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Lynn Braitman Inspire Fund
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $32k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THACHER SCHOOL | $70,000 |
| THE BRIGID ALLIANCE | $12,000 |
| VENTURA LAND TRUST | $10,000 |
| DOUGY CENTER | $10,000 |
| SPIRIT OF SANTA PAULA | $8,000 |
| PROJECT ONWARDS INC | $5,000 |
| OJAI VALLEY LAND CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| LOS PADRES FOREST WATCH | $5,000 |
| OJAI RAPTOR CENTER | $5,000 |
| KCRW | $5,000 |
| VENTURA BOTANIC GARDENS | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL INDIGENOUS WOMENS RESOURCE | $4,700 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 100% of Lynn Braitman Inspire Fund’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, 74% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +81% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TTThe Thacher School Inc2× · 2022–2024 · $250k · revenue +22%
- TBTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC3× · 2022–2024 · $47k · revenue +7%
- LPLOS PADRES FORESTWATCH INC4× · 2021–2024 · $30k · revenue +81%
Funded once
SAN FRANCISCO STUDY CENTER INCone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -2%- SBSANTA BARBARA CNTY FIREMAN'S BENEVOone grant, 2021 · $20k
- CACLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INCone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -2%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
The primary and specific purpose for which the said corporation is formed is to empower individuals, businesses and communities to take actions today that achieve environmental and economic sustainability. The activities of the corporation…
Rogue Climate's mission is to empower Southern Oregon communities most impacted by climate change including low-income, rural, youth, seniors & communities of color, to win climate justice by organizing for clean energy, sustainable jobs &…
The Alliance for Collective Action convenes leaders of environmental and social movements to advance solutions for a thriving planet. We advance our mission through the Alliance Center building and community, as well as through Collective…
Oregon Wild works to protect and restore Oregon's wildlands, wildlife and waters as an enduring legacy for future generations.
Empowering life-affirming decisions
We conserve the lands and waters of California's heartland.
California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.
Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…
Transform works to ensure that people of all incomes thrive in a world safe from climate chaos.
Taproot Earth works with communities to support strategies around the use of water, energy and land.
To protect the rainforest and advance the rights of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. We partner with Indigenous communities in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability, and the preservation of the Amazon Basin's…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Access Reproductive Care - Southeast and the most unlike its peers is Indigenous Women Rising Indigeous Women Rising. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 24 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds The Thacher School Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds LOS PADRES FORESTWATCH INC ↗
- Who funds THE DOUGY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO STUDY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VENTURA LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Ojai Raptor Center ↗
- Who funds CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds EVERGREEN COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST ACCESS COALITION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds INDIGENOUS WOMEN RISING INDIGEOUS WOMEN RISING ↗
- Who funds ACCESS REPRODUCTIVE CARE - SOUTHEAST ↗
- Who funds THE OJAI VALLEY LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SPIRIT OF SANTA PAULA ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · Monimos Foundation · David & Sylvia Weisz Foundation · Ventura County Community Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Network for Good · Impactassetsinc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Lynn Braitman Inspire Fund 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Dougy Center Inc — 1% of income from government
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.
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