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The David Lebuhn Foundation at a glance

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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.

$11k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$2k
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 2024.

Arts & Culture$24kEnvironment$13kFood & Nutrition$9kEducation$7kCommunity Improvement$4kRecreation & Sports$3kPublic Safety & Disaster$2kMembership Benefit$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$143k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAN FRANCISCO PLAYHOUSE$2,000
OAKDALE CEMETERY MEMORIAL GARDENS$2,000
KQED (MEMBER SERVICES)$1,100
METROPOLITAN CLUB CAPITAL FUND$1,000
YOUTH TENNIS ADVANTAGE$1,000
WORKD CENTRAL KITCHEN$1,000
GLENBROOK HISTORICAL SOCIETY$1,000
NATURE BRIDGE$1,000
SAINT ANTHONY'S$550
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CALIFORNIA: $600 → 12%UNIVERSITY MONTANA FOUNDATION: $1k → 9%SAN FRANCISCO PLAYHOUSE: $2k → 10%CAPITAL PUBLIC RADIO: $600 → 12%NATURE BRIDGE: $1k → 18%WORKD CENTRAL KITCHEN: $1k → 14%OAKDALE CEMETERY MEMORIAL GARDENS: $2k → 12%GLENBROOK HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1k → 8%KNPB: $800 → 10%NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CALIFORNIA: $600 → 12%SAN FRANCISCO PLAYHOUSE: $2k → 10%CAPITAL PUBLIC RADIO: $600 → 12%NATURE BRIDGE: $1k → 18%WORKD CENTRAL KITCHEN: $1k → 14%OAKDALE MEMORIAL GARDENS: $1k → 12%GLENBROOK HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1k → 8%KNPB: $800 → 10%NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CALIFORNIA: $600 → 12%SAN FRANCISCO PLAYHOUSE: $1k → 10%CAPITAL PUBLIC RADIO: $600 → 12%CITIZENS ADVOCACY CENTER: $600 → 14%OAKDALE MEMORIAL GARDENS: $1k → 12%KNPB: $600 → 10%NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CALIFORNIA: $600 → 12%SAN FRANCISCO PLAYHOUSE: $1k → 10%CAPITAL PUBLIC RADIO: $600 → 12%CITIZENS ADVOCACY CENTER: $600 → 14%OAKDALE MEMORIAL GARDENS: $1k → 12%SAN FRANCISCO PLAYHOUSE: $1k → 10%OAKDALE MEMORIAL GARDENS: $800 → 12%METROPOLITAN CLUB CAPITAL FUND: $1k → 10%OAKDALE MEMORIAL GARDENS: $800 → 12%SF-MARIN FOOD BANK: $1k → 10%SF-MARIN FOOD BANK: $1k → 10%SF-MARIN FOOD BANK: $1k → 10%YOUTH TENNIS ADVANTAGE: $2k → 10%YOUTH TENNIS ADVANTAGE: $1k → 10%NATUREBRIDGE: $900 → 10%NATUREBRIDGE: $900 → 10%NATUREBRIDGE: $900 → 10%NATUREBRIDGE: $660 → 10%NATUREBRIDGE: $660 → 10%KQED (MEMBER SERVICES): $1k → 10%KQED (MEMBER SERVICES): $1k → 10%KQED (MEMBER SERVICES): $1k → 10%KQED (MEMBER SERVICES): $1k → 10%KQED (MEMBER SERVICES): $1k → 10%KQED (MEMBER SERVICES): $800 → 10%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.
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.
$62k · 19 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
6

Total granted

$62k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+19%

Still filing today

79%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 & CultureEnvironmentEducationRecreation & SportsReligionInternationalOther
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

  • SF
    San Francisco Playhouse
    6× · 2019–2024 · $8k · revenue +64%
  • OM
    OAKDALE MEMORIAL GARDENS INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $6k · revenue +2%
  • C5
    CHANNEL 5 PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $4k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • UM
    UNIVERSITY MONTANA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $1k
  • PH
    PARTNERS HOPE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue -80%
  • TH
    TAM HIGH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $500 · revenue +8%
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
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
2
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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3
Silicon Valley Shakespeare

Silicon valley shakespeare is innovating the classics through unique and relevant theatrical experiences that illuminate and inspire modern audiences.

Arts & Culture
4
Millennium School of San Francisco

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…

Education
5
Marin Theatre Company

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…

Arts & Culture
6
The International School of San Francisco

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…

Education
7
The California Channel

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…

—
8
Marin School of the Arts Foundation

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.

Education
9
San Francisco Performances Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
10
Meadows Arts and Technology Elementary School

Instituting a vision that welcomes innovation, honors the past, transforms the future, commands achievement and empowers all children through the arts and technology.

Education
11
Redwood Day School

Redwood day inspires students to reach for their next challenge, embrace differences and develop the intellectual and emotional courage to be ready for anything.

Education
12
Mark Day School

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mill Valley Schools Community Foundation Dba Kiddo; 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.
04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 27 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
13/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OAKDALE MEMORIAL GARDENS INC: $5,600 · OtherOAKDALE MEMORIAL GARDENS INCMETROPOLITAN CLUB CAPITAL FUND: $3,750 · OtherMETROPOLITAN CLUB CAPITAL FUNDSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $3,000 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANKNATURE CONSERVANCY OF CALIFORNIA: $2,400 · OtherNATURE CONSERVANCY OF CALIFORNIAOAKDALE CEMETERY MEMORIAL GARDENS: $2,000 · OtherOAKDALE CEMETERY MEMORIAL GARDENSReed Schools Foundation: $1,800 · OtherReed Schools FoundationSAINT ANTHONY'S: $1,600 · OtherSAINT ANTHONY'SDREW SCHOOL: $1,600 · OtherDREW SCHOOLCITIZENS ADVOCACY CENTER: $1,200 · OtherUNIVERSITY MONTANA FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Other+2 more: $400 · OtherSan Francisco Playhouse: $7,600 · Arts & CultureSan Francisco PlayhouseKQED INC: $7,400 · Arts & CultureKQED INCCHANNEL 5 PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $3,700 · Arts & CultureCHANNEL 5 PUBLIC BROADCASTING INCCAPITAL PUBLIC RADIO FDBA KXPR/KXJZ INC: $3,300 · Arts & CultureCAPITAL PUBLIC RADIO FDBA KXPR/KXJZ INCGLENBROOK HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureGLENBROOK HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCNATUREBRIDGE: $6,620 · EnvironmentNATUREBRIDGESAINT ANTHONYS INC: $1,100 · EnvironmentSAINT ANTHON…LEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE: $3,350 · ReligionREDWOOD HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $1,600 · EducationMILL VALLEY SCHOOLS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION DBA KIDDO: $900 · EducationTAM HIGH FOUNDATION: $500 · EducationYOUTH TENNIS ADVANTAGE: $2,500 · Recreation & SportsFORT MASON CENTER: $200 · Recreation & SportsWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $2,000 · InternationalPARTNERS HOPE FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Health
Other$24,350Arts & Culture$24,000Environment$7,720Religion$3,350Education$3,000Recreation & Sports$2,700International$2,000Health$1,000

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 budgetSan Francisco Playhouse: $7,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKQED INC: $7,400 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNATUREBRIDGE: $6,620 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetOAKDALE MEMORIAL GARDENS INC: $5,600 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetCHANNEL 5 PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $3,700 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE: $3,350 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL PUBLIC RADIO FDBA KXPR/KXJZ INC: $3,300 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH TENNIS ADVANTAGE: $2,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGLENBROOK HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $2,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetReed Schools Foundation: $1,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDREW SCHOOL: $1,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetREDWOOD HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $1,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT ANTHONYS INC: $1,100 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPARTNERS HOPE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMILL VALLEY SCHOOLS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION DBA KIDDO: $900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTAM HIGH FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFORT MASON CENTER: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSIC ON THE HILL INC: $200 over 1y, 0.5% 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 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 GLENBROOK HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds Reed Schools Foundation ↗
  • Who funds DREW SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds REDWOOD HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Jewish Community Fede…Marin Community Found…Williams-Sonoma Inc F…Gordon E and Betty I …The San Francisco Fou…United Way WorldwideAmerican Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Blackbaud Giving …Jpmorgan Chase Founda…
Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & SonomaCA18.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 David Lebuhn Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The David Lebuhn 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%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report 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

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    How do I get to The David Lebuhn Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The David Lebuhn 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 27 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.

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