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Niebla Foundation Inc

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.

$445k
Granted FY2023
22
Grants FY2023
22
Organizations funded FY2023
5%
First-time grantees FY2023
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94% of Niebla Foundation Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 15 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Niebla Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 15 organizations, $445k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

17
’20
16
’21
15
’22
15
’23
15
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2023
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$60,000
Organizations funded a year
22 to 23
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$7.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 5% of the organizations Niebla Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202322$445k5%
FY202222$413k0%
FY202123$258k4%
FY202023$254kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Philanthropy$6.1MAnimals$561kFood & Nutrition$240kEnvironment$205kHuman Services$186kHousing & Shelter$168kArts & Culture$160kHealth$85kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Conservation Society of California$180,00050%
Lifemoves$115,00040%
The Marine Mammal Center$105,00050%
Wildcare$95,00052%
Samaritan House$95,00050%
Community Music Center$90,00050%
International Bird Rescue$87,50051%
Peninsula Volunteers Inc$71,00050%
Kqed Inc$60,00050%
Community Service Agency$50,00055%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($598k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Niebla Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetConservation Society of California: $180,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetLifemoves: $115,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Marine Mammal Center: $105,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWildcare: $95,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetSamaritan House: $95,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Music Center: $90,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetInternational Bird Rescue: $87,500 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetPeninsula Volunteers Inc: $71,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetKqed Inc: $60,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Service Agency: $50,000 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetThe San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $47,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTrust for Hidden Villa: $45,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetThe Trust for Public Land: $42,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEcumenical Hunger Program: $40,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSt Francis Center of Redwood City: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSan Francisco Food Bank: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWehope: $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity School of Music and Arts: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGolden Gate Bird Alliance Prev Golden Gate Audubon Society Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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.

The David and Lucile Packard FoundationCA21.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Embarcadero Media Foundation · Atkinson Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The San Francisco Foundation · The Palo Alto Community Fund · San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc · Second Harvest of Silicon Valley · Bothin Foundation · Philanthropic Ventures Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Niebla Foundation Inc

How much does Niebla Foundation Inc give?
Niebla Foundation Inc reported 22 grants totaling $445,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 23 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Niebla Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (77%), Animals (7%), Food & Nutrition (3%).
Who are Niebla Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Conservation Society of California ($180k), Lifemoves ($115k), The Marine Mammal Center ($105k).
Does Niebla Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Niebla Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Niebla Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Embarcadero Media Foundation.
Where is Niebla Foundation Inc based?
Niebla Foundation Inc is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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