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Lavin Family Foundation at a glance

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Lavin Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$90k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$90k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Health$145kYouth Development$130kEducation$15kHuman Services$10kRecreation & Sports$5k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$89,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NICKLAUS CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE$89,500
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 59% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION: $100 → 5%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $5k → 14%NICKLAUS CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE: $90k → 11%THE HOPE FOR FERTILITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%SHEPHERD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%THE BUILDERS FOUNDATION: $3k → 4%OUR NEIGHBORS CHILD: $100k → 6%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH: $5k → 7%LOVE LEO FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%BATON ROUGE YOUTH COALITION: $25k → 19%THE ELS FOR AUTISM FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%SHEPHERD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%LIGHTRIDGE HIGH SCHOOL: $5k → 4%BATON ROUGE YOUTH COALITION: $5k → 19%NICKLAUS CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE: $33k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
UT
WV
VA
DC
LA
FL
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.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$160k · 3 repeat orgs$145k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
11

Total granted

$160k
$145k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+19%

Still filing today

100%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
HealthEducationPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • NC
    Nicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation
    2× · 2023–2024 · $123k · revenue +32%
  • BR
    Baton Rouge Youth Coalition Inc
    2× · 2022–2023 · $30k · revenue +143%
  • SU
    SHEPHERD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $8k · revenue -12%

Funded once

  • ON
    OUR NEIGHBORS CHILD
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • LL
    LOVE LEO FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • EF
    ELS FOR AUTISM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +3%
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.

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Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
2
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
3
Brightfocus Foundation

Brightfocus foundation funds exceptional research worldwide to defeat alzheimer's disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma and provides expert information on these heartbreaking diseases. please refer to schedule o for a complete…

Health
4
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
5
Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation

The lustgarten foundation is the largest private funder of pancreatic cancer research in the world. see schedule o.the lustgarten foundation is boldly leading the way through hope and innovation, turning fear into action through education…

Human Services
6
Mila's Miracle Foundation

The mission of mila's miracle foundation is to find and fund paths to a cure for batten and other life-threatening neurological disorders. families in this community have been pivotal in raising the necessary funds and awareness. together,…

Health
7
Fore Hadley Foundation

The fore hadley foundation was created to drive awareness and generate funding for families and children affected by congenital diaphragmatic hernia (cdh). cdh is a rare birth defect that effects roughly 1 in every 2,500 live births per…

Philanthropy
8
Blood Cancer United Inc

Our mission is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families.

Health
9
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.

Health
10
Hugo W Moser Research Institute At Kennedy Krieger Inc

The hugo w. moser research institute at kennedy krieger, inc. (the "research institute") is an internationally recognized research facility finding answers to problems and injuries that affect a child's developing brain. researchers have…

Science & Tech
11
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Foundation
Philanthropy
12
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shepherd University Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Baton Rouge Youth Coalition 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

10 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. 10 of the 14 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Nicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation: $122,500 · PhilanthropyNicklaus Children's Health Care FoundationOUR NEIGHBORS CHILD: $100,000 · OtherOUR NEIGHBORS CHILDLOVE LEO FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherLOVE LEO FOUNDATIONLIGHTRIDGE HIGH SCHOOL: $5,000 · OtherST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH: $5,000 · Other+1 more: $2,500 · OtherBaton Rouge Youth Coalition Inc: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentBaton Rouge…ELS FOR AUTISM FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthTHE HOPE FOR FERTILITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthTHE BUILDERS FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · Health+2 more: $360 · HealthSHEPHERD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · Education
Philanthropy$122,500Other$122,500Youth Development$30,000Health$17,860Education$12,500

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 budgetNicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation: $122,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBaton Rouge Youth Coalition Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetELS FOR AUTISM FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHEPHERD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HOPE FOR FERTILITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $260 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION: $100 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Lavin Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lavin Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's 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, 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 14 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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