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George Lopez Foundation

Our mission is to create positive, permanent change for underprivileged children, adults and military families confronting challenges in education and health, as well as increasing community awareness about kidney disease and organ donation.

$138k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Youth Development$276kPhilanthropy$52kHealth$22kRecreation & Sports$20kFood & Nutrition$5k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 1 grants below total $30,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $138,241 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $108,241 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$641k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE PAINTED TURTLE$30,000
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Teens for Food Justice: $5k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Ty Louis Campbell Foundation Inc

None

Health
2
Warrior Kids Foundation
Health
3
Kids Join the Fight

To empower kids to join the fight against pediatric cancer by raising money to provide local care for pediatric cancer patients and their families and to fund research to cure childhood cancer.

Arts & Culture
4
Live Like Bella Inc

The Live Like Bella Childhood Cancer Foundation is committed to being a recognized leader in childhood cancer research and advocacy while providing financial and emotional support to hundreds of families whose children are battling cancer.

Health
5
Childrens Cancer Therapy Development Institute

To make all childhood cancers universally survivable by delivering new treatments to clinical trials through scientific discovery.

6
The Larry & Cathy Lung Cancer Foundation
Health
7
Kt Strong Corporation

Stomach cancer

Health
8
Girl Power 2 Cure Dba Rett University

To raise awareness and funds for treatments and a cure for rett syndrome as well as to provide family support and education.

Health
9
Taylor Steele Cancer Foundation
Health
10
Tony Laudadio Foundation

To provide critical financial assistance to families affected by cancer.

Philanthropy
11
The Chris Lantos Foundation

The Chris Lantos Foundation improves the lives of pediatric cancer patients and their families through charitable acts of kindness that support their physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being while also raising public awareness…

Health
12
Lightning and Love Foundation

To raise awareness advance scientific r

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Painted Turtle and the most unlike its peers is Johnny Crisstopher Childrens Charitable Foundation Jds. 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

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 9 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/8
Grantees still filing
2/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE PAINTED TURTLE — $260,500 · Youth DevelopmentTHE PAINTED TURTLEGIRLS INC OF GREATER LOS ANGELES — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INC OF GREATER LOS ANGELESCT3 FOUNDATION — $52,000 · Community ImprovementCT3 FOUNDATIONTIGER BASEBALL CLUB — $10,000 · OtherTIGER BAS…HER TOO — $10,000 · OtherHER TOOLIFT FOR THE 22 INC — $10,000 · OtherLIFT FOR …JOHNNY CRISSTOPHER CHILDRENS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION JDS — $5,876 · HealthSUGAR RAY LEONARD FOUNDATION — $5,745 · HealthTEENS FOR FOOD JUSTICE INC — $5,181 · Human Services
Youth Development$275,500Community Improvement$52,000Other$30,000Health$11,621Human Services$5,181

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE PAINTED TURTLE — $260,500 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetGIRLS INC OF GREATER LOS ANGELES — $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHER TOO — $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetLIFT FOR THE 22 INC — $10,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetJOHNNY CRISSTOPHER CHILDRENS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION JDS — $5,876 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSUGAR RAY LEONARD FOUNDATION — $5,745 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTEENS FOR FOOD JUSTICE INC — $5,181 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization George Lopez Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report 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, FY2025

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to George Lopez Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to George Lopez 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 9 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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