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The Bunnie and Jerome Sachs Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$19k
Granted FY2024still arriving
27
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$54kEducation$20kCivil Rights$12kHealth$9kYouth Development$8kHousing & Shelter$6kEnvironment$4kInternational$4kOther$0
02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 27 grants below total $12,600, the rows itemized in this filing. The $19,100 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $6,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$250
Median grant
12
States reached
$202k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Bay Area$500
Southern Poverty Law Center$500
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation$500
National Park Trust$500
Arts + Scholars Foundation$500
Z Space Theatre$500
O'Hanlon Center for the Arts$400
Homestead Valley Community Association$300
Black Male Initiative Georgia, Inc.$250
National Teacher Project$250
Planned Parenthood Federation of America$250
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 37% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%OHANLON CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $1k → 8%SEE ATTACHED SCHEDULE: $19k → 9%OLD SKOOL CAFE: $500 → 10%ROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: $5k → 14%NATIONAL TEACHER PROJECT: $500 → 17%NEW TEACHER PROJECT: $500 → 20%SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: $1k → 18%AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $500 → 10%Woodland Cemetery Fnd of Cleveland: $500 → 17%EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE FDN SCHOLAR: $2k → 9%NATIONAL PARK TRUST: $500 → 8%FLOWERING HOPE: $500 → 8%OLD SKOOL CAFE: $500 → 10%ROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: $5k → 14%SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: $1k → 18%AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $500 → 10%EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE FDN SCHOLAR: $1k → 9%NATIONAL PARK TRUST: $500 → 8%OLD SKOOL CAFE: $500 → 10%SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: $1k → 18%AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $500 → 10%EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE FDN SCHOLAR: $1k → 9%NATIONAL PARK TRUST: $500 → 8%OLD SKOOL CAFE: $500 → 10%SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: $1k → 18%AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $500 → 10%EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE FDN SCHOLAR: $1k → 9%NATIONAL PARK TRUST: $500 → 8%OLD SKOOL CAFE: $500 → 10%EDUCATION REFORM NOW: $500 → 17%EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE FDN SCHOLAR: $1k → 9%ELIE WEISEL FOUNDATION FOR HUMANITY: $750 → 17%ELIE WEISEL FOUNDATION FOR HUMANITY: $750 → 17%ELIE WIESEL FOUNDATION FOR HUMANITY: $750 → 17%Z SPACE THEATRE: $1k → 10%ELIE WIESEL FOUNDATION FOR HUMANITY: $750 → 17%Z SPACE THEATRE: $1k → 10%Z SPACE THEATRE: $1k → 10%Z SPACE THEATRE: $1k → 10%AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION: $1k → 17%AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION: $1k → 17%SCHURIG CENTER FOR BRAIN INJURY REC: $1k → 8%AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION: $1k → 17%SCHURIG CENTER FOR BRAIN INJURY REC: $1k → 8%AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION: $1k → 17%SCHURIG CENTER FOR BRAIN INJURY REC: $750 → 8%SCHURIG CENTER FOR BRAIN INJURY REC: $750 → 8%SCHURIG CENTER FOR BRAIN INJURY REC: $750 → 8%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
MN
NY
OH
CA
CO
MD
AL
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$110k · 43 repeat orgs$9k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

43 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
8

Total granted

$110k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+20%

Still filing today

56%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
Arts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementHealthCivil RightsYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • SM
    STRINGS MUSIC FESTIVAL
    5× · 2017–2021 · $25k · revenue +169%
  • RP
    ROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +15%
  • SP
    SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $6k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • ES
    Evergreen State College Fdn Scholarship
    one grant, 2022 · $2k
  • WC
    WOODLAND CEMETERY FOUNDATION OFCLEVELAND OHIO
    one grant, 2021 · $500 · revenue +20%
  • TP
    THE PITUITARY SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2017 · $500
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
Mills College

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…

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2
Monterey Museum of Art

The monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.

Arts & Culture
3
The Uc Davis Foundation

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

Education
4
Museum of Modern Art

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)

Arts & Culture
5
The American Institute of Architects California

The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.

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6
Marin Open Studios

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…

Arts & Culture
7
United States Naval Institute

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.

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8
Association of California School Administrators

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.

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9
Marin Academy

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.

Education
10
Npr Foundation

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…

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11
Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco

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…

Arts & Culture
12
The San Francisco School

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tntp Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

40 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. 40 of the 63 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/40
Grantees still filing
22/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Z SPACE THEATRE: $6,200 · OtherZ SPACE THEATREPrader-Willi Homes of CA: $4,500 · OtherPrader-Willi Homes of CAAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION: $4,500 · OtherAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNIONSCHURIG CENTER FOR BRAIN INJURY REC: $4,250 · OtherSCHURIG CENTER FOR BRAIN INJURY RECEvergreen State College Foundation Scholarship Fund: $4,000 · OtherEvergreen State College Foundation Scholarship …Marin Brain Injury Network Schurig Center for Brain Injury Recovery: $2,250 · OtherEvergreen State College Fdn Scholarship: $2,000 · OtherNATIONAL TEACHER PROJECT: $2,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,750 · Other+30 more: $19,300 · Other+30 moreSTRINGS MUSIC FESTIVAL: $25,000 · Arts & CultureSTRINGS MUSIC FESTIVALROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INCTUESDAY MUSICAL ASSOCIATION: $2,500 · Arts & CultureTUESDAY MUSICAL ASSOCIATION+8 more: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+8 moreTHE EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $6,000 · EducationTHE EVERGR…AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $2,000 · EducationAMERICAN I…MILL VALLEY SCHOOLS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION DBA KIDDO: $800 · EducationMILL VALLE…UCLA FOUNDATION: $500 · EducationTNTP INC: $500 · EducationEDUCATION REFORM NOW INC: $500 · Education+2 more: $550 · EducationSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $6,000 · Crime & LegalTHE ELIE WIESEL FOUNDATION INC: $3,750 · InternationalNATIONAL PARK TRUST INC: $3,500 · EnvironmentOld Skool Cafe: $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentTribe Rising India: $510 · Youth Development
Other$50,750Arts & Culture$42,500Education$10,850Crime & Legal$6,000International$3,750Environment$3,500Youth Development$3,010

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSTRINGS MUSIC FESTIVAL: $25,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $6,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ELIE WIESEL FOUNDATION INC: $3,750 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL PARK TRUST INC: $3,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTUESDAY MUSICAL ASSOCIATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOld Skool Cafe: $2,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMarin Brain Injury Network Schurig Center for Brain Injury Recovery: $2,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPrader-Willi Homes of California: $1,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetO'HANLON CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $1,400 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PITUITARY SOCIETY INC: $1,250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT MUSEUM: $1,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMV GATE INC: $900 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHomestead Valley Community Association: $800 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMILL VALLEY SCHOOLS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION DBA KIDDO: $800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN YOUTH SYMPHONY INC: $700 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MUSICIANS FOUNDATION: $700 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTribe Rising India: $510 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPacific Pinball Museum: $500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWOODLAND CEMETERY FOUNDATION OFCLEVELAND OHIO: $500 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetARTS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTNTP INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDUCATION REFORM NOW INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROSIE THE RIVETER TRUST: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMarin Theatre Company: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OUTDOOR ART CLUB INC: $350 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMAXIMUM HOPE FOUNDATION: $350 over 4y, 0.1% of budget826 Valencia: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA STANDS UP INSTITUTE: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEADERS IGNITING TRANSFORMATION EDUCATION FUND INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORKER POWER INSTITUTE: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLACK MALE INITIATIVE GEORGIA INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS FREEDOM NETWORK EDUCATION FUND: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAY AREA DISCOVERY MUSEUM: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 AMERICAN YOUTH SYMPHONY INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MUSICIANS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Tribe Rising India ↗
  • Who funds Pacific Pinball Museum ↗
  • Who funds WOODLAND CEMETERY FOUNDATION OFCLEVELAND OHIO ↗

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.

Marin Community Found…Tides FoundationLeonard & Beryl Buck …Silicon Valley Commun…Barn Road FoundationVoter Registration Pr…Way to RiseAmalgamated Charitabl…NEO Philanthropy IncThe Ayco Charitable F…Jewish Community Fede…New Venture Fund
Marin Community FoundationCA17.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The Bunnie and Jerome Sachs Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bunnie and Jerome Sachs Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 51%
  • National Park Trust Inc: 51% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.

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 63 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $19k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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