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Lash 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.

$45k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$311kEducation$250kReligion$141kPhilanthropy$47kArts & Culture$28kHealth$26kAnimals$25kPublic Benefit$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $36k
$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE$15,000
UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION$10,600
CONGREGATION BETH EL$10,500
Individual grant recipient$5,000
HILLEL OF SAN DIEGO$1,000
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES$1,000
USC ANNUAL FUND$500
SAN DIEGO ZOO$500
JEWISH FEDERATION OF CINCINNATI$360
Individual grant recipient$300
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 (FY18–21, $711) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 65% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $461 → 14%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $250 → 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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$859k · 18 repeat orgs$20k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
21

Total granted

$859k
$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+35%

Still filing today

72%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
HealthEducationArts & CultureAnimalsPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
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

  • US
    UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2025 · $228k · revenue +28%
  • UB
    US-Mexico Border Philanthropy Partnership
    2× · 2022–2023 · $34k · revenue +408%
  • PC
    PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE
    3× · 2019–2022 · $31k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • SF
    SEAL-NSW FAMILY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue -1%
  • SD
    SAN DIEGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -80%
  • PP
    PANDA PAWS RESCUE
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue -42%
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
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
2
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
3
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
4
Ucsf Health Community Hospitals Fka Saint Francis Memorial Hospital

Ucsf health community hospital's mission statement is caring, healing, teaching, and discovering.

Health
5
Sutter Bay Medical Foundation

Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…

Health
6
Usc Arcadia Hospital Foundation

Mission statement the mission of usc arcadia hospital foundation educates and inspires the community to generously support quality medical care at usc arcadia hospital.

Health
7
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
A T Still University of Health Sciences

A.T. Still University of Health Sciences serves as a learning-centered university dedicated to preparing highly competent professionals through innovative academic programs. The University is committed to continuing its osteopathic…

Education
10
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Uc San Diego Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Uta 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

29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 44 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
22/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAN DIEGO ARMED SERVICES YMCA: $308,499 · OtherSAN DIEGO ARMED SERVICES YMCACONGREGATION BETH EL: $115,510 · OtherCONGREGATION BETH ELHILLEL OF SAN DIEGO: $31,595 · OtherHILLEL OF SAN DIEGO+25 more: $55,557 · Other+25 moreUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $228,097 · EducationUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATIONPHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE: $31,000 · EducationPHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATH…+1 more: $2,000 · EducationUS-Mexico Border Philanthropy Partnership: $33,889 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $2,000 · InternationalTHEATER & ARTS FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY DBA LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE: $29,800 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $200 · Arts & CultureFOUNDATION FOR ANIMAL CARE & EDUCATION: $23,200 · Science & TechPADRES FOUNDATION: $13,100 · Philanthropy+2 more: $660 · PhilanthropyRIVER GARDEN HEBREW HOME FOR THE AGED INC: $2,300 · HealthPROJECT ANGEL FOOD: $544 · HealthNYU LANGONE HOSPITALS: $500 · HealthLUCKY DUCK FOUNDATION: $500 · HealthSCRIPPS HEALTH: $300 · Health
Other$511,161Education$261,097International$35,889Arts & Culture$30,000Science & Tech$23,200Philanthropy$13,760Health$4,144

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $228,097 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUS-Mexico Border Philanthropy Partnership: $33,889 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetHILLEL OF SAN DIEGO: $31,595 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetPHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE: $31,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHEATER & ARTS FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY DBA LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE: $29,800 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR ANIMAL CARE & EDUCATION: $23,200 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCENTER FOR HEARING AND COMMUNICATION: $14,096 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPADRES FOUNDATION: $13,100 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSEAL-NSW FAMILY FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS OF CA: $2,950 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRIVER GARDEN HEBREW HOME FOR THE AGED INC: $2,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY OF SLEEP MEDICINE: $1,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SAN DIEGO INC: $1,650 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPANDA PAWS RESCUE: $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL FOOD: $544 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNYU LANGONE HOSPITALS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican College of Chest Physicians: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUCKY DUCK FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN OSTEOPATHIC FOUNDATION: $475 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $461 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUTA FOUNDATION: $300 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMary's Mercy Center: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCRIPPS HEALTH: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST: $200 over 1y, 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.

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.

Sempra FoundationJewish Community Foun…The San Diego Foundat…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Pfizer Foundation…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…
Sempra FoundationCA19.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sempra Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The San Diego Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving 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 Lash Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lash Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 Lash Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Lash 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 44 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 camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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where grant money is based, and what stays home