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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 FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$290k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% 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
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $250k+1 grant · $290k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$291k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SWELL FOUNDATION$290,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
MU FILMS$5,000
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 14% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ACCION INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 16%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $7k → 7%FISTULA FOUNDATION: $8k → 8%BAY AREA RESCUE MISSION: $5k → 9%ALAMEDA FOOD BANK: $8k → 10%NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $7k → 14%SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: $10k → 18%GUILFORD CONSERVATION LAND TRUST: $5k → 12%CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES: $3k → 19%ACCION INTERNATIONAL: $3k → 16%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $5k → 7%FISTULA FOUNDATION: $7k → 8%ALAMEDA FOOD BANK: $8k → 10%ANTI POLICE TERROR PROJECT: $3k → 10%NEW ISRAEL FUND: $5k → 17%NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: $7k → 18%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $4k → 7%FISTULA FOUNDATION: $6k → 8%JOHN MUIR HEALTH FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%MIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $5k → 10%HOMELESS PRENATAL PROGRAM: $4k → 10%USA FOR UNHCR: $5k → 14%SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: $3k → 18%SOGOREA TE' LAND TRUST: $3k → 10%HOMELESS PRENATAL PROGRAM: $4k → 10%NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $4k → 14%MU FILMS: $5k → 10%HOMELESS PRENATAL PROGRAM: $3k → 10%SWELL FOUNDATION: $290k → 9%MU FILMS: $5k → 10%UNICEF: $7k → 17%SWELL FOUNDATION: $180k → 9%MU FILMS: $5k → 10%CALIFORNIA STATE PARKS: $3k → 10%UNICEF: $5k → 17%SWELL FOUNDATION: $95k → 9%MU FILMS: $3k → 10%SWELL FOUNDATION: $80k → 9%RAZOM: $10k → 17%SWELL CINEMA: $45k → 9%SWELL CINEMA: $23k → 9%SWELL CINEMA: $10k → 9%PLANTING JUSTICE: $3k → 10%UNRWA: $10k → 17%SWELL CINEMA: $8k → 9%ALAMEDA FOOD BANK: $8k → 10%SARAH WEBSTER FABIO CENTER FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: $6k → 10%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

NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
DC
AL
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$936k · 22 repeat orgs$89k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +73% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.

22 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
20

Total granted

$936k
$69k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+73%
+30%

Still filing today

73%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHealthEnvironmentArts & CultureFood & NutritionCrime & LegalOther
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
    SWELL FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $731k · revenue +272% · 99% of their budget
  • AE
    Alameda Emergency Food DBA Alameda Food Bank
    3× · 2017–2020 · $24k · revenue +143%
  • The Fistula Foundation
    3× · 2017–2020 · $21k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • RAZOM INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -65%
  • UU
    UNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
  • U
    UCSF
    one grant, 2019 · $6k
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
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
2
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
3
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
4
Namati Inc

Namati, inc. (namati) is dedicated to putting the law in people's hands. we strive to build a just world, in which every one of us can take part in the decisions and demand accountability from the institutions that affect our lives.…

Crime & Legal
5
Nuru International

Nuru is a global collective that enables inclusive and sustainable prosperity by identifying communities at the stability tipping point, strengthening rural livelihoods and market systems, and fostering stabilizing connections that repair…

International
6
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
7
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International
8
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
9
Global Poverty Project Inc

Our mission is to build a movement of global citizens whose actions will help achieve our vision of a world without extreme poverty.

Social Science
10
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
11
Human Rights Watch Inc

Human rights watch ("hrw") defends the rights of people worldwide. we scrupulously investigate abuses, expose the facts widely, and pressure those with power to respect rights and secure justice. human rights watch is an independent,…

International
12
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Environment California Inc; the most unlike its peers is Mu Films. 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

30 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. 30 of the 45 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)
30/30
Grantees still filing
21/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SWELL FOUNDATION: $731,000 · Arts & CultureSWELL FOUNDATION+3 more: $22,500 · Arts & CultureIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual …NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $16,000 · OtherNATIONAL PA…HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $15,500 · OtherHABITAT FOR…UCSF: $6,000 · OtherUCSFBAY AREA RESCUE MISSION: $6,000 · OtherBAY AREA RE…CALIFORNIA STATE PARKS: $5,200 · OtherHOMO FABER ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $4,000 · OtherBERKELEY UNIVERSITY: $4,000 · OtherFIRST STEP: $4,000 · OtherSARAH WEBSTER FABIO CENTER FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: $6,000 · OtherSARAH WEBST…+8 more: $14,525 · Other+8 moreUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $13,500 · InternationalRAZOM INC: $10,000 · InternationalUNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC: $10,000 · InternationalACCION INTERNATIONAL: $8,000 · InternationalA JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE: $7,065 · InternationalNEW ISRAEL FUND: $7,000 · InternationalUnited States Association for UNHCR: $5,500 · InternationalMIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $5,000 · International+2 more: $1,500 · InternationalThe Fistula Foundation: $21,000 · HealthHomeless Prenatal Program Inc: $11,000 · HealthJOHN MUIR HEALTH FOUNDATION: $4,500 · HealthHELP ME SEE INC: $4,000 · Health+1 more: $500 · HealthAlameda Emergency Food DBA Alameda Food Bank: $24,000 · Food & NutritionWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $8,000 · EnvironmentGuilford Land Conservation Trust Inc: $5,000 · EnvironmentSOGOREA TE LAND TRUST: $3,000 · EnvironmentPlanting Justice: $3,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENT CALIFORNIA INC: $1,500 · EnvironmentSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $20,000 · Crime & Legal
Arts & Culture$753,500Other$106,225International$67,565Health$41,000Food & Nutrition$24,000Environment$20,500Crime & Legal$20,000

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 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 budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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 budgetKIVA MICROFUNDS: $1,000 over 1y, 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
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.

American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE6.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover 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 Lagarde Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lagarde Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Connecticut Foodshare Inc: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.
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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.

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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