· Private foundation
The Handlery Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $201k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BLOOD CANCER UNITED | $20,608 |
| CALIFORNIA HOTEL & LODGING ASSOCIATION HOSPITALITY FOUNDATION | $20,367 |
| DIRECT RELIEF | $20,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $15,749 |
| THE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION (SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY) | $15,307 |
| SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY | $15,307 |
| CAL STATE EAST BAY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC | $15,307 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO | $15,307 |
| CAL POLY POMONA PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION | $15,307 |
| TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY | $15,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY CORPORATION SAN FRANCISCO STATE | $12,500 |
| ST ANTHONY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN HOTEL & LODGING EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| OK PROGRAM OF OAKLAND | $5,000 |
| PASADENA HUMANE | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $74k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those 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.
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 +34% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
43 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k 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
- BCBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC9× · 2017–2025 · $192k · revenue +4%
University of San Francisco9× · 2017–2025 · $134k · revenue +14%- CHCalifornia Hotel & Lodging Association Hospitality Foundation5× · 2021–2025 · $99k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- BABELOVED ASHEVILLEone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2023 · $20k
SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +42%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is By the Bay Health and the most unlike its peers is California Hotel & Lodging Association Hospitality Foundation. 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 43 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
53 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. 53 of the 75 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 BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds University of San Francisco ↗
- Who funds California Hotel & Lodging Association Hospitality Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE AHLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds CALIFONIA STATE UNIVERSITY EAST BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CAL POLY POMONA PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAL STATE EAST BAY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UPTOWN TENDERLOIN INC ↗
- Who funds SFMade Inc ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood Shasta-Diablo Inc ↗
- Who funds Larkin Street Youth Services ↗
- Who funds San Francisco Safehouse ↗
- Who funds HOTEL AND RESTAURANT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds GLIDE MEMORIAL CHURCH ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds BELOVED ASHEVILLE ↗
- Who funds OK PPROGRAM OF OAKLAND ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds EAT LEARN PLAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds DELANCEY STREET CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds TENDERLOIN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
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: The San Francisco Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · East Bay Community Foundation · Crankstart Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Tipping Point Community · United Way of the Bay Area · The Bessemer Giving Fund · McNabb Foundation · The California Wellness 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 Handlery 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.