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American Latvian Association in the Unit

The american latvian association (ala) is the main representative organization for the latvian american community.

$396k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$219kHuman Services$203kYouth Development$170kEducation$154kInternational$70kRecreation & Sports$22kReligion$20kCommunity Improvement$20k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $93,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $395,843 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $302,343 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $78k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$9.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JOINT BALTIC AMERICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE$34,800
LATVIAN CENTER GAREZERS$33,600
WORLD FEDERATION OF FREE LATVIANS$10,000
WEST COAST LATVIAN EDUCATION CENTER$8,500
2X2 LATVIAN SEMINARS$6,600
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $203k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%JOINT BALTIC AMERICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE: $35k → 8%JBANC: $34k → 8%JOINT BALTIC AMERICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE: $34k → 8%JOINT BALTIC AMERICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE: $34k → 8%JOINT BALTIC AMERICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE: $34k → 8%JOINT BALTIC AMERICAN NATIONAL COMITTEE: $34k → 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

WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
NJ
CA
MD
DE

Grants abroad, by region: $243k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 1 region, $238k to organizations and $6k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$243k · 100% · 4 grants · 4 people

Stated purpose: GRANT FOR A NEWSPAPER · SUPPORT TALENTED UNDERPRIVILEGED CHILDREN · TO SUPPORT ORPHANS AND LARGE FAMILIES

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$738k · 11 repeat orgs$140k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against -16% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
10

Total granted

$738k
$140k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
-16%

Still filing today

73%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureInternationalHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • LC
    LATVIAN CENTER GAREZERS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $241k · revenue +334%
  • WF
    World Federation of Free Latvians
    6× · 2019–2024 · $70k · revenue +55%
  • WC
    WEST COAST LATVIAN EDUCATION CENTER
    5× · 2018–2024 · $62k · revenue +295%

Funded once

  • L5
    LATVIAN 50 YEAR OCCUPATION MUSEUM FUND SUPPORT GROUP
    one grant, 2018 · $60k · revenue -16%
  • XL
    XV Latvian Song Festival
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • XL
    XIV Latvian Song and Dance Festival Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -100%
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
Northern California Latvian Assn

Support Latvian language and culture

Arts & Culture
2
Latvian Assoc Daugavas Vanagi Asv Inc

Preserve Latvian culture, assist disadvantaged families, support youth, support summer camps in the USA and support museums and monuments in Latvia.

Philanthropy
3
Latvian Foundation Inc

Preservation of Latvian Culture: to maintain and perpetuate Latvian culture and ethnic traditions; to sponsor research on Latvian history; to support cultural and educational events; to sponsor literary works

Arts & Culture
4
Lithuanian Melodies Inc
Arts & Culture
5
Latvijas Brivibas Fonds Ltd

Provide support for the educational and cultural programs and activities of the World Federation of Free Latvians, Inc. - 501(c)(3) organization and other organizations with similar goals and purposes.

International
6
Latvian Community Center

Facilities provided for Latvian language school, choir, folk dancing, concerts, lectures, exhibits, library, youth and senior citizens activities and the like

—
7
Ligzda Latvian Center

Ligzda is an organization that supports and promotes cultural, ethnic, religious, educational and artistic activities for Latvians in the Chicago area and wherever they may be. Ligzda is home to more than a dozen Latvian organizations…

Human Services
8
Chabad Lubavitch of Latvia Inc

Spreading Jewish Observance among the unaffiliated

Religion
9
American Lithuanian Press & Radio

To publish a newspaper in the lithuanian language covering us and world news as well as its culture and heritage locally and around the world.

Human Services
10
Lithuanian Alliance of America

To promote lithuanian culture and education.

—
11
Lithuanian World Community

To organize and unite persons of Lithuanian descent into Lithuanian community and cultural heritage and customs.

Arts & Culture
12
Lithuanian Opera Co

To Promote Lithuanian Language Culture.The Lithuanian Opera Company of Chicago was founded by Lithuanian imigrants in 1956 and presents operas in Lithuanian . It celebrated fifty years of existence in 2006 , and operates as a…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Latvian Organization Association of Minnesota; the most unlike its peers is 2X2 Latvian Seminars. 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

13 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. 13 of the 21 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/13
Grantees still filing
6/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LATVIAN CENTER GAREZERS: $241,175 · Arts & CultureLATVIAN CENTER GAREZERSLATVIAN NATIONAL OPERA GUILD INC: $16,000 · Arts & CultureLATVIAN NATIONAL OPERA GUILD INCLATVIAN CULTURAL ASSOCIATION TILTS INC: $12,000 · Arts & CultureLATVIAN DIASPORA MUSEUM FUND INC: $11,020 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $5,000 · Arts & CultureWEST COAST LATVIAN EDUCATION CENTER: $62,000 · OtherWEST COAST LATVIAN EDUCATION…LATVIAN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH OF N Y: $61,750 · OtherLATVIAN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN…LAIKS: $26,850 · OtherLAIKSXV Latvian Song Festival: $25,000 · OtherXV Latvian Song FestivalXIV Latvian Song and Dance Festival Inc: $10,000 · OtherLatvian School of Chicago: $10,000 · OtherGLOBAL SOCIETY FOR LATVIAN ART INC: $8,000 · Other+3 more: $15,400 · Other+3 moreJOINT BALTIC AMERICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE: $203,100 · Human ServicesJOINT BALTIC AMERICAN NATI…World Federation of Free Latvians: $70,000 · InternationalWorld Federation …LATVIAN 50 YEAR OCCUPATION MUSEUM FUND SUPPORT GROUP: $60,000 · InternationalLATVIAN 50 YEAR O…Friends of the University of Latvia: $6,860 · InternationalLATVIAN-AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $20,000 · Community Improvement2X2 LATVIAN SEMINARS: $14,000 · Recreation & Sports
Arts & Culture$285,195Other$219,000Human Services$203,100International$136,860Community Improvement$20,000Recreation & Sports$14,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLATVIAN CENTER GAREZERS: $241,175 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetJOINT BALTIC AMERICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE: $203,100 over 6y, 26% of budgetWorld Federation of Free Latvians: $70,000 over 6y, 6.4% of budgetWEST COAST LATVIAN EDUCATION CENTER: $62,000 over 5y, 7.2% of budgetLATVIAN 50 YEAR OCCUPATION MUSEUM FUND SUPPORT GROUP: $60,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetLATVIAN-AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $20,000 over 2y, 65% of budgetLATVIAN NATIONAL OPERA GUILD INC: $16,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budget2X2 LATVIAN SEMINARS: $14,000 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetXIV Latvian Song and Dance Festival Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetFriends of the University of Latvia: $6,860 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetLatvian Organization Association of Minnesota: $5,000 over 1y, 13% 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.

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.

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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 American Latvian Association in the Unit funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Latvian Association in the Unit. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 American Latvian Association in the Unit 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 21 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 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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