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Lathamcares Colleague Assistance Fund

Lathamcares offers short-term financial relief to latham & watkins llp colleagues and affiliates facing significant and/or unforeseen hardships, such as medical emergencies, natural disasters, or other crises beyond their control.

$151k
Granted FY2020
7
Itemized grants FY2020
7
Organizations funded FY2020
100%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Itemized, FY2020
$125k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2020
$11,637
Largest grant, FY2020
$45,500
Organizations funded a year
2 to 7
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
3
Total assets, FY2020
$844k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 100% of the organizations Lathamcares Colleague Assistance Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20
InternationalFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentHealthCrime & LegalCivil 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20207$125k100%
FY20192$25k50%
FY20175$569kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Public Safety & Disaster$249kFood & Nutrition$196kCrime & Legal$155kInternational$103kPhilanthropy$76kCivil Rights$24k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lathamcares Colleague Assistance Fund supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $155,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLone Star Legal Aid: $150,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $125,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $77,862 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for Puerto Rico Inc: $76,475 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFeeding America: $45,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProject Hope - the People-To-People Health Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Global FoodBanking Network: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRole Model Movement Inc (NFP): $11,637 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAdventist Health SystemWest: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSafer Foundation: $5,418 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAACP Foundation: $5,415 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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 Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC10.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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How do I get to Lathamcares Colleague Assistance Fund?

Find your warmest path to Lathamcares Colleague Assistance Fund 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.

About Lathamcares Colleague Assistance Fund

How much does Lathamcares Colleague Assistance Fund give?
Lathamcares Colleague Assistance Fund reported 7 itemized grants totaling $125,058, out of $151,058 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does Lathamcares Colleague Assistance Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (31%), Food & Nutrition (24%), Crime & Legal (19%).
Who are Lathamcares Colleague Assistance Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($155k), Lone Star Legal Aid ($150k), The Houston Food Bank ($125k).
Does Lathamcares Colleague Assistance Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Lathamcares Colleague Assistance Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Network for Good, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Lathamcares Colleague Assistance Fund based?
Lathamcares Colleague Assistance Fund is based in CA.

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 15 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $174k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2020, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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