoptable, homeless dogs from area overwhelmed by pet overpopulation and finds them loving, permanent homes near Portland, OR. Our dogs come from high kill shelters and off the streets of California, Texas, Alabama, New…
Animals
8
J-Lo's Animal Rescue & Sanctuary in
Animal care and rescue
Animals
9
Rescuesforjojo
Dog rescue
Animals
10
P a W S Fur the Cause
Dog & Cat Rescue we rescue dogs and cats throughout Arizona; El Paso Texas; Las Cruces New Mexico and in the country of Mexico.
Animals
11
Novys Ark
Dog rescue and adoption. We take dogs from the high kill shelters and save them and get them ready for adoption then find them new homes.
Animals
12
Soulas Way Animal Rescue
To rescue animals, with last chances at local, Southern California animal shelters. Once rescued, we rehabilitate the animals to make for a smoother transition to their forever homes. We strive to connect the animals we rescue with the…
Animals
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Galgos Del Sol Usa and the most unlike its peers is Ucla Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
06the grantee network
14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
8/14
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Animals$11,969Human Services$7,926International$4,395Other$3,879Arts & Culture$777Environment$550Education$130
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 Galgopod Inc ↗
- Who funds She Angels Foundation ↗
- Who funds Galgos Del Sol USA ↗
- Who funds Do Something Now ↗
- Who funds Save A Galgo Espanol ↗
- Who funds Paniolo Preservation Society ↗
- Who funds Greyhound Adoption Center ↗
- Who funds Ecolife Conservation ↗
- Who funds The Sanctuary at Bluebird Lane ↗
- Who funds Operation America Cares ↗
- Who funds A Way Home For Dogs ↗
- Who funds The UCLA Foundation ↗
- Who funds Barbells For Bullies ↗
- Who funds The Oasis Institute ↗
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.
Sempra FoundationCA12.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Sempra Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 organisation Leslie & Bernard Bonar 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Galgopod Inc.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
5 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 831957600 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on Galgopod Inc, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 8% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to Leslie & Bernard Bonar Family Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Leslie & Bernard Bonar Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines