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Lemnis

To invest in solutions that make learning more just for all of us, personal to each of us, and adaptable in a fast-moving world.

$450k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$350k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$501kPhilanthropy$350kYouth Development$190kEmployment$89kHealth$30kScience & Tech$30kHuman Services$20kCommunity Improvement$19kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
  • $250k+1 grant · $350k
$350,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$948M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FAST FORWARD$350,000
CAMBIAR EDUCATION$100,000
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 (FY20–20, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $10k → 9%LATINO NETWORK: $10k → 12%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

IL
NY
OR
CA
VA
NC
DC
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.

30%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$372k · 7 repeat orgs$882k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
16

Total granted

$372k
$432k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+24%

Still filing today

86%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $450k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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

  • BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS COLUMBIA NORTHW
    6× · 2017–2022 · $153k · revenue +9%
  • MC
    MACDONALD CENTER
    3× · 2017–2019 · $30k · revenue +167%
  • RP
    READING PARTNERS
    2× · 2021–2022 · $20k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • KA
    KHAN ACADEMY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $250k · revenue +154%
  • US
    URBAN SUPERINTENDENTS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2018 · $31k · revenue +24%
  • OB
    OREGON BUSINESS ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2017 · $19k
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
Washington Leadership Academy Public Charter School

Wla combines best practices in teaching and learning, with the latest in educational technology to create an unparalleled high school experience. students will graduate from wla prepared for college, career, and lives of public leadership.

Education
2
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
3
Springboard Collaborative

Springboard collaborative combines targeted student instruction with parent training in an incentivized system that closes the literacy gap, by transferring the summer from a barrier into a springboard for financially disadvantaged…

Human Services
4
Chicago Public Education Fund

The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.

Education
5
New Classrooms Innovation Partners Inc

To create and inspire better ways to give every student an educational foundation for lifelong success. we imagine a world where every student attends a school that meets them where they are, adapts to the unique ways they learn, and…

Education
6
Partners in School Innovation

To transform teaching and learning in the lowest-performing public schools so that every student, regardless of background, thrives.

Philanthropy
7
Equal Opportunity Schools

Equal opportunity schools' mission is to strengthen educator and system leader capacity to break down barriers to increase access, belonging, and success in rigorous college and career-prep secondary school courses for students of color…

Education
8
Citizen Schools Inc

In fiscal year 2025, the agency operated an americorps maker fellowship, placing 7 americorps vista members at 6 different education focused organizations in ca, ma, and ny. americorps members worked on capacity building projects to expand…

Education
9
Kipp Chicago Schools

The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…

Education
10
Center City Public Charter Schools

Center city public charter schools (center city pcs) empowers our students for lifelong success by building strong character, promoting academic excellence, and generating public service throughout washington, d.c.

Education
11
Trillium Academy

The mission of trillium academy is to break away from conventional schooling and celebrate the incredible capabilities of twice-exceptional (2e) students, providing them with the learning environment they need to discover and develop their…

Education
12
Howard University Middle School of Mathematics & Science

The howard university middle school of mathematics and science is the only middle school in the country that is located on the campus of an hbcu. we were chartered by howard university for the express purpose of creating a pipeline for…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Open School Inc; the most unlike its peers is Kairospdx. 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

22 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. 22 of the 25 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
15/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KHAN ACADEMY INC: $250,000 · EducationKHAN ACADEMY INCCAMBIAR EDUCATION: $100,000 · EducationCAMBIAR EDUCATIONALL HANDS RAISED: $40,000 · EducationALL HANDS RAISEDREADING PARTNERS: $20,000 · EducationWILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · Education+4 more: $40,000 · Education+4 moreFFWD: $350,000 · PhilanthropyFFWDST JOSEPH THE WORKER CORPORATE INTERNSHIP: $88,573 · OtherST JOSEPH THE WORKE…URBAN SUPERINTENDENTS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $30,500 · OtherURBAN SUPERINTENDEN…MACDONALD CENTER: $30,000 · OtherMACDONALD CENTEROREGON BUSINESS ASSOCIATION: $18,903 · OtherOREGON BUSINESS ASS…NATIONAL GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION CENTER FOR BEST PRACTICES: $15,000 · OtherNATIONAL GOVERNORS …THE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION: $10,000 · OtherTHE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $10,000 · OtherATLANTIC RESEARCH PARTNERS: $10,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS COLUMBIA NORTHW: $152,950 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG…FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-PORTLAND: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF THE C…826DC INC: $10,000 · Youth Development826DC INCSTAND FOR CHILDREN LEADERSHIP CENTER INC: $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentOREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY: $20,000 · Arts & CulturePETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesLatino Network: $10,000 · Human Services
Education$470,000Philanthropy$350,000Other$212,976Youth Development$180,450Arts & Culture$20,000Human Services$20,000

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 budgetFFWD: $350,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetKHAN ACADEMY INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS COLUMBIA NORTHW: $152,950 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetCAMBIAR EDUCATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALL HANDS RAISED: $40,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetURBAN SUPERINTENDENTS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $30,500 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetMACDONALD CENTER: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetREADING PARTNERS: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION CENTER FOR BEST PRACTICES: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-PORTLAND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOPEN SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKAIROSPDX: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetChicago Heightening Opportunity and Potential for: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLatino Network: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget826DC INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE HELPS EDUCATION FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSTAND FOR CHILDREN LEADERSHIP CENTER INC: $7,500 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

OCF Joseph E Weston P…Marie Lamfrom Charita…The Oregon Community …Onpoint Community Cre…The Collins FoundationMeyer Memorial TrustM J Murdock Charitabl…Careoregon IncUnited Way of the Col…The Autzen FoundationThe Blackbaud Giving …Impactassetsinc
OCF Joseph E Weston Public FoundationOR17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Oregon Community Foundation · Onpoint Community Credit Union · The Collins Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Careoregon Inc · United Way of the Columbia-Willamette · The Autzen Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Impactassetsinc

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 Lemnis funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lemnis. 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%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Kairospdx: 19% of income from government
  • Latino Network: 15% of income from government
  • Open School Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Friends of the Children-Portland: 5% of income from government
  • Oregon Museum of Science and Industry: 4% of income from government
  • The Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization: 4% of income from government
  • Willamette University: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
5report 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.

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 25 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 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home