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Lacewing Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| NURTURING MINDS INC | $21,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $20,000 |
| ASSISTANCE LEAGUE LAGUNA BEACH | $20,000 |
| THE LEGACY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| MINDLEAPS | $20,000 |
| DEVELOPING RADIO PARTNERS | $15,000 |
| RAIN FOR THE SALEL AND SAHARA INC | $15,000 |
| LAUNCH GURLS CORPORATION | $10,000 |
| EILEEN & CALLIE'S PLACE | $10,000 |
| AMIGOS HOSPITALITO ATITLAN | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $134k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 30% 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.
21 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 5 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, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k 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
- MMINDLEAPS7× · 2018–2024 · $99k · revenue +131%
- NMNURTURING MINDS INC7× · 2017–2024 · $81k · revenue +243%
- TLTHE LEGACY FOUNDATION OF SEATTLE7× · 2018–2024 · $80k · revenue +35%
Funded once
MAUI FOOD BANK INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +138%- MEMUJERES EN CAMBIO DE SAN MIGUELone grant, 2020 · $16k
- CBCalifornia Black Health Networkgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +42%
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.
MAIA is creating a generation of empowered leaders who have the knowledge and resources they need to lead choice-filled lives, break cycles of poverty, and ignite transformational change in their communities.
The world is grappling with complex problems, including climate change, war, poverty, and ongoing human rights violations. These issues disproportionately impact women, particularly in developing countries. In nations recovering from…
Speak Up exists to transform the world on behalf of the poor. Our mission is to create a new reality for girls in poverty. We work toward this goal through educational programs support of safe homes and practical legal work.
GEC partners with locally-led organizations to catalyze and support sustainable, community-driven solutions that remove social, economic, and gender-based barriers keeping girls out of school in under-resourced regions of the global south.
Health Poverty Action USA acts in solidarity with health workers, activists & communities worldwide to improve health & challenge the causes of poverty. We do this in 3 distinct ways: 1. We approach health as an issue of social justice. We…
To support and promote education and empowerment programs in the Dominican Republic children and young adults, especially girls. (Continued on Schedule O) We promote health and education improvements, opportunities for achieving…
Strategies for International Development (SID) develops, applies, and promotes better methods for eradicating rural poverty. We help small farmers make the transition from subsistence to successful commercial farming. We carryout programs…
To improve access, quality and relevance of education for youth in rural central america.
Haiti Babi is a not for profit social enterprise that employs mothers in Haiti to knit and crochet high quality artisanal baby products. One in ten children in Haiti lives in an orphanage and 80% of those children have living parents who…
She's the first (stf) teams up with grassroots leaders to make sure girls everywhere are educated, respected, and heard. our vision is a world where every girl can choose her own future.
To end global poverty by empowering women to become thriving entrepreneurs, lifting their families to a vibrant future.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Global Fund for Women Inc and the most unlike its peers is Coalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking. 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 23 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 32 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 Seeds For Progress Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MINDLEAPS ↗
- Who funds NURTURING MINDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEGACY FOUNDATION OF SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds Wuqu Kawoq SA ↗
- Who funds The Fistula Foundation ↗
- Who funds COALITION TO ABOLISH SLAVERY & TRAFFICKING ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE SCHOOLS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Assistance League of Laguna Beach ↗
- Who funds FLYING KITES INC ↗
- Who funds Atlantic Street Center ↗
- Who funds Mujeres en Cambio De San Miguel De Allende ↗
- Who funds MAUI FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds RAIN FOR THE SAHEL AND SAHARA INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTHCARE ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds SCOPA HAS A DREAM INC DBA CORAZON HEALDSBURG ↗
- Who funds ADA DEVELOPERS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds GROUNDS FOR HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds DEVELOPING RADIO PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds LAUNCH GURLS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Amigos Hospitalito Atitlan ↗
- Who funds Eileen & Callies Place ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds California Black Health Network ↗
- Who funds Dress for Success Oregon ↗
- Who funds SPACE BETWEEN ↗
- Who funds PIKE PLACE MARKET FOUNDATION ↗
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 Norcliffe Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Umpqua Bank Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Tides Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America 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 Lacewing 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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