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Lakeside Charitable Trust at a glance

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Lakeside 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.

$401k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$345k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$939kEducation$2kEnvironment$1kEmployment$1kRecreation & Sports$1kHealth$120Other$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $5k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
  • $250k+1 grant · $345k
$1,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE FILM COLLABORATIVE$345,000
AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL$50,500
INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS$1,000
SOUL STEPPERS DRILL TEAM$1,000
THE CHIMAERA PROJECT$1,000
ANTENNA$1,000
ST STEPHENS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL$1,000
LADY BIRD JOHNSON WILDFLOWER CENTER$200
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 71% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%TRUSTEES OF HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE: $1k → 12%ST STEPHENS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $1k → 12%THE CHIMAERA PROJECT: $1k → 14%SEE ATTACHED LIST: $26k → 6%THE LEE STRASBERG CREATIVE CENTER: $1k → 17%LADY BIRD JOHNSON WILDFLOWER CENTER: $200 → 10%INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $1k → 10%SOUL STEPPERS DRILL TEAM: $1k → 15%ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION: $120 → 14%ANTENNA: $1k → 23%THE FILM COLLABORATIVE: $345k → 14%SEE ATTACHED LIST: $25k → 6%LADY BIRD JOHNSON WILDFLOWER CENTER: $200 → 10%INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $1k → 10%THE FILM COLLABORATIVE: $120k → 14%LADY BIRD JOHNSON WILDFLOWER CENTER: $200 → 10%INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $1k → 10%THE FILM COLLABORATIVE: $100k → 14%LADY BIRD JOHNSON WILDFLOWER CENTER: $200 → 10%INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $1k → 10%THE FILM COLLABORATIVE: $100k → 14%LADY BIRD JOHNSON WILDFLOWER CENTER: $200 → 10%THE FILM COLLABORATIVE: $25k → 14%AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL: $113k → 10%THE FILM COLLABORATIVE: $15k → 14%AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL: $60k → 10%AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL: $51k → 10%AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL: $3k → 10%AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL: $2k → 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

IL
MI
NY
MA
IA
PA
CA
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$938k · 4 repeat orgs$7k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
4

Total granted

$938k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+19%

Still filing today

75%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHealthOther
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

  • TF
    THE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $705k · revenue +117%
  • AF
    Austin Film Festival Inc
    5× · 2021–2025 · $228k · revenue +22%
  • IC
    INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS
    4× · 2022–2025 · $4k · revenue -69%

Funded once

  • LS
    LEE STRASBERG CREATIVE CENTER INC
    one grant, 2024 · $1k
  • HC
    HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +19%
  • GP
    GHOSTLIGHT PRODUCTIONS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $500 · revenue +64%
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
Utah Film Center

Utah film center inspires and engages diverse audiences to initiate conversation and community building through curated film exhibition, educational programs, and artist support.

Arts & Culture
2
Artphilly

The mission of artphilly is to amplify philadelphia's arts and culture by commissioning, presenting, producing, and promoting art of all kinds for local audiences and the world. its vision is to spotlight(continued on schedule o)the city…

Arts & Culture
3
Dc Independent Film Festival

The DC Independent Film Festival (DCIFF) showcases and supports local and international filmmakers and their work across the genres of fiction, animation, experimental and documentary through screening, discussion, professional…

Arts & Culture
4
Austin Creative Alliance

The mission of Austin Creative Alliance is to advance, connect, and celebrate Austin's arts, culture, and creative communities in order to nourish and strengthen the character, quality of life, and economic prosperity of our region.

Arts & Culture
5
The Austin Area Commission for the Arts Inc

Austin area arts applauds and advances all arts by welcoming diverse, creative individuals to share their unique talents to inspire our community.

Philanthropy
6
The American Film Institute

The american film institute ("afi") is a national institute providing leadership in screen education and the recognition and celebration of excellence in the art of film, television and digital media.

Arts & Culture
7
White Columns Inc

White columns identifies significant emerging and under-represented visual artists and encourages their creative and professional development through the presentation of group and solo exhibitions, an online curated artists registry, and…

Arts & Culture
8
Austin City Art Fund

To support the production and exhibition of art and film

Arts & Culture
9
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
10
Houston Cinema Arts Society

Houston cinema arts society (hcas) celebrates the vitality of houston by connecting audiences and artists with public, educational, and career-advancing film and arts programming. houston cinema arts society envisions a future where…

Arts & Culture
11
Staretthe Directors Company Inc

The Directors Company is an award-winning not-for-profit theatre company with an extraordinary record in its mission to develop and produce groundbreaking new plays and musicals initiated and generated by outstanding directorial talent,…

Arts & Culture
12
The Actors Company Theatre Inc

The Actors Company Theatre is dedicated to presenting neglected or rarely produced plays of literary merit, with a focus on creating theatre from its essence: the text and the actor's ability to bring it to life. Over the past eighteen…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Film Collaborative Inc; the most unlike its peers is St Stephen's Episcopal School. 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

10 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. 10 of the 12 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC: $705,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INCAustin Film Festival Inc: $227,500 · Arts & CultureAustin Film Festival Inc+2 more: $4,500 · Arts & CultureLEE STRASBERG CREATIVE CENTER INC: $1,000 · OtherThe CHIMAERA PROJECT: $1,000 · OtherSOUL STEPPERS DRILL TEAM: $1,000 · OtherST STEPHEN'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $1,000 · EducationAntenna: $1,000 · EducationHAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $1,000 · EducationWILDFLOWER DONOR INC: $1,000 · EnvironmentALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $120 · Health
Arts & Culture$937,000Other$3,000Education$3,000Environment$1,000Health$120

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 budgetTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC: $705,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetAustin Film Festival Inc: $227,500 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetINTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST STEPHEN'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAntenna: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGHOSTLIGHT PRODUCTIONS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $120 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.

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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 Lakeside Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lakeside Charitable Trust. 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%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 Lakeside Charitable Trust?

    Find your warmest path to Lakeside 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 12 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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