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L2 Foundation

Exclusively to support the jewish community foundation of southern arizona (jcf), a 501(c)(3) organization, by receiving, administering and disbursing funds for the charitable purposes of jcf.

$200k
Granted FY2020
7
Grants FY2020
7
Organizations funded FY2020
100%
First-time grantees FY2020
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100% of L2 Foundation’s FY2021 grant dollars went to The Jewish Community Foundation Of Southern Arizona, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2021 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year L2 Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 7 organizations, $200k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

1
’18
7
’20
0
’21

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

Median grant, FY2020
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2020
$75,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 7
FY2018 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
1

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 100% of the organizations L2 Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20207$200k100%
FY20181$8kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2021.

Philanthropy$208kFood & Nutrition$75kHuman Services$70kHousing & Shelter$30kHealth$25kArts & Culture$8k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget L2 Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCommunity Food Bank Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYouth on Their Own: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEl Rio Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTucson Centers for Women & Children Inc Dba Emerge Center Against Domestic Abuse: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetInterfaith Community Services: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOur Family Services Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Primavera Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSouthern Arizona Symphony Orchestra: $7,500 over 1y, 3.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

Jewish Community Foundation of Southern ArizonaAZ17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona · The Womens Foundation for the State of Arizona · Connie Hillman Family Foundation · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · Arizona Community Foundation · David S & Norma R Lewis Foundation · Zuckerman Community Outreach Foundation · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust

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.

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How do I get to L2 Foundation?

Find your warmest path to L2 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.

About L2 Foundation

How much does L2 Foundation give?
L2 Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $200,000 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 7 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2020.
What does L2 Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2020, its largest causes are Philanthropy (50%), Food & Nutrition (18%), Human Services (17%).
Who are L2 Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2020: Community Food Bank Inc ($75k), Youth on Their Own ($30k), El Rio Foundation Inc ($25k).
Does L2 Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as L2 Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona, The Womens Foundation for the State of Arizona, Connie Hillman Family Foundation.
Where is L2 Foundation based?
L2 Foundation is based in AZ.

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 9 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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