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The David Lebuhn 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAN FRANCISCO PLAYHOUSE | $2,000 |
| OAKDALE CEMETERY MEMORIAL GARDENS | $2,000 |
| KQED (MEMBER SERVICES) | $1,100 |
| WORKD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $1,000 |
| GLENBROOK HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| YOUTH TENNIS ADVANTAGE | $1,000 |
| METROPOLITAN CLUB CAPITAL FUND | $1,000 |
| NATURE BRIDGE | $1,000 |
| SAINT ANTHONY'S | $550 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
19 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 1 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- SFSan Francisco Playhouse6× · 2019–2024 · $8k · revenue +64%
- OMOAKDALE MEMORIAL GARDENS INC7× · 2017–2023 · $6k · revenue +2%
- C5CHANNEL 5 PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC7× · 2017–2023 · $4k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- UMUNIVERSITY MONTANA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $1k
- PHPARTNERS HOPE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue -80%
- THTAM HIGH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $500 · revenue +8%
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.
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.
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.
Silicon valley shakespeare is innovating the classics through unique and relevant theatrical experiences that illuminate and inspire modern audiences.
See schedule oto realize the transformative potential of middle school. millennium school believes in developing each student to their fullest potential, this involves providing both a rigorous academic program and a science-based…
Marin theatre company is the bay area's premier mid-size theater and the leading professional theater in the north bay. mtc produces a six-show season of provocative plays by passionate playwrights from the 20th century and today in an…
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…
Our mission is to create opportunities for Marin School of the Arts to innovate and support a quality arts education experience for all of its students.
SFP presents internationally acclaimed and emerging performing artists, introduces innovative programs, and builds new and diversified audiences for the arts through education and outreach activities.
Instituting a vision that welcomes innovation, honors the past, transforms the future, commands achievement and empowers all children through the arts and technology.
Redwood day inspires students to reach for their next challenge, embrace differences and develop the intellectual and emotional courage to be ready for anything.
Innovative and full of heart, mark day school nurtures each child to pursue their curiosity, think critically, embrace challenge with courage and joy, and work in partnership with others to build more caring and inclusive communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mill Valley Schools Community Foundation Dba Kiddo and the most unlike its peers is League to Save Lake Tahoe. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 27 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 San Francisco Playhouse ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds NATUREBRIDGE ↗
- Who funds OAKDALE MEMORIAL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds CHANNEL 5 PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL PUBLIC RADIO FDBA KXPR/KXJZ INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds YOUTH TENNIS ADVANTAGE ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds GLENBROOK HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Reed Schools Foundation ↗
- Who funds REDWOOD HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DREW SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SAINT ANTHONYS INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MILL VALLEY SCHOOLS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION DBA KIDDO ↗
- Who funds TAM HIGH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FORT MASON CENTER ↗
- Who funds MUSIC ON THE HILL INC ↗
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: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Marin Community Foundation · Williams-Sonoma Inc Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · United Way Worldwide · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
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 David Lebuhn 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.
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.
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