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Eric & Simone Lang Foundation at a glance

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Eric & Simone Lang 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.

$2.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
104
Grants FY2025still arriving
22
States reached
$90k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$667kInternational$486kHealth$454kEducation$425kFood & Nutrition$359kHuman Services$153kCrime & Legal$145kCommunity Improvement$129kOther$0
02FY2025 · 104 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k20 grants · $100k
  • $10k–50k74 grants · $1.6M
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $557k
$25,000
Median grant
22
States reached
$59M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAINEHEALTH$90,000
CALIFORNIA JAZZ CONSERVATORY$67,000
CENTER FOR VOLUNTEER & NONPROFIT LEADERS$50,000
NORTH COUNTRY SCHOOL$50,000
REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK$50,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA$50,000
SANTA ROSA JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION$50,000
OWL'S HEAD TRANSPORTATION MUSEUM$50,000
CAMDEN AREA DISTRICT NURSING ASSOCIATION$50,000
FARNSWORTH ART MUSEUM$50,000
AREA INTERFAITH OUTREACH$45,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE (IRC)$35,000
NATIONAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HOTLINE$25,000
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND$25,000
WOMEN IN NEED$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 (FY21–25, $299k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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%NATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER: $15k → 22%DAN MARINO FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%THE BLUE CARD: $15k → 17%WOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION: $15k → 17%SAFE HORIZON: $25k → 17%AREA INTERFAITH OUTREACH: $45k → 11%AREA INTERFAITH OUTREACH: $44k → 11%AREA INTERFAITH OUTREACH: $15k → 11%COVENANT HOUSE: $25k → 17%AREA INTERFAITH OUTREACH: $10k → 11%AREA INTERFAITH OUTREACH: $10k → 11%INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $25k → 17%WOMEN IN NEED: $25k → 17%URBAN RESOURCE INSTITUTE: $25k → 17%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

ME
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
SD
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
KS
TN
SC
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 17 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 83 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
10

Total granted

$1.9M
$49k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+33%

Still filing today

88%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • M
    MaineHealth
    4× · 2022–2025 · $229k · revenue +37%
  • NC
    NORTH COUNTRY SCHOOL INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $169k · revenue +50%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $159k · revenue +89%

Funded once

  • PB
    Pen Bay Waldo Healthcare Foundation
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • VC
    VOLUNTEER CTR OF SONOMA CTY
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • MP
    Maine Public Broadcasting Corporationgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +26%
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
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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2
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
3
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
4
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
5
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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6
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International
7
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
8
Women Donors Network

Women donors network advances a just, equitable, and sustainable world through the power of philanthropy, women's leadership, and collective and individual action.

Philanthropy
9
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
10
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
11
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
12
Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide

Educational & charitable. to provide legal and scientific information to public interest attorneys and scientists in numerous countries.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Convoy of Hope; the most unlike its peers is The William a Farnsworth Library and Art Museum 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

106 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 106 of the 115 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)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
101/106
Grantees still filing
35/106
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CALIFORNIA JAZZ CONSERVATORY INC: $186,400 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA JAZZ CON…The Owls Head Transportation Museum: $159,400 · Arts & CultureThe Owls Head Trans…THE WILLIAM A FARNSWORTH LIBRARY AND ART MUSEUM INC: $129,900 · Arts & CultureTHE WILLIAM A FARNS…JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC: $25,000 · Arts & CulturePUBLIC BROADCASTING SERVICE: $25,000 · Arts & CultureNew Museum of Contemporary Art: $25,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $47,000 · Arts & Culture+7 moreNORTH COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $169,400 · OtherNORTH COUNTRY SCHOOL INCCenter for Volunteer & Nonprofit Leadership: $104,400 · OtherCenter for Volunteer & Nonprofi…+45 more: $696,600 · Other+45 moreMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $159,400 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRON…International Rescue Committee INC: $82,000 · InternationalInternational Resc…The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $25,000 · InternationalHIAS INC: $25,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $25,000 · InternationalKIVA MICROFUNDS: $25,000 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEF: $25,000 · InternationalGLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC: $25,000 · InternationalAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $25,000 · InternationalWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL: $25,000 · InternationalTHE CARTER CENTER INC: $25,000 · InternationalCONVOY OF HOPE: $25,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $25,000 · International+4 more: $50,000 · International+4 moreMaineHealth: $228,800 · HealthMaineHealthCamden Area District Nursing Association: $129,400 · HealthCamden Area Di…PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $25,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENT…SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $25,000 · HealthSEMPER FI & AM…CRISIS TEXT LINE INC: $25,000 · HealthCRISIS TEXT LI…+3 more: $21,000 · HealthAREA INTERFAITH OUTREACH: $124,400 · Human ServicesAREA INTERF…NATIONAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HOTLINE: $25,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL DO…SAFE HORIZON INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesSAFE HORIZO…THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesTHE INNOCEN…WOMEN IN NEED INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN IN NE…URBAN RESOURCE INSTITUTE: $25,000 · Human ServicesURBAN RESOU…COVENANT HOUSE: $25,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HO…SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesSANCTUARY F…WOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesNATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA: $15,000 · Human ServicesTHE BLUE CARD INC: $15,000 · Human Services+2 more: $10,000 · Human ServicesSANTA ROSA JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $149,400 · EducationSANTA ROSA…AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $25,000 · EducationAMERICAN I…Sail Power and Steam Museum: $18,600 · EducationSail Power…Island Institute: $18,000 · EducationIsland Ins…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $15,000 · EducationNEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $15,000 · EducationJUILLIARD SCHOOL: $15,000 · EducationBILLION OYSTER PROJECT INC: $15,000 · EducationTHE GREEN LIGHT PROJECT INC: $15,000 · EducationTHE NEWS LITERACY PROJECT INC: $15,000 · EducationSan Mateo County Community Colleges Foundation: $14,600 · Education+4 more: $17,000 · EducationREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK: $154,400 · Food & NutritionFeeding America: $25,000 · Food & Nutrition
Arts & Culture$597,700Other$970,400International$566,400Health$454,200Human Services$354,400Education$332,600Food & Nutrition$179,400

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 budgetMaineHealth: $228,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA JAZZ CONSERVATORY INC: $186,400 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetNORTH COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $169,400 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $159,400 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Owls Head Transportation Museum: $159,400 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK: $154,400 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA ROSA JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $149,400 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE WILLIAM A FARNSWORTH LIBRARY AND ART MUSEUM INC: $129,900 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetCamden Area District Nursing Association: $129,400 over 5y, 13% of budgetAREA INTERFAITH OUTREACH: $124,400 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetCenter for Volunteer & Nonprofit Leadership: $104,400 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $82,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIAS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKIVA MICROFUNDS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE HORIZON INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPUBLIC BROADCASTING SERVICE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN IN NEED INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCRISIS TEXT LINE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN RESOURCE INSTITUTE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew Museum of Contemporary Art: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LEGAL AID SOCIETY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVOLUNTEER CENTER OF SONOMA COUNTY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSail Power and Steam Museum: $18,600 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetIsland Institute: $18,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GENESEE COUNTY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BAIL PROJECT INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Marin Community Found…Maine Community Found…The New York Communit…The William & Flora H…The Widgeon Point Cha…The Chicago Community…Sonoma County Communi…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Hyde and Watson F…Gordon E and Betty I …American Express Foun…The Yelp Foundation
Marin Community FoundationCA17.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Sonoma County Community Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · American Express Foundation · The Yelp 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 Eric & Simone Lang Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Eric & Simone Lang Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 29%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Jazz House Kids Inc: 29% of income from government
  • United Way of Northeast Florida Inc: 2% of income from government
  • New England Conservatory of Music: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
28report 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 Eric & Simone Lang 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 115 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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