· Private foundation
Mydar 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 FY2019–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- $10k–50k11 grants · $215k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $115k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Jewish Educational and Cultural Cen | $115,000 |
| A Home Within | $35,000 |
| Girl Scouts of Northern California | $30,000 |
| Monkey Tail Ranch | $25,000 |
| Portland Animal Welfare | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| Marley's Mutts Dog Rescue | $20,000 |
| Manassehs Children | $15,000 |
| Girls Garage | $15,000 |
| Students Rising Above | $10,000 |
| Angling for Relief | $10,000 |
| Planet Bee Foundation | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–23, $150k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +47% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2023, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k 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
- GSGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA3× · 2021–2023 · $195k · revenue +33%
- AHA HOME WITHIN INC4× · 2020–2023 · $95k · revenue +347%
- PAPORTLAND ANIMAL WELFARE TEAM5× · 2019–2023 · $74k · revenue +215%
Funded once
- LLLA LGBT Centerone grant, 2020 · $20k
- JEJEWISH EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL CENTERMAKOR INCone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -75%
- TMThe Monarch School Monarch Institute for Neurological Diffgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $13k · revenue +34%
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.
To educate and inspire girls to become innovators and leaders in stem.
To inspire all girls to be strong, smart, and bold and to respect themselves and the world around them.Girls Incorporated of the Central Coast offers a constellation of programs that deliver innovative, multi-faceted activities designed to…
GirlVentures provides outdoor programs during the summer and afterschool year round for Bay Area girls age 11-17. Our mission is to inspire girls to lead through outdoor adventure, inner discovery and collective action.
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
to prepare today's girls to be the leaders, agents of change, and thriving women of tomorrow. We mobilize girls' champions to address barriers facing girls, create conditions for their success, and advance systemic change to achieve equity.
Mindful school's mission is to empower educators to spark change from the inside out by cultivating awareness, resilience, and compassionate action.
To educate children in grades transitional kindergarten - 8th. prospect sierra combines impactful academic experiences with a keen understanding of human emotions to help shape the world's compassionate future leaders. prospect sierra…
Santa catalina school exists to develop in each student a striving for excellence, a maturing awareness of moral and spiritual values, a sense of responsible purpose, and a determination to serve the world with courage, grace, and…
We cultivate the boundless potential of highly gifted children, nurture their passions and talents, and develop a diverse community of creative and constructive lifelong learners.
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
See schedule oto realize the transformative potential of middle school. millennium school believes in developing each student to their fullest potential, this involves providing both a rigorous academic program and a science-based…
Innovative and full of heart, mark day school nurtures each child to pursue their curiosity, think critically, embrace challenge with courage and joy, and work in partnership with others to build more caring and inclusive communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Operations Warrior Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Manasseh's Children Dba Ujamaa-Africa. 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 29 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 30 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 GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds A HOME WITHIN INC ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND ANIMAL WELFARE TEAM ↗
- Who funds The Monkey Tail Ranch Inc ↗
- Who funds ECOTRUST ↗
- Who funds SUMMER SEARCH ↗
- Who funds GIRLS GARAGE ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER ↗
- Who funds Sustainable Conservation ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR STUDENTS RISING ABOVE ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MANASSEH'S CHILDREN DBA UJAMAA-AFRICA ↗
- Who funds PLANET BEE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARLEY'S MUTTS DOG RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL CENTERMAKOR INC ↗
- Who funds The Monarch School Monarch Institute for Neurological Diff ↗
- Who funds WARDROBE FOR OPPORTUNITY ↗
- Who funds United Way of Merced County ↗
- Who funds KIDPOWER TEENPOWER FULLPOWER INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds GIRLS BUILD ↗
- Who funds MONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR 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: Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The Joseph and Vera Long Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · East Bay Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · AbbVie Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 Mydar 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Ecotrust — 14% 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.