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Lopker Family Foundation at a glance

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Lopker Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
32
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$5.8MHealth$4.6MScience & Tech$625kInternational$385kArts & Culture$285kEnvironment$235kFood & Nutrition$229kPhilanthropy$143kOther$0
02FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k16 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $95k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $740k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.8M
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$69M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER CENTER$1,000,000
UCLA JONSSON CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION$750,000
TOTEM TECHNOLOGIES$150,000
GIVING WHAT WE CAN$140,000
SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SB$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION$100,000
GIVEWELL$50,000
UCSB FOUNDATION$50,000
THE LIFE YOU CAN SAVE$50,000
THE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE$20,000
GIVEDIRECTLY INC$20,000
NEW HARVEST$20,000
SANTA BARBARA HIGH SCHOOL$15,000
GAVIOTA COAST CONSERVANCY$10,000
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 (FY17–22, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CHARITY WATER: $30k → 17%THE GREATER CONTRIBUTION: $500 → 14%THE GREATER CONTRIBUTION: $500 → 14%THE GREATER CONTRIBUTION: $500 → 14%THE GREATER CONTRIBUTION: $500 → 14%GREATER CONTRIBUTION: $500 → 14%THE GREATER CONTRIBUTION: $500 → 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

WA
WI
NY
MA
OR
NV
OH
RI
CA
CO
MD
DE
AZ
DC
MS
AL
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 42 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

42 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
46

Total granted

$12M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+19%

Still filing today

60%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $205k 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
EducationHealthEnvironmentHuman ServicesArts & CultureInternationalOther
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

  • FH
    Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
    2× · 2023–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +9%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION
    6× · 2018–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +46%
  • TC
    THE CLEAR FUND
    6× · 2018–2024 · $182k · revenue +648%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC (SCHOOL OF MEDICINE)
    one grant, 2023 · $240k
  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR NATURAL MEDICINEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $123k · revenue +64%
  • CF
    CANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -8%
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
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
2
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
3
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
4
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
5
The California Medical Innovations Institute Inc

The Institute is a scientific research center dedicated to conducting basic and applied research to advance the understanding of human disease and the improvement of human health. The Institute fosters an innovative research environment…

Education
6
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
7
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
8
California Forward

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,…

Public Benefit
9
California Institute for BioMedical Research

Our mission is to build a unique institute that bridges basic research and drug discovery, and that attracts the best and brightest scientists, physicians and students to work together synergistically to find cures for neglected human…

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10
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
11
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
12
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Movement Strategy Center; the most unlike its peers is Totem Technologies. 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

61 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 61 of the 94 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/61
Grantees still filing
41/61
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $2,050,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE JONSSON CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION: $2,000,000 · OtherTHE JONSSON CANCER CENTER FOUNDATIONSCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SB: $1,200,000 · OtherSCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SBUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $1,075,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONUCSB FOUNDATION: $535,000 · OtherUCSB FOUNDATION+52 more: $1,890,219 · Other+52 moreFred Hutchinson Cancer Center: $2,000,000 · HealthFred Hutchinson C…CANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA: $100,000 · Health+6 more: $36,500 · HealthUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $1,635,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF …+8 more: $114,000 · Education+8 moreTOTEM TECHNOLOGIES: $450,000 · Human ServicesGIVEDIRECTLY INC: $80,000 · Human ServicesCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $30,000 · Human Services+3 more: $17,739 · Human ServicesTHE CLEAR FUND: $181,975 · PhilanthropyThe Life You Can Save: $50,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $2,500 · PhilanthropyCENTER FOR CARBON REMOVAL: $50,000 · EnvironmentCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC: $50,000 · EnvironmentMULTIPLIER: $50,000 · EnvironmentPlanting Justice: $20,000 · EnvironmentGreenaction for Health and Environmental Justice: $15,000 · EnvironmentTHE MOJAVE CENTER INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentGAVIOTA COAST CONSERVANCY: $10,000 · EnvironmentEnvironmental Health Coalition: $10,000 · EnvironmentDIRECT RELIEF: $110,000 · InternationalLIVING GOODS: $20,000 · InternationalTHE GLOBAL HUNGER PROJECT: $20,000 · International
Other$8,750,219Health$2,136,500Education$1,749,000Human Services$577,739Philanthropy$234,475Environment$215,000International$150,000

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 budgetTHE JONSSON CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION: $2,000,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetFred Hutchinson Cancer Center: $2,000,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $1,635,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTOTEM TECHNOLOGIES: $450,000 over 3y, 100% of budgetTHE CLEAR FUND: $181,975 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR NATURAL MEDICINE: $123,133 over 1y, 19% of budgetTHE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INC: $120,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $110,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA: $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetKINDERING CENTER: $80,060 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNEW HARVEST INC: $80,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetGIVEDIRECTLY INC: $80,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR CARBON REMOVAL: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Life You Can Save: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMULTIPLIER: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA BARBARA CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $45,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR SANTA BARBARA CITY COLLEGE: $40,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER: $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY CHANNEL ISLANDS FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE HUMANE LEAGUE: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLIVING GOODS: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY STUDY INSTITUTE: $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCARPINTERIA ARTS CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetPlanting Justice: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE GLOBAL HUNGER PROJECT: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITY SHOPPE INC: $10,739 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FRED HOLLOWS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTHE MOJAVE CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetThe Fistula Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDjango Software Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetGAVIOTA COAST CONSERVANCY: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetEnvironmental Health Coalition: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY DOG & PUPPY RESCUE: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSanta Barbara Education Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPROJECT TF: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCity Slicker Farms: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWASHINGTON COALITION FOR OPEN GOVERNMENT: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetHOPEWELL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA BARBARA HIGH SCHOOL COMPUTER SCIENCE ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetFOOD FROM THE HEART INC: $4,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY: $4,000 over 2y, 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.

  • Who funds THE JONSSON CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TOTEM TECHNOLOGIES ↗
  • Who funds THE CLEAR FUND ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR NATURAL MEDICINE ↗
  • Who funds THE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
  • Who funds CANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
  • Who funds KINDERING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds NEW HARVEST INC ↗
  • Who funds GIVEDIRECTLY INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR CARBON REMOVAL ↗
  • Who funds CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC ↗
  • Who funds The Life You Can Save ↗
  • Who funds MULTIPLIER ↗
  • Who funds SANTA BARBARA CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR SANTA BARBARA CITY COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY CHANNEL ISLANDS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE HUMANE LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds CHARITY GLOBAL INC ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ↗
  • Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN WOLF PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds LIVING GOODS ↗

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.

Santa Barbara Foundat…Ann Jackson Family Fo…Hutton Foundation Dba…Mosher FoundationCalifornia Community …Williams-Corbett Foun…Latkin Charitable Fou…George Isaac Foundati…June G Outhwaite Char…James S Bower Foundat…The Wood-Claeyssens F…Silicon Valley Commun…
Santa Barbara FoundationCA24.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Santa Barbara Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Mosher Foundation · California Community Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · Latkin Charitable Foundation · George Isaac Foundation · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr · James S Bower Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · Silicon Valley Community 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 Lopker Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lopker Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Lopker Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Lopker 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 94 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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