How much did LEGO COMMUNITY FUND US INC grant in FY2024?

Arts & Culture$3.9MEducation$3.6MYouth Development$1.5MHuman Services$1.5MCivil Rights$100kCommunity Improvement$10kRecreation & Sports$5kHealth$3kInternational$1kOther$3.8M

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

musicsimsburyscholarsbuilding

2021

expansioninternationalspringfieldbuildingscoutsscholarskids

2022

learning museumplayful learninglittlescouts

2023

learning museummusicplayful learningearly

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

03FY2024 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k34 grants · $16k
$50k–250k1 grant · $70k

$500

Median grant

States reached

$2.5M

Total assets

Largest grants

FOODSHARE INC$69,500
JDRF$2,295
BREAKTHROUGH T1D$1,738
GIRL SCOUTS OF CONNECTICUT INC$1,500
FOURTH OF JULY TOWN CELEBRATION COMMITTEE INC$1,000
CHRIST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$1,000
RILEY'S CHILDREN FOUNDATION$500
WEST END HOUSE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB$500
LONGMEADOW LITTLE LEAGUE$500
PTA CALIFORNIA CONGRESS OF PARENTS TEACHERS & STUDENTS INC$500
FAMILYAID BOSTON INC$500
CONNECTICUT SCIENCE CENTER INC$500
HANDS ON HARTFORD MANNA PROGRAM$500
HARTFORD STAGE COMPANY$500
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCORPORATED$500

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 (FY20–24, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 10%. 68% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$12M · 48 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

48 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 41 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$12M

$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%

+19%

Still filing today

60%

43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsOther

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

SF
SPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC
2× · 2020–2021 · $1.8M · revenue +305%
LK
LITTLE KIDS ROCK
4× · 2020–2023 · $900k · revenue +4%
THE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL INC
3× · 2020–2023 · $800k · revenue +3%

Funded once

TE
THE EXPLORATORIUM
one grant, 2022 · $405k · revenue +19%
CC
CHICAGO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM
one grant, 2022 · $248k · revenue +12%
DP
DISCOVERY PLACE INC
one grant, 2022 · $245k · revenue -33%

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.

Providence Children's Museum

The mission of the providence children's museum is to inspire and celebrate learning through active play and exploration. the museum welcomes children and adults of all ages and backgrounds and from all communities although its focus is on…

Arts & Culture

The Common School Inc

School for the education of children from early childhood through elementary

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Cold Spring School Inc

Independent day school for children from preschool through grade six

Education

The Children's School

An independent, nonprofit school serving the lower fairfield county area of connecticut for children ages three to eight, and providing an environment that fosters in children the joy of learning through the use of innovative materials and…

Education

Child Health and Development Institute

To ensure healthy outcomes for all children in connecticut by advancing effective policies, stronger systems, and innovative practices.

Human Services

Lincoln Children's Museum

The lincoln children's museum provides a unique setting for children and their caregivers to learn through discovery and active experimentation.

Arts & Culture

United Children's Services of

Children's services

Human Services

Discovery Children's Museum

The mission of discovery childrens museum is to ignite a lifelong love of learning by fostering a welcoming, vibrant, and inclusive environment where all are invited to engage in playful and educational experiences.

Arts & Culture

The Children's Preschool Inc

Early childhood education

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Partners in Child Development Inc

Nurturing the growth and potential of every child.

Human Services

National Children Museum

To inspire children to care about and change the world. National Children's Museum (NCM) is a next generation institution that sparks curiosity and ignites creativity for children under 12 by fostering critical competencies in S.T.E.A.M.…

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Bronx Children's Museum

The bronx children's museum celebrates the natural curiosity, creativity, and compassion inherent in all children through hands-on exhibits, school partnerships, festivals, and mobile outreach programs. the museum has served over 150,000…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is She's the First Inc and the most unlike its peers is International Tennis Hall of Fame. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%1/79

the rest of the field

11%

206,163/1,819,486

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

70 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)

68/70

Grantees still filing

58/70

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Arts & Culture$3,871,170Other$3,825,093Education$3,600,214Youth Development$1,524,520Human Services$1,475,095Civil Rights$100,145Community Improvement$10,300

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.

Hartford Foundation for Public GivingCT29.5× affinity13 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Aetna Foundation Inc · Farmington Bank Community · United Way Inc · The William and Alice Mortensen · The Maximilian E and Marion O Hoffman · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Western · Webster Bank Charitable Foundation · Burton & Phyllis Hoffman Foundation Inc · United Bank Foundation Massachusetts · J Walton Bissell Foundation Inc

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 LEGO COMMUNITY FUND US INC 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

6get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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: CAMP COURANT INCORPORATED.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~2 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +55% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 061018155 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 CAMP COURANT INCORPORATED, 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

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 2 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 14% of their budget — diversified.
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.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Lego Community Fund US Inc?

Find your warmest path to Lego Community Fund US Inc 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.

LEGO COMMUNITY FUND US INC

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

70 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Lego Community Fund US Inc?

More from the funding graph

LEGO COMMUNITY FUND US INC

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

70 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Lego Community Fund US Inc?

More from the funding graph