· Private foundation
Lynn Handleman Charitable 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $864
- $10k–50k9 grants · $263k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $725k
- $250k+1 grant · $685k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GLOBAL EXCHANGE | $685,000 |
| CALIFORNIA TRADE JUSTICE COALITION CO EARTH ISLAND INSTITUTE | $150,000 |
| MI FAMILIA VOTA ED FUND | $150,000 |
| WORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND | $125,000 |
| NATIVE ORGANIZER ALLIANCE | $125,000 |
| SOCIAL FOCUS | $70,000 |
| ALLIANCE FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE | $55,000 |
| FUNDACION DERECHOS ECONOMICOS SOCIALES Y CULTURALES PARA AMERICA LATINA | $50,000 |
| CENTRO DE ESTUDIO PARA LA DEMOCRACIA - CESPAD | $40,000 |
| MIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE | $40,000 |
| TAMARINDO FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| LATIN AMERICA WORKING GROUP | $35,000 |
| NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD SF BAY AREA | $30,000 |
| IGUALTAT | $23,000 |
| CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND POLICY RESEARCH | $20,000 |
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 (FY20–22, $191k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, 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.
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 +57% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 8 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $339k 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
- GEGLOBAL EXCHANGE6× · 2019–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +292% · 45% of their budget
- MFMI FAMILIA EN ACCION2× · 2022–2024 · $300k · revenue +73%
- WAWORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND2× · 2022–2024 · $185k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- CFCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $259k · revenue +67%
- MAMEDIA ALLIANCEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +51%
- CDCENTRO DE ESTUDIOS SOCIO JURIDICOS LATINOAMERICANOS - CESJULone grant, 2023 · $90k
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.
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,…
The Equal Justice Center is a non-profit law firm and employment justice organization which empowers low-income families, workers, and communities to achieve fair treatment in the workplace, in the justice system, and in our shared society…
To achieve social change and economic justice by helping to build a stronger and more unified grassroots movement.
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…
The Guernica Centre for International Justice represents the interests of victims in national and international legal proceedings, putting in place transnational accountability strategies that seek to maximize the protection of victims'…
Pangea's mission is to provide deportation defense services, advocate for policy change, and provide education and legal empowerment for our immigrant communities.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
As one of the most enduring civil rights institutions on the West Coast, we work to dismantle systems of oppression and racism, and build an equitable and just society.
Serve as a partner, educator, and guide for philanthropy in reimagining practices that advance a thriving and just world.
Coalicion por Venezuela Inc is a non-profit federation that unities civil society organizations dedicated to defending and promoting promote human rights, democratic values, and the social and cultural freedoms of Venezuelans and other…
The National Legal Advocacy Network d/b/a Grassroots Law & Organizing for Workers is a legal non-profit organization dedicated to using legal strategies as a tool to build power for marginalized workers and create systemic change through…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mi Familia En Accion and the most unlike its peers is Bay Area Community Law Foundation. 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.
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 22 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
29 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. 29 of the 48 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 GLOBAL EXCHANGE ↗
- Who funds MI FAMILIA EN ACCION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds TRADE JUSTICE EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds WORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds EAST BAY COMMUNITY LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds CASA CIRCULO CULTURAL ↗
- Who funds Education for Peace in Iraq Center ↗
- Who funds MEDIA ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER ↗
- Who funds TRANSNATIONAL VILLAGES NETWORK REDDE PUEBLOS TRASNACIONALES ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR A JUST SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Georgia Coalition for the People's Agenda ↗
- Who funds Western Regional Advocacy Project ↗
- Who funds EAST BAY SANCTUARY COVENANT ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ABOLITIONIST LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Freedom Archives ↗
- Who funds A JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE ↗
- Who funds LATIN AMERICA WORKING GROUP ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL INNOVATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds The Tamarindo Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds OFRENDA INC ↗
- Who funds Bay Area Community Law Foundation ↗
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: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Tides Foundation · Arc of Justice · Tr Edna Wardlaw Charitable Tr Ua Magnolia Trust Company Trustee · The California Wellness Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Handleman Charitable 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.
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.