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Lakin Family Foundation at a glance

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Lakin Family Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$335k
Granted FY2021
17
Grants FY2021
10
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2021 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k3 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $268k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$20,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$561k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FAITH CHRISTIAN ACADEMY$50,000
BEST FRIEND ANIMAL SOCIETY$40,000
CAT CARE SOCIETY$40,000
BROOMFIELD FISH$20,000
TEXAS BOYS RANCH$20,000
BLIND CAT RESCUE & SANCTUARY INC$20,000
WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY$20,000
MORRIS ANIMAL FNDTN$20,000
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC$20,000
KEEPERS OF THE WILD$20,000
Individual grant recipient$17,500
PURREVER RANCH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$10,000
CLEVELAND CHIROPRACTIC COLLEGE$10,000
BELLEGLEN SANCTUARY$10,000
Individual grant recipient$7,500
02The need
02

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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Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 62% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%TEXAS BOYS RANCH: $20k → 17%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $20k → 14%BROOMFIELD FISH: $20k → 5%FAMILY TREE: $5k → 7%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

PA
CA
UT
CO
AZ
KS
NC
MS
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 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
Animal Care Sanctuary

Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…

Animals
2
Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka Paws

A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.

Animals
3
Carolina Tiger Rescue

Carolina tiger rescue's mission is saving and protecting wildcats in captivity and in the wild.

Animals
4
Animal Rescue of the Rockies

Animal Care and Adoption - ARR's mission is to save the lives of homeless and abandoned dogs and cats. Our goal is reaching a no-kill society in the United States.

Animals
5
Celestial Zoo Pet Rescue

To help homeless pets find their forever home. it includes fostering, medicdal and microchipping them.

Animals
6
Central Texas Animal Sanctuary

Animal rescue and rehabilitation

Animals
7
Tenth Life Cat Rescue

Tenth life provides veterinary care, foster homes, and adoptive placement to stray cats and kittens, prioritizing those with special needs. the organization works to end unnecessary euthanasia and cat homelessness through educational…

Youth Development
8
Catskill Animal Sanctuary Inc

Catskill animal sanctuary rescues farmed animals, ignites social change to end their exploitation, and champions vegan living.

Animals
9
Cat Tail Farms Feline Sanctuary

Animal rescue and housing

Animals
10
A Life to Live Animal Shelter and Adoption Center

We have a no-kill mission to save the lives of homeless cats and dogs abandoned and/or placed in kill shelters, while also providing life-saving programs and services to keep pets and their people together. through outreach, education and…

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11
Partners for Animal Welfare Society

Animal shelter for the protection and care of abused and neglected animals.

Animals
12
Central Texas Spca

Rescue neglected, unwanted homeless dogs and cats nurture and provide shelter until they are placed with a forever family strive to reduce animal overpopulation prevent cruelty to animals teach responsible pet ownership through an outreach…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Morris Animal Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Cleveland Chiropractic College Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 17 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
11/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CAT CARE SOCIETY: $40,000 · AnimalsCAT CARE SOCIETYBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $40,000 · AnimalsBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETYMORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION: $20,000 · AnimalsMORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATIONBLIND CAT RESCUE & SANCTUARY INC: $20,000 · AnimalsBLIND CAT RESCUE & SANCTUARY INCTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $20,000 · AnimalsTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARYKeepers of the Wild: $20,000 · AnimalsKeepers of the WildCOMMUNITY SERVICES OF BROOMFIELD: $20,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY SERVICES OF…WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJE…TEXAS GIRLS AND BOYS RANCH: $20,000 · Human ServicesTEXAS GIRLS AND BOYS …FAMILY TREE INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY TREE INCIndividual grant recipient: $17,500 · OtherIndividual grant rec…BELLEGLEN SANCTUARY: $10,000 · OtherBELLEGLEN SANCTUARYCleveland Chiropractic College Inc: $10,000 · OtherCleveland Chiropract…PURREVER RANCH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherPURREVER RANCH CHARI…Individual grant recipient: $7,500 · OtherIndividual grant rec…WARM FUZZYS CAT RESCUE: $5,000 · OtherWARM FUZZYS CAT RESC…FAITH CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $50,000 · EducationFAITH CHRISTIAN …
Animals$160,000Human Services$65,000Other$60,000Education$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFAITH CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCAT CARE SOCIETY: $40,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVICES OF BROOMFIELD: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBLIND CAT RESCUE & SANCTUARY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKeepers of the Wild: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFAMILY TREE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Vanguard Charitable E…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA8.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Lakin Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lakin Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of 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 · 0–20%
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.

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 17 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home