· Private foundation
The Lasher Foundation Inc
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 $10k3 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $317k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $400k
- $250k+2 grants · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MONTAGE HEALTH FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY - NEUROLOGICAL | $250,000 |
| TAHOE FUND | $150,000 |
| SACRAMENTO FOOD BANK | $100,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $100,000 |
| AMERICAN RIVER PARKWAY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| HELP HOPE LIVE | $45,000 |
| MONTEREY SYMPHONY | $25,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN OF N | $20,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| DEL PASO FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| BATTLEFIELDS TO BALLFIELDS | $20,000 |
| SACRAMENTO CHILDRENS HOME | $20,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $116k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 63% 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 +66% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 7 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, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $721k 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
- SFSACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICES8× · 2017–2025 · $134k · revenue +103%
- HIHELPHOPELIVE INC2× · 2022–2025 · $50k · revenue +41%
- TDTHE DEL PASO FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2025 · $44k · revenue +160%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $12k
- CVCHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE COUNTYone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -24%
- MFMAKAI FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $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.
Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
Inform and improve public policy in california through independent, objective, nonpartisan research
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: Caring for our patients first and our people always. VISION: To be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
Caltrout's mission is ensuring healthy water and resilient wild fish for a better california. we share a common vision of a california where healthy waters flow from headwaters to sea. where the diversity and resilience of our waters and…
See schedule othe mission of ucsf health medical foundation is threefold: 1) to establish, operate and maintain medical clinics for the provision of healthcare services in california; 2) to promote health by providing, coordinating,…
The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.
The Chile-California Council is a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to developing and promoting joint endeavors and cooperative relations between Chile and California, as well as individuals, legal entities and other institutions in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tahoe Fund and the most unlike its peers is Bissell Pet Foundation. 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 30 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
57 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. 57 of the 90 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 MONTAGE HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TAHOE FUND ↗
- Who funds SACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN RIVER PARKWAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HELPHOPELIVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE DEL PASO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds SACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds Rainbow Chamber Foundation ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY COUNTY SYMPHONY ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC RECREATION UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds TAHOE NORDIC SEARCH & RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds BATTLEFIELDS TO BALLFIELDS ↗
- Who funds PULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DENTISTRY 4 VETS ↗
- Who funds SACRAMENTO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BLACKHAWKS SOCCER CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds MAUI HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Fairytale Town Inc ↗
- Who funds THE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MAKAI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAUI PREPARATORY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Twin Lakes Food Bank ↗
- Who funds THE DAVIS PHOENIX COALITION ↗
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: Sacramento Region Community Foundation · Teichert Foundation · Pfund Family Foundation · Kelly Foundation · Ed and Betty Manoyan Foundation · Taylor-Meyer Family Foundation · The Strong-Lachemann Foundation · Point West Rotary Club Foundation · United Way California Capital Region · Sierra Health Foundation · Harvego Family Foundation · The Herbert K Yee and Inez F Yee Fdtn
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 Lasher Foundation Inc 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.