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Jc Lionheart Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Jc Lionheart Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1k
Granted FY2021
9
Grants FY2021
5
States reached
$304
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2021.

Animals$1kYouth Development$486Education$450Civil Rights$218Public Safety & Disaster$117International$105Arts & Culture$105Religion$103Other$0
02FY2021 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$103
Median grant
5
States reached
$3k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PRAGER UNIVERSITY$304
SF SPCA$300
CITIZENS COMMITTE FOR RIGHT TO BEAR$115
SF COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER$105
AMERICAN FREEDOM ALLIANCE$103
GLOBAL SPIRITUAL REVOLUTION RADIO MEDIA$103
EAGLE MOUNTAIN LIBRARY$100
Individual grant recipient$100
NATIONAL POLICE FUND$17
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 29% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FELIDAE CONSERVATION FUND: $100 → 8%JOHN F KENNEDY LIBRARY: $100 → 10%PROJECT WRECKLESS: $80 → 10%AND WE KNOW: $100 → 11%PRAGER UNIVERSITY: $304 → 14%GLOBAL SPIRITUAL REVOLUTION RADIO MEDIA: $103 → 17%HUMANE SOCIETY OF US: $100 → 14%SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION: $105 → 9%EAGLE MOUNTAIN LIBRARY: $100 → 8%CITIZENS COMMITTE FOR RIGHT TO BEAR: $115 → 9%ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION: $60 → 14%NATIONAL POLICE FUND: $17 → 9%SCI ACTIVE NETWORK: $50 → 10%SF SPCA: $300 → 10%PRAGER UNIVERSITY: $102 → 14%CA WILDFIRES RECOVERY FUND: $100 → 14%SF SPCA: $300 → 10%AMERICAN FREEDOM ALLIANCE: $103 → 14%SF SPCA: $300 → 10%SF SPCA: $300 → 10%SF LAW LIBRARY: $100 → 10%SF COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER: $105 → 10%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

WA
IL
NY
CT
CA
UT
VA
DC
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 field
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 20 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
6/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PRAGER UNIVERSITY: $406 · OtherPRAGER UNIVERSITYEBENEZER ACADEMY: $150 · OtherEBENEZER ACADEMYCITIZENS COMMITTE FOR RIGHT TO BEAR: $115 · OtherCITIZENS COMMITTE FOR RIGHT TO BEARGLOBAL SPIRITUAL REVOLUTION RADIO MEDIA: $103 · OtherGLOBAL SPIRITUAL REVOLUTION RADIO MEDIAIndividual grant recipient: $100 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $100 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSF LAW LIBRARY: $100 · OtherSF LAW LIBRARYJOHN F KENNEDY LIBRARY: $100 · OtherJOHN F KENNEDY LIBRARYCA WILDFIRES RECOVERY FUND: $100 · OtherCA WILDFIRES RECOVERY FUNDEAGLE MOUNTAIN LIBRARY: $100 · OtherEAGLE MOUNTAIN LIBRARYHUMANE SOCIETY OF US: $100 · OtherHUMANE SOCIETY OF US+2 more: $67 · OtherTHE SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $1,200 · AnimalsTHE SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION…FELIDAE CONSERVATION FUND: $100 · AnimalsFELIDAE CONSERVATION FUNDCOMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER: $105 · Arts & CultureSave The Children Federation Inc: $105 · InternationalAMERICAN FREEDOM ALLIANCE: $103 · Civil RightsProject Wreckless: $80 · Youth DevelopmentALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $60 · Health
Other$1,541Animals$1,300Arts & Culture$105International$105Civil Rights$103Youth Development$80Health$60

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 budgetTHE SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $1,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER: $105 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $105 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FREEDOM ALLIANCE: $103 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFELIDAE CONSERVATION FUND: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetProject Wreckless: $80 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $60 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.

  • Who funds THE SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FREEDOM ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds FELIDAE CONSERVATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds Project Wreckless ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Jc Lionheart Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jc Lionheart 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%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 20 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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