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La-Z-Boy Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k85 grants · $310k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $386k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $783k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RIVER RAISIN NBP FOUNDATION | $140,000 |
| NEOSHO R-5 SCHOOLS CHARITABLE FDN | $100,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF MONROELENAWEE CO | $95,000 |
| MONROE CO OPP PROG | $76,000 |
| APPALACIAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $66,600 |
| RHEA COUNTY UNITED WAY | $55,000 |
| ISAIAH 117 HOUSE | $50,000 |
| TRI STATE FAMILY YMCA | $50,000 |
| PROMEDICA FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| SILOAM SPRINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $50,000 |
| MONROE FAMILY YMCA | $50,000 |
| CITY OF MONROE POLICE DEPARTMENT | $38,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $30,000 |
| UNITED GIVERS FUND | $25,000 |
| CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF BENTO | $25,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 4% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
149 repeat relationships — 92 still active in FY2024, 57 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $195k 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
- MCMONROE COUNTY OPPORTUNITY PROGRAM7× · 2018–2024 · $466k · revenue +103%
- TYTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MONROE MICHIGAN7× · 2018–2024 · $440k · revenue +129%
- NSNEOSHO SCHOOL DISTRICT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2024 · $295k · revenue +25% · 59% of their budget
Funded once
- HOHALL OF FAME BUILDING FUNDone grant, 2021 · $350k
- ASAPPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2018 · $75k
- KMKNABUSCH MATH & SCIENCE CENTERone grant, 2023 · $50k
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.
Roane County Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
To empower individuals living with disabilities and challenges to gain independence
Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
To maintain high standards for nursing homes in the state of tennessee and to seek the solutions to problems common to members of the association.
Hospice care services provided to residents of bulloch, candler, evans, screven, jenkins and other surrounding counties.
Our mission: to lead our communities to well-being, one person at a time. this mission is carried out by serving the people of a multi-county service area in reference to their current and future needs for health care services. our major…
A non-profit senior living community dedicated to providing quality housing, rehabilitative services and long-term nursing care reflecting christian compassion for everyone.
Provide services to people with disabilities. such services include assistance with housing, employment, transportation and recreational issues.
The United Way of Cleveland County helps people by uniting resources and programs to responsibly meet the needs of our community.
Habilitation and residential services for adults with developmental disabilities
It is the mission of sinnissippi centers, inc. to provide quality, coordinated and responsive behavioral healthcare services to individuals, families and the communities we serve.
The united way of south central tennessee's mission is to improve lives by advancing opportunities for education, health, and financial stability for all. its vision is to be the primary community solutions leader for human services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Diabetes Youth Services and the most unlike its peers is Siloam Springs Museum Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
63 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 63 of the 242 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
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
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 UNITED WAY OF MONROELENAWEE COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds MONROE COUNTY OPPORTUNITY PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MONROE MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds PROMEDICA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEOSHO SCHOOL DISTRICT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GABBY'S LADDER INC ↗
- Who funds RHEA COUNTY UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds ABILITY TREE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF BENTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CROWDER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds TRI-STATE FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds SENECA R-7 SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RHEA COUNTY COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds ISAIAH 117 HOUSE ↗
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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: Arvest Foundation · Toledo Community Foundation Inc · Edward M & Henrietta M Knabusch Charitable Trust 2 · Wal-Mart Foundation · Four1 Foundation · George Isaac Foundation · The O-I Charities Foundation · Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · Freeman Neosho Hospital Inc · Kurt L and Renee M Darrow Family Foundation · Art Iron Foundation · Elsie and Harry Baumker Charitable Foundation Inc
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 La-Z-Boy 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.
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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