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Loud Hound 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.

$13M
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$3.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$24MEducation$6.9MEnvironment$4.5MHousing & Shelter$4.0MPublic Benefit$3.2MHuman Services$3.2MCivil Rights$3.1MArts & Culture$1.8MOther$0
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k6 grants · $800k
  • $250k+19 grants · $13M
$250,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$122M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC$3,000,000
WAY TO RISE$2,500,000
CLIMATE AND CLEAN ENERGY EQUITY FUND$1,500,000
THE MIAMI FOUNDATION$750,000
SAN FRANCISCO HOUSING ACCELERATOR FUND$500,000
TIDES CENTER$500,000
NON-PROFIT HOUSING ASSOCIATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA$500,000
BAY AREA COMMUNITY SERVICES$500,000
TENDERLOIN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$300,000
HEALTHRIGHT 360$250,000
BAY AREA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC$250,000
LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES$250,000
EAST BAY ASIAN LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$250,000
3RD STREET YOUTH CENTER & CLINIC$250,000
MISSION ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AGENCY$250,000
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 (FY18–24, $3.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $25k → 10%HOUSING CONSORTIUM OF THE EAST BAY: $100k → 10%EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SAN FRANCISCO: $250k → 10%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $250k → 10%BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC: $3.0M → 17%YMCA OF SAN FRANCISCO: $49k → 10%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

WA
MN
IL
WI
NY
WY
CA
UT
AZ
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX
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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 23% of Loud Hound 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, 22% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 19% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Loud Hound Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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.

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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$22M · 49 repeat orgs$10M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.

49 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 42 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
48

Total granted

$22M
$3.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+5%

Still filing today

92%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.5M 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
Civil RightsPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesOther

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

  • IN
    INTERNEWS NETWORK
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +31%
  • BA
    Bay Area Community Services Inc
    2× · 2019–2024 · $850k · revenue +197%
  • RH
    ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2021 · $525k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • PS
    PROGEORGIA STATE TABLE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue -46%
  • OL
    OFICINA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO UNIDO INC
    one grant, 2020 · $375k · revenue -32%
  • SJ
    SOLUTIONS JOURNALISM NETWORK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $300k · revenue +49%

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 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
3
Public Advocates Inc

For more than five decades, public advocates has challenged the systemic causes of poverty and racial discrimination by strengthening community voices in public policy and achieving tangible legal victories advancing education, housing,…

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4
American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California

The american civil liberties union of northern california (aclu nc union) defends and advances the principles of freedom, equality and justice contained in the united states constitution. aclu nc union, a california mutual benefit…

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5
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
6
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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7
Justice Funders

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

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8
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
9
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
10
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California Inc

The american civil liberties union foundation of northern california (aclu nc foundation) defends and advances the principles of freedom, equality and justice contained in the united states constitution. aclu nc foundation, a california…

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11
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
12
Center for Popular Democracy Inc

The center for popular democracy (cpd) and its affiliates know that everyday people have the power to change the world. we upend business and politics as usual to forge a representative, multiracial government and society where we all…

Public Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Francisco Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Broken Box Mime Theater. 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 FoundationsYouth Development ServicesEnvironmental Conservation …School District FoundationsChristian Missionary Organi…Lgbtq+ Community SupportOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Affordable Housing Developm…Women & Girls Leadership De…Policy Research and Advocacy
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 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%11%5–10yr19%23%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr13%26%35–55yr16%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%22%<5yr14%28%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr16%16%20–35yr13%12%35–55yr16%2%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 22% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/110
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,455

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.

05the grantee network

110 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. 110 of the 125 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)
108/110
Grantees still filing
59/110
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $9,900,000 · PhilanthropyAmalgamated Charitable Foundation I…THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC — $5,250,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC+13 more — $2,179,850 · Philanthropy+13 moreNEW VENTURE FUND — $6,200,000 · EnvironmentNEW VENTURE FUNDCLIMATE AND CLEAN ENERGY EQUITY FUND — $4,500,000 · EnvironmentCLIMATE AND CLEAN ENER…+1 more — $75,000 · EnvironmentWAY TO RISE — $6,500,000 · EducationWAY TO RISECIVIC NEWS COMPANY — $1,750,000 · EducationCIVIC NEWS COMPANYSOLUTIONS JOURNALISM NETWORK INC — $300,000 · Education+6 more — $246,050 · EducationBLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC — $3,000,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTER — $500,000 · Human ServicesEPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SAN FRANCISCO — $250,000 · Human ServicesLarkin Street Youth Services — $250,000 · Human Services+3 more — $174,025 · Human ServicesBay Area Community Services Inc — $850,000 · OtherBay Area Community…NORTH STAR FUND INC — $403,000 · OtherOFICINA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO UNIDO INC — $375,000 · OtherHEALTHRIGHT 360 — $349,350 · OtherINTERNEWS NETWORK — $1,400,000 · OtherINTERNEWS NETWORKBOREALIS PHILANTHROPY — $325,000 · Other+58 more — $5,227,005 · Other+58 morePROGEORGIA STATE TABLE INC — $500,000 · Civil RightsBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC — $475,000 · Civil RightsSTATE VOICES — $210,000 · Civil RightsALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING — $200,000 · Civil RightsJobs with Justice — $200,000 · Civil RightsNEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC — $125,000 · Civil RightsPRESS ON SOUTH INC — $100,000 · Civil RightsDemocracy North Carolina — $100,000 · Civil Rights+11 more — $571,020 · Civil RightsNON-PROFIT HOUSING ASSOCIATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA — $500,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE SAN FRANCISCO HOUSING ACCELERATOR FUND — $500,000 · Housing & ShelterHAMILTON FAMILIES — $405,750 · Housing & ShelterTENDERLOIN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $300,000 · Housing & ShelterNATIONAL LOW INCOME HOUSING COALITION — $250,000 · Housing & ShelterCHINATOWN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $250,000 · Housing & ShelterBOLINAS COMMUNITY LAND TRUST — $170,500 · Housing & ShelterDISH SF — $100,000 · Housing & Shelter
Philanthropy$17,329,850Environment$10,775,000Education$8,796,050Human Services$4,174,025Other$8,929,355Civil Rights$2,481,020Housing & Shelter$2,476,250

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $9,900,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetWAY TO RISE — $6,500,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND — $6,200,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC — $5,250,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetCLIMATE AND CLEAN ENERGY EQUITY FUND — $4,500,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetBLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC — $3,000,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCIVIC NEWS COMPANY — $1,750,000 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetINTERNEWS NETWORK — $1,400,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetBay Area Community Services Inc — $850,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION — $525,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $500,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPROGEORGIA STATE TABLE INC — $500,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetNON-PROFIT HOUSING ASSOCIATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA — $500,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetTHE SAN FRANCISCO HOUSING ACCELERATOR FUND — $500,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC — $475,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetHAMILTON FAMILIES — $405,750 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetNORTH STAR FUND INC — $403,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetOFICINA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO UNIDO INC — $375,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetHEALTHRIGHT 360 — $349,350 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBOREALIS PHILANTHROPY — $325,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTENDERLOIN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $300,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGroundswell Fund — $300,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CLEAR FUND — $300,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSOLUTIONS JOURNALISM NETWORK INC — $300,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetMISSION ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AGENCY — $250,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNATIONAL LOW INCOME HOUSING COALITION — $250,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetMake the Road New York — $250,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCenter on Budget and Policy Priorities — $250,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetEAST BAY ASIAN LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $250,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTE — $250,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC — $250,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SAN FRANCISCO — $250,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHINATOWN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $250,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budget3RD STREET YOUTH CENTER AND CLINIC — $250,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetLarkin Street Youth Services — $250,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSTATE VOICES — $210,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetEAST BAY COMMUNITY LAW CENTER — $200,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING — $200,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND — $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRESOURCE GENERATION INC — $200,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetJobs with Justice — $200,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetTHE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST — $175,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPANISH SPEAKING UNITY COUNCIL OF ALAMEDA COUNTY INC — $170,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBOLINAS COMMUNITY LAND TRUST — $170,500 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $160,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER — $160,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHomeless Prenatal Program Inc — $145,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetKQED INC — $136,020 over 4y, 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.

Crankstart FoundationThe San Francisco Fou…Kelson FoundationAmalgamated Charitabl…Silicon Valley Commun…Tipping Point Communi…The Ford FoundationEast Bay Community Fo…New Venture FundTides FoundationMarin Community Found…Impactassetsinc
Crankstart FoundationCA64.6× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Crankstart Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Kelson Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Tipping Point Community · The Ford Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · New Venture Fund · Tides Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc

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 Loud Hound 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%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Enterprise Community Partners Inc — 22% of income from government
  • New World Symphony Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
30report 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

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Loud Hound Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Loud Hound 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 125 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

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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