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Lakota Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$275k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$664kPhilanthropy$325kFood & Nutrition$250kRecreation & Sports$182kHealth$115kCommunity Improvement$100kYouth Development$50kArts & Culture$40kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $225k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $644k
  • $250k+3 grants · $775k
$45,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CATHOLIC FOUNDATION$275,000
Individual grant recipient$250,000
DAYSTAR LIFE CENTER$250,000
TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN MANATEE COUN$144,550
HARLEM LACROSSE$124,800
BRADY COLLABORATIVE INC$100,000
OGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGE$100,000
SAVANNAH FOUNDATION$75,000
MARIO ST GEORGE BOIARDI FDN$50,000
UNITED TRIBES TECHNICAL COL$50,000
ELWYN FOUNDATION$45,000
APOLLO BEACH LACROSSE CLUB$30,000
MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMM FUND$30,000
HEALTHY TEENS INC$25,000
ST DENIS PARISH$25,000
02The need
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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.

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Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $300k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ELWYN FOUNDATION: $45k → 10%DAYSTAR LIFE CENTER: $250k → 12%ELWYN FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your field

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.

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Lewis & Clark College

Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…

Education
2
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
3
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
4
Pomona College

Throughout its history, pomona college has educated men and women of exceptional promise. we gather individuals, regardless of financial circumstances, into a small residential community that is strongly rooted in southern california yet…

Education
5
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
6
Elizabethtown College

Provide a transformative educational experience that cultivates strengths of its students.

Education
7
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
8
Coe College

Coe college is a private, four-year co-educational liberal arts college.

Education
9
Masters School

The masters school celebrates active participation, deep understanding, and meaningful connection. a community of diverse individuals, we gather to learn, to strive, to dare, to do - to be a power for good in the world.

10
Lynn University Inc

Founded in 1962 and located in boca raton, florida, lynn university is an independent, coeducational institution accredited by the southern association of colleges and schools commission on colleges (sacscoc). (continued in sch o)the…

Education
11
'Iolani School

To develop educated, well-rounded individuals who are well prepared for college.

Education
12
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Elwyn Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Healthy Teens Inc. 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

12 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 28 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
4/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION — $275,000 · OtherTHE CATHOLIC FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient — $250,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN MANATEE COUN — $144,550 · OtherTAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN MANATEE COUNBRADY COLLABORATIVE INC — $100,000 · OtherBRADY COLLABORATIVE INCSAVANNAH FOUNDATION — $75,000 · OtherSAVANNAH FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient — $63,124 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+12 more — $143,526 · Other+12 moreDAYSTAR LIFE CENTER INC — $250,000 · Human ServicesDAYSTAR LIFE CENTER…THE ELWYN FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Human ServicesTHE ELWYN FOUNDATIO…OGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGE — $100,000 · EducationOGLALA LAK…UNITED TRIBES TECHNICAL COLLEGE — $50,000 · EducationUNITED TRI…UNIVERSITY OF DENVER — $7,245 · EducationHARLEM LACROSSE AND LEADERSHIP CORPORATION — $124,800 · Recreation & SportsHARLEM LA…APOLLO BEACH LACROSSE CLUB INC — $30,000 · Recreation & SportsAPOLLO BE…THE MARIO ST GEORGE BOIARDI FOUNDA — $50,000 · PhilanthropyCOVER HOME REPAIR INC — $25,000 · Housing & ShelterColorado Outdoor Education Center Inc — $25,000 · Environment
Other$1,051,200Human Services$300,000Education$157,245Recreation & Sports$154,800Philanthropy$50,000Housing & Shelter$25,000Environment$25,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDAYSTAR LIFE CENTER INC — $250,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetHARLEM LACROSSE AND LEADERSHIP CORPORATION — $124,800 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetOGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGE — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MARIO ST GEORGE BOIARDI FOUNDA — $50,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetTHE ELWYN FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetUNITED TRIBES TECHNICAL COLLEGE — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAPOLLO BEACH LACROSSE CLUB INC — $30,000 over 1y, 70% of budgetCOVER HOME REPAIR INC — $25,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetColorado Outdoor Education Center Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHealthy Teens Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER — $7,245 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINDIGENOUS VALUES INITIATIVE INC — $2,092 over 1y, 0.8% of budget
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 DAYSTAR LIFE CENTER INC
  • Who funds HARLEM LACROSSE AND LEADERSHIP CORPORATION
  • Who funds OGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGE
  • Who funds THE MARIO ST GEORGE BOIARDI FOUNDA
  • Who funds THE ELWYN FOUNDATION
  • Who funds UNITED TRIBES TECHNICAL COLLEGE
  • Who funds APOLLO BEACH LACROSSE CLUB INC
  • Who funds COVER HOME REPAIR INC
  • Who funds Colorado Outdoor Education Center Inc
  • Who funds Healthy Teens Inc
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER
  • Who funds INDIGENOUS VALUES INITIATIVE INC

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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Lakota 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 3%
  • Cover Home Repair Inc3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get 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
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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