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LaCore Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$94k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$68k
Largest
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Education$131kRecreation & Sports$2kYouth Development$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $27k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $68k
$1,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$67,749
Bowdoin College$8,565
Oklahoma State University$3,000
Sam Houston University$2,000
University of Arkansas$2,000
Texas A&M University$2,000
Grayson College$1,000
Baylor University$1,000
University of Texas$1,000
Texas State University$1,000
Portola High School$1,000
University of Oklahoma$1,000
Lake Forest College$1,000
Colorado School of Mines$1,000
Stephen F Austin State University$1,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 17% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Portola High School: $1k → 10%Melissa ISD: $89k → 5%Texas State University: $5k → 10%University of Texas: $1k → 10%Education In Action: $1k → 11%Grayson College: $1k → 11%Tarleton State University: $1k → 13%Midland College: $1k → 14%Cisco College: $1k → 15%Baylor University: $1k → 16%Sam Houston University: $2k → 20%Texas A&M University: $4k → 22%Stephen F Austin State University: $1k → 23%Northeastern State University: $1k → 9%University of Oklahoma: $1k → 13%Oklahoma State University: $3k → 19%University of Arkansas: $2k → 14%McPherson College: $1k → 10%Colorado School of Mines: $1k → 7%Lake Forest College: $1k → 8%Southeastern Louisiana University: $2k → 20%Bowdoin College: $33k → 7%Melissa ISD: $68k → 5%Texas State University: $1k → 10%Austin College: $1k → 11%Tarleton State University: $1k → 13%Midland College: $1k → 14%Cisco College: $1k → 15%Baylor University: $1k → 16%Texas A&M University: $2k → 22%Stephen F Austin State University: $1k → 23%Northeastern State University: $1k → 9%Oklahoma State University: $3k → 19%University of Arkansas: $2k → 14%McPherson College: $1k → 10%Bowdoin College: $18k → 7%Melissa ISD: $51k → 5%Austin College: $1k → 11%Texas A&M University: $2k → 22%Stephen F Austin State University: $1k → 23%Oklahoma State University: $2k → 19%University of Arkansas: $2k → 14%Bowdoin College: $10k → 7%Crows Heat & Air: $2k → 5%University of Arkansas: $1k → 14%Bowdoin College: $9k → 7%Collin College: $1k → 5%Collin College: $1k → 5%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

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IL
CA
CO
KS
AR
OK
LA
TX
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.
$329k · 17 repeat orgs$12k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
3

Total granted

$329k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+19%

Still filing today

24%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    3× · 2023–2025 · $207k
  • BC
    Bowdoin College
    4× · 2022–2025 · $70k · revenue +9%
  • TA
    Texas A&M University
    3× · 2022–2025 · $8k

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $2k
  • SL
    Southeastern Louisiana University
    one grant, 2022 · $2k
  • EI
    EDUCATION IN ACTION
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +19%
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
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates College is a private, highly selective, residential college devoted to undergraduate study in the traditional disciplines of the liberal arts and sciences as well as in emerging interdisciplinary programs.

Education
2
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
3
University of Lynchburg

The University of Lynchburg, established in 1903, is a comprehensive private university in the foothills of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains. With over 120 undergraduate majors, minors, and certificate programs, 14 master's programs, and 5…

Education
4
Pitzer College

Pitzer College is an educational institution focusing on undergraduate education.

Education
5
The President and Trustees of Colby College

to provide a rigorous and transformative liberal arts education that prepares students to become thoughtful, engaged citizens.

Education
6
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
7
Texas College

To ensure that the student body experiences balanced intellectual, psychological, social and spiritual development, aimed at enabling them to become active productive members of society where they live and work.

Education
8
Franklin University

Franklin University is a student-centered, nonprofit, independent institution providing high quality, relevant education to enable the broadest possible community of learners to achieve their goals and enrich the world.

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9
Lafayette College

Provision of educational services as an accredited four-year undergraduate college.

Education
10
Excelsior University

Excelsior University provides educational opportunity to adult learners with an emphasis on those historically underrepresented in higher education. The University meets students where they are - academically and geographically, offering…

Education
11
Taylor University

Develop servant-leaders marked with a passion to minister Christ's redemptive love, grace, and truth to a world in need.

Education
12
Lehigh University

Lehigh university strives to earn international prominence as a universty of special distinction and provide students with opportunities for success through its integration of teaching, research and service to society.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Austin College; the most unlike its peers is Education in Action. 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

6 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. 6 of the 26 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
3/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $207,369 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+19 more: $55,500 · Other+19 moreBowdoin College: $69,865 · EducationBowdoin College+5 more: $8,229 · Education+5 more
Other$262,869Education$78,094

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBowdoin College: $69,865 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMCPHERSON COLLEGE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAUSTIN COLLEGE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEDUCATION IN ACTION: $1,229 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLake Forest College: $1,000 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.

  • Who funds Bowdoin College ↗
  • Who funds MCPHERSON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds AUSTIN COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds EDUCATION IN ACTION ↗
  • Who funds Lake Forest College ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Tulsa Community FoundationOK13.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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

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    How do I get to LaCore Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to LaCore Family Foundation Inc 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 26 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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