How much does The Libra Foundation give?

The Libra Foundation reported 162 grants totaling $50,050,927 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 135 and 167 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.

What does The Libra Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (58%), Civil Rights (18%), Environment (4%).

Who are The Libra Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc ($3.3M), National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc ($2.4M), Bvm Capacity Building Institute Inc ($2.3M).

Does The Libra Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2020, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Libra Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Libra Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, The Heising-Simons Foundation, Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc.

Where is The Libra Foundation based?

The Libra Foundation is based in CA.

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California · Private foundation

The Libra 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.

$50M
Granted FY2020: 162
Grants FY2020: 155
Organizations funded FY2020: 35%
First-time grantees FY2020

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Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of The Libra Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year The Libra Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 127 organizations, $50M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

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145

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127

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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2020: $150,000
Largest grant, FY2020: $9,630,928
Organizations funded a year: 135 to 167; FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020: 25
Total assets, FY2020: $432M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 35% of the organizations The Libra Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 37% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Civil RightsEnvironmentCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesPublic 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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2020	155	$40M	35%
FY2019	167	$23M	41%
FY2018	138	$16M	36%
FY2017	135	$13M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$135MCivil Rights$41MEnvironment$9.7MCrime & Legal$8.9MCommunity Improvement$8.9MPublic Benefit$7.9MHealth$5.3MInternational$5.0MOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc	$3,250,000	4	1%
National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc	$2,350,000	3	3%
Bvm Capacity Building Institute Inc	$2,300,000	3	9%
The Roger Baldwin Foundation of ACLU Inc	$1,800,000	4	9%
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California Inc	$1,400,000	3	3%
Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies Inc	$1,310,000	4	6%
National Economic and Social Rights Initiative	$1,230,000	4	26%
Earthrights International Inc	$1,200,000	4	7%
Women's Foundation of California	$1,200,000	4	5%
Urge Unite for Reproductive & Gender Equity	$1,050,000	4	11%

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All grantees of The Libra Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc	$3,250,000	4	1%
National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc	$2,350,000	3	3%
Bvm Capacity Building Institute Inc	$2,300,000	3	9%
The Roger Baldwin Foundation of ACLU Inc	$1,800,000	4	9%
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California Inc	$1,400,000	3	3%
Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies Inc	$1,310,000	4	6%
National Economic and Social Rights Initiative	$1,230,000	4	26%
Earthrights International Inc	$1,200,000	4	7%
Women's Foundation of California	$1,200,000	4	5%
Urge Unite for Reproductive & Gender Equity	$1,050,000	4	11%
Grassroots International Inc	$1,050,000	4	5%
Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Rights	$1,035,000	4	2%
Drug Policy Alliance	$1,005,000	4	3%
Center for Constitutional Rights	$1,000,000	4	2%
Network on Women in Prison dba Legal Services for Prisoners w Children	$1,000,000	3	12%
Environmental Health Coalition	$1,000,000	4	9%
The Center for Cultural Power	$1,000,000	3	7%
The Center for Reproductive Rights Inc	$1,000,000	4	1%
Southerners on New Ground Inc	$950,000	4	5%
Thousand Currents	$925,000	4	5%
Groundswell Fund	$900,000	3	2%
The Working World Inc	$900,000	5	6%
Human Rights First	$800,000	4	3%
Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc	$800,000	4	0%
Florida Rising Together Inc	$800,000	3	4%
Movement Strategy Center	$780,000	3	1%
Forward Together	$750,000	4	5%
California Environmental Justice Alliance	$700,000	2	n/a
Impact Justice	$700,000	4	3%
Highlander Research & Education Center Inc	$700,000	3	3%
PICO California	$650,000	2	n/a
Western States Center	$625,000	3	11%
Communities United for People	$612,500	4	55%
Border Network for Human Rights	$602,000	4	24%
Common Justice Inc	$600,000	4	3%
Environmental Law and Policy Center of the Midwest	$600,000	4	2%
Pregnancy Justice Inc	$600,000	4	8%
Shared Interest Inc	$600,000	3	13%
Planned Parenthood of Illinois	$600,000	4	1%
Our Children's Trust	$600,000	3	8%
Right to the City Alliance	$600,000	3	2%
Asian Law Caucus	$600,000	4	4%
Fund for Global Human Rights Inc	$600,000	4	n/a
Ndn Collective Inc	$600,000	2	1%
Demos a Network for Ideas and Action Ltd	$600,000	4	2%
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights	$600,000	3	6%
Witness Inc	$600,000	4	5%
Community Initiatives	$550,000	3	1%
Color of Changeorg Education Fund	$550,000	2	0%
Dreamorg	$550,000	4	3%
Community Works West Inc	$550,000	3	5%
Smartmeme DBA Center for Story-based Strategy	$550,000	4	14%
UltraViolet Education Fund	$520,000	4	8%
Indian Law Resource Center	$500,000	4	14%
Project South Inc	$500,000	3	18%
Indigenous Environmental Network	$500,000	3	8%
The Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth	$500,000	5	8%
Justice for Migrant Women	$500,000	1	n/a
The Marshall Project Inc	$500,000	5	2%
Texas Organizing Project Education Fund	$500,000	3	7%
Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability	$500,000	3	7%
Communities for a Better Environment	$500,000	3	6%
Asian Pacific Environmental Network	$500,000	3	5%
Global Fund for Women Inc	$500,000	5	1%
Baltimore Corps Inc	$500,000	2	4%
ACCE Institute	$475,000	3	6%
Grassroots Global Justice	$450,000	2	9%
Climate Justice Alliance	$450,000	1	n/a
Center for Biological Diversity Inc	$450,000	4	1%
The Ole Education Fund	$450,000	3	19%
Coalition of Communities of Color	$400,000	3	14%
A New Way of Life Reentry Project	$400,000	3	3%
Strategic Concepts In Organizing & Policy Education	$400,000	3	6%
Initiate Justice	$400,000	2	21%
Ipas	$400,000	4	0%
Fund for the City of New York Inc	$400,000	4	0%
Let's Breakthrough Inc	$400,000	4	6%
Community Coalition for Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment	$400,000	3	2%
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc	$400,000	2	1%
Shriver Center on Poverty Law	$400,000	4	2%
US Human Rights Network	$385,000	3	30%
Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women	$350,000	3	11%
Ceres Inc	$350,000	4	1%
Common Future	$300,000	3	3%
Inner-City Muslim Action Network	$300,000	3	n/a
Southern Vision Alliance	$300,000	2	4%
Students For Sensible Drug Policy Foundation	$300,000	4	10%
Law Enforcement Action Partnership Inc	$300,000	3	12%
Equal Justice Initiative	$300,000	3	0%
Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives	$300,000	3	5%
The National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women & Girls	$300,000	3	4%
Families Against Mandatory Minimums	$300,000	2	n/a
Front and Centered	$300,000	2	8%
BYP100 Education Fund	$300,000	2	4%
Center on Race Poverty & the Environment	$300,000	2	7%
Apano Communities United Fund	$300,000	2	6%
Grist Magazine Inc	$300,000	4	3%
Washington Office on Latin America	$285,000	3	5%
Pesticide Action Network North America	$275,000	3	n/a
The Center for Media Justice DBA MediaJustice	$270,000	4	5%
Naleo Educational Fund	$264,000	1	2%
Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples Inc	$250,000	2	4%
Earthjustice	$250,000	3	0%
Strong City Baltimore Inc	$250,000	1	2%
State Voices	$250,000	1	0%
Spark Reproductive Justice Now	$240,000	3	5%
National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice	$225,000	3	1%
The Exploratorium	$225,000	1	0%
Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice	$210,000	4	7%
Detroit Justice Center	$200,000	2	5%
Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth Rjoy	$200,000	1	24%
Physicians for Social Responsibility	$200,000	2	6%
The Opportunity Agenda Inc	$200,000	1	5%
Urban Tilth	$200,000	2	7%
International Indian Treaty Council Inc	$200,000	3	12%
Restaurant Opportunities Centers United Inc	$200,000	2	3%
Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy	$200,000	2	5%
Center for Community Change Action	$200,000	2	2%
Democracy Now Productions Inc	$200,000	4	0%
Voice of the Experienced Vote	$200,000	1	5%
We Got US Now Inc	$200,000	2	31%
Voteorg	$200,000	2	9%
Santa Cruz Barrios Unidos Inc	$200,000	2	12%
Vision y Compromiso	$200,000	2	4%
Powerpac Foundation	$200,000	2	n/a
Verde Inc	$200,000	2	4%
The Afriwomen Network Inc	$200,000	2	100%
Center for Neighborhood Technology	$195,000	3	3%
California Urban Partnership	$175,000	2	n/a
Techsoup Global	$150,000	1	0%
Latino Community Fund of Washington State	$150,000	1	4%
Florida Access Network	$150,000	1	n/a
The Praxis Project Inc	$150,000	2	3%
Momentum Community Inc	$150,000	3	8%
United Way of Northern California	$150,000	1	2%
Green 20	$150,000	3	12%
The Futuro Media Group	$140,000	4	1%
Transgender Law Center	$130,000	3	1%
Oficina Legal del Pueblo Unido Inc	$130,000	2	1%
Nonprofit Finance Fund	$125,000	1	1%
Center for Popular Democracy Inc	$120,000	2	0%
Alameda County Deputy Sheriffs Activities League Inc	$106,540	2	6%
Ignite	$100,000	2	1%
The Ahimsa Collective	$100,000	1	1%
Sistersong Inc	$100,000	1	2%
Pitzer College	$100,000	1	0%
Forward Justice	$100,000	1	2%
St James Infirmary	$100,000	1	5%
Mi Familia En Accion	$100,000	1	1%
Critical Resistance	$100,000	1	8%
NEO Philanthropy Inc	$100,000	1	0%
Hispanics in Philanthropy	$100,000	1	1%
Jolt Initiative	$100,000	1	7%
Dignity and Power Now	$100,000	1	n/a
The Womens Media Center Inc	$100,000	5	2%
Urban Gateways	$100,000	1	4%
The Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress	$100,000	2	0%
Freefrom	$100,000	1	4%
Faith in Action Network	$100,000	1	0%
Essie Justice Group	$100,000	1	3%
Movement Generation	$100,000	1	n/a
Springboard to Opportunities	$100,000	1	5%
The Afiya Center	$100,000	1	n/a
United We Dream Network Inc	$100,000	1	1%
Borealis Philanthropy	$100,000	1	0%
Center for Technology and Civic Life	$100,000	1	3%
The Pacific Forest Trust Incorporated	$100,000	2	1%
Action Center on Race & the Economy Institute	$100,000	1	5%
Fair Count Inc	$100,000	1	1%
The Story Project	$100,000	1	n/a
Urban Justice Center	$100,000	1	0%
Operation Restoration	$100,000	1	n/a
350org	$90,000	3	0%
The Center for Investigative Reporting Inc	$80,000	4	0%
As You Sow	$80,000	1	2%
Cooperation Jackson of Mississippi	$75,000	1	7%
Women's Law Project	$75,000	3	2%
Northern California Grantmakers	$65,000	3	1%
Community Partners	$50,000	1	0%
Yellowhammer Fund	$50,000	1	1%
California Calls Education Fund	$50,000	1	1%
Fractured Atlas Inc	$50,000	1	0%
Big Green	$50,000	1	n/a
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists	$50,000	1	2%
Alliance for a Just Society	$50,000	1	n/a
Cambridge in America	$50,000	1	0%
The Alliance for Climate Protection	$50,000	1	0%
New Media Ventures	$50,000	1	n/a
Justice Funders	$50,000	1	n/a
Sierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program Management	$50,000	1	0%
Women's Link Worldwide	$50,000	1	2%
Innovation Law Lab	$50,000	1	n/a
Point Reyes Bird Observatory	$45,000	2	0%
Civil Rights Corps	$35,000	2	0%
BLUE BEAR SCHOOL of MUSIC	$35,000	1	2%
Womens Empowerment Network	$30,000	3	n/a
Center for Death Penalty Litigation	$25,000	1	1%
Policylink	$25,000	1	0%
Mijente Support Committee	$25,000	1	1%
Rockwood Leadership Institute	$25,000	1	0%
Old Town School of Folk Music	$25,000	1	0%
California Institute of Technology	$25,000	1	0%
Burning Man Project	$20,000	1	0%
Turtle Conservancy	$20,000	1	1%
Environmental Grantmakers Association	$20,000	1	1%
Repro TLC	$20,000	2	3%
Progress Texas Institute	$20,000	1	1%
McE Social Capital	$17,100	1	0%
University of California San Francisco	$15,000	1	n/a
Medical Students for Choice	$15,000	2	1%
Saving Species Inc	$15,000	1	2%
San Francisco General Hospital Foundation	$15,000	1	0%
North Country School Inc	$15,000	1	0%
Island Conservation	$15,000	1	0%
Nashulai Maasai Conservancy Corporation	$15,000	1	n/a
Grantmakers Concerned With Immigrants and Refugees	$14,000	1	0%
Curry Without Worry	$10,000	1	n/a
San Francisco Community Radio	$10,000	1	n/a
The West Marin Fund	$10,000	1	2%
University of Nevada Reno Foundation	$10,000	1	n/a
Fred T Korematsu Institute	$10,000	1	n/a
Institute for Public Affairs	$10,000	2	0%
Slide Ranch	$5,000	1	0%
Ten Strands	$5,000	1	0%
Media Impact Funders Inc	$5,000	1	1%
Federation of Southern Cooperatives	$5,000	1	0%
Neighborhood Funders Group	$5,000	1	0%
Association of Black Foundation Executives Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Chicago Shakespeare Theater	$5,000	1	0%
Fe y Justicia Worker Center	$5,000	1	1%
National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy	$4,500	1	0%
Confluence Philanthropy Inc	$4,100	1	0%
Alliance for the Great Lakes	$2,500	1	0%
Tavern Books	$2,500	1	3%

Plus 80 recipients with no EIN on record ($18M), not named here.

The Libra Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

Tap a dot to name the grantee.

How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 200.

Nonprofits that may fit its grantmaking

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.

Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncDC120.6× affinity103 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Heising-Simons Foundation · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · The Ford Foundation · Tides Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Tides Center · The California Endowment · Foundation to Promote Open Society · New Venture Fund · Impactassetsinc

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.

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About The Libra Foundation

How much does The Libra Foundation give?: The Libra Foundation reported 162 grants totaling $50,050,927 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 135 and 167 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does The Libra Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (58%), Civil Rights (18%), Environment (4%).
Who are The Libra Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc ($3.3M), National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc ($2.4M), Bvm Capacity Building Institute Inc ($2.3M).
Does The Libra Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2020, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Libra Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Libra Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, The Heising-Simons Foundation, Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc.
Where is The Libra Foundation based?: The Libra Foundation is based in CA.