· Private foundation
The Lebherz Family 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 $10k11 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $221k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $749k
- $250k+3 grants · $940k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIVITY PREP ACADEMY | $425,000 |
| MOUNTAIN VIEW PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $265,000 |
| CATHEDRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $250,000 |
| UATX | $183,333 |
| NAPA VALLEY FESTICAL ASSOCIATION | $160,000 |
| USC SCHAEFFER CENTER | $150,000 |
| VENTURE PREPARATORY | $75,000 |
| YOUNG AMERICANS FOR LIBERTY FOUNDATION | $70,000 |
| AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE | $61,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| CURRIKI | $35,600 |
| CRISTO REY SAN DIEGO HIGH SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| CICERO INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY HOUSE | $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 (FY19–24, $192k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of The Lebherz Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 66% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 61% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
41 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 17 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $584k 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
- AEAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH8× · 2017–2024 · $448k · revenue +0%
- YAYOUNG AMERICANS FOR LIBERTY FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $130k · revenue +19%
- CRCRISTO REY SAN DIEGO HIGH SCHOOL INC2× · 2023–2024 · $125k · revenue +97%
Funded once
FII - NATIONALone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -89%- CRCICERO RESEARCHone grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue +2%
- TJTHE JOHN JOSEPH SCHMITT ENDOWMENTone grant, 2023 · $25k
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.
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
We conduct fundamental infectious disease research to generate critical new knowledge about pathogens and their interactions with see schedule o for continuationhumans to enable the discovery and development of novel interventions,…
Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.
The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is ABILITY360 Inc and the most unlike its peers is International Host Connection. 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 26 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
82 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. 82 of the 136 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 CURRIKI ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds UATX ↗
- Who funds YOUNG AMERICANS FOR LIBERTY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY SAN DIEGO HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FII - NATIONAL ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds CICERO RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds VENTURE PREPARATORY ↗
- Who funds THE SEMINAR NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ABILITY360 INC ↗
- Who funds NEW VOCATIONS RACEHORSE ADOPTION ↗
- Who funds ALTAMED HEALTH SERVICES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PERMANENTLY DISABLED JOCKEYS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association Research Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds LET GROW INC ↗
- Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FLORENCE FOR YOUTH IN ACTION ↗
- Who funds Guglielmo's Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA FARMLINK ↗
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: Donors Trust Inc · The Draper Foundation · Farrell Family Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Delta Dental Community Care Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Cdr Johnson Family Foundation Inc · The Intuit Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University · 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 Lebherz 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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