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· Private foundation

The Lasher Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$702kEnvironment$226kHuman Services$179kFood & Nutrition$143kAnimals$90kYouth Development$47kRecreation & Sports$44kArts & Culture$43kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $317k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $400k
  • $250k+2 grants · $500k
$20,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MONTAGE HEALTH FOUNDATION$250,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY - NEUROLOGICAL$250,000
TAHOE FUND$150,000
SALVATION ARMY$100,000
SACRAMENTO FOOD BANK$100,000
AMERICAN RIVER PARKWAY FOUNDATION$50,000
HELP HOPE LIVE$45,000
MONTEREY SYMPHONY$25,000
DEL PASO FOUNDATION$20,000
SACRAMENTO CHILDRENS HOME$20,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$20,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$20,000
PULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION$20,000
TAHOE NORDIC SEARCH RESCUE$20,000
BATTLEFIELDS TO BALLFIELDS$20,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $10k → 9%HOPE HOSPICE: $350 → 10%DENTRISTRY 4 VETS: $17k → 12%SCAMORE FARMS KY INC: $1k → 15%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $10k → 9%DENTRISTRY 4 VETS: $500 → 12%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $10k → 9%DENTRISTRY 4 VETS: $500 → 12%CAMP KESEM: $250 → 14%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $10k → 9%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $1k → 9%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $1k → 9%BRAXTON STUNTZ FOUNDATION: $2k → 12%BRAXTON STUNTZ FOUNDATION: $2k → 12%SACRAMENTO CHILDRENS HOME: $20k → 12%SACRAMENTO CHILDRENS HOME: $5k → 12%SACRAMENTO CHILDRENS HOME: $2k → 12%SACRAMENTO CHILDRENS HOME: $1k → 12%SACRAMENTO CHILDRENS HOME: $500 → 12%SACRAMENTO CHILDRENS HOME: $500 → 12%BATTLEFIELDS TO BALLFIELDS: $20k → 12%BATTLEFIELDS TO BALLFIELDS: $300 → 12%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
NV
PA
CA
KY
KS
TN
HI
OK
GA
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.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$904k · 46 repeat orgs$818k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +66% since the first grant, against +18% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
36

Total granted

$904k
$97k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+66%
+18%

Still filing today

57%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $721k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentAnimalsArts & CultureOther
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
    SACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICES
    8× · 2017–2025 · $134k · revenue +103%
  • HI
    HELPHOPELIVE INC
    2× · 2022–2025 · $50k · revenue +41%
  • TD
    THE DEL PASO FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2025 · $44k · revenue +160%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $12k
  • MP
    MAUI PREPARATORY ACADEMY
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -1%
  • MF
    MAKAI FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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
Sutter Bay Medical Foundation

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,…

Health
2
Sutter Bay Hospitals

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,…

Health
3
The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.

Animals
4
California Pacific Medical Center Foundation

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,…

Health
5
San Francisco Challenge dba AmericaOne
Recreation & Sports
6
Public Policy Institute of California

Inform and improve public policy in california through independent, objective, nonpartisan research

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7
Sutter Valley Medical Foundation

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,…

Health
8
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
9
California Trout Inc

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…

Animals
10
Ucsf Health Medical Foundation

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,…

Health
11
Children's Hospital & Research Center At Oakland

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.

Health
12
Chile-California Council

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…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tahoe Fund; 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.
04the grantee network

57 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/57
Grantees still filing
40/57
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STANFORD UNIVERSITY - NEUROLOGICAL: $250,000 · OtherSTANFORD UNIVERSITY - NEUROLOGICALSACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICES: $134,263 · OtherSACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICESTHE SALVATION ARMY: $100,250 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYIndividual grant recipient: $35,000 · OtherMULTIPLE SCLEROSIS NORTHERN CA: $33,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $32,240 · Other+45 more: $272,650 · Other+45 moreMONTAGE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $250,000 · HealthMONTAGE HEALTH FOUNDA…HELPHOPELIVE INC: $50,000 · HealthHELPHOPELIVE INCPULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthPULMONARY FIBROSIS FO…+7 more: $11,950 · HealthTAHOE FUND: $150,000 · EnvironmentTAHOE FUNDAMERICAN RIVER PARKWAY FOUNDATION INC: $70,250 · EnvironmentAMERICAN RIVER P…PUBLIC RECREATION UNLIMITED INC: $20,900 · EnvironmentPUBLIC RECREATIO…+2 more: $8,500 · EnvironmentCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $42,250 · Human ServicesSACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME: $29,000 · Human ServicesBATTLEFIELDS TO BALLFIELDS: $20,300 · Human ServicesDENTISTRY 4 VETS: $18,200 · Human ServicesThe Braxton Stuntz Foundation: $4,000 · Human Services+4 more: $3,900 · Human ServicesTHE DEL PASO FOUNDATION: $44,000 · EducationRainbow Chamber Foundation: $27,700 · EducationTHE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION: $10,600 · EducationMAUI PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $10,000 · Education+2 more: $4,000 · EducationSACRAMENTO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $14,000 · AnimalsMAUI HUMANE SOCIETY: $11,050 · AnimalsMAKAI FOUNDATION: $10,000 · AnimalsMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $6,000 · Animals+1 more: $500 · AnimalsMONTEREY COUNTY SYMPHONY ASSOC INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureINNER-CITY ARTS: $2,000 · Arts & CultureKVIE INC: $1,500 · Arts & CultureCROCKER ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$857,403Health$331,950Environment$249,650Human Services$117,650Education$96,300Animals$41,550Arts & Culture$29,500

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 budgetTAHOE FUND: $150,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetSACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICES: $134,263 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN RIVER PARKWAY FOUNDATION INC: $70,250 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetHELPHOPELIVE INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE DEL PASO FOUNDATION: $44,000 over 7y, 12% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $42,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME: $29,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetRainbow Chamber Foundation: $27,700 over 2y, 22% of budgetMONTEREY COUNTY SYMPHONY ASSOC INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPUBLIC RECREATION UNLIMITED INC: $20,900 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetTAHOE NORDIC SEARCH & RESCUE INC: $20,500 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetBATTLEFIELDS TO BALLFIELDS: $20,300 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetPULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDENTISTRY 4 VETS: $18,200 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetSACRAMENTO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $14,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBLACKHAWKS SOCCER CLUB INC: $11,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetMAUI HUMANE SOCIETY: $11,050 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFairytale Town Inc: $11,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION: $10,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAKAI FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE COUNTY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTwin Lakes Food Bank: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE DAVIS PHOENIX COALITION: $7,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $6,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPOINT WEST ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSacramento LGBT Community Center: $3,700 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetANGELS FOR HEARTS INC: $3,500 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetWHALE TRUST: $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCALIFORNIA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMONTEREY COLLEGE OF LAW: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINNER-CITY ARTS: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKVIE INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budget916 INK: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRIVER CITY FOOD BANK: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSYCAMORE FARM KY INC: $1,300 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLAGUNA YOUTH BASEBALL LEAGUE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDel Paso Boulevard Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCROCKER ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPEACE OF MIND DOG RESCUE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBISSELL Pet Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSACRAMENTO AREA YOUTH GOLF: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLewy Body Dementia Association Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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 MAUI PREPARATORY ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds MAKAI FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds Twin Lakes Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds THE DAVIS PHOENIX COALITION ↗

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.

Sacramento Region Com…Teichert FoundationPfund Family Foundati…Kelly FoundationEd and Betty Manoyan …Taylor-Meyer Family F…The Strong-Lachemann …Point West Rotary Clu…United Way California…Sierra Health Foundat…Harvego Family Founda…The Herbert K Yee and…
Sacramento Region Community FoundationCA37.1× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Lasher Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lasher Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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.

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 90 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home