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LANFest
LANFest is dedicated to empowering gaming communities and supporting charitable efforts by creating unique gaming experiences.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 4 grants below total $25,873 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $64,742 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $38,869 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Rights to Unmute | $7,494 |
| StackUP | $6,590 |
| Games for Love | $5,895 |
| Vaughns Valley Foundation | $5,894 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 64% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +62% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- GOGAMERS OUTREACH FOUNDATION INC2× · 2017–2019 · $66k · revenue +436%
- SUSTACK UP3× · 2022–2024 · $21k · revenue +48%
- SCSTARLIGHT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION3× · 2021–2023 · $18k · revenue +62%
Funded once
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HOLLYWOOD INCone grant, 2022 · $26k · revenue -15%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $12k
- FOFALLEN OFFICER FUND OF DOUGLAS COUNTY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +50%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Dogs playing for life is redefining the meaning and importance of quality of life for all sheltered dogs by improving their experience through playgroups and individualized training, resulting in urgent and responsible livesaving.
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.
At Animal Samaritans we champion compassion and respect for all living creatures, with a primary focus on dogs, cats, and the people who love them. We view pets not merely as animals, but as members of our families. As their guardians and…
To care for pets, find them homes and save lives.
PAWS cares for lost, abandoned and abused animals and finds them new homes with responsible owners. PAWS also provides low cost spay and neuter services, a pet food pantry, and community education. During 2024 PAWS adopted out 577 pets.…
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
Humane pennsylvania empowers the people in our communities to increase their capacity to care for animals so that all animals are healthy, safe, and treated humanely.
To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
Pets for Vets enriches the lives of veterans by creating a life-changing Super Bond with expertly selected and trained shelter or rescue pets. It provides ongoing expert support to ensure a reciprocal and thriving partnership at no cost to…
Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…
The friends are dedicated to the rescue, protection, and adoption of companion animals in need while inspiring the human-animal bond. we meet our mission by:-saving 100% of healthy and treatable animals.-providing high-quality animal care…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Miracle Network and the most unlike its peers is Fallen Officer Fund of Douglas County Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
28 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 32 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 GAMERS OUTREACH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HOLLYWOOD INC ↗
- Who funds STACK UP ↗
- Who funds STARLIGHT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 1000 DREAMS FUND ↗
- Who funds PLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FALLEN OFFICER FUND OF DOUGLAS COUNTY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Volunteers of America Western Washington ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds FEEDMORE WESTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds PAWS YOUR GAMES INC ↗
- Who funds METRO AREA YOUTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Games For Love ↗
- Who funds CHILD'S PLAY ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO GREYHOUND ADOPTION INC ↗
- Who funds ANGELS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE CENTER FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MATER FILIUS OF NEBRASKA INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST IND ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NORTH GRAND NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Washington State Parks Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Anti-Cruelty Society ↗
- Who funds ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS-USAINC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good
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 LANFest 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.
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.
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How do I get to LANFest?
Find your warmest path to LANFest 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.