· Private foundation
Lappe-Bowman J B for B-L Fdn-Char Tr
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $43k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $190k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND | $75,000 |
| WESTERN PA SCHOOL FOR BLIND CHILDREN | $65,000 |
| THE SEEING EYE | $50,000 |
| GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION | $16,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $16,000 |
| CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH | $10,000 |
| HELEN KELLER SERVICES FOR THE BLIND | $7,500 |
| PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND | $7,500 |
| NATIONAL BRAILLE PRESS | $7,500 |
| PILOTS TO THE RESCUE | $5,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $790k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 13% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
12 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 95% 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
- GEGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC5× · 2021–2025 · $440k · revenue +34%
- TSTHE SEEING EYE INC5× · 2021–2025 · $250k · revenue +12%
- GDGUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC5× · 2021–2025 · $77k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- USUNITED STATES ASSOCIATION OF BLIND ATHLETES INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue +48%
- NYNEW YORK INSTITUTE FOR SPECIAL EDUCATIONone grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue +22%
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 assist disabled veterans, active military personnel, first responders with disabilities, and those who have served our country honorably to live with dignity and independence. america's vetdogs trains and places guide dogs for…
Visions is a 98-year-old nonprofit vision rehabilitation and social service organization that trains low income people of all ages experiencing blindness and severe vision loss to lead independent and active lives at work, in their homes…
Miami lighthouse through education, training, research, vision enhancement and as a center for learning provides hope, confidence, and independence for people of all ages. for nearly a century, miami lighthouse for the blind has been…
To empower our clients to live independently, unencumbered by the challanges of daily living associated with medical disabilities. we match each client with a service dog that meets their individual needs. it is our goal to be flexible…
Can do canines transforms people's lives by creating mutually beneficial partnerships with specially trained dogs.
To assist people who are blind or visually impaired to achieve their highest level of independence by providing vision rehabilitation services and offering integrated competitive jobs throughout all levels of the association including…
The mission of the american foundation for the blind afb is to create equal opportunities and expand possibilities through advocacy thought leadership and strategic partnerships.
Integrating the blind into society
The mission of lighthouse of collier, inc. is to foster independence and enhance the quality of life for the blind, visually impaired and their caregivers.
To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).
To increase the independence, security, equality of opportunity, and quality of life for all blind and visually impaired people.
The society enhances independence, empowers individuals and enriches the lives of people who are visually impaired or blind.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Seeing Eye Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Animal Medical Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 16 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 GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds THE SEEING EYE INC ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds VIA VISUALLY IMPAIRED ADVANCEMENT ↗
- Who funds THE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BRAILLE PRESS INC ↗
- Who funds PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds Helen Keller Services ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES ASSOCIATION OF BLIND ATHLETES INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK INSTITUTE FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds PILOTS TO THE RESCUE INC ↗
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: Reader's Digest Partners for Sight Foundation · The Gibney Family Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Lappe-Bowman J B for B-L Fdn-Char Tr 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Perkins School for the Blind — 7% of income from government
- National Braille Press Inc — 0% 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.