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Larry a Modin 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.

$19k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Human Services$36kPublic Benefit$18kHealth$17kArts & Culture$16kCrime & Legal$7kAnimals$7kInternational$5kPhilanthropy$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$350k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MIZELL SENIOR CENTER$3,500
LAKE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$3,500
SENIOR ADVOCATES OF THE DESERT$2,500
PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION$1,500
GUIDE DOGS OF THE DESERT$1,500
LEADERHSIP INSTITUTE$1,200
MEDICINS SAN FRONTIERESDRS WO BORDERS$1,200
JUDICIAL WATCH$1,200
THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION$1,200
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$1,200
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.

area typical 10%DESERT BEST FRIENDS CLOSET: $1k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$96k · 13 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
6

Total granted

$96k
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+17%

Still filing today

62%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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 ServicesPublic BenefitHealthCrime & LegalOther

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

  • MC
    MIZELL CENTER
    7× · 2019–2025 · $18k · revenue +26%
  • SA
    SENIOR ADVOCATES OF THE DESERT
    9× · 2017–2025 · $14k · revenue +112%
  • LC
    Lake County Historical Society
    6× · 2020–2025 · $13k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
  • DB
    DESERT BEST FRIENDS CLOSET
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +17%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $1k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Senior Advocacy Network

Free legal services to seniors.

Crime & Legal
2
Elder Law & Advocacy

Elder Law & Advocacy (Elder Law) is a nonprofit organization incorporated on December 11, 1978 under the laws of the State of California. Elder Laws mission is to protect seniors by providing legal advice and advocacy. Elder Law serves…

Crime & Legal
3
National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care Inc

To enable the access and choice of america's seniors in their housing and care by providing data, analytics and connections that bring together investors and providers in the sector.

Human Services
4
Disability Rights Arizona

DRAZ is a non-profit law firm that assists Arizonans with disabilities to promote and protect their legal rights to independence, justice, and equality.

Civil Rights
5
Liberty Justice Center

To advance economic and social liberties and a free enterprise society through strategic litigation, training, communication, activism and research. in addition, the center will train law students, lawyers and policy activists in the…

Crime & Legal
6
Center for Health Care Rights

Center for Health Care Rights provides free, unbiased information, education, and assistance to consumers so that they can better understand and make decisions about their Medicare coverage. We do this through one-on-one Medicare…

Health
7
Senior Access

Senior Access's mission is to help Marin's older and disabled adults remain independent and part of the community for as long as possible.

8
Legal Services of Northern California

To empower the poor to identify and defeat the causes and effects of poverty within their communities by providing high quality civil legal services to the poor, seniors, and persons with disabilities in over twenty three counties in n.…

Crime & Legal
9
Lakeshore Legal Aid

Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.

Crime & Legal
10
Disability Rights California

Drc works in partnership with disabled people to defend rights, advance opportunities, grow power, and expand public support for disability justice in california and beyond.

Civil Rights
11
Donor Alliance Inc

Donor Alliance saves and heals lives through organ and tissue donation. Donor Alliance is one of 55 Federally designated, non-profit organ procurement organizations serving Colorado and most of Wyoming. Additionally, it is a member of the…

Health
12
Colorado Springs Independence Center

We work with people with disabilities, their families and the community to create independence so that all may thrive.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Pacific Legal Foundation. 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

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 21 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MIZELL CENTER — $18,300 · OtherMIZELL CENTERLake County Historical Society — $13,000 · OtherLake County Historical SocietyHEIFER INTERNATIONAL — $8,400 · OtherHEIFER INTERNATIONALAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY — $7,200 · OtherAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETYGUIDE DOGS OF THE DESERT — $6,900 · OtherGUIDE DOGS OF THE DESERTPROJECT VERITAS — $3,200 · OtherMEDICINS SAN FRONTIERESDRS WO BORDE — $3,000 · Other+6 more — $7,200 · Other+6 moreLeadership Institute — $6,400 · Public BenefitLeadership Institu…JUDICIAL WATCH INC — $6,000 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL WATCH INCTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $5,400 · Public BenefitTHE HERITAGE FOUND…SENIOR ADVOCATES OF THE DESERT — $14,400 · Human ServicesSENIOR ADVOCATES …Charity Navigator — $1,500 · Human ServicesCharity NavigatorDESERT BEST FRIENDS CLOSET — $1,200 · Human ServicesDESERT BEST FRIEN…Pacific Legal Foundation — $7,100 · Crime & LegalDAP Health Inc — $600 · Health
Other$67,200Public Benefit$17,800Human Services$17,100Crime & Legal$7,100Health$600

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMIZELL CENTER — $18,300 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSENIOR ADVOCATES OF THE DESERT — $14,400 over 9y, 5.3% of budgetLake County Historical Society — $13,000 over 6y, 5.1% of budgetPacific Legal Foundation — $7,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDE DOGS OF THE DESERT — $6,900 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLeadership Institute — $6,400 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $6,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $5,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT VERITAS — $3,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCharity Navigator — $1,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetStroke Recovery Center dba Neuro Vitality Center — $600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDAP Health Inc — $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 MIZELL CENTER
  • Who funds SENIOR ADVOCATES OF THE DESERT
  • Who funds Lake County Historical Society
  • Who funds Pacific Legal Foundation
  • Who funds GUIDE DOGS OF THE DESERT
  • Who funds Leadership Institute
  • Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC
  • Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds PROJECT VERITAS
  • Who funds Charity Navigator
  • Who funds DESERT BEST FRIENDS CLOSET
  • Who funds Stroke Recovery Center dba Neuro Vitality Center
  • Who funds DAP Health 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.

The Champions Volunteer FoundationCA15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Champions Volunteer Foundation · Inland Empire Community Foundation · Houston Family Foundation · The Coeta and Donald Barker Foundation · Bighorn Golf Club Charities Inc · HN and Frances C Berger Foundation · 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 Larry a Modin 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.

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no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your 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
    2report 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, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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