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Robert and Lisa Margolis Family 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.

$3.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$1.7M
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 73% of ROBERT AND LISA MARGOLIS FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $288k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $845k
  • $250k+2 grants · $2.7M
$50,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$88M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DUKE UNIVERSITY CONCENTRATION$1,710,000
CALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATIO$1,025,000
CANINE COMPANIONS$100,000
US VETS$100,000
AQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC$100,000
SAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE$95,000
CAMPBELL HALL$90,000
USC NIEGHBORHOOD ACADEMIC INTIATIVE$75,000
ST JOSEPH'S CENTER$75,000
Individual grant recipient$60,000
FOOD FORWARD$50,000
ACCOUNTABLE FOR HEALTH INSTITUTE$50,000
SWIPE OUT HUNGER$50,000
NATURE BRIDGE$32,500
MENDEZ NATIONAL INST OF TRANSPLANTA$30,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SWIPE OUT HUNGER: $150k → 14%ACCOUNTABLE FOR HEALTH INSTITUTE: $50k → 14%HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES: $250 → 13%SWIPE OUT HUNGER: $128k → 14%SWIPE OUT HUNGER: $75k → 14%SWIPE OUT HUNGER: $50k → 14%SWIPE OUT HUNGER: $50k → 14%SWIPE OUT HUNGER: $25k → 14%GRIEF HAVEN: $25k → 14%GRIEF HAVEN: $10k → 14%GRIEF HAVEN: $10k → 14%GRIEF HAVEN: $10k → 14%GRIEF HAVEN: $5k → 14%GRIEF HAVEN: $3k → 14%GRIEF HAVEN: $3k → 14%US VETS: $100k → 14%US VETS: $100k → 14%US VETS: $100k → 14%US VETS: $100k → 14%US VETS: $100k → 14%THE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $15k → 14%ST JOSEPH'S CENTER: $75k → 14%THE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $10k → 14%ST JOSEPH'S CENTER: $75k → 14%THE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $10k → 14%ST JOSEPH'S CENTER: $50k → 14%THE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $10k → 14%ST JOSEPH'S CENTER: $30k → 14%THE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $10k → 14%ST JOSEPH'S CENTER: $25k → 14%FOOD ON FOOT: $1k → 14%FOOD ON FOOT: $1k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NY
MA
NV
IN
OH
NJ
CT
CA
MO
TN
NC
DC
HI
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$28M · 42 repeat orgs$847k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +60% since the first grant, against +44% for the ones you funded once.

42 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
38

Total granted

$28M
$722k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+44%

Still filing today

52%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEnvironmentEducationHealthAnimalsFood & NutritionOther

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

  • CS
    CALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $3.6M · revenue +14%
  • US
    UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE
    5× · 2018–2024 · $500k · revenue +97%
  • AO
    AQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC CORPORATION
    5× · 2018–2024 · $500k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • DH
    DIGNITY HEALTHgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +33%
  • TM
    THE MAYORS FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADO
    one grant, 2023 · $50k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
2
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
3
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
4
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
5
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
6
Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
7
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
8
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
9
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.

Philanthropy
10
California Dental Association Foundation

The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.

Science & Tech
11
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.

Animals
12
Uc Riverside Foundation

To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Houston Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Foster Children. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Arts OrganizationsAnimal Rescue and AdoptionNative Hawaiian Community D…Jewish Community FederationsPublic Library SupportCancer Support OrganizationsIndependent K-8 SchoolsWildlife Rehabilitation Cen…Urban Agriculture & Food Ac…Public University Foundatio…Domestic Violence Crisis Se…Land Conservation Organizat…Food Pantries & AssistanceVeteran Support ServicesCommunity Health Centers
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%35%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr16%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr13%10%35–55yr16%53%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/52
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,513

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.

04the grantee network

48 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 48 of the 86 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/48
Grantees still filing
33/48
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DUKE UNIVERSITY CONCENTRATION — $11,682,283 · OtherDUKE UNIVERSITY CONCENTRATIONGOLDMAN SACHS DONOR ADVISED FUNDS — $5,930,847 · OtherGOLDMAN SACHS DONOR ADVISED FUNDS+56 more — $4,248,366 · Other+56 moreCALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION — $3,578,335 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA SC…UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE — $500,000 · Human ServicesSWIPE OUT HUNGER — $478,000 · Human ServicesCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $373,000 · Human ServicesST JOSEPH CENTER — $255,000 · Human ServicesThe Erika Whitmore Godwin Foundation — $65,000 · Human Services+5 more — $108,250 · Human ServicesAQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC CORPORATION — $500,000 · Animals+3 more — $31,000 · AnimalsYEAR UP INC — $450,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $50,000 · EducationIndiana University Foundation — $25,000 · Education+2 more — $6,000 · EducationSAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE — $338,000 · EnvironmentNATUREBRIDGE — $147,500 · Environment+5 more — $25,020 · EnvironmentCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $347,243 · Community Improvement
Other$21,861,496Arts & Culture$3,578,335Human Services$1,779,250Animals$531,000Education$531,000Environment$510,520Community Improvement$347,243

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION — $3,578,335 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetUNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE — $500,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC CORPORATION — $500,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSWIPE OUT HUNGER — $478,000 over 6y, 24% of budgetYEAR UP INC — $450,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $373,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $347,243 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE — $338,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetST JOSEPH CENTER — $255,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD FORWARD INC — $185,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLAND OF THE FREE FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetNATUREBRIDGE — $147,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $125,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDIGNITY HEALTH — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Erika Whitmore Godwin Foundation — $65,000 over 7y, 7.3% of budgetTHE MIDNIGHT MISSION — $55,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCHRYSALIS CENTER — $55,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVENICE FAMILY CLINIC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MISSION CONTINUES — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RAPE FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAccountable for Health Institute — $50,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK — $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWESTSIDE FOOD BANK — $35,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCHOC FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIndiana University Foundation — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTRONG FOODLA KITCHEN — $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAROLINA TIGER RESCUE — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA CATALINA ISLAND CONSERVANCY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CORAL RESTORATION FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetInstitute for Exceptional Care — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOjai Raptor Center — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHAW RIVER ASSEMBLY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetDa Vinci Schools — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREDWOOD FOREST FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD ON FOOT — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN CARE FOUNDATION — $1,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE THE MANATEE CLUB INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF FOSTER CHILDREN — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMILL VALLEY LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $20 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 CALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION
  • Who funds UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE
  • Who funds AQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC CORPORATION
  • Who funds SWIPE OUT HUNGER
  • Who funds YEAR UP INC
  • Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC
  • Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS
  • Who funds SAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE
  • Who funds ST JOSEPH CENTER
  • Who funds FOOD FORWARD INC
  • Who funds LAND OF THE FREE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds NATUREBRIDGE
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
  • Who funds DIGNITY HEALTH
  • Who funds The Erika Whitmore Godwin Foundation
  • Who funds THE MIDNIGHT MISSION
  • Who funds CHRYSALIS CENTER
  • Who funds VENICE FAMILY CLINIC
  • Who funds THE MISSION CONTINUES
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE RAPE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Accountable for Health Institute

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.

Jewish Community Foundation of Los AngelesCA18.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · California Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Wm Keck Foundation · The Confidence Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America

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 Robert and Lisa Margolis Family 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • The Coral Restoration Foundation Inc16% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc0% of income from government
  • Rutgers University Foundation0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 86 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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