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Lannan 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.

$95M
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$70M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Philanthropy$109MArts & Culture$41MEducation$16MCivil Rights$4.3MReligion$2.4MEnvironment$1.9MPublic Benefit$1.4MInternational$1.2MOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $300
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $38k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $579k
  • $250k+5 grants · $94M
$103,250
Median grant
8
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROCKERFELLER PHILANTHROPY ASSOCIATES$70,006,206
FIDELITY CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION$12,344,782
AMALGAMATED FOUNDATION$10,500,000
NATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIC INNOVATION$1,000,000
IBEROAMERICANA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$350,000
Individual grant recipient$150,000
INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY$136,326
ANCHORUM FOUNDATION$103,250
501 CPA$100,000
Individual grant recipient$89,000
ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO$16,000
NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY$12,000
THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ALBERT AND SHIRLEY SMALL SPECIAL COLLECTIONS LIBRARY$200
WOLFGRAM MEMORIAL LIBRARY WIDENER UNIVERSITY$100
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%SEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES: $500k → 18%SHEPHERD COMMUNITY INC: $9k → 16%LITTLE FRIENDS INC: $10k → 7%LITTLE FRIENDS INC: $10k → 7%SEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES: $30k → 18%SEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES: $15k → 18%SEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES: $10k → 18%JACOBIN FOUNDATION LTD: $120k → 20%JACOBIN FOUNDATION LTD: $120k → 20%JACOBIN FOUNDATION LTD: $120k → 20%TIDES CENTER: $200k → 10%JACOBIN FOUNDATION LTD: $100k → 20%TIDES CENTER: $150k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $125k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $125k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $100k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $70k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $50k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $40k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $25k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $25k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $500 → 10%ARC OF THE UNITED STATES INC: $200 → 14%TIDES CENTER: $500 → 10%TIDES CENTER: $500 → 10%TIDES CENTER: $400 → 10%INDIGENOUS RIGHTS CENTER: $840 → 14%FOOD DEPOT: $55k → 12%FOOD DEPOT: $15k → 12%FOOD DEPOT: $15k → 12%FOOD DEPOT: $15k → 12%FOOD DEPOT: $3k → 12%FOOD DEPOT: $600 → 12%FOOD DEPOT: $400 → 12%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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
ME
NH
WA
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
SD
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
DC
HI
OK
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$130M · 161 repeat orgs$38M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

161 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 155 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

161
140

Total granted

$130M
$24M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+13%

Still filing today

66%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalEnvironmentHuman ServicesCivil RightsOther
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

  • MA
    MUSEUM ASSOCIATES
    4× · 2020–2024 · $8.1M · revenue +89%
  • TC
    THE CENTER FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH AND SOCIAL CHANGE INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $6.4M · revenue +7% · 42% of their budget
  • CC
    CAVE CANEM FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +562%

Funded once

  • GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $13M · revenue +16%
  • MO
    MUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue +70%
  • MD
    MUSEO DE LAS AMERICAS
    one grant, 2024 · $863k · revenue -18% · 60% of their budget
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
New Museum of Contemporary Art

A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.

Arts & Culture
2
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
3
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
4
San Diego Museum of Art

To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.

Arts & Culture
5
Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco

The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…

Arts & Culture
6
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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7
National Academy of Design

The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.

Education
8
Artpace Inc (Audit)

Artpace san antonio is a nonprofit residency program which supports texas, national, and international artists in the creation of new art. see schedule o for continuation.

Arts & Culture
9
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
10
Museum of Latin American Art

The specific purpose of this corporation is to: expand knowledge and appreciation of modern and contemporary latin american tine art that has been created since world war ii; to operate a museum; to collect and display latin american…

Arts & Culture
11
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
12
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Mexico Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Intertribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council. 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

203 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. 203 of the 318 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.

10
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
41
Early backer (in before they grew)
199/203
Grantees still filing
132/203
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ROCKERFELLER PHILANTHROPY ASSOCIATES: $85,006,206 · OtherROCKERFELLER PHILANTHROPY ASSOCIATESFIDELITY CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION: $12,344,782 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION+114 more: $20,649,474 · Other+114 moreMUSEUM ASSOCIATES: $8,094,900 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM ASSOCIATESTHE CENTER FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH AND SOCIAL CHANGE INC: $6,386,500 · Arts & CultureTHE CENTER FOR EC…DEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC: $1,051,400 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · Arts & CultureTYPE MEDIA CENTER INC: $958,400 · Arts & Culture+41 more: $10,653,469 · Arts & Culture+41 moreGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $13,000,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN…CAVE CANEM FOUNDATION INC: $1,425,000 · EducationCAVE CANEM…KERES CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER: $780,000 · Education+16 more: $1,450,831 · Education+16 moreAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $10,500,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $86,000 · PhilanthropyINSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES: $620,000 · InternationalMIDDLE EAST CULTURAL AND CHARITABLE SOCIETY INC: $552,600 · InternationalMIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $511,200 · InternationalA JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE: $500,000 · InternationalWords Without Borders Inc: $175,000 · International+1 more: $60,000 · InternationalTIDES CENTER: $911,900 · Human ServicesSEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC: $554,800 · Human ServicesJACOBIN FOUNDATION LTD: $460,000 · Human ServicesTHE FOOD DEPOT: $104,300 · Human Services+1 more: $20,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIC INNOVATION IN: $1,000,000 · Community ImprovementTHUNDER VALLEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COR: $200,000 · Community Improvement501(C)PA: $100,000 · Community Improvement+2 more: $83,880 · Community Improvement
Other$118,000,462Arts & Culture$28,144,669Education$16,655,831Philanthropy$10,586,000International$2,418,800Human Services$2,051,000Community Improvement$1,383,880

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $13,000,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMUSEUM ASSOCIATES: $8,094,900 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH AND SOCIAL CHANGE INC: $6,386,500 over 5y, 42% of budgetCAVE CANEM FOUNDATION INC: $1,425,000 over 5y, 23% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION: $1,080,000 over 4y, 9.7% of budgetDEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC: $1,051,400 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetMUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIC INNOVATION IN: $1,000,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTYPE MEDIA CENTER INC: $958,400 over 3y, 14% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $911,900 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEO DE LAS AMERICAS: $862,800 over 1y, 60% of budgetCOPPER CANYON PRESS: $840,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetRADIUS BOOKS INC: $823,000 over 4y, 30% of budgetKERES CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER: $780,000 over 4y, 7.6% of budgetIBEROAMERICANA UNIVERSITY PENOAC: $775,000 over 4y, 77% of budgetTRUTHOUT: $700,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetDENVER ART MUSEUM: $692,712 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES: $620,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetNEW MEXICO ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $600,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $581,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMenil Foundation Inc: $580,338 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetGRAYWOLF PRESS: $580,000 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON: $568,522 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC: $554,800 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetMIDDLE EAST CULTURAL AND CHARITABLE SOCIETY INC: $552,600 over 5y, 33% of budgetMIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $511,200 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetA JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE: $500,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetDIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $497,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetJACOBIN FOUNDATION LTD: $460,000 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetAMON CARTER MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART: $445,050 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetYOUNG CHICAGO AUTHORS: $390,500 over 5y, 10% of budgetINTERTRIBAL SINKYONE WILDERNESS COUNCIL: $377,270 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetDallas Museum of Art: $350,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF BOSQUE DEL APACHE NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE: $328,100 over 5y, 77% of budgetPEN AMERICAN CENTER INC: $325,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCONTIGO IMMIGRANT JUSTICE: $324,700 over 3y, 22% of budgetNATIONAL POETRY SERIES INC: $300,000 over 3y, 28% of budgetKCRW FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSOUTHWEST RESEARCH & INFORMATION CENTER: $295,000 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetNational Gallery of Art: $263,650 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $260,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $251,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress: $250,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetARCHIPELAGO BOOKS INC: $236,000 over 3y, 9.7% of budgetNORTH DAKOTA MUSEUM OF ART: $205,200 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetNEBRASKA ART ASSOCIATION: $200,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHUNDER VALLEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COR: $200,000 over 2y, 1.5% 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.

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.

Santa Fe Community Fo…Thornburg FoundationAlbuquerque Community…Pnm Tnmp FoundationMarshall L and Perrin…Common Counsel Founda…New Mexico Community …Con Alma Health Found…The Abeles FoundationNancy Ann Mellen Foun…The Frost FoundationAmalgamated Charitabl…
Santa Fe Community FoundationNM72.4× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Santa Fe Community Foundation · Thornburg Foundation · Albuquerque Community Foundation · Pnm Tnmp Foundation · Marshall L and Perrine D McCune Charitable Foundation Inc · Common Counsel Foundation · New Mexico Community Foundation · Con Alma Health Foundation Inc · The Abeles Foundation · Nancy Ann Mellen Foundation · The Frost Foundation · Amalgamated 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 Lannan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lannan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Father Bill's & Mainspring Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Feeding South Florida Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Amherst College Trustees: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
47report 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, 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 Lannan Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Lannan 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 318 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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The unnamed billions
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home