· Private foundation
The Bunnie and Jerome Sachs 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.
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.
The 27 grants below total $12,600 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $19,100 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $6,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Tuesday Musical Association | $2,500 |
| Evergreen State College Foundation Scholarship Fund | $2,000 |
| Prader-Willi Homes of CA | $1,000 |
| Schurig Center for Brain Injury Recovery | $750 |
| Arts + Scholars Foundation | $500 |
| Z Space Theatre | $500 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Bay Area | $500 |
| Southern Poverty Law Center | $500 |
| National Park Trust | $500 |
| American Civil Liberties Union Foundation | $500 |
| O'Hanlon Center for the Arts | $400 |
| Homestead Valley Community Association | $300 |
| National Teacher Project | $250 |
| Black Male Initiative Georgia, Inc. | $250 |
| Worker Power Institute | $250 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 37% of your 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +27% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- SMSTRINGS MUSIC FESTIVAL5× · 2017–2021 · $25k · revenue +239%
- RPROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +15%
- SPSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $6k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- ESEvergreen State College Fdn Scholarshipone grant, 2022 · $2k
- TPTHE PITUITARY SOCIETY INCone grant, 2017 · $500
- TITNTP INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue +177%
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.
Mills college is an independent liberal arts college for women and gender nonbinary students, with graduate programs for all genders. the college educates students to think critically and communicate responsibly and effectively, to accept…
The monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.
Marin open studios is a non-profit visual arts organization dedicated to engaging and supporting marin county artists and their audiences through events, programs and services. marin open studios champions a diverse and inclusive community…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
Marin academy asks every individual to think, question, and create in an environment of encouragement and compassion, and challenges each person to accept the responsibilities posed by education in a democratic society.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…
A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tntp Inc and the most unlike its peers is Woodland Cemetery Foundation Ofcleveland Ohio. 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 35 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 68 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 STRINGS MUSIC FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ELIE WIESEL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds TUESDAY MUSICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Old Skool Cafe ↗
- Who funds Marin Brain Injury Network Schurig Center for Brain Injury Recovery ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Prader-Willi Homes of California ↗
- Who funds O'HANLON CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE PITUITARY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds LOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MV GATE INC ↗
- Who funds Homestead Valley Community Association ↗
- Who funds MILL VALLEY SCHOOLS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION DBA KIDDO ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MUSICIANS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN YOUTH SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds Tribe Rising India ↗
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 · Tides Foundation · Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Barn Road Foundation · Voter Registration Project · Way to Rise · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · NEO Philanthropy Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · New Venture Fund
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 The Bunnie and Jerome Sachs 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.
- National Park Trust Inc — 51% 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.