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Sarnat Family Foundation at a glance

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Sarnat Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$11M
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$8.3M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Public Benefit$9.6MPhilanthropy$4.8MInternational$795kEnvironment$325kCivil Rights$251kScience & Tech$250kHealth$200kEmployment$100kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k3 grants · $378k
  • $250k+2 grants · $10M
$228,200
Median grant
4
States reached
$3.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Protect Democracy Project$8,325,000
Jewish Community Federation$1,900,000
New Israel Fund$228,200
Open Medicine Foundation$100,000
Style Her Empowered Inc$50,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Asian American Advancing Justice - ATLANTA: $100k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
IL
NY
MA
CA
NC
DC
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

14%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 4 repeat orgs$12M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against -4% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
13

Total granted

$1.9M
$3.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
-4%

Still filing today

50%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentInternationalCivil RightsHuman ServicesCrime & LegalHealthOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SF ENDOWMENT FUND
    3× · 2017–2019 · $1.2M
  • TJ
    The Jewish Community Federation
    2× · 2022–2023 · $400k
  • OM
    OPEN MEDICINE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $200k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $1.2M
  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF THE NORTHERN TRUST COMPANY
    one grant, 2021 · $822k
  • SB
    SHANTI BHAVAN CHILDREN'S PROJECT INC
    one grant, 2024 · $325k · revenue 0%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

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2
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
3
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

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.

Crime & Legal
4
Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology Inc

Using legal advocacy to make advances in science and technology safer for people and the planet.

Science & Tech
5
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
6
Upturn Inc

Upturn advances equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of technology.

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7
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

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,…

Employment
8
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
9
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
10
Center for International Environmental Law Inc

To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…

International
11
Fund for Justice

Fund for Justice is a nationally connected social impact research and advocacy organization that works to achieve fundamental, systemic reform by addressing policies and practicies that prevent individuals from reaching their full…

Crime & Legal
12
Allied Climate Partners Inc

Allied climate partners' (acp) mission is to invest catalytic capital to resolve climate finance bottlenecks in emerging markets and developing economies by fostering, supporting, promoting, and conducting programs, projects, and…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Venture Fund; the most unlike its peers is Earthjustice. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 23 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
5/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT: $8,325,000 · Civil RightsPROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECTIndividual grant recipient: $1,200,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SF ENDOWMENT FUND: $1,193,534 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION …JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF THE NORTHERN TRUST COMPANY: $821,744 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION …The Jewish Community Federation: $400,000 · OtherThe Jewish Community Federat…+7 more: $456,500 · Other+7 moreJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA: $1,900,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNI…HOPEWELL FUND: $100,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropyNEW ISRAEL FUND: $395,200 · InternationalSHANTI BHAVAN CHILDREN'S PROJECT INC: $325,000 · InternationalTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $250,000 · InternationalNEW VENTURE FUND: $250,000 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICE: $250,000 · EnvironmentTHE ALLIANCE FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION: $45,280 · EnvironmentOPEN MEDICINE FOUNDATION: $200,000 · HealthASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE ATLANTA INC: $100,000 · Human Services
Civil Rights$8,325,000Other$4,071,778Philanthropy$2,100,000International$970,200Environment$545,280Health$200,000Human Services$100,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA: $1,900,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND: $395,200 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSHANTI BHAVAN CHILDREN'S PROJECT INC: $325,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $250,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOPEN MEDICINE FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetPROTECT DEMOCRACY UNITED: $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE ATLANTA INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetStyle Her Empowered Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetSOUTHERN COALITION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: $100,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALLIANCE FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION: $45,280 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA9.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Sarnat Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sarnat Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Sarnat Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Sarnat Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 23 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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