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ElLaissi Urbina Foundation at a glance

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ElLaissi Urbina 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.

$5k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$500
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, FY2022 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$3kReligion$3kArts & Culture$2kHealth$2kHuman Services$2kAnimals$1kCrime & Legal$1kEnvironment$800Other$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$300
Median grant
5
States reached
$205k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Wendt Center$500
ANERA$500
First Evangelical Lutheran Church$500
Individual grant recipient$500
World Central Kitchen$500
Food Justice DMV$500
Ogeechee Area Hospice$300
Casey Trees$300
Animal Human of NM$300
Francis on the Hill$300
Individual grant recipient$300
ASPCA$200
National Museum of Women in the Arts$200
Hola Cultura$200
Humane Rescue Alliance$200
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 80% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%First Evangelical Lutheran Church: $1k → 11%Francis on the Hill: $300 → 10%Animal Human of NM: $300 → 14%Greater Washington Community Fund: $1k → 14%Ogeechee Area Hospice: $1k → 24%National Immigrant Justice Center: $200 → 14%First Evangelical Lutheran Church: $1k → 11%Food Justice DMV: $750 → 14%Ogeechee Area Hospice: $300 → 24%First Evangelical Lutheran Church: $500 → 11%Food Justice DMV: $500 → 14%Ogeechee Area Hospice: $250 → 24%Hola Cultura: $300 → 14%ANERA: $500 → 14%Hola Cultura: $250 → 14%National Museum of Women in the Arts: $250 → 14%Carlos Rosario School: $250 → 14%Casey Trees: $500 → 14%National Museum of Women in the Arts: $250 → 14%Hola Cultura: $200 → 14%Casey Trees: $300 → 14%National Museum of Women in the Arts: $200 → 14%Shakespeare Group: $300 → 14%National Gallery of Art: $250 → 14%Smithsonian Associates: $200 → 14%National Gallery of Art: $250 → 14%World Central Kitchen: $500 → 14%CAIR Coalition: $300 → 14%Wendt Center: $500 → 14%Wendt Center: $500 → 14%Wendt Center: $500 → 14%Humane Rescue Alliance: $250 → 14%Humane Rescue Alliance: $250 → 14%Humane Rescue Alliance: $200 → 14%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.
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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10k · 9 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
5

Total granted

$10k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
+35%

Still filing today

67%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Arts & CultureAnimalsInternationalHealthCrime & LegalEnvironmentOther
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

  • CT
    Casey Trees
    2× · 2023–2024 · $800 · revenue +15%
  • WH
    WASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY
    3× · 2022–2024 · $700 · revenue +1%
  • NG
    National Gallery of Art
    2× · 2022–2023 · $500 · revenue +147%

Funded once

  • GW
    Greater Washington Community Fund
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
  • CA
    CAPITAL AREA IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITIONgraduated
    2× · 2022–2023 · $300 · revenue +35%
  • CR
    Carlos Rosario School
    one grant, 2023 · $250
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
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
2
National Association of Clean Water Agencies

Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.

—
3
Natural Areas Conservancy Inc

The natural areas conservancy champions urban natural areas in new york city and across the nation through innovative research, partnerships, and advocacy. we increase the health and resilience of urban forests and wetlands, catalyze…

Environment
4
Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports
5
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
6
New Orleans Museum of Art

The mission of the new orleans museum of art is to inspire the love of art; to collect, preserve, exhibit and present excellence in the visual arts; to educate, challenge and engage a diverse public.

Arts & Culture
7
City Wildlife Inc

The goals of City Wildlife are to rescue sick, orphaned, and injured wild animals and return them to the wild; to promote the enjoyment of and harmonious co-existence with native wildlife; and to protect the District of Columbias wild…

Education
8
The Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals
9
District of Columbia Arts Center

The District of Columbia Arts Center serves the Washington DC area by presenting high caliber and challenging works. It encourages professionalism among artists by providing a forum for educational and cultural exchange. DCAC was founded…

Arts & Culture
10
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
11
Amazon Conservation Association

Amazon conservation unites science, people, and innovation to protect the amazon - the greatest wild forest on earth. as guardians of the most iconic forest on the planet, we bring together the power of the latest science and technology…

Environment
12
Dc Greens Inc

DC Greens advances health equity by building a just and resilient food system.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is World Central Kitchen Inc; the most unlike its peers is The National Museum of Women in the Arts. 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

10 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. 10 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
4/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

First Evangelical Lutheran Church: $2,500 · OtherFirst Evangelical Lutheran ChurchWendt Center: $1,500 · OtherWendt CenterFood Justice DMV: $1,250 · OtherFood Justice DMVGreater Washington Community Fund: $1,000 · OtherGreater Washington Community FundTHE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS: $700 · OtherTHE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTSIndividual grant recipient: $500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFrancis on the Hill: $300 · OtherAnimal Human of NM: $300 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $300 · Other+3 more: $650 · Other+3 moreOGEECHEE AREA HOSPICE INC: $1,550 · HealthOGEECHEE AR…Hola Cultura: $750 · Arts & CultureHola Cult…National Gallery of Art: $500 · Arts & CultureNational …WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $500 · InternationalAMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID: $500 · InternationalWASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY: $700 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $200 · AnimalsCasey Trees: $800 · EnvironmentCAPITAL AREA IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION: $300 · Crime & Legal
Other$9,000Health$1,550Arts & Culture$1,250International$1,000Animals$900Environment$800Crime & Legal$300

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 budgetOGEECHEE AREA HOSPICE INC: $1,550 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCasey Trees: $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHola Cultura: $750 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS: $700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY: $700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Gallery of Art: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL AREA IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $200 over 1y, 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization ElLaissi Urbina Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from ElLaissi Urbina Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 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-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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