· Private foundation
Levine Hirshfield Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH COMMUNITY FREE CLINIC | $10,000 |
| B Kramer | $6,500 |
| LILYS LEGACY SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY | $5,000 |
| VALLEY OF THE MOON CHILDRENS HOME FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER SONOMA COUNTY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| LIVING ROOM CENTER INC | $4,000 |
| SANTA ROSA REFORM JEWISH CONGREGATION INC | $3,000 |
| VERITY-COMPASSION SAFETY SUPPORT A CALIFORNIA CORP | $2,500 |
| LITTLE TROOPER RANCH | $2,500 |
| LANDPATHS | $2,000 |
| CALIFORNIA PARENTING INSTITUTE | $2,000 |
| REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK | $2,000 |
| SONOMA FAMILY MEAL | $2,000 |
| DOGWOOD ANIMAL RESCUE PROJECT INC | $1,500 |
| SONOMA OVERNIGHT SUPPORT INC | $1,500 |
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 (FY22–25, $16k) 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 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.
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.
13 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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
The Jewish Community Free Clinic5× · 2021–2025 · $42k · revenue +102%- LLLilys Legacy Senior Dog Sanctuary4× · 2022–2025 · $35k · revenue +69%
- LTLittle Trooper Ranch2× · 2024–2025 · $6k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- EFEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIAone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue 0%
- MHMAUI HUMANE SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +79%
- SFSAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY FOR PREVENTION OF CRUELTYone grant, 2023 · $1k
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.
Address the homeless crisis in California.
To provide health care for retired k-9 deputies. educate the public in the roll k-9 deputies play in law enforcment
At humane society silicon valley, our mission is to save lives, keep families together, and create a better future for pets and their people.(see schedule o for continuation)
The SPCA Monterey County's Mission is assuring compassionate treatment of all animals through rescue, rehabilitation, protection and education. The SPCA shelters homeless, neglected, and abused pets, including dogs, cats, horses, exotic…
Animal rescue of abandoned cats and dogs
Our mission is to rescue and provide animals with a sanctuary where they can retire and live out their life in a loving and safe environment. We take in smaller farm animals that have been abused, saved from the dining table, or "lost…
To decrease the cat overpopulation in solano county by providing low cost spay and neuter services for feral, stray, and pet cats. the purpose for which the organization is formed is to provide widespread community outreach, and innovated…
To save lives and benefit the well-being of pets and their people with kindness, innovation, and leadership.
Serves the santa ynez valley and surrounding communities by providing housing, care and placement services for dogs and cats available for adoption, low fee spay and neuter services and promoting humane, compassionate and conscientious…
C.A.R.E.S.MISSION STATEMENT*Rescue, foster and find good homes for abandoned and homeless domestic and farm animals.*Spay/neuter abandoned and homeless cats and dogs, as well as help low income families with same.*Conduct TNR+ programs to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sonoma Family Meal and the most unlike its peers is LandPaths. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 27 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 The Jewish Community Free Clinic ↗
- Who funds Lilys Legacy Senior Dog Sanctuary ↗
- Who funds VERITY-COMPASSION SAFETY SUPPORT A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE LIVING ROOM CENTER ↗
- Who funds Little Trooper Ranch ↗
- Who funds FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER OF SONOMA COUNTY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Valley of the Moon Children's Home Foundation ↗
- Who funds POLARIS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds INDIVIDUALS NOW INC DBA SOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Forgotten Felines of Sonoma County ↗
- Who funds SONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SONOMA OVERNIGHT SUPPORT INC ↗
- Who funds EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds THE SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds SONOMA FAMILY MEAL ↗
- Who funds California Parenting Institute ↗
- Who funds LandPaths ↗
- Who funds DOGWOOD ANIMAL RESCUE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MAUI HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH BAY CHILDRENS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ON THE MOVE ↗
- Who funds Sinkyone Sanctuary ↗
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: Sonoma County Community Foundation · Sonoma County Vintners Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Speedway Children's Charities · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Marin Community Foundation · Redwood Credit Union Community Fund Inc · The Heck Foundation · Bothin Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The San Francisco Foundation · Women Giving as One Inc
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 Levine Hirshfield 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.
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.