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Business of Caring - the Lehman Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$28k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

Recreation & Sports$223kYouth Development$186kReligion$151kEducation$43kHealth$38kHuman Services$28kPhilanthropy$18kInternational$6k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$5k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOLDS OF HONOR$10,000
CHRISTIAN LIFE MINISTRIES$10,000
CORTNEY'S PLACE$5,000
ELEVATE PHOENIX$3,000
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 (FY21–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CORTNEY'S PLACE: $5k → 11%CORTNEY'S FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%CORTNEY'S PLACE: $5k → 11%CORTNEY'S PLACE: $5k → 11%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

MN
NY
SD
CA
MO
MD
AZ
DC
OK
AL
TX
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$607k · 13 repeat orgs$75k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +114% since the first grant, against +49% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
16

Total granted

$607k
$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+114%
+49%

Still filing today

46%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyReligionOther
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

  • EP
    ELEVATE PHOENIX
    7× · 2017–2025 · $173k · revenue +235%
  • FO
    FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2025 · $43k · revenue +103%
  • PG
    PHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION
    4× · 2017–2023 · $24k · revenue +126%

Funded once

  • WH
    WHERE HOPE LIVES
    one grant, 2024 · $13k
  • MP
    MONTEREY PENINSULA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -50%
  • BH
    Banner Health Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +99%
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
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
2
Personal Care Products Council Foundation Inc

The foundation is set up to deliver one program - look good feel better. the mission of this nationwide program is to improve the quality of life of women, men, and teens undergoing cancer treatment by offering advice on how to cope with…

Health
3
Banner Alzheimer's Foundation

Established in 2006, the banner alzheimer's foundation (baf) secures and stewards charitable gifts to advance the mission of banner alzheimer's institute (bai), including groundbreaking research initiatives and pioneering prevention…

Health
4
Foundation for Financial Planning Inc

Our mission is to help people in need improve their financial lives by expanding access to pro bono financial planning.

Human Services
5
Lodestar Charitable Foundation

To perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes of the arizona community foundation, an az nonprofit corporation, so long as the arizona community foundation, inc. remains a qualified organization.

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6
100 Club of Arizona

To provide immediate financial assistance to families of public safety officers and firefighters who are seriously injured or killed in the line of duty, and to provide resources to enhance their safety and welfare.

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7
The National Fragile X Foundation

The national fragile x foundation serves the entire fragile x community to live their best lives by providing the knowledge, resources, and tools until, and even after, more effective treatments and a cure are achieved.

Health
8
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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9
Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation

Phoenix children's hospital foundation supports phoenix children's hospital through fundraising ensuring that the hospital continues to stay on the leading edge of pediatric medicine and is equipped to fulfill its mission to advance hope,…

Health
10
America's Health Insurance Plans Inc

Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…

Membership Benefit
11
Tmc Health Foundation

The tmc health foundation supports the charitable mission of tucson medical center and is dedicated to improving the health and quality of life in our community.

Health
12
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Phoenix Gospel Mission; the most unlike its peers is Mckenzie Monks Foundation. 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

14 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. 14 of the 31 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
12/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $200,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIN THE GAME MINISTRIES: $80,000 · OtherIN THE GAME MINISTRIESWHERE HOPE LIVES: $12,500 · OtherURBAN YOUTH EXCEL: $12,500 · Other+13 more: $56,100 · Other+13 moreELEVATE PHOENIX: $173,080 · Youth DevelopmentELEVATE PHOENIX+2 more: $3,500 · Youth DevelopmentFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $42,500 · EducationCHRISTIAN LIFE MINISTRIES: $20,000 · Human ServicesCORTNEYS PLACE: $20,000 · Human ServicesHOPEKIDS INC: $12,000 · HealthBanner Health Foundation: $10,000 · HealthMCKENZIE MONKS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $1,000 · HealthPHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION: $23,750 · ReligionMONTEREY PENINSULA FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,000 · PhilanthropyMYRIAD USA INC: $5,636 · International
Other$361,100Youth Development$176,580Education$42,500Human Services$40,000Health$28,000Religion$23,750Philanthropy$13,000International$5,636

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetELEVATE PHOENIX: $173,080 over 7y, 3.5% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $42,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION: $23,750 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHRISTIAN LIFE MINISTRIES: $20,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetCORTNEYS PLACE: $20,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetHOPEKIDS INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMONTEREY PENINSULA FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBanner Health Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC: $5,636 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMCKENZIE MONKS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetK2 ADVENTURES FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 ELEVATE PHOENIX ↗
  • Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN LIFE MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds CORTNEYS PLACE ↗
  • Who funds HOPEKIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds MONTEREY PENINSULA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Banner Health Foundation ↗
  • Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
  • Who funds MCKENZIE MONKS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
  • Who funds K2 ADVENTURES FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Arizona Community Fou…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Arizona Community FoundationAZ13× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Business of Caring - the Lehman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Business of Caring - the Lehman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%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
    1get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    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.

    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 31 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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