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Lamaj Foundation at a glance

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Lamaj Foundation

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.

$68
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
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States reached
$68
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of Lamaj Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$305kHealth$27kPhilanthropy$18kPublic Safety & Disaster$11kMembership Benefit$5kArts & Culture$3kCrime & Legal$1kCivil Rights$500
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$68
Median grant
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States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND$68
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MULTIPLYING GOOD (FKA JEFFERSON AWARDS FOUNDATION): $2k → 17%GREENWICH POLICE SILVER SHIELD ASSOCIATION: $5k → 9%CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%ST BARTHOLOMEW'S CONSERVANCY: $500 → 17%SILVER SHIELD ASSOCIATION: $5k → 9%BARNARD COLLEGE: $15k → 17%NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $15k → 17%NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $10k → 17%THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $10k → 17%THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $10k → 17%THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $10k → 17%WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE: $500 → 17%PARTNERS IN MEDICINE WEILL CORNELL: $500 → 17%WNETTHIRTEEN: $1k → 17%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.
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.
$315k · 3 repeat orgs$38k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
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Total granted

$315k
$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-8%
+7%

Still filing today

67%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthArts & CultureCrime & LegalEnvironmentOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO
    2× · 2017–2018 · $260k
  • TR
    THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2018–2021 · $30k · revenue -8%
  • NY
    NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC
    2× · 2018–2021 · $25k · revenue -14%

Funded once

  • BARNARD COLLEGEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +48%
  • SS
    SILVER SHIELD ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +7%
  • GP
    GREENWICH POLICE SILVER SHIELD ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
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.

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Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
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Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
4
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
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Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
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Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
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The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
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Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
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Council On Foreign Relations Inc

The council on foreign relations (cfr) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and…

International
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The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York-Presbyterian Fund Inc; the most unlike its peers is Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. 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

9 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. 9 of the 16 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO: $260,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO+7 more: $19,000 · Other+7 moreTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $30,000 · EducationTHE ROCKEFELL…BARNARD COLLEGE: $15,000 · EducationBARNARD COLLE…NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $25,000 · HealthCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $1,000 · HealthDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $18,353 · PhilanthropyEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $1,000 · Crime & LegalWNET: $1,000 · Arts & CultureST BARTHOLOMEW'S CONSERVANCY INC: $500 · Environment
Other$279,000Education$45,000Health$26,000Philanthropy$18,353Crime & Legal$1,000Arts & Culture$1,000Environment$500

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 ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $18,353 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSILVER SHIELD ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWNET: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST BARTHOLOMEW'S CONSERVANCY INC: $500 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Lamaj Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Lamaj Foundation 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 16 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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