· Private foundation
The Leo J & Celia Carlin Fund
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of The Leo J & Celia Carlin Fund’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Tides Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year The Leo J & Celia Carlin Fund named its own grantees at scale: 25 organizations, $30k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Land Alliance Inc | $6,000 |
| Berkeley Symphony Orchestra | $2,000 |
| Reproductive Freedom for All | $1,500 |
| San Francisco Mime Troupe | $1,000 |
| Inequality Media | $1,000 |
| Marin Shakespeare Company | $1,000 |
| The Paul Dresher Ensemble | $1,000 |
| Shotgun Players | $1,000 |
| California Lawyers for the Arts | $1,000 |
| KQED | $1,000 |
| Berkeley Public Library Foundation | $1,000 |
| San Francisco Playhouse | $1,000 |
| Center for Media and Democracy | $1,000 |
| Aurora Theatre Co | $1,000 |
| University of Chicago | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–23, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +44% for those funded once.
45 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2023, 17 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2023, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RFREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL5× · 2019–2023 · $7k · revenue +46%
- SFSan Francisco Playhouse5× · 2019–2023 · $7k · revenue +64%
- SPShotgun Players5× · 2019–2023 · $6k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- WWEDOone grant, 2019 · $500
- RERootsAction Education Fundone grant, 2022 · $500
- PPPlanned Parenthoodone grant, 2019 · $500
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.
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.
Aurora Theatre Company inspires new audiences and longtime theatre lovers alike with the visceral power of live theatre. Our venues, the most intimate professional stages in the Bay Area, highlight great acting, nuanced language, and an…
Sfbatco unites artists and audiences through live theatre that is reflective of the authentic perspectives and history of the san francisco bay area.
The description of Cutting Ball Theater's mission starts on Form 990 Page 1 and continues on Schedule O
Silicon valley shakespeare is innovating the classics through unique and relevant theatrical experiences that illuminate and inspire modern audiences.
Stages makes plays and tells stories that invite everyone to live more deeply and love more boldly.
Opera Parallle presents compelling performances of contemporary operas with high musical and dramatic standards, embracing modern aesthetics, creative use of technology, and social relevance as essential to the future of the art form.…
Studio Theatre produces exceptional contemporary theatre in deliberately intimate spaces, fostering a more thoughtful, more empathetic, and more connected community, in Washington DC and beyond.
SFP presents internationally acclaimed and emerging performing artists, introduces innovative programs, and builds new and diversified audiences for the arts through education and outreach activities.
To champion innovative, high-quality productions & educational theatre experiences for youth, artists, and the queer & allied communities to effect personal & societal growth, enlightenment and change.
The oregon shakespeare festival creates world-class theater, revealing our collective humanity through illuminating interpretations of new and classic plays, and inspiring a love of our art form for current and future generations.
Bay Area community and increases access to literature locally and globally. The Centers publications, events, and educational programming build audiences for literature in translation, enrich the library of vital literary works, nurture…
SFFILM is a nonprofit organization whose mission ensures independent voices in film are welcomed, heard, and given the resources to thrive. SFFILM connects and inspires audiences, students and teachers, and filmmakers through our film…
How this is measured
49 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. 49 of the 74 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR MEDIA AND DEMOCRACY INC ↗
- Who funds BERKELEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds DEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL ↗
- Who funds San Francisco Playhouse ↗
- Who funds Shotgun Players ↗
- Who funds THE LAND ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO MIME TROUPE INC ↗
- Who funds Berkeley Public Library Foundation ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds PLAYGROUND ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds California Lawyers for the Arts ↗
- Who funds INEQUALITY MEDIA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CONSERVATORY THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR ECOLOGY AND CULTURE ↗
- Who funds MILL VALLEY PHILHARMONIC ↗
- Who funds BERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Theatre Bay Area ↗
- Who funds The Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute ↗
- Who funds BERKELEY CHAMBER PERFORMANCES ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN DEMOCRACY CAMPAIGN INC ↗
- Who funds Homestead Valley Community Association ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds Berkeley Food Network ↗
- Who funds CITYSIDE JOURNALISM INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds Marin Theatre Company ↗
- Who funds The Z Space Studio ↗
- Who funds PLAYWRIGHTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The Bernard Osher Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · The Zellerbach Family Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The Rhe Charitable Foundation · Fleishhacker Foundation · The Shubert Foundation Inc · The Rock Foundation · Kenneth Rainin Foundation · The Whittier Educational Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Leo J & Celia Carlin Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Leo J & Celia Carlin Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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