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Julius G & Elsie H Lopez Foundation at a glance

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Julius G & Elsie H Lopez 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.

$59k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$338kReligion$145kScience & Tech$25kArts & Culture$10k
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $44k
$10,800
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST JOHN NEUMAN CATHOLIC SCHOOL$12,000
SALESIAN MISSIONS$10,800
ST JOSEPH'S CATHOLIC SCHOOL$10,800
CARDINAL NEWMAN SCHOOL$10,200
CENTRAL CAROLINA TECHNICAL$8,400
ST MARTIN DE PORRES$7,200
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SALESIAN MISSIONS: $13k → 9%CENTRAL CAROLINA TECHNICA: $10k → 14%ST JOSEPH'S CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $13k → 16%SALESIAN MISSIONS: $11k → 9%CENTRAL CAROLINA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $8k → 14%ST JOSEPH CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $11k → 16%SALESIAN MISSIONS: $11k → 9%CENTRAL CAROLINA TECHNICAL: $8k → 14%ST JOSEPH CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $11k → 16%SALESIAN MISSIONS: $11k → 9%CENTRAL CAROLINA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $8k → 14%ST JOSEPH CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $11k → 16%SALESIAN MISSIONS: $11k → 9%CENTRAL CAROLINA TECHNICAL: $8k → 14%ST JOSEPH'S CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $11k → 16%SALESIAN MISSIONS: $11k → 9%CENTRAL CAROLINA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $8k → 14%ST JOSEPH'S CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $11k → 16%SALESIAN MISSIONS: $11k → 9%CENTRAL CAROLINA TECHNICAL: $8k → 14%ST JOSEPH'S CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $11k → 16%SALESIAN MISSIONS: $10k → 9%CENTRAL CAROLINA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $7k → 14%ST JOSEPH CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $10k → 16%ST JOHN NEUMAN CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $15k → 16%ST JOHN NEUMANN CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $14k → 16%ST JOHN NEUMANN CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $14k → 16%ST JOHN NEUMANN CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $14k → 16%ST JOHN NEUMANN CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $12k → 16%ST JOHN NEUMAN CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $12k → 16%ST JOHN NEUMAN CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $12k → 16%ST JOHN NEUMAN CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $12k → 16%CARDINAL NEWMAN SCHOOL: $12k → 16%CARDINAL NEWMAN SCHOOL: $10k → 16%CARDINAL NEWMAN SCHOOL: $10k → 16%CARDINAL NEWMAN SCHOOL: $10k → 16%CARDINAL NEWMAN SCHOOL: $11k → 16%CARDINAL NEWMAN SCHOOL: $11k → 16%CARDINAL NEWMAN SCHOOL: $11k → 16%CARDINAL NEWMAN SCHOOL: $10k → 16%ST MARTIN DE PORRES: $8k → 16%ST MARTIN DE PORRES: $7k → 16%ST MARTIN DE PORRES: $7k → 16%ST MARTIN DE PORRES: $7k → 16%ST MARTIN DE PORRES: $7k → 16%ST MARTIN DE PORRES: $7k → 16%ST MARTIN DE PORRES: $7k → 16%ST PETER CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $7k → 16%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.
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$508k · 11 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
1

Total granted

$508k
$10k

Still filing today

18%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • SM
    SALESIAN MISSIONS INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $88k
  • SM
    ST MARTIN DE PORRES
    8× · 2017–2024 · $57k
  • SJ
    ST JOHN NEUMANN SCHOOL
    4× · 2017–2020 · $54k

Funded once

  • CC
    CENTRAL CAROLINA TECHNICA
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
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
04the grantee network

2 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. 2 of the 12 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
2/2
Grantees still filing
2/2
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SALESIAN MISSIONS INC: $88,200 · OtherSALESIAN MISSIONS INCST MARTIN DE PORRES: $57,000 · OtherST MARTIN DE PORRESST JOHN NEUMANN SCHOOL: $54,000 · OtherST JOHN NEUMANN SCHOOLST JOHN NEUMAN CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $50,700 · OtherST JOHN NEUMAN CATHOLIC SCHOOLST JOSEPH'S CATHOLIC SCHOOL INC: $45,000 · OtherST JOSEPH'S CATHOLIC SCHOOL INCST JOSEPH CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $43,200 · OtherST JOSEPH CATHOLIC SCHOOLCARDINAL NEWMAN SCHOOL: $43,200 · OtherCARDINAL NEWMAN SCHOOLCARDINAL NEWMAN HIGH SCHOOL: $42,500 · OtherCARDINAL NEWMAN HIGH SCHOOLST PETERS CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $27,000 · OtherST PETERS CATHOLIC SCHOOLCENTRAL CAROLINA TECHNICAL: $24,800 · Other+1 more: $9,800 · OtherCENTRAL CAROLINA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $32,400 · Education
Other$485,400Education$32,400

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetST JOSEPH'S CATHOLIC SCHOOL INC: $45,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL CAROLINA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $32,400 over 4y, 6.0% 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 ST JOSEPH'S CATHOLIC SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL CAROLINA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Julius G & Elsie H Lopez Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Julius G & Elsie H Lopez Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's 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
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Julius G & Elsie H Lopez Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Julius G & Elsie H 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 12 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 2024, released 2024. 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 FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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