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Lence Charitable Fund Inc

Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$282k
Granted FY2018
18
Grants FY2018
18
Organizations funded FY2018
94%
First-time grantees FY2018
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Median grant, FY2018
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2018
$40,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 18
FY2017 to FY2018
States reached, FY2018
3
Total assets, FY2018
$55k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2018, 94% of the organizations Lence Charitable Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY201818$282k94%
FY20173$7kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Human Services$135kYouth Development$55kFood & Nutrition$25kHousing & Shelter$25kEducation$20kRecreation & Sports$12kAnimals$5kCrime & Legal$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2018, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Almost Home$40,00015%
Women in Charge$30,0001n/a
Unleashing Potential$25,00011%
St Martha's Hall$25,00012%
Place of Safety$25,0001n/a
Lydia's House Inc$15,00011%
Humane Society of Missouri$5,00010%
Roycemore School$5,00010%
Living Well Foundation$2,00010%
Sierra Club Foundation$2,00010%
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All grantees of Lence Charitable Fund Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Almost Home$40,00015%
Women in Charge$30,0001n/a
Unleashing Potential$25,00011%
St Martha's Hall$25,00012%
Place of Safety$25,0001n/a
Lydia's House Inc$15,00011%
Humane Society of Missouri$5,00010%
Roycemore School$5,00010%
Living Well Foundation$2,00010%
Sierra Club Foundation$2,00010%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$2,00020%
Final Exit Network Inc$5001n/a

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($112k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lence Charitable Fund Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAlmost Home: $40,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetUnleashing Potential: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSt Martha's Hall: $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetLydia's House Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHumane Society of Missouri: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRoycemore School: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLiving Well Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSierra Club Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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.

St Louis Community Foundation IncMO15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Norman J Stupp Foundation · Pott Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Lence Charitable Fund Inc

How much does Lence Charitable Fund Inc give?
Lence Charitable Fund Inc reported 18 grants totaling $282,300 in its FY2018 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2018.
What does Lence Charitable Fund Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2018, its largest causes are Human Services (47%), Youth Development (19%), Food & Nutrition (9%).
Who are Lence Charitable Fund Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2018: Almost Home ($40k), Women in Charge ($30k), Unleashing Potential ($25k).
Does Lence Charitable Fund Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2018, 94% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Lence Charitable Fund Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Lence Charitable Fund Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include St Louis Community Foundation Inc, Norman J Stupp Foundation, Pott Foundation.
Where is Lence Charitable Fund Inc based?
Lence Charitable Fund Inc is based in MA.

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 20 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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