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Lainoff Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$587k
Granted FY2025still arriving
35
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Human Services$522kHealth$518kEducation$421kArts & Culture$292kHousing & Shelter$228kFood & Nutrition$177kYouth Development$125kInternational$113kOther$0
02FY2025 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $445k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
$15,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$9.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BRIGID ALLIANCE$60,000
RHODES COLLEGE$50,000
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUND$35,000
BRIGHT BEGINNINGS$30,000
SITAR ARTS CENTER$30,000
JEREMIAH PROGRAM$30,000
DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE$30,000
ARLINGTON FREE CLINIC$25,000
INTERACT INTERNATIONAL$20,000
CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK$20,000
PATHWAYS TO HOUSING$20,000
FEDERATION OF VIRGINIA FOOD BANKS$20,000
MIRIAM'S KITCHEN$15,000
KWEK SOCIETY CORP$15,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%RIP MEDICAL DEBT: $25k → 9%KWEK SOCIETY CORP: $15k → 7%RIP MEDICAL DEBT: $15k → 9%KWEK SOCIETY CORP: $10k → 7%HOMELESS CHILDREN'S PLAYTIME PROJECT: $10k → 14%KWEK SOCIETY CORP: $10k → 7%PLAYTIME PROJECT: $10k → 14%KWEK SOCIETY CORP: $5k → 7%PLAYTIME PROJECT: $10k → 14%THE BRIGID ALLIANCE: $75k → 17%HOMELESS CHILDREN'S PLAYTIME PROJECT: $5k → 14%THE KWEK SOCIETY: $5k → 7%THE BRIGID ALLIANCE: $62k → 17%JOSEPH'S HOUSE INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION: $5k → 8%BRIGID ALLIANCE: $60k → 17%THE BRIGID ALLIANCE: $55k → 17%HOMELESS CHILDREN'S PLAYTIME PROJECT: $5k → 14%LOUDOUN ABUSED WOMEN'S SHELTER: $10k → 4%THE BRIGID ALLIANCE: $5k → 17%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $30k → 14%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $15k → 14%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $15k → 14%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $5k → 14%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $3k → 14%SMYAL: $5k → 14%SMYAL: $5k → 14%PATHWAYS TO HOUSING: $20k → 14%PATHWAYS TO HOUSING: $20k → 14%PATHWAYS TO HOUSING: $15k → 14%PATHWAYS TO HOUSING: $10k → 14%PATHWAYS TO HOUSING: $5k → 14%GREATER DC DIAPER BANK: $15k → 14%GREATER DC DIAPER BANK: $10k → 14%GREATER DC DIAPER BANK: $10k → 14%GREATER DC DIAPER BANK: $10k → 14%GREATER DC DIAPER BANK: $10k → 14%FOSTER & ADOPTIVE PARENT & ADVOCACY CENTER: $3k → 14%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

MN
IL
NY
CA
VA
MD
AZ
TN
DC
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 50 repeat orgs$290k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
26

Total granted

$2.2M
$225k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+27%

Still filing today

94%
96%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • TB
    THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $257k · revenue +752%
  • BB
    BRIGHT BEGINNINGS INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $120k · revenue +103%
  • JP
    JEREMIAH PROGRAM
    3× · 2023–2025 · $110k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • NW
    National Women's Health Network
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -11%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF GIVAT HAVIVA
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -62%
  • NV
    NORTHERN VIRGINIA HEALTH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
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
Abilities Network Inc

Cultivating inclusive communities through relationships, innovation and high-quality services.

Health
2
Dc Greens Inc

DC Greens advances health equity by building a just and resilient food system.

Community Improvement
3
Council for Court Excellence

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.

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4
Cityworks Dc

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…

Education
5
Healthcare Access Maryland Inc

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.

Health
6
Act for Alexandria

Amplify the work of our community by bringing people and resources together.

Community Improvement
7
Alternatives Inc

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…

Health
8
Volunteer Legal Advocates

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…

Housing & Shelter
9
Dc Affordable Law Firm

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…

Human Services
10
Wonders Early Learning Extended Day

To create and advance high quality, diverse educational communities that teach children the foundations of life-long learning and social responsibility.

—
11
The Dc Central Kitchen Inc

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…

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12
District of Columbia Access to Justice

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.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

80 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. 80 of the 86 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)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
80/80
Grantees still filing
49/80
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $257,000 · Human ServicesTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INCPATHWAYS TO HOUSING DC: $70,000 · Human ServicesPATHWAYS TO HOUSING DCMIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $67,500 · Human ServicesMIRIAM'S KITCHENGREATER DC DIAPER BANK: $55,000 · Human ServicesGREATER DC DIAPER BANKThe KWEK Society: $45,000 · Human ServicesThe KWEK SocietyMEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesMEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION IN…HOMELESS CHILDREN'S PLAYTIME PROJECT: $40,000 · Human ServicesHOMELESS CHILDREN'S PLAYTI…+4 more: $27,500 · Human ServicesBRIGHT BEGINNINGS INC: $120,000 · OtherBRIGHT BEGINNINGS INCARLINGTON FREE CLINIC INC: $70,000 · OtherARLINGTON FREE CLINIC INCDC SCORES: $65,000 · OtherDC SCORESIndividual grant recipient: $58,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCreate CA: $45,000 · OtherPROJECT CREATE ARTS CENTER: $32,500 · OtherPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $60,000 · OtherPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INCWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $40,000 · OtherLOUDOUN HUNGER RELIEF INC: $42,000 · Other+35 more: $395,774 · Other+35 moreDIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $260,000 · HealthDIABETES RESEARC…National Women's Health Network: $50,000 · HealthNational Women's…THE CATOCTIN FOUNDATION dba LOUDOUN FREE CLINIC: $30,000 · HealthTHE CATOCTIN FOU…INOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthINOVA HEALTH SYS…+2 more: $12,500 · HealthSITAR ARTS CENTER: $145,000 · Arts & CultureSITAR ART…PLAZA DE LA RAZA INC: $35,000 · Arts & CulturePLAZA DE …INTERACT INTERNATIONAL INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureINTERACT …THE INDEPENDENT SHAKESPEARE CO INC: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $18,000 · Arts & Culture+4 moreJEREMIAH PROGRAM: $110,000 · Housing & ShelterNEW ENDEAVORS BY WOMEN: $37,500 · Housing & ShelterTRANSITIONAL HOUSING CORPORATION: $17,500 · Housing & ShelterDISTRICT ALLIANCE FOR SAFE HOUSING INC: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterLAW COLLEGE ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $73,000 · EducationRhodes College: $70,000 · EducationREADING PARTNERS: $7,500 · Education+4 more: $13,500 · EducationMANNA FOOD CENTER INC: $45,000 · Food & NutritionCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $40,000 · Food & NutritionTHRIVE DC: $20,000 · Food & NutritionBREAD FOR THE CITY INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionDULLES SOUTH FOOD PANTRY INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionMARTHA'S TABLE INC: $5,000 · Food & Nutrition
Human Services$602,000Other$928,774Health$372,500Arts & Culture$228,000Housing & Shelter$180,000Education$164,000Food & Nutrition$130,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $260,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $257,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetSITAR ARTS CENTER: $145,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetBRIGHT BEGINNINGS INC: $120,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetJEREMIAH PROGRAM: $110,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLAW COLLEGE ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $73,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetPATHWAYS TO HOUSING DC: $70,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetRhodes College: $70,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetARLINGTON FREE CLINIC INC: $70,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $67,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetDC SCORES: $65,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER DC DIAPER BANK: $55,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNational Women's Health Network: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCreate CA: $45,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetMANNA FOOD CENTER INC: $45,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe KWEK Society: $45,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetLOUDOUN HUNGER RELIEF INC: $42,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOMELESS CHILDREN'S PLAYTIME PROJECT: $40,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENDEAVORS BY WOMEN: $37,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetPLAZA DE LA RAZA INC: $35,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CATOCTIN FOUNDATION dba LOUDOUN FREE CLINIC: $30,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetJubilee Jumpstart: $30,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetHORTON'S KIDS INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFAIRFAX COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC: $25,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF GIVAT HAVIVA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFederation of Virginia Food Banks: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNORTHERN VIRGINIA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHRIVE DC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBest Kids Inc: $19,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTRANSITIONAL HOUSING CORPORATION: $17,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLOUDOUN LITERACY COUNCIL INC: $15,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetDISTRICT ALLIANCE FOR SAFE HOUSING INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEQUALITY LOUDOUN: $11,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetMOBILE HOPE ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSMYAL Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFihankra Akoma Ntoaso: $10,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHE INDEPENDENT SHAKESPEARE CO INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBREAD FOR THE CITY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY BRIDGES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOUDOUN CITIZENS FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDULLES SOUTH FOOD PANTRY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

Greater Washington Co…The Morris and Gwendo…United Way of the Nat…Philip L Graham Fund …Clark-Winchcole Found…Dimick Foundation Joh…Hattie M Strong Found…John Edward Fowler Me…World Bank Community …William S Abell Found…Eugene & Agnes E Meye…Nora Roberts Foundati…
Greater Washington Community FoundationDC57.3× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Manna Food Center Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
40report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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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How do I get to Lainoff Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Lainoff 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 86 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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