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Lainoff 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $445k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRIGID ALLIANCE | $60,000 |
| RHODES COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUND | $35,000 |
| DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $30,000 |
| JEREMIAH PROGRAM | $30,000 |
| SITAR ARTS CENTER | $30,000 |
| BRIGHT BEGINNINGS | $30,000 |
| ARLINGTON FREE CLINIC | $25,000 |
| CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK | $20,000 |
| INTERACT INTERNATIONAL | $20,000 |
| FEDERATION OF VIRGINIA FOOD BANKS | $20,000 |
| PATHWAYS TO HOUSING | $20,000 |
| GREATER DC DIAPER BANK | $15,000 |
| MANNA FOOD CENTER | $15,000 |
| DC PUBLIC LIBRARY | $15,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $602k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
50 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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
- TBTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC5× · 2021–2025 · $257k · revenue +544%
- BBBRIGHT BEGINNINGS INC5× · 2021–2025 · $120k · revenue +103%
- JPJEREMIAH PROGRAM3× · 2023–2025 · $110k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- NWNational Women's Health Networkone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -11%
- FOFRIENDS OF GIVAT HAVIVAone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -62%
- NVNORTHERN VIRGINIA HEALTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
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.
Cultivating inclusive communities through relationships, innovation and high-quality services.
DC Greens advances health equity by building a just and resilient food system.
Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.
Our mission is to dramatically improve the early career outcomes of dc youth and young adults of color by creating innovative programs and by mobilizing employers, educators, and city leaders to create a local, diverse talent pipeline. our…
We are making maryland healthier by connecting residents to insurance and care, educating the community about healthier living, and advocating a more equitable health care system.
Amplify the work of our community by bringing people and resources together.
Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…
To advocate for domestic violence victims, at-risk children, and other vulnerable individuals by providing over $22.8m in pro bono legal services, social service referrals, and on-going support; to train and support a strong network of…
DC Affordable Law Firm delivers accessible justice to modest-income DC residents who do not qualify for traditional sources of free civil legal services and cannot afford standard representation. Our innovative programming expands access…
To create and advance high quality, diverse educational communities that teach children the foundations of life-long learning and social responsibility.
We use food as a tool to strengthen bodies, empower minds, and build communities. dcck prepares people facing high barriers to employment for culinary careers, and creates jobs for our graduates through innovative programs that expand…
Work with DC courts, private bar & legal services providers to increase legal representations for low & moderate income DC residents, enhance efficiency of legal services, and reduce barriers to the judicial system.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc and the most unlike its peers is Josephs House International Organization. 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 28 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 — 0.0% 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.
80 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. 80 of the 86 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 DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds SITAR ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT BEGINNINGS INC ↗
- Who funds JEREMIAH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds LAW COLLEGE ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds Rhodes College ↗
- Who funds ARLINGTON FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS TO HOUSING DC ↗
- Who funds MIRIAM'S KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds DC SCORES ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER DC DIAPER BANK ↗
- Who funds National Women's Health Network ↗
- Who funds The KWEK Society ↗
- Who funds Create CA ↗
- Who funds MANNA FOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LOUDOUN HUNGER RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS CHILDREN'S PLAYTIME PROJECT ↗
- Who funds NEW ENDEAVORS BY WOMEN ↗
- Who funds PLAZA DE LA RAZA INC ↗
- Who funds THE CATOCTIN FOUNDATION dba LOUDOUN FREE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Jubilee Jumpstart ↗
- Who funds HORTON'S KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRFAX COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF GIVAT HAVIVA ↗
- Who funds THRIVE DC ↗
- Who funds INTERACT INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN VIRGINIA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Federation of Virginia Food Banks ↗
- Who funds Best Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds TRANSITIONAL HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
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: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · Hattie M Strong Foundation · John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation · World Bank Community Connections Fund · William S Abell Foundation Inc · Eugene & Agnes E Meyer Foundation · Nora Roberts Foundation
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 Lainoff Family Foundation Inc 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.
- Manna Food Center Inc — 1% of income from government
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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