· Private foundation
The Lazares Family 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $43k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS FOUNDATION | $30,279 |
| CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL | $12,500 |
| QUEST VALLEY CHARITIES | $5,000 |
| MONTALVO ARTS CENTER | $2,500 |
| CSNK2A1 FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| CHILD MIND INSTITUTE | $1,000 |
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 (FY23–25, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% 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.
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 +61% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 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, 19% 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
- TSTHE SUMMIT LEAGUE2× · 2022–2024 · $20k · revenue +302%
- MAMONTALVO ASSOCIATION3× · 2023–2025 · $15k · revenue +13%
- BWBILL WILSON CENTER2× · 2023–2024 · $13k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- TFTOWER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $25k
- JAJOHN AND CHRISTINE DAVIS FAMILY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $17k · revenue -42% · 32% of their budget
- UCURBAN CONFLUENCE SILICON VALLEYone grant, 2020 · $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.
To garner funds in support of research at the UCSF Helen Diller Comprehensive Cancer Research Center. To aid doctors in finding a cure and provide financial assistance for innovation and progressive research. To provide scholarships to…
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
To benefit the university of california santa cruz.
The Law Foundation uses the law as a tool for change. The Law Foundation addresses problems linked to social injustices like poverty, discrimination, child abuse, and neglect. Every day, our attorneys, social workers, and advocates craft…
To advance the academic and reputational success of uc college of the law, san francisco ("the college") through collaborative and impactful fundraising initiatives.
Acquire and manage assets in support of lutheran hospital association of the san luis valley.
The lucile packard foundation for children's health is here to unlock philanthropy to transform health for all kids and moms, in northern california and around the world. our foundation raises funds for child and maternal health at lucile…
To enhance the quality of life for all people whose lives are touched by Down Syndrome
The foundation invests in the community by helping nonprofit organizations that focus on giving to housing, education, our communities, social services and disaster relief.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Junior League of San Jose and the most unlike its peers is John and Christine Davis Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 30 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 SAN FRANCISCO FORTY NINERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SUMMIT LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds JOHN AND CHRISTINE DAVIS FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MONTALVO ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds QUEST VALLEY CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds BILL WILSON CENTER ↗
- Who funds CSNK2A1 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION OF HONOR ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN STREET CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Morse Foundation ↗
- Who funds LRCC WILDCAT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House of Dallas Inc ↗
- Who funds International Rett Syndrome Foundation ↗
- Who funds Bens Friends ↗
- Who funds ROBERT S HYER SCHOOL PARENT-TEACHER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF SAN JOSE ↗
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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Lazares Family 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.
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