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Lorber 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.

$1.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
31
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$8.0MHealth$2.2MCivil Rights$1.0MPhilanthropy$465kHuman Services$250kPublic Benefit$170kArts & Culture$130kEnvironment$115kOther$0
02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $185k
  • $50k–250k19 grants · $1.6M
$50,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$37M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Tides Center$150,000
California Black Power Network$150,000
American Cancer Society$150,000
Mujeres Unidas y Activas$100,000
Pico California$100,000
Social Justice Learning Institute$100,000
Heluna Health$100,000
Ryse Center$75,000
Saba Grocers Initiative$75,000
Asian Pacific Environmental Network$75,000
Southern California Grantmakers$75,000
Silicon Valley Community Foundation$75,000
Healthy Black Families$50,000
Amelia Ann Adams Whole Life Center$50,000
Black Women for Wellness$50,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $660k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Amelia Ann Adams Whole Life Center: $50k → 12%Jewish Community Center of Greater Rochester: $10k → 14%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $5k → 17%TRAINING INSTITUTE FOR LEADERSHIP ENRICHMENT: $50k → 10%Coleman Advocates: $50k → 10%JEWISH COMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $10k → 14%Tides Center: $150k → 10%Child Care Law Center: $25k → 10%MUJERES UNIDAS Y ACTIVAS: $150k → 10%CHILD CARE LAW CENTER: $50k → 10%Mujeres Unidas y Activas: $100k → 10%HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $10k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
RI
CA
DE
DC
LA
AL
GA
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.9M · 21 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

21 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
31

Total granted

$2.9M
$840k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+64%

Still filing today

71%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $983k 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
HealthHuman ServicesCivil RightsPhilanthropyEducationEnvironmentOther

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

  • PICO California
    2× · 2023–2024 · $150k · revenue +178%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    7× · 2017–2023 · $105k · revenue +132%
  • CalMatters
    3× · 2022–2024 · $90k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • JO
    JUSTICE OUTSIDE
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +17%
  • HI
    HURRICANE IDA DIRECT RELIEF
    one grant, 2021 · $95k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

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,…

Employment
2
California Donor Table

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…

Civil Rights
3
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
4
Justice Funders

Serve as a partner, educator, and guide for philanthropy in reimagining practices that advance a thriving and just world.

—
5
California Black Health Network

The Organization advocates for health equity by leading and facilitating convenings in all regions of California for the purpose of providing policy analysis, research and training that promotes best practices, which supports the creation…

—
6
California Pan-Ethnic Health Network

To promote health equity by advocating for public policies and sufficient resources to address the health needs of communities of color.

Health
7
Asian Law Caucus

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…

Crime & Legal
8
Los Angeles Black Worker Center

The mission of the Los Angeles Black Worker Center is to increase access to quality jobs, reduce employment discrimination, and improve industries that employ black workers through action and unionization.

Employment
9
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
10
Sf Partnership

SF Partnership is an organization comprised of SF's leading employers dedicated to supporting an equitable, resilient, and vibrant economy shared by all people working and living in San Francisco. Through education, advocacy, and research,…

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11
Forward Together

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…

Health
12
California Environmental Justice Alliance

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…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Policylink and the most unlike its peers is Saba Grocers Initiative. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsImmigrant Worker SupportWomen & Girls Leadership De…Youth Mentoring ProgramsYouth Development ServicesFaith-Based Social ServicesChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Policy Research and AdvocacyHealth Access Advocacy and …Jewish Community Organizati…Environmental Conservation …Cancer Support ServicesPregnancy Support ServicesDance Arts OrganizationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Local Food System Organizat…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 28 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%10%<5yr14%14%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr19%32%20–35yr14%10%35–55yr14%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%3%<5yr14%3%5–10yr20%4%10–20yr19%9%20–35yr14%2%35–55yr14%79%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/53
the rest of the field
11%
4,714/42,305

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.

04the grantee network

53 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. 53 of the 72 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/53
Grantees still filing
30/53
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Massachusetts Institute of Technology — $7,983,499 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of Technology+3 more — $50,000 · EducationAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY — $1,240,294 · OtherAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETYPUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION ENTERPRISES INC — $175,000 · OtherPUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION…BETH ISRAEL HOSPITAL NEEDHAM — $145,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $100,000 · OtherHURRICANE IDA DIRECT RELIEF — $95,000 · OtherSOCIAL JUSTICE LEARNING INSTITUTE — $100,000 · Other+31 more — $969,500 · Other+31 moreMujeres Unidas y Activas — $250,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTER — $150,000 · Human ServicesChild Care Law Center — $75,000 · Human ServicesAMELIA ANN ADAMS WHOLE LIFE CENTER — $50,000 · Human ServicesColeman Children and Youth Services dba Coleman Advocates for Children & Youth — $50,000 · Human ServicesTRAINING INSTITUTE FOR LEADERSHIP ENRICHMENT — $50,000 · Human Services+3 more — $34,500 · Human ServicesAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $150,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $105,000 · HealthHEALTHY BLACK FAMILIES INC — $75,000 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $60,000 · HealthVITAL CXNS INC — $55,000 · HealthBLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESS — $50,000 · HealthCalifornia Black Womens Health Project — $25,000 · Health+1 more — $15,000 · HealthJUSTICE OUTSIDE — $100,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · PhilanthropySilicon Valley Community Foundation — $100,000 · PhilanthropySOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS — $75,000 · PhilanthropyBEND THE ARC - A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE — $50,000 · PhilanthropyEAT LEARN PLAY FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $10,000 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA BLACK POWER NETWORK — $150,000 · Civil RightsCalMatters — $90,000 · Civil RightsCOALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS — $50,000 · Civil RightsLIBERATION VENTURES INC — $50,000 · Civil RightsNew Orleans Workers Ctr For Racial Justice — $25,000 · Civil Rights+1 more — $10,000 · Civil RightsPICO California — $150,000 · Public Benefit
Education$8,033,499Other$2,824,794Human Services$659,500Health$535,000Philanthropy$455,000Civil Rights$375,000Public Benefit$150,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $7,983,499 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMujeres Unidas y Activas — $250,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetPUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION ENTERPRISES INC — $175,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPICO California — $150,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA BLACK POWER NETWORK — $150,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $105,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJUSTICE OUTSIDE — $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSOCIAL JUSTICE LEARNING INSTITUTE — $100,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSilicon Valley Community Foundation — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCalMatters — $90,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetChild Care Law Center — $75,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetRYSE INC — $75,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHEALTHY BLACK FAMILIES INC — $75,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetSaba Grocers Initiative — $75,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS — $75,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAsian Pacific Environmental Network — $75,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBOSTON BALLET INC — $65,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHALE EDUCATION INC — $59,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetVITAL CXNS INC — $55,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetCOALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMELIA ANN ADAMS WHOLE LIFE CENTER — $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetColeman Children and Youth Services dba Coleman Advocates for Children & Youth — $50,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetBLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESS — $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTRAINING INSTITUTE FOR LEADERSHIP ENRICHMENT — $50,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetPOLICYLINK — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBEND THE ARC - A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE — $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetLIBERATION VENTURES INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPEOPLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetCalifornia Black Womens Health Project — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSan Jose Grail Family Services — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNew Orleans Workers Ctr For Racial Justice — $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCALIFORNIA BUDGET & POLICY CENTER — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTruckee Trails Foundation Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetTahoe Area Mountain Biking Association — $20,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetEAT LEARN PLAY FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLATINO BUSINESS FOUNDATION SILICON VALLEY — $20,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBLACK CALIFORNIANS UNITED FOR EARLY CARE AND EDUCATION — $15,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOWER COALITION FOR EQUITY AND JUSTICE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The San Francisco Fou…The California Wellne…Silicon Valley Commun…East Bay Community Fo…The California Endowm…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Amalgamated Charitabl…Tides FoundationThe James Irvine Foun…Stupski FoundationThe David and Lucile …Women's Foundation of…
The San Francisco FoundationCA35.6× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · The California Endowment · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · Stupski Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Women's Foundation of California

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 Lorber 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 35%
  • The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Boston Ballet Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 72 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines