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Lavelle Family 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.

$300k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2025
11
Organizations funded FY2024
27%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$187,500
Organizations funded a year
6 to 19
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
7
Total assets, FY2025
$4.9M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 27% of the organizations Lavelle Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthAnimalsEnvironmentArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther
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
FY2025still arriving8$300k13%
FY202411$300k27%
FY202316$403k44%
FY202219$303k68%
FY202113$227k77%
FY20206$121kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$669kHuman Services$281kAnimals$213kEducation$136kArts & Culture$75kReligion$72kInternational$35kFood & Nutrition$30kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
MO
MD
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 29 grantees
All grantees of Lavelle Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Craig Hospital Foundation$650,00041%
Canine Companions for Independence Inc$200,00040%
Red Wiggler Foundation Inc$152,00063%
Green City Force Inc$135,00051%
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College$55,00050%
Ukrainian San Antonio$50,00018%
US Catholic Sisters Against Human Trafficking$35,00034%
Silicon Valley Creates$25,00011%
Sisters Place Inc$20,00021%
Prospect Park Alliance Inc$20,00020%
The Humane Society of Austin & Travis County Inc$12,50020%
Globalgiving Foundation Inc$10,00010%
Cpath Cerebral Palsy Awareness Transition Hope$10,00022%
Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc$10,00012%
Mon Valley Initiative$10,00010%
Second Chance Inc$10,00020%
Creating Sunshine Forever$8,0003n/a
Ranger Road$5,00012%
Dig Deep$5,0001n/a
Sonoma County Fire Relief$3,50016%
California Fire Foundation$3,50010%
Pittsburgh Mercy Health System Inc$3,50020%
Allegheny Land Trust$3,00010%
Ocean Conservancy$2,50010%
St Anselms Abbey School Inc$2,0001n/a
Mount Carmel Guild Behavioral Health$1,50010%
The Intersection$1,00010%
Catholic Community Services of Utah$5001n/a
Hounds in Pounds Inc$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($209k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lavelle Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCraig Hospital Foundation: $650,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetCanine Companions for Independence Inc: $200,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRed Wiggler Foundation Inc: $152,000 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetGreen City Force Inc: $135,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetPresident-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College: $55,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUkrainian San Antonio: $50,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetUS Catholic Sisters Against Human Trafficking: $35,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetSilicon Valley Creates: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSisters Place Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetProspect Park Alliance Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Humane Society of Austin & Travis County Inc: $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGlobalgiving Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCpath Cerebral Palsy Awareness Transition Hope: $10,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetVolunteer Florida Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMon Valley Initiative: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSecond Chance Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRanger Road: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSonoma County Fire Relief: $3,500 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetCalifornia Fire Foundation: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPittsburgh Mercy Health System Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAllegheny Land Trust: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOcean Conservancy: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMount Carmel Guild Behavioral Health: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Intersection: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHounds in Pounds Inc: $500 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 25.

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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 Pittsburgh FoundationPA14.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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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About Lavelle Family Foundation

How much does Lavelle Family Foundation give?
Lavelle Family Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $300,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 19 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Lavelle Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (40%), Human Services (17%), Animals (13%).
Who are Lavelle Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Craig Hospital Foundation ($650k), Canine Companions for Independence Inc ($200k), Red Wiggler Foundation Inc ($152k).
Does Lavelle Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Lavelle Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Lavelle Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pittsburgh Foundation, Hillman Family Foundations, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
Where is Lavelle Family Foundation based?
Lavelle Family Foundation is based in PA.

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 40 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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