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Langston Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k27 grants · $88k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ELECTION FAIRNESS INSTITUTE | $13,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| TAKING THE REINS | $6,000 |
| CAPT SAX FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| RONALD McDONALD HOUSE | $5,000 |
| ALASKA BOXING ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| INTERVARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY PREGNANCY CENTER OF ANCHORAGE | $4,500 |
| COOK INLET SOCCER CLUB | $4,300 |
| GRACE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| BEACON HILL | $4,000 |
| CENTRAL OREGON ALPINE SKI FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| BALL VENTURES LEGACY FOUNDATION | $3,300 |
| JOHNSON COUNTY FAMILY YMCA | $3,000 |
| JOHNSON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $3,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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 +13% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 9 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, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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
- SRSEDONA RED ROCK TRAIL FUND5× · 2020–2024 · $22k · revenue +92%
- BHBEACON HILL5× · 2020–2024 · $21k · revenue +52%
- TTTAKING THE REINS3× · 2021–2024 · $13k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- SFSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue +56%
- HHHEALING HEARTS ANIMAL RESCUE REFUGEone grant, 2020 · $6k
- SCSEDONA COMMUNITY FOOD BANKgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +288%
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.
To ensure coast redwood forests in the santa cruz mountains thrive for generations to come. since 1900, sempervirens has protected more than 36,000 acres. learn more about our mission, vision, and strategic plan through 2030 at:…
Our mission is to protect and preserve the natural landscapes, wildlife habitat and cultural heritage of anza-borrego desert state park and its surrounding region for the benefit and enjoyment of present and future generations.
To preserve and protect, for public benefit, open space lands and unique natural, scenic settings throughout the state of idaho utilizing various flexible conservation methods.
To protect and restore the ecosystem of the southern sierra nevada - including both the sequoia national forest and the giant sequoia monument - through monitoring, enforcement, litigation, and public awareness.by acting as the eyes, ears,…
Laguna canyon foundation is dedicated to the conservation and ongoing protection of the south coast wilderness. we envision a thriving coastal ecosystem that serves as a source of inspiration, connection, and refuge for all.
Henry and Baloo Foundation is dedicated to the permanent preservation of land in the American West. We directly purchase and preserve the land - depoliticizing conservation, with a specific focus on land that is under threat of development…
We work to connect people, wildlife, and lands across the u.s.-mexico border through the use of science, advocacy, educational activities, community engagement, and on-the-ground conservation initiatives. our main activities include…
Our mission is to provide finanial and volunteer support to deception pass park to promote education and preserve resources.
To protect and conserve wildlife and its habitat
To initiate, augment or simply fund projects or activities to help maintain viable and sustainable wildlife populations into the future,especially in wy and jackson hole, through support of research, education, habitat protection and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lander Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Alaska Rugby Foundation Inc. 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 22 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) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 81 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 SEDONA RED ROCK TRAIL FUND ↗
- Who funds BEACON HILL ↗
- Who funds Zion's Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ELECTION FAIRNESS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds TAKING THE REINS ↗
- Who funds KEEP SEDONA BEAUTIFUL INC ↗
- Who funds THE WINGMAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAPT SAX FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BISCAYNE BAY WATERKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds Be the Difference Foundation ↗
- Who funds COOK INLET SOCCER CLUB ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds The Arc of Anchorage ↗
- Who funds PATRICK HENRY HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC CITY DORYMENS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC ↗
- Who funds SEDONA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Kylie Rowand Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ALASKA RUGBY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND CANYON CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Crisis Pregnancy Center ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO CIVIC YOUTH BALLET ↗
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: The Alaska Community Foundation · Rasmuson Foundation · Arizona Community Foundation · Lander Community Foundation · Wyoming Community Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Sempra Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund
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 Langston Family Foundation 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.
- J Bar J Youth Services Inc — 71% of income from government
- Biscayne Bay Waterkeeper Inc — 19% of income from government
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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