· Private foundation
Warren & Katharine Schlinger 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 $10k14 grants · $75k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $330k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $870k
- $250k+7 grants · $8.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCHLINGER CHRISMAN FOUNDATION | $3,000,000 |
| SCHLINGER FAMILY FOUNDATION | $3,000,000 |
| UC REGENTS-BOOST AT BERKELEY HAAS (UC REGENTS - YOUNG ENTERPRENEUR) | $700,000 |
| TONY LARUSSAS ANIMAL RESCUE FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| HUMAN OUTREACH PROJECT | $300,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS OF NORTH LAKE TAHOE | $250,000 |
| NORTHERN LIGHT SCHOOL | $250,000 |
| BEAR LEAGUE | $200,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL OCD FOUNDATION | $155,000 |
| CHILDREN GIVING GIFTS INC | $155,000 |
| THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE | $110,000 |
| COMMUNITY CONCERN FOR CATS | $100,000 |
| LAKE TAHOE WILDLIFE CARE INC | $75,000 |
| LINDSAY WILDLIFE EXPERIENCE | $75,000 |
| UC BERKELEY CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL ENGINEER | $45,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $2.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +32% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
52 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- SCSCHLINGER CHRISMAN FOUNDATION NORTHERN TRUST COMPANY TRUSTEE8× · 2017–2024 · $20M · revenue +194% · 100% of their budget
- CICALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY7× · 2017–2023 · $4.8M · revenue +35%
- JPJoybound People and Pets FKA Tony La Russa's Animal Rescue Foundation8× · 2017–2024 · $3.4M · revenue +56%
Funded once
- VCVITAS COMMUNITY CONNECTIONone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +10%
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.
Our mission is to build a unique institute that bridges basic research and drug discovery, and that attracts the best and brightest scientists, physicians and students to work together synergistically to find cures for neglected human…
Claremont Graduate University prepares individuals to be leaders for positive change in the world. Unique in its transdisciplinary approach, the University is dedicated to the creation, dissemination, and application of new knowledge and…
Pitzer College produces engaged socially responsible citizens of the world through an academically rigorous, interdisciplinary liberal arts education emphasizing social justice, intercultural understanding and environmental sensitivity.…
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.
Clsa advances californias world-leading life sciences innovation ecosystem by advocating for effective national, state and local public policies and supporting entrepreneurs and life sciences businesses.
The Institute is a scientific research center dedicated to conducting basic and applied research to advance the understanding of human disease and the improvement of human health. The Institute fosters an innovative research environment…
To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.
The catalina island conservancy protects and stewards 88% of catalina island. more than 42,000 acres of wildlands, coves and coastal habitats. founded to preserve the island's natural resources, the conservancy advances a mission rooted in…
HMC seeks to educate engineers, scientists, and mathematicians well versed in all of these areas and in the humanities, social sciences and the arts so that they may assume leadership in their fields with a clear understanding of the…
The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Villa Esperanza Services and the most unlike its peers is Schlinger Chrisman Foundation Northern Trust Company Trustee. 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 44 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 54 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 SCHLINGER CHRISMAN FOUNDATION NORTHERN TRUST COMPANY TRUSTEE ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds Joybound People and Pets FKA Tony La Russa's Animal Rescue Foundation ↗
- Who funds HUMAN OUTREACH PROJECT ↗
- Who funds BEAR LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds Northern Light School ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CONCERN FOR CATS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NORTH LAKE TAHOE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN GIVING GIFTS ↗
- Who funds International OCD Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds LINDSAY WILDLIFE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care Inc ↗
- Who funds THE COLEMAN CHAMBER MUSIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TOURETTE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Carmel Bach Festival Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds Contra Costa Interfaith Transitional Housing Inc ↗
- Who funds MAMMOTH LAKES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN DIMAS SHERIFF BOOSTER CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds VILLA ESPERANZA SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Scripps College ↗
- Who funds THE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY ↗
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: Schlinger Chrisman Foundation Northern Trust Company Trustee · Thornton S Jr and Katrina D Glide Foundation · Pasadena Community Foundation · California Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · McKesson Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Verizon Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment 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 Warren & Katharine Schlinger 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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