· Private foundation
The Elizabeth 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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $76k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $285k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NARRATIVE 4 - THE TIDES CENTER | $125,000 |
| THE POLG FOUNDATION | $110,000 |
| SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| THE THACHER SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| AHA ACADEMY OF HEALING ARTS | $20,000 |
| ISLESBORO COMMUNITY CENTER | $13,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,250 |
| THE TELOS GROUP | $5,000 |
| HORIZONS YOUTH ENRICHMENT PROGRAM INC | $2,500 |
| O-HIGHER ED | $1,000 |
| HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| PLAN USA | $924 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–22, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 33% of those 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 +73% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 8 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- N4NARRATIVE 4 INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +733%
- TPTHE POLG FOUNDATION INC4× · 2021–2024 · $410k · revenue +300%
- TTThe Thacher School Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $274k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- AFARTWORKS FOR YOUTH INCone grant, 2018 · $80k
FRACTURED ATLAS INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +63%- FSFOOD SHARE OF VENTURAone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
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 create transformative learning experiences that empower a diverse community of students to lead lives of intellectual curiosity, personal integrity, and compassionate contribution to a more just world.
Pitzer College produces engaged socially responsible citizens of the world through an academically rigorous, interdisciplinary liberal arts education emphasizing social justice, intercultural understanding and environmental sensitivity.…
The Island School provides a flexible learning environment where each child is known and celebrated.
Santa Barbara Education Foundation (SBEF) provides and supports programs that enrich the academic, artistic, and personal development of all students in the Santa Barbara Unified School District.
Presidio hill school is a co-ed k-8 independent, progressive school. learning is collaborative and an active experience with an emphasis on inquiry. students are engaged in their own learning and guided by an expert faculty through a…
The institution provides educational instruction and activities to students ranging from preschool through 8th grade.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
The international school of los angeles is a non-profit, independent, international school committed to bilingual education and academic excellence in a nurturing environment.our mission is to develop bilingual critical thinkers who are…
Through a commitment to immersive learning, we prepare students to lead engaged, consequential, and creative lives, contribute to their communities, and address the world's most challenging problems.
Hollywood Schoolhouse knows, values, and encourages fearless curiosity. Through a blended program of innovative academics and structured learning, our diverse community inspires students to be academically strong, artistically proud,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is International Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Pripet Riding Program. 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 31 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 44 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 NARRATIVE 4 INC ↗
- Who funds THE POLG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Thacher School Inc ↗
- Who funds PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Islesboro Community Center ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds MISS HALL'S SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Telos Group Inc ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds The Beacon Project ↗
- Who funds PLAN INTERNATIONAL USA INC ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds O-HIGHER ED ↗
- Who funds ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Islesboro Islands Trust ↗
- Who funds HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HELP OF OJAI INC ↗
- Who funds The Art Base ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES ACT ↗
- Who funds PRIPET RIDING PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENT SCHOOL ALLIANCE FOR MINORITY AFFAIRS ↗
- Who funds LAS MADRINAS ↗
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: Clarence & Anne Dillon Dunwalke Trust · Windhover Foundation · The Dillon Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Elizabeth 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.