· Private foundation
James W Lundberg Philanthropic Trust
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $27k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Sentencing Project | $15,000 |
| A4TE Education Fund | $12,000 |
| National Coalition Against Censorship | $7,000 |
| Innocence Project | $7,000 |
| Jimmy Carter Center | $3,000 |
| Equal Justice Institute | $2,000 |
| Habitat for Humanity McLean County Illinois | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +100% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TSTHE SENTENCING PROJECT7× · 2019–2025 · $68k · revenue +430%
- TITHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC7× · 2019–2025 · $45k · revenue +35%
- AFADVOCATES FOR TRANS EQUALITY EDUCATION FUND2× · 2023–2024 · $27k · revenue +100%
Funded once
- NCNATIONAL COALITION AGAINSTone grant, 2021 · $5k
- SPSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INCone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +23%
- HFHabitat for Humanity Internationalone grant, 2018 · $2k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The center for american liberty leads the fight for free speech and civil liberties across the country. by leveraging its nationwide network of litigators, the center for american liberty zealously advocates on behalf of individuals whose…
To preserve and protect the sanctity of our vote by promoting commonsense, nonpartisan election security reforms that prevent hacking and fraud without restricting eligible citizens from accessing the polls.
Southern coalition for social justice partners with communities of color and economically disadvantaged communities across the south to defend and advance their political, social, and economic rights. through an intersectional and…
To promote civil liberties through communication and interaction with and between the citizens and legislators of the state of florida
To defend the civil liberties of the residents in the state of florida
To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.
Advocates for basic legal equality, inc. (able) is a non-profit law firm that provides high quality legal assistance in civil matters to help eligible low-income individuals and groups in western ohio achieve self-reliance, and equal…
The sixth amendment center seeks to ensure that no person faces potential time in jail or prison without first having the aid of a lawyer with the time, ability and resources to present an effective defense, as required under the united…
Economic security project advocates for ideas that build economic power for all americans. we aim to build fair and healthy markets, advocate for tax credits, and champion a guaranteed income. see schedule oto support these fights, we work…
Since 1971, the national center for state courts (the center) partners with state courts in their evolution into modern governmental institutions and helps to introduce efficiency and cost-effectiveness into the administration of justice…
The Southern Center for Human Rights is working for equality, dignity, and justice for people impacted by the criminal legal system in the Deep South. SCHR fights for a world free from mass incarceration, the death penalty, the…
The capital appeals project is a non-profit law office seeking to end the death penalty
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Sentencing Project and the most unlike its peers is Habitat for Humanity of Lake County. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 19 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THE SENTENCING PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR TRANS EQUALITY EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COALITION AGAINST CENSORSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF MCLEAN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF LAKE COUNTY ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization James W Lundberg Philanthropic Trust 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.
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.