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Launfal 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.

$152k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$27k
Largest
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$857kInternational$114kHuman Services$36kHealth$9kReligion$1kCrime & Legal$1kArts & Culture$250Other$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $46k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $106k
$5,900
Median grant
3
States reached
$136k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY$26,918
FORTIS COLLEGE$21,854
Individual grant recipient$15,118
UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY$14,892
WESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY$13,666
CAPELLA UNIVERSITY$13,408
PROVO COLLEGE$9,500
UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY$8,031
UTAH TECH UNIVERSITY$5,900
SOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY$5,000
GALEN COLLEGE OF NURSING$4,500
GRAND CANYON UNIVERSITY$4,000
WESTERN GOVERNORS UNIVERSITY$3,455
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY$2,000
SALT LAKE COMMUNITY COLLEGE$1,800
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 (FY19–19, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%ROSE GARDEN HUMANITARIAN FOUNDATION: $25k → 8%ROSE GARDEN HUMANITARIAN FOUNDATION: $18k → 8%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

NH
MT
MN
IL
NV
CT
UT
CO
AZ
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$838k · 21 repeat orgs$222k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
29

Total granted

$838k
$177k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+62%

Still filing today

29%
14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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
EducationInternationalHuman 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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF DENVER
    3× · 2022–2024 · $20k · revenue +4%
  • CC
    CARROLL COLLEGE
    2× · 2022–2023 · $8k · revenue +12%
  • UO
    University of New Haven
    2× · 2022–2023 · $7k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • RG
    ROSE GARDEN HUMANITARIAN FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $43k · revenue -48%
  • CA
    CHARITY ANYWHERE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
  • LH
    Lifting Hands Internationalgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $21k · revenue ×13
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
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
2
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
3
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
4
Augustana University Association

Inspired by lutheran scholarly tradition and the liberal arts, augustana provides an education of enduring worth that challenges the intellect, fosters integrity and integrates faith with learning and service in a diverse world.

Education
5
Ashland University

Ashland university, guided by our christian heritage, is a comprehensive, private university that provides a transformative learning experience, shaping graduates who work, serve and lead with integrity in their local, national, and global…

Education
6
Regent University

Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.

—
7
Fielding Graduate University

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.

—
8
University of Hartford

Dedicated to learning, personal growth, knowledge creation, and the betterment of society. the university engages students in aquiring the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to thrive in and contribute to a pluralistic, complex world.

Education
9
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
10
Excelsior University

Excelsior University provides educational opportunity to adult learners with an emphasis on those historically underrepresented in higher education. The University meets students where they are - academically and geographically, offering…

Education
11
The Governors of the University of Calgary

The University of Calgary is a global intellectual hub located in Canada's most enterprising city. In this spirited, high quality learning environment students will thrive in programs made rich by research, hands-on experiences and…

—
12
Union College

Union college is a seventh-day adventist community of higher education, inspired by jesus christ, and dedicated to empowering students to learn, serve, and lead.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of New Haven; the most unlike its peers is Zimbabwecare Inc. 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

11 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. 11 of the 55 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY: $364,662 · OtherUTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITYBRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY: $120,138 · OtherBRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITYSOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY: $111,191 · OtherSOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $42,114 · OtherCAPELLA UNIVERSITY: $33,336 · Other+39 more: $255,474 · Other+39 moreUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $20,299 · EducationWESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY: $13,666 · EducationCARROLL COLLEGE: $8,000 · EducationUniversity of New Haven: $6,557 · EducationGrand Canyon University: $6,360 · EducationMIDWIVES COLLEGE OF UTAH: $4,903 · Education+2 more: $2,360 · EducationROSE GARDEN HUMANITARIAN FOUNDATION: $43,191 · Human ServicesLifting Hands International: $20,891 · InternationalZIMBABWECARE INC: $6,910 · International
Other$926,915Education$62,145Human Services$43,191International$27,801

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLifting Hands International: $20,891 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $20,299 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY: $13,666 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARROLL COLLEGE: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of New Haven: $6,557 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGrand Canyon University: $6,360 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMIDWIVES COLLEGE OF UTAH: $4,903 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAlpine School District Foundation: $1,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern New Hampshire University: $960 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.

  • Who funds ROSE GARDEN HUMANITARIAN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Lifting Hands International ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
  • Who funds WESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CARROLL COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds ZIMBABWECARE INC ↗
  • Who funds University of New Haven ↗
  • Who funds Grand Canyon University ↗
  • Who funds MIDWIVES COLLEGE OF UTAH ↗

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.

Ihc Health Services IncUT13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ihc Health Services Inc · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Launfal Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Launfal Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • University of New Haven: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report 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, 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.

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 55 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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