· Private foundation
Lisa & Ernest Auerbach 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.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $73k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION | $90,000 |
| DUWARA CONSCIOUSNESS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO | $15,000 |
| ILAN LAEL FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| WARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF COMBATANTS FOR PEACE | $10,000 |
| THE AMERICAS FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| VOLUNTEER COLLECTIVE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| DONKEYLAND | $2,000 |
| SHELTERS FOR ISRAEL | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,800 |
| SAMS FOUNDATION | $500 |
| YIDDISHLAND | $500 |
| YAAANA | $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 (FY17–24, $96k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 41% of Lisa & Ernest Auerbach 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, 84% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 48% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +46% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- USUC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2024 · $126k · revenue +55%
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO3× · 2022–2024 · $61k · revenue +14%
- FOFRIENDS OF SAN PASQUAL ACADEMY INC3× · 2021–2024 · $51k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- DDDOG DREAMS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue -84% · 60% of their budget
THE BAIL PROJECT INCone grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue -57%
RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGNgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +42%
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.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
Jewish federation of san diego county is dedicated to building a vibrant, caring, connected, and enduring jewish community.
The foundation operates exclusively for charitable, educational or religious purposes by conducting or supporting activities for the benefit of, or to carry out the purposes of the jewish community federation of san francisco, the…
To support and further the research, education and community service objectives of san diego state university.
To support the charitable mission of jewish community foundation of san diego, a ca nonprofit public benefit corporation, by facilitating charitable activities of the type carried on by jewish family service of san diego, a ca nonprofit…
The mission of the american friends of the u.s.-israel binational science foundation (afbsf) is to ensure the continuation of collaborative world-class scientific research by israeli and american scientists through the us israel binational…
(See Schedule O)
Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.
Rpi's mission is to partner with local non-gov organizations and others to strengthen protection and self-reliance among refugees and internally displaced persons near conflict zones.
The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.
The santa fe community foundation inspires philanthropic generosity, strengthens nonprofits, and fosters positive change to build a more vibrant, healthy, and resilient region. the foundation's vision is a thriving northern new mexico,…
URF is a 501(c)(30 nonprofit based in California. We receive funds through private donations and spend them on several programs, providing aid, rescue, and relief for Ukrainian war victims in the form of cash donations for food, shelter,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Diego Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Getchargedup. 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 23 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
47 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. 47 of the 90 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 UC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOG DREAMS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Duwara Consciousness Foundation ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SAN PASQUAL ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds THE BAIL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN ↗
- Who funds UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALPHA PROJECT FOR THE HOMELESS ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF COMBATANTS FOR PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds ADOPT A FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Shelters for Israel ↗
- Who funds Sunbird Initiative ↗
- Who funds WARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION ↗
- Who funds RANCHO SANTA FE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Veterans For Peace Inc ↗
- Who funds Alliance for Global Justice Corp ↗
- Who funds OPERATION PHANTOM SUPPORT INC ↗
- Who funds THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORKSHOPS FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds LIBRARY GUILD OF RANCHO SANTA FE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
- Who funds Bilateral Safety Corridor Coalition ↗
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: Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · The Intuit Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 Lisa & Ernest Auerbach 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
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.