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Levine Hirshfield Foundation at a glance

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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.

$59k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Animals$50kHealth$45kHuman Services$39kReligion$16kFood & Nutrition$9kPublic Safety & Disaster$7kCrime & Legal$5kInternational$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k18 grants · $49k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$850k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
LITTLE TROOPER RANCH$2,500
VERITY-COMPASSION SAFETY SUPPORT A CALIFORNIA CORP$2,500
LANDPATHS$2,000
CALIFORNIA PARENTING INSTITUTE$2,000
SONOMA FAMILY MEAL$2,000
REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK$2,000
DOGWOOD ANIMAL RESCUE PROJECT INC$1,500
SONOMA OVERNIGHT SUPPORT INC$1,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%NORTH BAY CHILDRENS CENTER INC: $1k → 8%ON THE MOVE: $1k → 9%LIVING ROOM CENTER INC: $4k → 9%LIVING ROOM CENTER INC: $2k → 9%LIVING ROOM CENTER INC: $2k → 9%CALIFORNIA PARENTING INSTITUTE: $2k → 9%INDIVIDUALS NOW INC SOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH: $2k → 9%INDIVIDUALS NOW INC SOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH: $2k → 9%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$152k · 13 repeat orgs$26k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
5

Total granted

$152k
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-1%
+17%

Still filing today

85%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHuman ServicesCrime & LegalHealthInternationalFood & NutritionOther
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

  • The Jewish Community Free Clinic
    5× · 2021–2025 · $42k · revenue +102%
  • LL
    Lilys Legacy Senior Dog Sanctuary
    4× · 2022–2025 · $35k · revenue +69%
  • LT
    Little Trooper Ranch
    2× · 2024–2025 · $6k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • EF
    EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue 0%
  • MH
    MAUI HUMANE SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +79%
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY FOR PREVENTION OF CRUELTY
    one grant, 2023 · $1k
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
Sonoma Applied Village Services

Address the homeless crisis in California.

Housing & Shelter
2
Sonoma County Deputy Sheriffs K-9 Association

To provide health care for retired k-9 deputies. educate the public in the roll k-9 deputies play in law enforcment

Crime & Legal
3
Humane Society Silicon Valley

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)

Animals
4
Sonoma Botanical Garden
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5
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for Monterey County

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…

Animals
6
Solano County Friends of Animals

Animal rescue of abandoned cats and dogs

Animals
7
Sonoma Chicks Rescue and Sanctuary

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…

Animals
8
North Bay Animal Services
Animals
9
Solano Feral Cat Group

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…

Animals
10
Humane Society of Sonoma County

To save lives and benefit the well-being of pets and their people with kindness, innovation, and leadership.

Animals
11
Santa Ynez Valley Humane Society

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…

Animals
12
California Animal Rescue and Education Sanctuary Inc

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sonoma Family Meal; 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.
04the grantee network

24 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. 24 of the 27 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
11/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SANTA ROSA REFORM JEWISH CONGREGATION INC: $15,948 · OtherSANTA ROSA REFORM JEWISH CONGREGATION…B Kramer: $13,000 · OtherB KramerVERITY-COMPASSION SAFETY SUPPORT A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION: $12,500 · OtherVERITY-COMPASSION SAFETY SUPPORT A CA…EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: $3,000 · OtherForgotten Felines of Sonoma County: $3,000 · OtherSONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,000 · OtherSONOMA OVERNIGHT SUPPORT INC: $3,000 · OtherSONOMA FAMILY MEAL: $2,000 · OtherLandPaths: $2,000 · Other+2 more: $2,000 · OtherLilys Legacy Senior Dog Sanctuary: $35,000 · AnimalsLilys Legacy Senior Dog Sanc…Little Trooper Ranch: $5,500 · AnimalsLittle Trooper RanchTHE SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $2,000 · Animals+3 more: $3,500 · Animals+3 moreThe Jewish Community Free Clinic: $42,000 · HealthThe Jewish Community Free …THE LIVING ROOM CENTER: $7,500 · Human ServicesTHE LIVIN…INDIVIDUALS NOW INC DBA SOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH: $4,077 · Human ServicesINDIVIDUA…California Parenting Institute: $2,000 · Human ServicesCaliforni…ON THE MOVE: $1,000 · Human ServicesON THE MO…NORTH BAY CHILDRENS CENTER INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesNORTH BAY…FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER OF SONOMA COUNTY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Crime & LegalValley of the Moon Children's Home Foundation: $5,000 · Crime & LegalPOLARIS PROJECT: $4,078 · InternationalREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK: $4,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$59,448Animals$46,000Health$42,000Human Services$15,577Crime & Legal$10,000International$4,078Food & Nutrition$4,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Jewish Community Free Clinic: $42,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetLilys Legacy Senior Dog Sanctuary: $35,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetVERITY-COMPASSION SAFETY SUPPORT A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION: $12,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE LIVING ROOM CENTER: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLittle Trooper Ranch: $5,500 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetFAMILY JUSTICE CENTER OF SONOMA COUNTY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetPOLARIS PROJECT: $4,078 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINDIVIDUALS NOW INC DBA SOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH: $4,077 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetForgotten Felines of Sonoma County: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSONOMA OVERNIGHT SUPPORT INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSONOMA FAMILY MEAL: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia Parenting Institute: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLandPaths: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetON THE MOVE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSinkyone Sanctuary: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNORTH BAY CHILDRENS CENTER INC: $1,000 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.

Sonoma County Communi…Sonoma County Vintner…McNabb FoundationSpeedway Children's C…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Marin Community Found…Redwood Credit Union …The Heck FoundationBothin FoundationJewish Community Fede…The San Francisco Fou…Women Giving as One I…
Sonoma County Community FoundationCA36.2× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Levine Hirshfield Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Levine Hirshfield Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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.

    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 27 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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