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William and Charlene Glikbarg Foundation at a glance

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William and Charlene Glikbarg 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.

$914k
Granted FY2024still arriving
68
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$1.9MYouth Development$817kPhilanthropy$584kCommunity Improvement$252kEnvironment$251kCivil Rights$199kHuman Services$127kArts & Culture$126kOther$0
02FY2024 · 68 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k44 grants · $115k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $439k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $360k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WILDERNESS YOUTH PROJECT$60,000
SILICON VALLEY URBAN DEBATE LEAGUE$50,000
WOMEN'S ECONOMIC VENTURES$50,000
FUTURE LEADERS OF AMERICA$50,000
FUND FOR SANTA BARBARA$50,000
SOBRATO EARLY ACADEMIC LANGUAGE MODEL$50,000
ALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION$50,000
BREAKTHROUGH SILICON VALLEY$45,000
ONE COOL EARTH$45,000
PIVOTAL$45,000
THE TOWER FOUNDATION - SAN JOSE STATE$40,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS$40,000
SANTA BARBARA EDUCATION FOUNDATION$40,000
UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION$31,200
PITZER COLLEGE$25,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 35% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MONUMENT CRISIS CENTER: $1k → 9%CHILDREN NOW: $1k → 10%CHILDREN NOW: $1k → 10%CHILDREN NOW: $1k → 10%CHILDREN NOW: $1k → 10%CHILDREN NOW: $1k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SILICON VALLEY: $3k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SILICON VALLEY: $3k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SILICON VALLEY: $2k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SILICON VALLEY: $1k → 8%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

IL
OR
PA
CA
VA
MD
NC
DC
AL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.5M · 80 repeat orgs$278k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

80 repeat relationships: 51 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

80
27

Total granted

$4.5M
$190k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+25%

Still filing today

54%
22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyArts & CultureHealthOther
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

  • WY
    Wilderness Youth Project Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $325k · revenue +86%
  • WE
    WOMEN'S ECONOMIC VENTURES
    5× · 2020–2024 · $250k · revenue +32%
  • AG
    ALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $230k · revenue +81%

Funded once

  • SB
    SANTA BARBARA FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • UF
    UCSB FOUNDATION FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $21k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
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
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
2
Santa Cruz Local Inc

Independent nonpartisan newsroom serving Santa Cruz County, California we are all watching and engaged in our local government, our needs are addressed, democracy works better and our community is stronger.

—
3
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
4
Alternative Schools Inc

To help each child reach his/her full potential by cultivating an active village of parents, community members, and stakeholders involved in providing an individual, personal, and conceptual learning environment for each student.

Education
5
The California Education Partners

California education partners seeds and grows collaborations among california's school systems, so that they innovate, improve, and build internal capacity as learning organizations in order to close gaps and lead high performing,…

Education
6
The Language Academy of Sacramento

The las mission is to create a learning community where students: utilize bilingualism and biliteracy (spanish and english) to achieve academic excellence and apply skills in real-world situations and diverse settings; develop and exhibit…

Education
7
The American Institute of Architects California

The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.

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8
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
9
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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10
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.

Philanthropy
11
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.

Education
12
Sonoma Valley Education Foundation

The Sonoma Valley Education Foundation exists to improve education by enriching teaching, inspiring learning, and advancing innovative programs that enable every student to succeed.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alder Graduate School of Education; the most unlike its peers is Leap Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

60 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. 60 of the 126 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/60
Grantees still filing
41/60
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SOBRATO EARLY ACADEMIC LANGUAGE MODEL: $220,000 · OtherSOBRATO EARLY ACADEMIC LANGUAGE MODELSANTA BARBARA EDUCATION FOUNDATIONACADEMY FOR SUCCESS: $210,000 · OtherSANTA BARBARA EDUCATION FOUNDATIONACADEMY FOR SUCCE…PIVOTAL CONNECTIONS: $185,000 · OtherPIVOTAL CONNECTIONSBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS: $180,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERSVOLUNTEER MATCH: $150,000 · OtherVOLUNTEER MATCHTHE TOWER FOUNDATION - SAN JOSE STATE: $115,000 · OtherDPEA FOUNDATION: $90,000 · OtherA WINDOW BETWEEN WORLDS: $90,000 · Other+82 more: $955,987 · Other+82 moreALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION: $230,000 · EducationALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF…Silicon Valley Urban Debate League: $210,000 · EducationSilicon Valley Urban Deb…BREAKTHROUGH SILICON VALLEY: $200,000 · EducationBREAKTHROUGH SILICON VAL…Pitzer College: $115,000 · EducationPitzer CollegeUC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $92,400 · EducationUC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDAT…NEW TEACHER CENTER: $60,000 · EducationNEW TEACHER CENTERTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $40,000 · EducationSanta Barbara Education Foundation: $40,000 · Education+6 more: $55,633 · Education+6 moreWilderness Youth Project Inc: $325,000 · Youth DevelopmentWilderness You…Future Leaders of America: $230,000 · Youth DevelopmentFuture Leaders…SHINE TOGETHER INC: $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentSHINE TOGETHER…+1 more: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentFUND FOR SANTA BARBARA INC: $210,000 · PhilanthropySILICON VALLEY SOCIAL VENTURE FUND - SV2: $30,000 · PhilanthropyINNOVATE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $22,030 · PhilanthropySANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropySanta Barbara Hillel: $12,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $12,000 · PhilanthropyWOMEN'S ECONOMIC VENTURES: $250,000 · Public Benefit+1 more: $1,000 · Public BenefitOne Cool Earth: $195,000 · EnvironmentTHE DOWNSTREAM PROJECT: $20,000 · EnvironmentEnvironmental Volunteers Inc: $15,000 · EnvironmentTRUE NATURE SOCIETY QUAIL SPRINGS: $12,000 · Environment+3 more: $6,250 · EnvironmentJust Communities Central Coast: $143,500 · Civil Rights+1 more: $2,000 · Civil Rights
Other$2,195,987Education$1,043,033Youth Development$630,000Philanthropy$306,030Public Benefit$251,000Environment$248,250Civil Rights$145,500

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 budgetWilderness Youth Project Inc: $325,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetWOMEN'S ECONOMIC VENTURES: $250,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION: $230,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFuture Leaders of America: $230,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetSilicon Valley Urban Debate League: $210,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetFUND FOR SANTA BARBARA INC: $210,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH SILICON VALLEY: $200,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetOne Cool Earth: $195,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetPIVOTAL CONNECTIONS: $185,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetJust Communities Central Coast: $143,500 over 3y, 9.9% of budgetPitzer College: $115,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $92,400 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetA WINDOW BETWEEN WORLDS: $90,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetNEW TEACHER CENTER: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSHINE TOGETHER INC: $60,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetSOMOS MAYFAIR INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $45,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $40,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Barbara Education Foundation: $40,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSILICON VALLEY SOCIAL VENTURE FUND - SV2: $30,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetWORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND: $23,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetINNOVATE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $22,030 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HEALTH TRUST: $22,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSTORYTELLER CHILDRENS CENTER INC: $21,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE DOWNSTREAM PROJECT: $20,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetKeystone Research Center Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIAS INC: $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCollege is Real Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetEnvironmental Volunteers Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetBRAVEN INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK COALITION OF SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY: $12,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTRANSITION HOUSE: $12,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSanta Barbara Hillel: $12,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTRUE NATURE SOCIETY QUAIL SPRINGS: $12,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetVENTURA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SILICON VALLEY: $8,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetACE CHARTER SCHOOL: $7,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN NOW: $5,051 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKQED INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGLAUCOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEAP INC: $5,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKCBX INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetEDSOURCE INC: $3,610 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLeading from Within: $2,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetACKNOWLEDGE ALLIANCE: $2,010 over 4y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds Wilderness Youth Project Inc ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S ECONOMIC VENTURES ↗
  • Who funds ALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds Future Leaders of America ↗
  • Who funds Silicon Valley Urban Debate League ↗
  • Who funds FUND FOR SANTA BARBARA INC ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH SILICON VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds One Cool Earth ↗
  • Who funds PIVOTAL CONNECTIONS ↗
  • Who funds Just Communities Central Coast ↗
  • Who funds Pitzer College ↗
  • Who funds UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds A WINDOW BETWEEN WORLDS ↗
  • Who funds NEW TEACHER CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SHINE TOGETHER INC ↗
  • Who funds SOMOS MAYFAIR INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Santa Barbara Education Foundation ↗
  • Who funds SILICON VALLEY SOCIAL VENTURE FUND - SV2 ↗
  • Who funds WORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds INNOVATE PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds THE HEALTH TRUST ↗
  • Who funds STORYTELLER CHILDRENS CENTER 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.

The David and Lucile …The Sobrato Family Fo…Silicon Valley Commun…Hutton Foundation Dba…The Applied Materials…California Community …Jewish Community Fede…Santa Barbara Foundat…Towbes FoundationAnn Jackson Family Fo…Tides FoundationGordon E and Betty I …
The David and Lucile Packard FoundationCA30.7× affinity14 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · The Applied Materials Foundation · California Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Santa Barbara Foundation · Towbes Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Tides Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore 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 William and Charlene Glikbarg Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William and Charlene Glikbarg Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 88%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to William and Charlene Glikbarg 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 126 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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