· Private foundation
The Litchfield Foundation
TO ASSIST UNDERSERVED AND/OR DISADVANTAGED PERSONS AND GROUPS THROUGH EDUCATION AND RECREATION PROGRAMS.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF CHINA CAMP | $15,000 |
| EXTRAFOODORG | $10,000 |
| SAN RAFAEL PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| COLLEGE OF MARIN | $5,536 |
| COLLEGE OF MARIN | $5,302 |
| SHIFTING GEARS USA | $5,000 |
| ST ANSELM CHURCH RESTORATION | $5,000 |
| NEXT GENERATION SCHOLARS | $5,000 |
| COLLEGE OF MARIN (SCHOLARSHIP REIMBURSEMENT) | $4,901 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| NEXT GENERATION SCHOLARS | $2,500 |
| KID SCOOP NEWS | $325 |
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 (FY19–20, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +108% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 4 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, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
- FOFriends of China Camp Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $60k · revenue +170%
- SRSAN RAFAEL PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION3× · 2018–2024 · $40k · revenue +40% · 37% of their budget
- EExtrafood5× · 2020–2024 · $35k · revenue +434%
Funded once
- SRSAN RAFAEL PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2022 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $8k
- MCMARIN COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +46%
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.
The Marin Literacy Program provides free adult, family, ESL (English as Second Language) and inmate literacy services in Marin County. Through our trained volunteer tutors and ESL instructors we liberate the voices and minds of our…
Since 1978, our mission has been to preserve and perpetuate San Francisco's history and folklore and to celebrate its rich history of cultural diversity.
PPS-SF's mission is to promote the fundamental value of public education and pursue the success of every public school by sharing knowledge, bridging communities, and informing policy.
SF Partnership is an organization comprised of SF's leading employers dedicated to supporting an equitable, resilient, and vibrant economy shared by all people working and living in San Francisco. Through education, advocacy, and research,…
Organization mission: the mission of the san francisco-based children's book project (the "project") is to promote literacy by providing (1) free books to children who need them for equity in literacy, learning, and life, and (2) free…
Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…
The mission of the San Francisco Public Press is to enrich civic life by publishing investigative and solutions journalism that engages diverse audiences and promotes public accountability. The San Francisco Public Press…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Domestic Peace and the most unlike its peers is New Beginnings Law Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 28 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 Marin History Museum ↗
- Who funds Friends of China Camp Inc ↗
- Who funds SAN RAFAEL PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Extrafood ↗
- Who funds New Beginnings Law Center ↗
- Who funds Next Generation Scholars Inc ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties ↗
- Who funds SHIFTING GEARS USA ↗
- Who funds MARIN COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Center for Domestic Peace ↗
- Who funds SPARKLE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds TRIPS FOR KIDS NATIONAL ↗
- Who funds KID SCOOP NEWS ↗
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: Marin Community Foundation · Freitas Foundation · Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Litchfield 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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