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CYPRESS LAWN HERITAGE FOUNDATION

CYPRESS LAWN HERITAGE FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,000 to it, the largest being CDR JOHNSON FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$313k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$13k
Net assets
$167k
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%
01What it does

What Cypress Lawn Heritage Foundation does

Program

  1. Sponsorship of educational programs, lectures, tours, and seminars pertaining to the history of cypress lawn memorial park and arboretum and the achievements and contributions of the historical figures at rest at cypress lawn.

    $282,943 spent

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($152k) Expenses 100 ($162k) Net assets 100 ($78k)2018 Revenue 160 ($243k) Expenses 146 ($237k) Net assets 108 ($84k)2019 Revenue 153 ($232k) Expenses 147 ($238k) Net assets 100 ($78k)2020 Revenue 141 ($215k) Expenses 137 ($222k) Net assets 90 ($70k)2021 Revenue 145 ($220k) Expenses 137 ($221k) Net assets 89 ($70k)2022 Revenue 120 ($183k) Expenses 113 ($183k) Net assets 120 ($93k)2023 Revenue 135 ($204k) Expenses 104 ($168k) Net assets 166 ($129k)2024 Revenue 257 ($391k) Expenses 234 ($379k) Net assets 182 ($142k)2025 Revenue 206 ($313k) Expenses 178 ($288k) Net assets 215 ($167k)
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Revenue (206)Expenses (178)Net assets (215)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $152k to $283k (+86%).

$78k
$89k
$108k
$98k
$99k
$134k
$145k
$152k
$283k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Robert A Gordon Jr

President & CEO

Board chair

Richard H Peterson Jr

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.

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Joined·+2+0+5+0+1+0+0+0
No longer listed·10430010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $1k → $11k.

Left out of every figure on this page: $1.4M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Cypress Lawn Cemetery Association). These are real filings, and they are not money CYPRESS LAWN HERITAGE FOUNDATION raised.

From the IRS filings of CYPRESS LAWN HERITAGE FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

CYPRESS LAWN HERITAGE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

77%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 91% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

CYPRESS LAWN HERITAGE FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.

IN
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’21
’22
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CYPRESS LAWN HERITAGE FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Months of reserve2.3mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like CYPRESS LAWN HERITAGE FOUNDATION

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CYPRESS LAWN HERITAGE FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds CYPRESS LAWN HERITAGE FOUNDATION?
CYPRESS LAWN HERITAGE FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,000 to it, the largest being CDR JOHNSON FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CYPRESS LAWN HERITAGE FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $13,000 in grants to CYPRESS LAWN HERITAGE FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CYPRESS LAWN HERITAGE FOUNDATION?
CDR JOHNSON FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CYPRESS LAWN HERITAGE FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing