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The Lebherz Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$1.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
34
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$425k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$3.5MYouth Development$795kReligion$607kHealth$568kSocial Science$495kInternational$419kHuman Services$283kArts & Culture$246kOther$0
02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $221k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $749k
  • $250k+3 grants · $940k
$12,500
Median grant
10
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION$25,000
CRISTO REY SAN DIEGO HIGH SCHOOL$25,000
CICERO INSTITUTE$25,000
COMMUNITY HOUSE$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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FAMILY INDEPENDENCE INITIATIVE: $100k → 10%INTERNATIONAL HOST CONNECTION: $5k → 5%LET GROW: $25k → 17%ABILITY 360 INC: $13k → 11%ABILITY360 INC: $10k → 11%FLORENCE FOR YOUTH IN ACTION: $9k → 14%ABILITY360 INC: $10k → 11%ABILITY360 INC: $10k → 11%FLORENCE FOR YOUTH IN ACTION: $5k → 14%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $5k → 11%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

MN
IL
MI
NY
OR
NV
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
AR
TN
NC
DC
OK
LA
MS
GA
TX
FL
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 5% of The Lebherz Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 66% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 61%.

The Lebherz Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 4.8% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.3M · 41 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
76

Total granted

$6.3M
$566k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+24%

Still filing today

56%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $584k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyAnimalsPublic BenefitOther
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

  • NP
    NATIVITY PREP ACADEMY OF SAN DIEGO INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +98%
  • AE
    AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH
    8× · 2017–2024 · $448k · revenue +0%
  • YA
    YOUNG AMERICANS FOR LIBERTY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $130k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • FII - NATIONAL
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -92%
  • CR
    CICERO RESEARCH
    one grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue +2%
  • PD
    PERMANENTLY DISABLED JOCKEYS FUND INC
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +15%
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
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
2
City of Hope

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

Health
3
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
4
United States Naval Institute

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.

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5
Seattle Biomedical Research Institute

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,…

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6
America's Health Insurance Plans Inc

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…

Membership Benefit
7
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
8
California Dental Association

The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.

Community Improvement
9
University Family Physicians Inc

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…

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10
National Committee for Quality Assurance

Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.

Health
11
California Dental Association Foundation

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.

Science & Tech
12
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is ABILITY360 Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

83 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 83 of the 136 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
79/83
Grantees still filing
56/83
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIVITY PREP ACADEMY OF SAN DIEGO INC: $1,487,000 · EducationNATIVITY PREP ACADEMY OF SAN DIEGO INCCURRIKI: $943,700 · EducationCURRIKIUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $250,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAUATX: $183,333 · EducationUATXCRISTO REY SAN DIEGO HIGH SCHOOL INC: $125,000 · Education+7 more: $192,000 · Education+7 moreSTAND TOGETHER: $567,500 · OtherSTAND TOGETHERSJSU TOWER FOUNDATION: $500,000 · OtherSJSU TOWER FOUNDATIONCATHEDRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $500,000 · OtherCATHEDRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOLUSC SCHAEFFER CENTER: $400,000 · OtherUSC SCHAEFFER CENTERMOUNTAIN VIEW PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $370,000 · OtherMOUNTAIN VIEW PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHNAPA VALLEY FESTICAL ASSOCIATION: $160,000 · Other+81 more: $746,949 · Other+81 moreAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $448,300 · Social Science+1 more: $5,000 · Social ScienceYOUNG AMERICANS FOR LIBERTY FOUNDATION: $130,000 · Public BenefitVETERANS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH COUNTY: $114,203 · Public Benefit+4 more: $10,000 · Public BenefitAmerican Diabetes Association: $100,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $50,000 · HealthALTAMED HEALTH SERVICES CORPORATION: $25,000 · HealthPhoenix Children's Hospital: $15,000 · HealthPROVIDENCE SPEECH AND HEARING CENTER: $10,000 · HealthUNRAVEL: $9,500 · Health+14 more: $38,355 · HealthFII - NATIONAL: $100,000 · Human ServicesABILITY360 INC: $42,500 · Human ServicesLET GROW INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesFLORENCE FOR YOUTH IN ACTION: $22,441 · Human Services+2 more: $10,000 · Human ServicesCICERO RESEARCH: $75,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $1,500 · Arts & Culture
Education$3,181,033Other$3,244,449Social Science$453,300Public Benefit$254,203Health$247,855Human Services$199,941Arts & Culture$76,500

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 budgetNATIVITY PREP ACADEMY OF SAN DIEGO INC: $1,487,000 over 8y, 13% of budgetCURRIKI: $943,700 over 8y, 28% of budgetAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $448,300 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $250,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUATX: $183,333 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetYOUNG AMERICANS FOR LIBERTY FOUNDATION: $130,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetCRISTO REY SAN DIEGO HIGH SCHOOL INC: $125,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetVETERANS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH COUNTY: $114,203 over 5y, 42% of budgetFII - NATIONAL: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCICERO RESEARCH: $75,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE SEMINAR NETWORK INC: $72,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INSTITUTE: $42,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetABILITY360 INC: $42,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW VOCATIONS RACEHORSE ADOPTION: $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPERMANENTLY DISABLED JOCKEYS FUND INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLET GROW INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetALTAMED HEALTH SERVICES CORPORATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLORENCE FOR YOUTH IN ACTION: $22,441 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetGuglielmo's Hope Inc: $21,600 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOUSE: $20,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetCALIFORNIA FARMLINK: $20,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAngels' Haven Outreach: $18,900 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetBEYOND BLINDNESS: $16,600 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES DEAF SWIMMING INC: $11,695 over 1y, 81% of budgetPROVIDENCE SPEECH AND HEARING CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSouth Valley Makos: $10,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetWorld Renew: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFrontier Horizon Inc: $9,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetUNRAVEL: $9,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCENTRO DE SALUD DE LA COMUNIDAD DE SAN YSIDRO INC: $7,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHOROUGHBRED CHARITIES OF AMERICA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetADDICTION EDUCATION SOCIETY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSEAL-NSW FAMILY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVISTA COMMUNITY CLINIC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTONGUEOUT CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ARIZONA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA THOROUGHBRED FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetCHILENO BAY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSEQUOIA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES - BAY AREA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Donors Trust IncThe Draper FoundationFarrell Family Founda…Silicon Valley Commun…Delta Dental Communit…Jewish Community Fede…Greater Houston Commu…Cdr Johnson Family Fo…The Intuit FoundationMarin Community Found…The Board of Trustees…The California Wellne…
Donors Trust IncVA15.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    5get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Lebherz Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Lebherz Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 136 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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