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Leslie & Bernard Bonar Family Foundation at a glance

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Leslie & Bernard Bonar 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.

$5k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Animals$16kHuman Services$9kHealth$2kInternational$1kPublic Benefit$780Arts & Culture$777Environment$550Education$380Other$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,175
Median grant
2
States reached
$30k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Galgopod Inc$3,000
Galgos Del Sol USA$1,175
She Angels Foundation$925
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%She Angels Foundation: $3k → 14%The Oasis Institute: $26 → 11%She Angels Foundation: $3k → 14%She Angels Foundation: $2k → 14%She Angels Foundation: $925 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
NY
WY
PA
CA
MO
MD
NC
HI
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s 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 sends the money.

About 6% of Leslie & Bernard Bonar Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 80% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 74%.

Leslie & Bernard Bonar Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$24k · 7 repeat orgs$7k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +1% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
15

Total granted

$24k
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
0%

Still filing today

86%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsInternationalHuman ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SA
    She Angels Foundation
    4× · 2021–2024 · $8k · revenue +55%
  • GD
    GALGOS DEL SOL USA
    4× · 2020–2024 · $3k · revenue +10%
  • EC
    ECOLIFE CONSERVATION
    2× · 2018–2020 · $550 · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • KM
    K Michelle Andrada
    one grant, 2019 · $2k
  • SA
    SAVE A GALGO ESPANOL
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue -54%
  • UF
    Us4Warriors Foundation
    one grant, 2017 · $780
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.

04Its field

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.

1
RAGS2RESCUED

No dog should endure pain & suffering of a life of abandonment & neglect

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2
Bacan dog rescue

Dog Rescue and adoptions

Animals
3
Bichon and Buddies

Our goal is to rescue Bichons, Bichon Mixes and other small dogs from high euthanasia shelters, to provide them with medical services and place them into the care of loving guardians.

Animals
4
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
5
Guardian Angel Pet Rescue Inc

Animal Rescue We save dogs cats rabbits pigs etc and provide all necessary Vet services before finding them safe homes

Animals
6
Amazing Dogs

Our mission is to save dogs in distressing conditions on both sides of the California/Mexican border. We provide them with essential medical treatment and care to help them regain their health, and ultimately match them with loving homes…

Animals
7
Flying Dog Foundation

The Flying Dog Foundation helps make profoundly positive, life-saving changes in the lives of dogs in dire situations by awarding grants to partner rescue organizations. The primary focus is on, though not limited to, dogs rescued from the…

Animals
8
Valley of the Sun Dog Rescue

Rescue Dogs and place them in safe homes

Animals
9
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
10
Mazatlan Animal Rescue Inc

Rehab and provide shelter/food/vet care for street animals

Animals
11
Barks of Love Animal Rescue and Placement Services Corporation

To decrease the total number of animals being euthanised

Animals
12
Rescuesforjojo

Dog rescue

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is A Way Home for Dogs Inc; the most unlike its peers is She Angels Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 23 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
7/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GALGOPOD INC: $10,166 · AnimalsGALGOPOD INCSAVE A GALGO ESPANOL: $1,000 · AnimalsSAVE A GALGO ESPANOLSANCTUARY AT BLUEBIRD LANE: $500 · Animals+2 more: $303 · AnimalsShe Angels Foundation: $7,900 · Human ServicesShe Angels Foundation+1 more: $26 · Human ServicesK Michelle Andrada: $1,800 · OtherK Michelle AndradaUs4Warriors Foundation: $780 · OtherUs4Warriors Founda…GREYHOUND ADOPTION CENTER: $605 · OtherGREYHOUND ADOPTION…North County Veterans Stand Down: $500 · OtherNorth County Veter…Individual grant recipient: $400 · OtherIndividual grant r…SD Jewish CenterWelcome Home: $374 · OtherSD Jewish CenterWe…Towson University Foundaiton Inc: $250 · OtherOPERATION AMERICA CARES: $250 · Other+3 more: $220 · OtherGALGOS DEL SOL USA: $3,375 · InternationalGALGOS DEL SOL U…DO SOMETHING NOW: $1,020 · InternationalDO SOMETHING NOWPANIOLO PRESERVATION SOCIETY: $777 · Arts & CultureECOLIFE CONSERVATION: $550 · EnvironmentUCLA FOUNDATION: $130 · Education
Animals$11,969Human Services$7,926Other$5,179International$4,395Arts & Culture$777Environment$550Education$130

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGALGOPOD INC: $10,166 over 5y, 7.9% of budgetShe Angels Foundation: $7,900 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetGALGOS DEL SOL USA: $3,375 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPANIOLO PRESERVATION SOCIETY: $777 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGREYHOUND ADOPTION CENTER: $605 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSANCTUARY AT BLUEBIRD LANE: $500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetOPERATION AMERICA CARES: $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetA WAY HOME FOR DOGS INC: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $130 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBarbells For Bullies Inc: $103 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE OASIS INSTITUTE: $26 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Sempra FoundationThe Pfizer Foundation…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Sempra FoundationCA12.5× 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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Leslie & Bernard Bonar Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Leslie & Bernard Bonar Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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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 trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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