How much did LB FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

LB FOUNDATION reported 21 grants totaling $3,912,147 in its FY2025 IRS filing.

LB FOUNDATION

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· Private foundation

LB FOUNDATION

This foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications.

$3.9M

Granted FY2025

Grants

Communities

$1.2M

Largest

01What you fund

0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.

Human Services$2.6MCrime & Legal$2.2MSocial Science$1.4MEducation$1.0MYouth Development$227kFood & Nutrition$151kHealth$33kOther$218k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

equipment

2021

renovationinstallation

2022

equipment

2023

capitalmill

2025

capitalbest skillsbel-aire partnerspoe millmill achievementmill villagevillage ministries

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k2 grants · $9k
$10k–50k8 grants · $243k
$50k–250k7 grants · $941k
$250k+4 grants · $2.7M

$86,025

Median grant

States reached

$73M

Total assets

Largest grants

FAMILY EFFECT$1,216,850
SOTERIA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT$752,000
MILL VILLAGE MINISTRIES$500,000
TIME SERVED$250,000
SOTERIA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT$246,000
MILL VILLAGE MINISTRIES$154,445
BEST SKILLS ACADEMY$150,000
POE MILL ACHIEVEMENT CENTER$110,450
FOSTERING GREAT IDEAS$100,000
BEL-AIRE COMMUNITY PARTNERS$94,100
BEL-AIRE COMMUNITY PARTNERS$86,025
BEAUTY MARKS$47,443
SAFE HARBOR INC$41,855
COLLEGE UNBOUND$37,771
GIRLUP GVL$35,640

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 12%. 5% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$7.5M · 14 repeat orgs$452k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$7.5M

$330k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+155%

+295%

Still filing today

100%

71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $122k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalSocial ScienceFood & NutritionOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

SC
SOTERIA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
5× · 2021–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +155% · 35% of their budget
FE
FAMILY EFFECT
4× · 2021–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +58%
MV
MILL VILLAGE MINISTRIES
4× · 2022–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +67%

Funded once

BC
BETHLEHEM CENTERgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $101k · revenue +937%
JR
JASMINE ROAD INCgraduated
one grant, 2024 · $78k · revenue +188%
RO
RIPPLE OF ONEgraduated
one grant, 2024 · $69k · revenue +295%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Family Crisis Center Inc

The family crisis center provides intervention and advocacy for victims of sexual assault and domestic violence. this is done with counselors, court advocates and 24 hour shelter for victims and their children.

Human Services

Suncoast Center Inc

Strengthening, protecting and restoring lives for a healthy community.

Health

Family Development Center

To prevent child abuse and/or neglect.

Human Services

Hope Center for Kids Inc

To faithfully inspire hope in the lives of youth and children through education, employability, collaboration and faith.

Youth Development

Southeastern Behavioral Health Care

Mental health services

Health

Mercy House Living Centers

To be the leader in ending homelessness by providing a unique system of dignified housing alternatives, programs, and supportive services.

Housing & Shelter

Family Services Center Inc

Family services center's mission is to provide a family-focused holistic approach to empowerment and self-sufficiency in an effort to decrease multi-generational poverty while creating healthier families and stronger communities.

Human Services

Family & Children's Council

To prevent child abuse and strengthen families.

Crime & Legal

The Saville Center Inc

To facilitate the protection, prevention and healing of victims of child abuse and to promote the health of families in our community.

Human Services

Sumter County Commission On Alcohol

Empowering people in sumter county sc to live free from substance abuse through a continuum of high quality services.

Health

Beyond Housing

We strive to serve the community by constructing and rehabilitating homes for affordable homeownership, providing new housing rentals for low to moderate wealth families in south carolina, and providing services that aid in all aspects of…

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Sunflower House Inc

To see safe children thriving in nurturing families and communities

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope Center for Children and the most unlike its peers is The Family Effect. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

21 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

21/21

Grantees still filing

20/21

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Human Services$2,599,131Crime & Legal$2,246,140Social Science$1,425,235Education$1,021,077Youth Development$225,492Other$218,465Food & Nutrition$150,732Health$32,519

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

United Way of Greenville County IncSC22.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Greenville County Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Sisk Foundation · Scsymmes Foundation · Charity Ball Board of Greenville · The Jolley Foundation · Dabo's All in Team Foundation · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · Hathaway Family Foundation Inc · Scansource Charitable Foundation · Ge Foundation · The Gilreath Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation LB FOUNDATION funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: BEST SKILLS ACADEMY.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~22 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 4 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 5.0× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 842046356 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on BEST SKILLS ACADEMY, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 22 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 68% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to Lb Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Lb Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

LB FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

21 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Lb Foundation?

More from the funding graph

LB FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

21 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Lb Foundation?

More from the funding graph