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Lb Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
123
Grants FY2025still arriving
22
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Religion$2.9MHuman Services$1.9MHealth$1.2MHousing & Shelter$1.0MFood & Nutrition$767kInternational$560kArts & Culture$335kAnimals$335kOther$0
02FY2025 · 123 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $70k
  • $10k–50k92 grants · $2.0M
  • $50k–250k17 grants · $1.0M
$20,000
Median grant
22
States reached
$51M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOVE OF CHRIST FELLOWSHIP$100,000
WIPE OUT KIDS CANCER$100,000
NEW LIFE FOR YOUTH INC$100,000
COLLECTIVE MINISTRIES INC$75,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE$50,000
EAST COUNTY TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER$50,000
GIVE MENTOR LOVE SPONSORSHIP$50,000
CORE FOUNDATION$50,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
LANAI KINAOLE INC$50,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
FIND FEED & RESTORE$50,000
MARANATHA CHAPEL$50,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$50,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $355k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 70% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SOUTH FLORIDA SANCTUARY: $10k → 11%KINGS DAUGHTER MINISTRY: $10k → 12%PARK COUNTY SENIOR COALITION: $30k → 8%NEW CREATION VA INC: $30k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN NV: $10k → 13%KING'S DAUGHTERS MINISTRY: $10k → 12%CONTINUE MISSION: $25k → 6%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN NV: $10k → 13%KING'S DAUGHTERS MINISTRY: $10k → 12%CONTINUE MISSION: $25k → 6%JOURNEYS THE ROAD HOME: $10k → 14%KING'S DAUGHTERS MINISTRY: $10k → 12%CONTINUE MISSION: $15k → 6%ST ALEXIUS FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%SAN DIEGO YOUTH SERVICES: $20k → 11%TRANSFAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES: $20k → 11%AGNUS DEI FOUNDATION: $20k → 11%BLISSFUL SEEDS: $40k → 11%BLISSFUL SEEDS: $40k → 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

WA
MT
IL
WI
NY
OR
NV
OH
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
DE
AZ
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
GA
TX
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.

53%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.7M · 66 repeat orgs$5.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against +0% for those funded once.

66 repeat relationships: 37 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 83 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

66
170

Total granted

$5.7M
$3.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+0%

Still filing today

55%
18%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterHealthReligionAnimalsPublic BenefitOther
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

  • AE
    ARIS ELIJAH PUGAL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $300k · revenue +810% · 99% of their budget
  • TJ
    THE JIR FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $150k · revenue +33% · 34% of their budget
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    3× · 2023–2025 · $140k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • HC
    HAWAII CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue -20%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • NL
    NEW LIFE
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
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
Victory Mission

To operate and maintain a rescue mission at Salinas, California provide Job training

Human Services
2
Samaritan House Inc

Samaritan House is committed to fostering personal safety, growth, and self-sufficiency in adults and their children through freedom from domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking and removing their risks of homelessness.

Housing & Shelter
3
New Door Opportunities

Feeding the homeless population in san d

Food & Nutrition
4
El Shaddais Refuge Incorporated

Residential recovery residence and rehabilitation for Substance Use Disorder - Alcohol & Drug Addiction.

Health
5
House of Hope

Assisting and housing females in recovery

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6
New Covenant Safe Haven

New Covenant Safe Haven is a Christian-based organization committed to uplifting and supporting individuals and families living in poverty within our community. Our primary mission is to provide essential services such as temporary shelter…

Human Services
7
Crisis House

The mission of crisis house is to respond immediately to stop the cycle of domestic violence and homelessness and to connect families and individuals to crucial resources that empower them to renew their lives.

Human Services
8
Las Vegas Rescue Mission

Through feeding the hungry, support, and care, we provide redemption, recovery, and re-entry to the homeless, addicted, and those in need.

Human Services
9
Alpha Project for the Homeless

Alpha Project for the Homeless (Alpha Project) was organized in February 1987 under the Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation Law for public and charitable purposes. The mission of Alpha Project is to empower individuals, families, and…

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10
God Provides Ministry

To provide free food to homeless, veterans, and others

Food & Nutrition
11
Recoverychick

religious

Human Services
12
Shelter Care Resources

Shelter Care Resources provides basic necessities to low income, homeless and foster families. We operate a food pantry, a clothing and hygiene resource center, and help individuals who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.Our mission…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Diego Youth Services; the most unlike its peers is Journey to the Center of Hope. 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

104 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. 104 of the 319 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
103/104
Grantees still filing
53/104
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ARIS ELIJAH PUGAL FOUNDATION: $300,000 · OtherLOVE OF CHRIST FELLOWSHIP: $260,000 · Other+148 more: $6,903,969 · Other+148 moreJoy to Kids Inc: $225,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $140,000 · ReligionINDIAN HILLS CHRISTIAN CAMP: $70,000 · ReligionHOPE ON THE HARD ROAD INC: $40,000 · ReligionGREATER EUROPE MISSION: $25,000 · ReligionCHESTERFIELD FOOD BANK OUTREACH CENTER: $20,000 · ReligionST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INC: $20,000 · Religion+2 more: $30,000 · ReligionEAST COUNTY TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER: $250,000 · Housing & ShelterEmergency Shelter Inc: $50,000 · Housing & ShelterFind Feed & Restore Inc: $50,000 · Housing & ShelterSAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION INC: $40,000 · Housing & ShelterUSA CARES INC: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterOPERATION HOPE-NORTH COUNTY INC: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterSoldiersvillage Inc: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterREFUGE FOR WOMEN INC: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterFORKIDS INC: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterRebound Foundation Inc: $20,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterLanai Kinaole Inc: $130,000 · HealthCancer Angels of San Diego: $70,000 · HealthJessie Rees Foundation: $60,000 · HealthOPERATION SAMAHAN INC: $45,000 · HealthVIP NEUROREHABILITATION CENTER: $40,000 · HealthLUCKY DUCK FOUNDATION: $30,000 · HealthHORSES & HEROES INC: $25,000 · HealthA NEW LEAF: $20,000 · HealthKaleidoscope Comprehensive Care: $20,000 · HealthFUND RECOVERY: $20,000 · HealthBLISSFUL SEEDS INC: $80,000 · Human ServicesCONTINUE MISSION: $65,000 · Human ServicesCollege Area Pregnancy Services Inc: $40,000 · Human ServicesThe Kings Daughters Ministry: $40,000 · Human ServicesPARK COUNTY SENIOR COALITION INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesNEW CREATION VA INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF SAN DIEGO: $25,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $20,000 · Human ServicesTransFamily Support Services: $20,000 · Human ServicesAGNUS DEI FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Human ServicesSAN DIEGO YOUTH SERVICES: $20,000 · Human ServicesFavor International Inc: $125,000 · InternationalThe Charis Project: $110,000 · InternationalSERVANT PROJECT INTERNATIONAL: $50,560 · InternationalCOULD YOU: $20,000 · InternationalJerry Ambrose Veterans Council of Mohave County: $125,000 · Public BenefitVETERANS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH COUNTY: $40,000 · Public BenefitACTIVE VALOR: $40,000 · Public BenefitOPERATION HORSES HEAL INC: $35,000 · Public BenefitSUPPORT THE ENLISTED PROJECT INC: $20,000 · Public Benefit
Other$7,463,969Religion$570,000Housing & Shelter$550,000Health$460,000Human Services$390,000International$305,560Public Benefit$260,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetARIS ELIJAH PUGAL FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 3y, 99% of budgetEAST COUNTY TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER: $250,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetJoy to Kids Inc: $225,000 over 5y, 95% of budgetNEW LIFE FOR YOUTH INC: $200,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetAGAPE CHURCH OF SAN DIEGO: $152,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetTHE JIR FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 4y, 34% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $140,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOLONIAL HEIGHTS FOOD PANTRY INC: $140,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetLanai Kinaole Inc: $130,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetJerry Ambrose Veterans Council of Mohave County: $125,000 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetFavor International Inc: $125,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetThe Charis Project: $110,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetSAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA: $110,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $100,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGleaners of Clackamas County Inc: $80,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBLISSFUL SEEDS INC: $80,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetFriends Involved in Dog Outreach: $70,000 over 4y, 9.3% of budgetCancer Angels of San Diego: $70,000 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetINDIAN HILLS CHRISTIAN CAMP: $70,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetKINGMAN AREA FOOD BANK: $70,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetStandUp for Kids: $67,906 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCONTINUE MISSION: $65,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetJessie Rees Foundation: $60,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMAMA'S KITCHEN: $60,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetJACARANDA RISING: $60,000 over 2y, 66% of budgetNew Entra Casa Corporation: $60,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetSan Mateo County Health Foundation: $55,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetSERVANT PROJECT INTERNATIONAL: $50,560 over 3y, 40% of budgetANY BODY CAN YOUTH FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetEmergency Shelter Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCORE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetTHE HONOR FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFind Feed & Restore Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCANDLELIGHTERS OF THE EL PASO AREA: $50,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetOPERATION SAMAHAN INC: $45,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSIDE BY SIDE CORP: $45,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetCollege Area Pregnancy Services Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetHOPE ON THE HARD ROAD INC: $40,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetSEPSIS ALLIANCE INC: $40,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetThe Kings Daughters Ministry: $40,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetVETERANS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH COUNTY: $40,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetVIP NEUROREHABILITATION CENTER: $40,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetSAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetACTIVE VALOR: $40,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetAGRARIAN INSTITUTE: $40,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetOPERATION HORSES HEAL INC: $35,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetHusky Education And Rescue Team Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 34% 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 ARIS ELIJAH PUGAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds EAST COUNTY TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Joy to Kids Inc ↗
  • Who funds NEW LIFE FOR YOUTH INC ↗
  • Who funds AGAPE CHURCH OF SAN DIEGO ↗
  • Who funds THE JIR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds COLONIAL HEIGHTS FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds Lanai Kinaole Inc ↗
  • Who funds Jerry Ambrose Veterans Council of Mohave County ↗
  • Who funds Favor International Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Charis Project ↗
  • Who funds SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA ↗
  • Who funds HAWAII CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
  • Who funds WIPE OUT KIDS' CANCER INC ↗
  • Who funds Gleaners of Clackamas County Inc ↗
  • Who funds BLISSFUL SEEDS INC ↗
  • Who funds Friends Involved in Dog Outreach ↗
  • Who funds Cancer Angels of San Diego ↗
  • Who funds INDIAN HILLS CHRISTIAN CAMP ↗
  • Who funds KINGMAN AREA FOOD BANK ↗

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.

Rancho Santa Fe FoundationCA30.8× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · Pratt Memorial Fund · Alliance Healthcare Foundation · The Parker Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank · Sempra Foundation · Leichtag 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 Lb Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lb Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    6get no government money at all
    27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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

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    How do I get to Lb Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Lb Charitable 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 319 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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