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L Brands Foundation

The purpose is to support charitable organizations for women, children and education.

$752k
Granted FY2022
18
Grants FY2022
4
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of L Brands Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Columbus Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year L Brands Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 16 organizations, $640k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

196
’17
185
’18
181
’19
93
’20
70
’21
16
’22
0
’23

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

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 FY2017–2023.

Philanthropy$38MEducation$20MCommunity Improvement$11MHealth$9.5MArts & Culture$8.2MHuman Services$3.4MYouth Development$1.5MFood & Nutrition$1.3MOther$0
02FY2022 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 18 grants below total $640,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $752,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $112,000 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.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k6 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $195k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$15,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC$250,000
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC$150,000
WEXNER CENTER FOUNDATION$30,000
COLUMBUS FOUNDATION$27,500
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER LOS$25,000
NATIONAL VETERANS MEMORIAL AND MUSEUM$25,000
CELEBRATEONE$25,000
ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC$15,000
COMMUNITY ARTS PROJECT INC DBA KING$15,000
HARMONY PROJECT PRODUCTIONS INC$12,500
DIRECTIONS FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES$10,000
SHE HAS A NAME$10,000
ALVIS INC$7,500
NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING$7,500
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL OHIO$7,500
02The need
03

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 (FY17–22, $2.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%YWCA USA: $250k → 14%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE: $250k → 17%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE: $75k → 17%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE: $25k → 17%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE: $15k → 17%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE: $15k → 17%WOMEN IN NEED INC: $50k → 17%WOMEN IN NEED INC: $20k → 17%FURNITURE BANK OF CENTRAL OHIO: $20k → 15%FURNITURE BANK OF CENTRAL OHIO: $20k → 15%FURNITURE BANK OF CENTRAL OHIO: $20k → 15%FURNITURE BANK OF CENTRAL OHIO: $20k → 15%FURNITURE BANK OF CENTRAL OHIO: $15k → 15%YMCA OF CENTRAL OHIO: $50k → 15%YMCA OF CENTRAL OHIO: $25k → 15%YMCA OF CENTRAL OHIO: $25k → 15%YMCA OF CENTRAL OHIO: $20k → 15%SAINT STEPHENS COMMUNITY HOUSE: $20k → 15%YMCA OF CENTRAL OHIO: $20k → 15%CHOICES FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $30k → 15%CHOICES FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $30k → 15%CHOICES FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $30k → 15%CHOICES FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $30k → 15%CHOICES FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $25k → 15%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $35k → 15%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $35k → 15%YWCA COLUMBUS: $75k → 15%YWCA COLUMBUS: $75k → 15%YWCA COLUMBUS: $75k → 15%YWCA COLUMBUS: $75k → 15%YWCA COLUMBUS: $55k → 15%YWCA COLUMBUS: $50k → 15%YWCA COLUMBUS: $50k → 15%YWCA COLUMBUS: $50k → 15%THE HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION: $25k → 15%THE CENTER FOR HEALTHY FAMILIES INC: $25k → 15%CENTER FOR HEALTHY FAMILIES INC: $25k → 15%HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION: $25k → 15%NEW DIRECTIONS CAREER CENTER: $20k → 15%NEW DIRECTIONS CAREER CENTER: $20k → 15%NEW DIRECTIONS CAREER CENTER: $20k → 15%NEW DIRECTIONS CAREER CENTER: $20k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS OHIO BUCKEYE REGION: $50k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS OHIO BUCKEYE REGION: $20k → 15%HUCKLEBERRY HOUSE INC: $25k → 15%HUCKLEBERRY HOUSE INC: $25k → 15%HUCKLEBERRY HOUSE INC: $25k → 15%HUCKLEBERRY HOUSE INC: $25k → 15%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.

Which US states your grants reach

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
KY
VA
MD
NM
DC
OK
LA
GA
TX
FL

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 edge
repeat funding

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$56M · 193 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

193 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2022, 180 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

193
75

Total granted

$56M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+11%

Still filing today

86%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

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

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22
Human ServicesEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyHealthYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • OS
    OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2021 · $14M · revenue +36%
  • CD
    COLUMBUS DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    2× · 2017–2019 · $5.1M · revenue +721%
  • FC
    FRANKLIN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY DBA COSI COLUMBUS
    5× · 2017–2021 · $3.6M · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • P
    PELOTONIAgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $501k · revenue +217%
  • YU
    YWCA USA INC
    one grant, 2020 · $254k · revenue -13%
  • MS
    MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $35k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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
Greater Columbus Chamber of Commerce

Advancing a thriving central ohio commmunity by serving as a catalyst for all businesses to grow and flourish. our mission pillars are connections, government relations, strategic business solutions and talent/workforce.

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2
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
3
Global Cleveland

Global cleveland is dedicated to growing northeast ohio's economy by welcoming and connecting international people to opportunities and fostering a more inviting community for those seeking a place to call home.

Human Services
4
Ohio Business Roundtable

To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.

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5
Ohio United Way

To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.

Philanthropy
6
Ohio State Bar Association

The ohio state bar association (the "association") is an unincorporated voluntary non-profit organization. the association was formed to promote justice and advance the interests of the legal profession.

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7
Capital University

Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.

Education
8
Columbus Compact Corporation

Columbus compact is a catalyst for positive development of central city columbus' neighborhoods and business districts.

Community Improvement
9
Ohio Chamber of Commerce

As the state's leading business advocate and resource, the ohio chamber of commerce aggressively champions free enterprise, economic competitiveness and growth for the benefit of all ohioans.

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10
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
11
The Columbus Partnership

Economic development: investigation and study of various areas of need for the development of plans and programs to be undertaken and the creation of strategies and programming to begin executing the same.

Community Improvement
12
Columbus Association of Realtors

The columbus association of realtors is a local level, not-for-profit trade association. founded in 1908, columbus association of realtors is comprised of more than 9,100 real estate professionals engaged in residential sales and leasing,…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Socialventures and the most unlike its peers is Holt Street Miracle Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr13%3%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr18%21%20–35yr14%32%35–55yr16%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr13%1%5–10yr19%4%10–20yr18%15%20–35yr14%21%35–55yr16%59%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%5/280
the rest of the field
12%
5,305/45,975

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

246 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. 246 of the 280 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
61
Early backer (in before they grew)
239/246
Grantees still filing
178/246
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COLUMBUS FOUNDATION — $38,352,545 · PhilanthropyCOLUMBUS FOUNDATIONUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC — $6,189,094 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC+8 more — $990,811 · PhilanthropyOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $14,405,881 · EducationOHIO STATE UNIVERSIT…+25 more — $3,359,076 · Education+25 moreNATIONWIDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL INC — $2,000,000 · OtherNATIONWIDE CHIL…THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY — $1,550,000 · OtherTHE OHIO STATE …SUSAN G KOMEN BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION — $1,530,940 · OtherSUSAN G KOMEN B…THE SALVATION ARMY — $1,248,291 · OtherTHE SALVATION A…Mid-Ohio Foodbank — $763,108 · OtherMid-Ohio Foodba…BESA COMMUNITY INC — $558,575 · OtherCOMMUNITY SHELTER BOARD — $450,000 · Other+93 more — $4,911,363 · Other+93 moreCOLUMBUS DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $5,100,000 · Community ImprovementCOLUMBUS DO…THE COLUMBUS PARTNERSHIP — $4,565,000 · Community ImprovementTHE COLUMBU…+7 more — $177,500 · Community ImprovementFRANKLIN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY DBA COSI COLUMBUS — $3,560,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY ARTS PROJECT INC — $375,000 · Arts & CultureCOLUMBUS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $368,000 · Arts & CultureCOLUMBUS ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $233,500 · Arts & CultureCOLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART — $222,000 · Arts & CultureGREATER COLUMBUS ARTS COUNCIL — $205,000 · Arts & Culture+15 more — $1,087,300 · Arts & CultureYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — $505,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC — $380,000 · Human ServicesYWCA USA INC — $254,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HOTLINE — $190,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL OHIO — $175,000 · Human ServicesCHOICES FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE — $165,000 · Human ServicesHUCKLEBERRY HOUSE INC — $150,000 · Human ServicesFURNITURE BANK OF CENTRAL OHIO — $145,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $136,700 · Human ServicesNEW DIRECTIONS CAREER CENTER — $117,500 · Human Services+16 more — $680,000 · Human ServicesGIRL SCOUTS OF OHIO'S HEARTLAND COUNCIL INC — $335,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA — $200,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF COLUMBUS INC — $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentDIRECTIONS FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC — $105,000 · Youth DevelopmentAFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS OHIO — $90,000 · Youth DevelopmentRULING OUR EXPERIENCES INC — $81,425 · Youth DevelopmentKaleidoscope Youth Center Inc — $65,000 · Youth Development+1 more — $25,000 · Youth Development
Philanthropy$45,532,450Education$17,764,957Other$13,012,277Community Improvement$9,842,500Arts & Culture$6,050,800Human Services$2,898,200Youth Development$1,051,425

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOLUMBUS FOUNDATION — $38,352,545 over 7y, 4.5% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $14,405,881 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC — $6,189,094 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetCOLUMBUS DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $5,100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE COLUMBUS PARTNERSHIP — $4,565,000 over 5y, 27% of budgetFRANKLIN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY DBA COSI COLUMBUS — $3,560,000 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetMid-Ohio Foodbank — $763,108 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBESA COMMUNITY INC — $558,575 over 4y, 17% of budgetWEXNER CENTER FOUNDATION — $546,000 over 4y, 7.9% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — $505,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetPELOTONIA — $500,576 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY SHELTER BOARD — $450,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetDolly Parton's Imagination Library — $400,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC — $380,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY ARTS PROJECT INC — $375,000 over 6y, 5.8% of budgetCOLUMBUS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $368,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY — $349,643 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF OHIO'S HEARTLAND COUNCIL INC — $335,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE — $278,273 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetYWCA USA INC — $254,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCHILDREN'S HUNGER ALLIANCE — $243,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCOLUMBUS URBAN LEAGUE — $240,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR IN VITRO SCIENCES INC — $240,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetCOLUMBUS ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $233,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCOLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART — $222,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetGREATER COLUMBUS ARTS COUNCIL — $205,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA — $200,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMARBURN ACADEMY — $200,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL OHIO INC — $198,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetNATIONAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HOTLINE — $190,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetBALLET METROPOLITAN INC — $182,500 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetCOLUMBUS ZOOLOGICAL PARK ASSOCIATION — $180,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL OHIO — $175,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $175,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetColumbus Police Foundation — $175,000 over 5y, 30% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER DAYTON AREA — $172,268 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetJEANNE B MCCOY COMMUNITY CENTER FOR THE ARTS CORPORATION — $170,000 over 5y, 5.6% of budgetCHOICES FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE — $165,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetLIFECARE ALLIANCE — $165,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetJewish Federation of Columbus — $150,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF COLUMBUS INC — $150,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetHUCKLEBERRY HOUSE INC — $150,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetFURNITURE BANK OF CENTRAL OHIO — $145,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetEquitas Health Inc — $145,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $136,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHARMONY PROJECT PRODUCTIONS INC — $135,000 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetTHE BNAI BRITH HILLEL FOUNDATION AT THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY — $127,500 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetColumbus State Community College Development Foundation Inc — $125,000 over 5y, 1.5% 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.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

United Way of Central…Ingram-White Castle F…Encova Foundation of …Columbus FoundationCardinal Health Found…American Electric Pow…Harry C Moores Founda…Siemer Family Foundat…Columbus Jewish Found…The Reinberger Founda…Nisource Charitable F…Safelite Foundation
United Way of Central Ohio IncOH149.6× affinity81 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Central Ohio Inc · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · Encova Foundation of Ohio · Columbus Foundation · Cardinal Health Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · Harry C Moores Foundation · Siemer Family Foundation · Columbus Jewish Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Safelite Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization L Brands 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Justice Resource Institute Inc — 48% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Enterprise Community Partners Inc — 22% of income from government
  • City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Institute for in Vitro Sciences Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Ceres Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Rutgers University Foundation — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
75report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to L Brands Foundation?

Find your warmest path to L Brands 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 280 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

Source object · view filing

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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home