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Lagarde Charitable Trust

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.

$315k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
3
Grants FY2025
4
Organizations funded FY2024
25%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$290,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 24
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$291k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Lagarde Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalEnvironmentArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving3$315k33%
FY20244$200k25%
FY20234$105k75%
FY202214$118k79%
FY20212$50k0%
FY202017$83k18%
FY201924$83k33%
FY201716$72kn/a
91% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$760kInternational$61kHealth$48kCivil Rights$36kEnvironment$34kFood & Nutrition$28kHousing & Shelter$22kRecreation & Sports$5kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
DC
AL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($78k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Lagarde Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 28 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSwell Foundation: $731,000 over 8y, 99% of budgetAlameda Emergency Food DBA Alameda Food Bank: $24,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Fistula Foundation: $21,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMu Films: $20,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNational Park Foundation: $16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $13,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHomeless Prenatal Program Inc: $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRazom Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnrwa USA National Committee Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Inc: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAccion International: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetA Jewish Voice for Peace: $7,065 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSarah Webster Fabio Center for Social Justice: $6,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGuilford Land Conservation Trust Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMiddle East Children's Alliance: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJohn Muir Health Foundation: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHelp Me See Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSogorea Te Land Trust: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnti Police-Terror Project Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPlanting Justice: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKqed Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEnvironment California Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDemocracy Now Productions Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMultiple Sclerosis Association of America Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetConnecticut Foodshare Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFinca International Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 28.

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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.

American Online Giving Foundation IncDE6.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Lagarde Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to Lagarde Charitable Trust 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 Lagarde Charitable Trust

How much does Lagarde Charitable Trust give?
Lagarde Charitable Trust reported 3 grants totaling $315,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Lagarde Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (74%), International (6%), Health (5%).
Who are Lagarde Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Swell Foundation ($731k), Alameda Emergency Food DBA Alameda Food Bank ($24k), The Fistula Foundation ($21k).
Does Lagarde Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Lagarde Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Lagarde Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Lagarde Charitable Trust based?
Lagarde Charitable Trust is based in CA.

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 45 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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