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Lanier Family 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.

$50k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$22k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$414kHuman Services$81kScience & Tech$58kPhilanthropy$33kAnimals$25kArts & Culture$7kEducation$7kEnvironment$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $22k
$3,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HUNTSVILLE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$21,500
HUDSON ALPHA FOUNDATION$7,500
VILLAGE OF PROMISE$3,500
MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION IN INDIAN RIVER COUNTY$3,000
HUMANE SOCIETY OF VERO BEACH$3,000
THE ARC OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY$3,000
NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR EATING DISORD$3,000
HEALS FOUNDATION$2,000
ARTS HUNTSVILLE$1,000
KIDS TO LOVE FOUNDATION$1,000
THE LAND TRUST OF NORTH ALABAMA$1,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $91k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE ARC OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY: $4k → 12%THE ARC OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY: $4k → 12%THE ARC OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY: $3k → 12%THE ARC OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY: $3k → 12%THE ARC OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY: $3k → 12%VILLAGE OF PROMISE: $4k → 11%THE ARC OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY: $3k → 12%VILLAGE OF PROMISE: $4k → 11%THE ARC OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY: $2k → 12%THE ARC OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY: $1k → 12%THE ARC OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY: $1k → 12%VILLAGE OF PROMISE: $24k → 11%VILLAGE OF PROMISE: $14k → 11%VILLAGE OF PROMISE: $9k → 11%VILLAGE OF PROMISE: $4k → 11%VILLAGE OF PROMISE: $4k → 11%VILLAGE OF PROMISE: $4k → 11%VILLAGE OF PROMISE: $4k → 11%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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$279k · 17 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +131% since the first grant, against +61% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
2

Total granted

$279k
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+131%
+61%

Still filing today

47%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationPhilanthropyEnvironmentHealthArts & CultureOther
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

  • VO
    VILLAGE OF PROMISE INCORPORATED
    9× · 2017–2025 · $67k · revenue +306%
  • TA
    THE ARC OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTYINC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $24k · revenue +57%
  • KT
    KIDS TO LOVE FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $14k · revenue +131%

Funded once

  • CT
    COMPLETING THE STORY INC
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • CF
    CAJA FRIENDS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +61%
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.

1
Harrison County Community Hospital Foundation Inc

Recognizing the importance of Harrison County Community Hospital District d/b/a Harrison County Community Hospital ("HCCH"), and believing that it exemplifies the highest goals and standards of health care, the Harrison County Community…

Philanthropy
2
Indiana Academy of Family Physicians Foundation

The mission of the iafp foundation is to enhance the health care delivered to the people of indiana by developing and providing research, education, and charitable resources for the promotion and support of the specialty of family medicine…

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3
Huntington County Community Fdtn Inc

Established in 1991, the huntington county community foundation's mission is to connect people and resources with opportunities that enhance quality of life for all.

Philanthropy
4
Hudson-Alpha Institute for Biotechnology

The primary mission of the institute will be to use the increasingly powerful research tools being developed in the biotechnology area to better understand the causes of certain diseases and to apply the findings of such research to help…

Science & Tech
5
The Arc of Indiana County

Our mission is to work to include all children and adults with developmental delays or other disabilities in every community by identifying barriers, building partnerships, and realizing solutions.

Education
6
Advance Community Health Inc

To deliver quality, compassionate primary health care. every patient. every time. in response to the needs of our communities.

Health
7
Access Family Health Services Inc

The mission of access family health services, inc. is to provide affordable, comprehensive healthcare and education to our communities with superior services.

Health
8
Community Health Clinic Inc

Founded on the principle of service, in cooperation with the local amish community, the mission of the community health clinic (chc) is to provide excellent and affordable medical and dental care consistent with the needs of the amish,…

Health
9
Huron County Community Foundation

The mission of the huron county community foundation is to provide for the enrichment of the quality life in huron county by developing a permanent endowment to assess and respond to changing community needs and by serving as a charitable…

Philanthropy
10
Indian River County Healthy Start Coalition Inc

To develop and support a local system of care to optimize the health of moms, babies and their families living in indian river county.

Health
11
Promise Healthcare Nfp

To improve the health and well-being of the diverse communities we serve by providing high-quality, equitable healthcare to people of all ages.

Health
12
Alabama Partnership for Children

To work in partnership with families and organizations to ensure that all alabama children (birth to five) get everything they need to develop to their fullest potential.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Indian River Community Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Huntsville Hospital Foundationinc. 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 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 23 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE HUNTSVILLE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONINC: $316,500 · HealthTHE HUNTSVILLE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONINC+1 more: $1,000 · HealthVILLAGE OF PROMISE INCORPORATED: $66,500 · Human ServicesVILLAGE OF PROMISE…THE ARC OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTYINC: $24,000 · Human ServicesTHE ARC OF INDIAN …KIDS TO LOVE FOUNDATION: $14,000 · Human ServicesKIDS TO LOVE FOUND…HUMANE SOCIETY OF VERO BEACH: $24,500 · OtherHUMANE SOCIETY OF …MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION IN INDIAN: $19,500 · OtherMENTAL HEALTH ASSO…THE ALLIANCE FOR EATING DISORDERS: $14,500 · OtherTHE ALLIANCE FOR E…NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR EATING DISORD: $12,500 · OtherNATIONAL ALLIANCE …COMPLETING THE STORY INC: $10,000 · OtherCOMPLETING THE STO…ARTS HUNTSVILLE: $6,000 · OtherARTS HUNTSVILLESt Helen Catholic School: $5,000 · OtherMHA IN INDIAN RIVER COUNTY: $5,000 · Other+4 more: $6,500 · Other+4 moreHUDSONALPHA FOUNDATION: $57,500 · EducationHUDSONALPH…INDIAN RIVER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $32,500 · PhilanthropyThe Heal Foundation Inc: $18,000 · PhilanthropyTHE LAND TRUST OF NORTH ALABAMA INC: $7,000 · EnvironmentCAJA FRIENDS INC: $1,000 · Crime & LegalTHE ARTS COUNCIL INC: $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Health$317,500Human Services$104,500Other$103,500Education$57,500Philanthropy$50,500Environment$7,000Crime & Legal$1,000Arts & Culture$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE HUNTSVILLE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONINC: $316,500 over 9y, 1.9% of budgetVILLAGE OF PROMISE INCORPORATED: $66,500 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetHUDSONALPHA FOUNDATION: $57,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetINDIAN RIVER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $32,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ARC OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTYINC: $24,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetThe Heal Foundation Inc: $18,000 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetKIDS TO LOVE FOUNDATION: $14,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetTHE LAND TRUST OF NORTH ALABAMA INC: $7,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH ASSN IN IRC INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FREE DENTAL CLINIC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCAJA FRIENDS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE ARTS COUNCIL INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds THE HUNTSVILLE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONINC ↗
  • Who funds VILLAGE OF PROMISE INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds HUDSONALPHA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds INDIAN RIVER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ARC OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTYINC ↗
  • Who funds The Heal Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds KIDS TO LOVE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE LAND TRUST OF NORTH ALABAMA INC ↗
  • Who funds MENTAL HEALTH ASSN IN IRC INC ↗
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY FREE DENTAL CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds CAJA FRIENDS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗

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.

The Jane K Lowe Charitable FoundationAL20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Jane K Lowe Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Huntsville · John a Jurenko Et Al Foundation · The Beard-Young Family Foundation · Alpha Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Propst Foundation · Wallace E Kirkpatrick Family Foundation · Parker Griffith Family Foundation · Bernard a Egan Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Lanier Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lanier Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 Lanier Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Lanier Family 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 23 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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