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Liberty Hill Foundation
Liberty hill is a laboratory for social change philanthropy.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 750 grants below total $21,351,425 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $21,821,817 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $470,392 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k330 grants · $1.0M
- $10k–50k286 grants · $4.9M
- $50k–250k126 grants · $13M
- $250k+8 grants · $2.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATALYST CALIFORNIA | $568,080 |
| SIFF | $500,000 |
| RACIAL JUSTICE COALITION OF ASHEVILLE INC | $300,000 |
| SOCIAL JUSTICE LEARNING INSTITUTE INC | $273,671 |
| SOCIAL JUSTICE LEARNING INSTITUTE INC | $262,119 |
| YOUNG WOMEN'S FREEDOM CENTER | $250,000 |
| CITY OF HOPE | $250,000 |
| SAJE (STRATEGIC ACTIONS FOR A JUST ECONOMY) | $250,000 |
| CALIFORNIA INDIAN ENVIRONMENTAL ALLIANCE | $200,000 |
| SPIRIT AWAKENING FOUNDATION | $190,000 |
| COMMUNITY PARTNERS | $180,000 |
| SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS | $180,000 |
| EQUALITY ALLIANCE OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY | $175,000 |
| PUENTE HUMAN RIGHTS MOVEMENT | $150,000 |
| PODER IN ACTION INC | $150,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $13.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
559 repeat relationships — 218 still active in FY2025, 341 since wound down; 127 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, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8.1M 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
- CPCOMMUNITY PARTNERS9× · 2017–2025 · $2.9M · revenue +266%
- EYEAST YARD COMMUNITIES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE9× · 2017–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +314% · 33% of their budget
- LFLA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION7× · 2018–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +98%
Funded once
- MVMILLION VOTERS PROJECT ACTION FUND FOR SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRSTgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $300k · revenue +386%
- OOOFFICE OF PEOPLEone grant, 2024 · $250k · revenue 0%
- WOWONDER OF WOMEN INTERNATIONAL PCone grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue -16% · 40% of their budget
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.
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
The L.A. Co-op Lab is a collective that builds capacity for worker ownership in Los Angeles as a pathway toward a more equitable and democratic economy.
The Asian Law Caucus's mission is to promote, advance, and represent the legal and civil rights of Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities, recognizing that social, economic, political and racial inequalities continue to exist…
Latino Media Collaborative's mission is to leverage the power of Latino and community news media to impact policy, change narratives, and promote civic engagement, while also supporting advancement of the sector through capacity building,…
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
California Donor Table anchors a hub of donors, foundations, and community leaders. We pool together our resources to shape California into a truly democratic state that works for the people, not the powerful. Rooted in our commitment to…
Our mission is to fight against fossil fuel executives and industries that have turned our communities into dumping grounds for toxic waste, poisoning our air, water, lan, and bodies. We organize to oppose giant oil refineries, dirty…
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
The California Center for Movement Legal Services (Movement Legal) provides legal services in the pursuit of improving the lives of California's traditionally underserved residents, carrying out legal work that fosters community led policy…
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
Forward Together is a national reproductive justice organization that centers people, families, and communities who experience reproductive oppression. They prioritize queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and other peoples of color and utilize…
The first amendment coalition protects and promotes a free press, freedom of expression and the people's right to know. continued on schedule o.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Leadersup and the most unlike its peers is One Family Memphis. 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 24 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
1088 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1088 of the 1,153 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds EAST YARD COMMUNITIES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds LA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL JUSTICE LEARNING INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds INNERCITY STRUGGLE ↗
- Who funds TENEMOS QUE RECLAMAR Y UNIDOS SALVAR LA TIERRA-SOUTH LA ↗
- Who funds SAJE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENT ↗
- Who funds KOREAN IMMIGRANT WORKERS ADVOCATES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds Garment Worker Center ↗
- Who funds Redeemer Community Partnership ↗
- Who funds YOUTH JUSTICE COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds CANGRESS DBA LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds PACOIMA BEAUTIFUL ↗
- Who funds ACCE Institute ↗
- Who funds KHMER GIRLS IN ACTION ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY GARDEN COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND ↗
- Who funds Strategic Concepts In Organizing & Policy Education ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S FREEDOM CENTER ↗
- Who funds PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY ↗
- Who funds CATALYST CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COALITION FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT ↗
- Who funds The Sequoyah Educational Center ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LAW AND ACTION ↗
- Who funds Somali Bantu Association of America ↗
- Who funds Zero Waste Washington ↗
- Who funds LOPEZ COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE VILLAGE METHOD ↗
- Who funds California Indian Environmental Alliance ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM EDUCATION PROJECT PUGET SOUND ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE - BLACK UNITED FUND INC ↗
- Who funds People Organized For Westside Renewal POWER ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY ↗
- Who funds GENTE ORGANIZADA ↗
- Who funds ACTA NON VERBA YOUTH URBAN FARM PROJECT ↗
- Who funds COLECTIVA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO ↗
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: Weingart Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The California Endowment · The California Wellness Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · United Way Inc · The Ahmanson Foundation · Durfee Foundation · Roy and Patricia Disney Family Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · California Community Foundation · The James Irvine 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 organization Liberty Hill 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.