· Public charity
L C Industries Foundation
To improve the lives and well being of persons who are blind, and to offer such persons opportunities for education, training and job related skills.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Envision Dallas Lighthouse Foundation | $600,000 |
| North Carolina Central University Foundation Inc | $400,000 |
| Duke University | $350,000 |
| Scully Learning Center Foundation | $50,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $12.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +34% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 9 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- EFENVISION FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2023 · $6.3M · revenue +27% · 76% of their budget
DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC6× · 2017–2023 · $2.7M · revenue +85%- LCL C Industries Inc6× · 2017–2023 · $2.6M · revenue +597%
Funded once
- SFSUHANEE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $250k
- ECESTEAMED COFFEE INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $164k · revenue +85% · 64% of their budget
- LVLOW VISION RESOURCE CENTER INCone grant, 2019 · $96k · revenue +6% · 47% of their budget
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.
To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).
To improve the quality of life and provide inspiration and opportunity for people who are blind and visually impaired through employment, outreach, rehabilitation, education and research.
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To assist people who are blind or visually impaired to achieve their highest level of independence by providing vision rehabilitation services and offering integrated competitive jobs throughout all levels of the association including…
To provide employment and education for the adult legally blind and help them to live independently.
In-sight inspires confidence and builds skills that help people who are visually impaired and blind to thrive and succeed.
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The society enhances independence, empowers individuals and enriches the lives of people who are visually impaired or blind.
To improve the quality of life and provide inspiration and opportunity for people who are blind and visually impaired through employment, outreach, rehabilitation, education, and research.
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To provide people with low vision the services and resources that empower independent and productive living. ensight's programs are designed to help our patients overcome barriers to living life independently and safely. hands-on programs…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Envision Dallas Lighthouse Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Scully Learning Center Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 21 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 ENVISION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds L C Industries Inc ↗
- Who funds Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc ↗
- Who funds ENVISION DALLAS LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ALPHAPOINTE ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE RADIO READING SERVICE ↗
- Who funds NEWVIEW OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds ESTEAMED COFFEE INC ↗
- Who funds LOW VISION RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Eversight ↗
- Who funds SCULLY LEARNING CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA LIONS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds CITY OF HOPE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 C Industries 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.
- Newview Oklahoma Inc — 45% of income from government
- Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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