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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.

$1.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$600k
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 2025.

Employment$8.4MHealth$7.2MHuman Services$1.8MEducation$1.5MAnimals$577kArts & Culture$75k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.4M
$400,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$81M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Envision Dallas Lighthouse Foundation$600,000
North Carolina Central University Foundation Inc$400,000
Duke University$350,000
Scully Learning Center Foundation$50,000
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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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%VISION RESOURCE CENTER: $96k → 16%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC: $250k → 10%ENVISION FOUNDATION: $1.5M → 16%LC INDUSTRIES: $1.4M → 11%NC LIONS INC FOUNDATION: $50k → 12%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND: $25k → 7%BRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC: $167k → 14%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS: $250k → 10%ENVISION FOUNDATION: $1.3M → 16%LC INDUSTRIES: $350k → 11%BRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC: $167k → 14%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC: $250k → 10%ENVISION FOUNDATION: $850k → 16%LC INDUSTRIES: $250k → 11%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC: $250k → 10%ENVISION FOUNDATION: $758k → 16%ESTEAMED COFFEE INC: $164k → 8%LC INDUSTRIES: $200k → 11%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC: $250k → 10%ENVISION FOUNDATION: $700k → 16%LC INDUSTRIES: $200k → 11%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC: $100k → 10%Envision Dallas Lighthouse Foundation: $700k → 16%LC INDUSTRIES: $154k → 11%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS: $77k → 10%Envision Dallas Lighthouse Foundation: $600k → 16%LC INDUSTRIES: $38k → 11%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC: $75k → 10%ENVISION FOUNDATION: $400k → 16%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC: $75k → 10%ENVISION FOUNDATION: $285k → 16%ENVISION FOUNDATION: $150k → 16%ENVISION FOUNDATION: $130k → 16%ENVISION FOUNDATION: $75k → 16%ENVISION FOUNDATION: $75k → 16%ENVISION FOUNDATION: $75k → 16%ENVISION FOUNDATION: $23k → 16%ENVISION FOUNDATION: $10k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
CA
MO
VA
AZ
KS
NC
OK
TX
FL
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$19M · 12 repeat orgs$785k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +8% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
8

Total granted

$19M
$735k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+8%

Still filing today

100%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEmploymentEducationOther
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

  • EF
    ENVISION FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $6.3M · revenue +27% · 76% of their budget
  • DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $2.7M · revenue +85%
  • LC
    L C Industries Inc
    6× · 2017–2023 · $2.6M · revenue +597%

Funded once

  • SF
    SUHANEE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $250k
  • EC
    ESTEAMED COFFEE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $164k · revenue +85% · 64% of their budget
  • LV
    LOW VISION RESOURCE CENTER INC
    one grant, 2019 · $96k · revenue +6% · 47% of their budget
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

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.

1
Doheny Eye Institute

To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).

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2
Envision Industries Inc

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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3
Envision Vision Rehabilitation Center Inc

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.to improve the quality of life and provide…

Health
4
Central Association for the Blind Inc

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…

Health
5
Dallas Lighthouse for the Blind Inc

To provide employment and education for the adult legally blind and help them to live independently.

—
6
Vision Team
Employment
7
In-Sight

In-sight inspires confidence and builds skills that help people who are visually impaired and blind to thrive and succeed.

Human Services
8
Disabilityin

The organization is the leading nonprofit resource for business disability inclusion worldwide. together with the world's leading brands, disability:in drives progress on disability inclusion through initiatives, tools, and expertise that…

Community Improvement
9
St Louis Society for the Blind

The society enhances independence, empowers individuals and enriches the lives of people who are visually impaired or blind.

Health
10
Envision Inc

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.

Human Services
11
Visability

Provide innovative training and tools for people who are blind or visually impaired to help them achieve their goals and dreams

Human Services
12
Ensight Skills Center

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Envision Dallas Lighthouse Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 21 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
14/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ENVISION FOUNDATION INC: $6,269,500 · Human ServicesENVISION FOUNDATION INCL C Industries Inc: $2,577,000 · Human ServicesL C Industries IncSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc: $1,576,585 · Human ServicesSoutheastern Guide Dogs IncENVISION DALLAS LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION: $1,300,000 · Human ServicesENVISION DALLAS LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION+5 more: $668,700 · Human Services+5 moreDUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $2,710,000 · HealthDUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYST…Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation: $2,000,000 · HealthPhoenix Children's Hospital…+2 more: $65,000 · HealthDUKE UNIVERSITY: $650,000 · EducationNORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $600,000 · EducationTRIANGLE RADIO READING SERVICE: $250,000 · OtherSUHANEE FOUNDATION: $250,000 · OtherEversight: $85,000 · OtherSCULLY LEARNING CENTER FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherALPHAPOINTE: $300,000 · EmploymentNEWVIEW OKLAHOMA INC: $200,000 · Employment
Human Services$12,391,785Health$4,775,000Education$1,250,000Other$635,000Employment$500,000

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 budgetENVISION FOUNDATION INC: $6,269,500 over 7y, 76% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $2,710,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetL C Industries Inc: $2,577,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation: $2,000,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc: $1,576,585 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetENVISION DALLAS LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION: $1,300,000 over 2y, 37% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $650,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $600,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetALPHAPOINTE: $300,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTRIANGLE RADIO READING SERVICE: $250,000 over 3y, 31% of budgetNEWVIEW OKLAHOMA INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetESTEAMED COFFEE INC: $164,000 over 1y, 64% of budgetLOW VISION RESOURCE CENTER INC: $95,700 over 1y, 47% of budgetEversight: $85,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSCULLY LEARNING CENTER FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA LIONS INCORPORATED: $50,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCITY OF HOPE: $15,000 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.

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.

The Bank of America C…Natl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC9.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 L C Industries Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from L C Industries Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 45%
  • Newview Oklahoma Inc: 45% of income from government
  • Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report 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
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.
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How do I get to L C Industries Foundation?

Find your warmest path to L C Industries 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 21 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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