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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.

$191k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

International$292kEducation$177kYouth Development$144kHuman Services$129kCivil Rights$90kHealth$73kHousing & Shelter$20kPhilanthropy$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$20,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$209k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$30,000
NURTURING MINDS INC$21,000
THE LEGACY FOUNDATION$20,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$20,000
MINDLEAPS$20,000
ASSISTANCE LEAGUE LAGUNA BEACH$20,000
DEVELOPING RADIO PARTNERS$15,000
RAIN FOR THE SALEL AND SAHARA INC$15,000
LAUNCH GURLS CORPORATION$10,000
AMIGOS HOSPITALITO ATITLAN$10,000
EILEEN & CALLIE'S PLACE$10,000
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CORAZON HEALDSBURG: $10k → 9%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE LAGUNA BEACH: $20k → 10%DRESS FOR SUCCESS OREGON: $5k → 12%WUQU KAWOQ SA: $10k → 9%SCOPA HAS A DREAM INC: $10k → 9%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE LAGUNA BEACH: $15k → 10%WUQU' KAWOQ: $10k → 9%WUQU KAWOQ SA: $10k → 9%WUQU' KAWOQ: $10k → 9%WUQU KAWOQ SA: $10k → 9%YOUTHCARE: $10k → 9%YOUTHCARE: $10k → 9%SPACE BETWEEN: $3k → 9%SPACE BETWEEN: $1k → 9%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

VT
NH
WA
MN
NY
MA
OR
IA
CA
CO
DC
HI
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$878k · 21 repeat orgs$133k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
5

Total granted

$878k
$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+79%

Still filing today

90%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesInternationalEducationHealthCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • SF
    Seeds For Progress Foundation Inc
    6× · 2017–2022 · $116k · revenue +23%
  • M
    MINDLEAPS
    7× · 2018–2024 · $99k · revenue +131%
  • NM
    NURTURING MINDS INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $81k · revenue +243%

Funded once

  • MAUI FOOD BANK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +138%
  • ME
    MUJERES EN CAMBIO DE SAN MIGUEL
    one grant, 2020 · $16k
  • Dress for Success Oregongraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +79%
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
Maia

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.

International
2
She-Can Global Inc

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…

Education
3
Speak Up for the Poor

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.

International
4
Girls Education Collaborative Inc

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.

International
5
Health Poverty Action Usa

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…

International
6
Mariposa Dr Foundation

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…

Human Services
7
Strategies for International Development

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…

International
8
Connectedconectando Educacion

To improve access, quality and relevance of education for youth in rural central america.

Philanthropy
9
Global Goods Partners Inc
International
10
Haiti Babi

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…

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11
She's the First Inc

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.

Human Services
12
Street Business School

To end global poverty by empowering women to become thriving entrepreneurs, lifting their families to a vibrant future.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Global Fund for Women Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

29 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. 29 of the 32 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/29
Grantees still filing
23/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Wuqu Kawoq SA: $50,000 · Human ServicesWuqu Kawoq SAAssistance League of Laguna Beach: $35,000 · Human ServicesAssistance League of…YOUTHCARE: $20,000 · Human ServicesYOUTHCAREAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $20,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Re…RAIN FOR THE SAHEL AND SAHARA INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesRAIN FOR THE SAHEL A…SCOPA HAS A DREAM INC DBA CORAZON HEALDSBURG: $20,000 · Human ServicesSCOPA HAS A DREAM IN…Eileen & Callies Place: $10,000 · Human ServicesEileen & Callies Pla…+2 more: $8,500 · Human ServicesSeeds For Progress Foundation Inc: $116,000 · InternationalSeeds For Progress…FLYING KITES INC: $35,000 · InternationalFLYING KITES INCGLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC: $20,000 · InternationalGLOBAL FUND FOR WO…Individual grant recipient: $46,925 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSUSTAINABLE SCHOOLS INTERNATIONAL: $40,000 · OtherSUSTAINABLE SCHOOLS INTERNATIO…Individual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMUJERES EN CAMBIO DE SAN MIGUEL: $15,500 · OtherMUJERES EN CAMBIO DE SAN MIGUE…The Fistula Foundation: $50,000 · OtherThe Fistula FoundationGROUNDS FOR HEALTH INC: $17,500 · OtherGROUNDS FOR HEALTH INCMujeres en Cambio De San Miguel De Allende: $29,078 · OtherMujeres en Cambio De San Migue…LAUNCH GURLS CORPORATION: $15,000 · OtherLAUNCH GURLS CORPORATIONMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $20,000 · OtherMAUI FOOD BANK INC+2 more: $7,000 · OtherNURTURING MINDS INC: $81,000 · EducationNURTURING MI…ADA DEVELOPERS ACADEMY: $20,000 · EducationADA DEVELOPE…DEVELOPING RADIO PARTNERS INC: $15,000 · EducationDEVELOPING R…THE LEGACY FOUNDATION OF SEATTLE: $80,000 · PhilanthropyTHE LEGACY …CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA …Amigos Hospitalito Atitlan: $10,000 · PhilanthropyAmigos Hosp…MINDLEAPS: $99,481 · Arts & CultureMINDLEAPSCOALITION TO ABOLISH SLAVERY & TRAFFICKING: $50,000 · Crime & LegalAtlantic Street Center: $30,000 · Crime & Legal
Human Services$183,500International$171,000Other$271,003Education$116,000Philanthropy$100,000Arts & Culture$99,481Crime & Legal$80,000

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 budgetSeeds For Progress Foundation Inc: $116,000 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetMINDLEAPS: $99,481 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetNURTURING MINDS INC: $81,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetTHE LEGACY FOUNDATION OF SEATTLE: $80,000 over 7y, 7.4% of budgetWuqu Kawoq SA: $50,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetThe Fistula Foundation: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOALITION TO ABOLISH SLAVERY & TRAFFICKING: $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSUSTAINABLE SCHOOLS INTERNATIONAL: $40,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetAssistance League of Laguna Beach: $35,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetFLYING KITES INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetAtlantic Street Center: $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMujeres en Cambio De San Miguel De Allende: $29,078 over 2y, 28% of budgetYOUTHCARE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRAIN FOR THE SAHEL AND SAHARA INC: $20,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetADA DEVELOPERS ACADEMY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSCOPA HAS A DREAM INC DBA CORAZON HEALDSBURG: $20,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetGROUNDS FOR HEALTH INC: $17,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetLAUNCH GURLS CORPORATION: $15,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetDEVELOPING RADIO PARTNERS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmigos Hospitalito Atitlan: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetEileen & Callies Place: $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetDress for Success Oregon: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCalifornia Black Health Network: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPIKE PLACE MARKET FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 Norcliffe Foundat…Silicon Valley Commun…Seattle FoundationUmpqua Bank Charitabl…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Morgan Stanley Global…Tides FoundationVanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…American Endowment Fo…The Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…
The Norcliffe FoundationWA15.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Lacewing Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Lacewing 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 32 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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