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Miranda Lux Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY SURF PROJECT | $30,000 |
| SPROUTS CHEF TRAINING | $25,000 |
| Pie Ranch | $25,000 |
| OLINGA | $20,000 |
| Santa Rosa Junior College Foundatio | $20,000 |
| ICA CRISTO REY ACADEMY | $20,000 |
| Huckleberry Youth Programs | $20,000 |
| NORTH COAST BUILDERS EXCHANGE | $20,000 |
| Sunset Youth Services | $20,000 |
| Spaulding Marine Center | $20,000 |
| LandPaths | $20,000 |
| Conservation Corps of North Bay | $20,000 |
| Santa Rosa Junior College Foundatio | $20,000 |
| MAGNOLIA PROJECT | $20,000 |
| SFJAZZ | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $283k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 82% 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.
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 +37% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
73 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 56 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $180k 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
- GGGIRLS GARAGE6× · 2019–2024 · $100k · revenue +215%
- SCSprouts Chef Training6× · 2017–2025 · $99k · revenue +153%
- SRSANTA ROSA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION6× · 2018–2023 · $95k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- GAGalileo Academy of Science Technoloone grant, 2024 · $25k
Environmental Traveling Companionsone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -7%- CRCOMMON ROOTS FARMone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -10%
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.
Institute for Applied Tinkering IAT develops, practices and shares educational methods that challenge and support all children to engage deeply in their learning via real interests and real tools.
San Francisco Arts and Science Academy (ASA) provides TK5 grade students with a strong foundation in the arts, language, math, and science, fostering creativity, curiosity, and character development. Our bilingual, hands-on curriculum…
The California School-Age Consortium (CalSAC) builds professional networks that provide training, leadership development and advocacy to ensure that all young people have access to high quality out-of-school time programs and to create a…
Talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not. STEM Advantage mentors, prepares, and inspires first-generation, low-income, and underserved college students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). We level…
Youth in Arts builds visual and performing arts skills through innovative and in-depth programs that foster confidence, compassion and resilience in students of all abilities. We develop capacity among educators and teaching artists,…
Hack the Hood provides youth and communities of color with tech skill-building programs and career navigation support that are grounded in justice and ensure economic mobility.
BRIDGEGOOD increases opportunity and digital literacy for under-resourced students with a focus on Black Indigenous and Women People of Color. We prepare first-generation college students for careers in UX UI and Visual Design while…
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,…
Our mission is to spark wonder and intellectual curiosity in each child. We achieve this through a purposeful blend of:Engaging academics custom-tailored to each child's abilities, strengths and interests;An unparalleled social-emotional…
Root Divisions mission is to empower artists, foster community service, inspire youth, and enrich the Bay Area through engagement in the visual arts.
To educate california youth about the operations of local, state, and federal government.
The San Francisco Conservation Corps offers young people opportunities to develop themselves by developing their academic abilities and marketable job skills while addressing community needs through service work
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Techbridge Girls and the most unlike its peers is Cinnamongirl Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
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 163 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 GIRLS GARAGE ↗
- Who funds Sprouts Chef Training ↗
- Who funds SANTA ROSA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF ALAMEDA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds City Surf Project ↗
- Who funds MISSION GRADUATES ↗
- Who funds YES Nature to Neighborhoods ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds BIG SKILLS TINY HOMES ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION CORPS NORTH BAY INC ↗
- Who funds OLINGA LEARNING ↗
- Who funds SANTA ROSA JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Life Learning Academy ↗
- Who funds THE CONTEMPORARY JEWISH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE BREAD PROJECT ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA FILM INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds WATERSIDE WORKSHOPS ↗
- Who funds KORSA MUSICAL THEATER ↗
- Who funds CREDO HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MAGNOLIA GLOBAL ACADEMY FOR LEADERS ↗
- Who funds OAKLAND SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds Friends of SCRAP Inc ↗
- Who funds BERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds NORTH COAST BUILDERS EXCHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds ON THE MOVE ↗
- Who funds YouthBeat ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SPIRIT ARTWORKS ↗
- Who funds THE CALIFORNIA 4-H FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ENTERPRISE FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds New Conservatory Theatre Center ↗
- Who funds LandPaths ↗
- Who funds 826 Valencia ↗
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: Bothin Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · East Bay Community Foundation · The Henry Mayo Newhall Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Joseph and Vera Long Foundation · The Dean Witter Foundation · The Morris Stulsaft Foundation · Mary a Crocker Trust
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 Miranda Lux 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.
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