· Private foundation
John & Elizabeth Lane 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k40 grants · $113k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $28,000 |
| WASHINGTON JESUIT ACADEMY | $12,000 |
| VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY | $8,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR | $7,000 |
| ST BARTHOLOMEW CHURCH | $7,000 |
| CENTRAL UNION MISSION | $6,000 |
| SOME | $6,000 |
| ST JOHN'S COLLEGE HS | $5,000 |
| DC CENTRAL KITCHEN | $4,000 |
| SIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| ST MARY'S CHURCH | $3,000 |
| CHURCH OF LITTLE FLOWER | $3,000 |
| SPRING HILL COLLEGE | $3,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against -24% for those funded once.
53 repeat relationships: 37 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 5 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- VUVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $67k · revenue +50%
- SISOME INC9× · 2017–2025 · $43k · revenue +30%
- CUCENTRAL UNION MISSION9× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- YLYouth Leadership Foundation Incone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -24%
- TDThe Donna Foundation Incone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue -27%
- MOMIGHTY OAKS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue -29%
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.
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.
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.
The mission of the school is to provide outstanding legal education in a collegial and supportive environment with attention to newly emerging areas of law, particularly those related to technological development, globalization and the…
To provide at no cost legal assistance to veterans of the u.s. armed forces and current service members.
Our mission is to shape the future of finance by developing leaders whose innovation, investment excellence, and human-centered leadership advance the industry and its adjacent sectors.
Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.
The org. is a section of the united states tennis assoc. and is dedicated to carrying out the goals of the national assoc. within its region, particularly with respect to promoting tennis opportunities for juniors and adults of all…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Visit philadelphia is our name and our mission. as the region's official tourism marketing agency, we build greater philadelphia's image, drive visitation and boost the economy.
We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
To support and empower all affected by gynecologic cancers through education, research, and public awareness.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
How this is measured
35 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. 35 of the 67 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SOME INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL UNION MISSION ↗
- Who funds LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR OF WASHINGTON DC INC ↗
- Who funds Poor Roberts Mission ↗
- Who funds ST LUKE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds SPRING HILL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds THE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds OUR MILITARY KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE POTOMAC CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds SMYRNA CARES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Youth Leadership Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA STATE GOLF ASSOCIATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Shell USA Company Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John & Elizabeth Lane Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John & Elizabeth Lane Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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