California · Private foundation
Ls Foundation
Its FY2020 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $665k
- Granted FY2020
- 1
- Grants FY2020
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2020
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2020
- Median grant, FY2020
- $665,000
- Largest grant, FY2020
- $665,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 29
- FY2017 to FY2020
- States reached, FY2020
- 1
- Total assets, FY2020
- $6.4M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2020, 0% of the organizations Ls Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2020, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2020 | 1 | $665k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $500k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 21 | $452k | 24% |
| FY2017 | 29 | $430k | n/a |
100% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.
Education$1.7MHealth$129kScience & Tech$120kArts & Culture$92kInternational$15kRecreation & Sports$10kEnvironment$5kHousing & Shelter$5kOther$0
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of California- Davis | $160,000 | 2 | n/a |
| President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College | $157,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Kalamazoo College | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Computer History Museum | $100,000 | 2 | 1% |
| California State University Sacramento | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sutter Bay Medical Foundation | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| San Francisco Symphony | $35,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Western Michigan University | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| American Conservatory Theatre Foundation | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 18 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of California- Davis | $160,000 | 2 | n/a |
| President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College | $157,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Kalamazoo College | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Computer History Museum | $100,000 | 2 | 1% |
| California State University Sacramento | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sutter Bay Medical Foundation | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| San Francisco Symphony | $35,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Western Michigan University | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| American Conservatory Theatre Foundation | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Children's Health Council Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Mercy Corps | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Corporation of the Fine Arts Museums | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Save The Children Federation Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Bay Area Cancer Connections | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Kqed Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ls Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.
About Ls Foundation
- How much does Ls Foundation give?
- Ls Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $665,000 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 29 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
- What does Ls Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are Education (82%), Health (6%), Science & Tech (6%).
- Who are Ls Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: University of California- Davis ($160k), President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College ($157k), Kalamazoo College ($100k).
- Does Ls Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2020, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ls Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Where is Ls Foundation based?
- Ls Foundation is based in CA.
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