· Private foundation
Lydia and Doug Shorenstein Foundation Inc
Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
97% of Lydia and Doug Shorenstein Foundation Inc’s FY2022 grant dollars went to The San Francisco Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Lydia and Doug Shorenstein Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 11 organizations, $2M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2022.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k10 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $130k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $550k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE | $250,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART | $150,000 |
| CONGREGATION EMANU-EL | $100,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICES | $100,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE INC | $100,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART | $50,000 |
| CONGREGATION EMANU-EL | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL P ORCHESTRA | $25,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART | $25,000 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY INC | $10,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF SF | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–21, $203k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2021, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION4× · 2019–2022 · $3.1M · revenue +51%
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc3× · 2019–2021 · $400k · revenue +24%- BIBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2021 · $15k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- RFREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +165%
- BABay Area Jewish Healing Centerone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -100%
- RIREIMAGINE INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +138%
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.
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.
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How this is measured
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 23 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPORTS HUMANITARIAN GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds American Friends of Tel Aviv Univ ↗
- Who funds HAIRTOSTAY ↗
- Who funds GREENBELT ALLIANCEPEOPLE FOR OPEN SPACE ↗
- Who funds Jewish Film Institute ↗
- Who funds Bay Area Jewish Healing Center ↗
- Who funds REIMAGINE INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Jewish Commmunity High School of the Bay ↗
- Who funds GRABHORN INSTITUTE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · John Pritzker Family Fund · Lisa & Douglas Goldman Fund · Marin Community Foundation · Lisa Stone Pritzker Family Fund · The San Francisco Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lydia and Doug Shorenstein Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lydia and Doug Shorenstein Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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