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Lennert Erickson Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$5k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Public Benefit$26kAnimals$14kRecreation & Sports$10kHealth$9kReligion$7kHuman Services$6kYouth Development$5kCrime & Legal$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
St Gall Catholic Church$1,500
Sacred Heart Parish$1,500
Pacfic Legal Foundation$1,500
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 63% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Green Beret Foundation: $3k → 16%Circle Tail: $2k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your 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.

1
Nevada Wild Horses

Wild horse protection, preservation, rescue and care work.

Animals
2
Foothill Dog Rescue of the Sierras

Foothill Dog Rescue is a 100% all volunteer organization dedicated to re-homing dogs from over crowded animal shelters, owner surrenders and underserved communities. We also sponsor vaccine and microchip clinics for our County and have…

Animals
3
Nevada Humane Society

To care for pets, find them homes and save lives.

Animals
4
Humane Society of the Sierra Foothills

To prevent animal abuse and neglect, enforce the anti-cruelty laws of the State of California and promote the wellbeing of animals.

Animals
5
Rancho Coastal Humane Society

See schedule orancho coastal is dedicated to the rescue and shelter of abandoned companion animals. it encourages adoptions into loving homes and provides educational and community outreach programs designed to enhance the human-animal…

Animals
6
Humane Society of Truckee-Tahoe

The Humane Society is dedicated to saving and improving the lives of pets through adoptions, community spay/neuter services and humane eduon programs.

Animals
7
High Sierra Animal Rescue Inc

High Sierra Animal Rescues mission is to save the lives of homeless dogs in the regions served. Our staff and volunteers are dedicated to making our communities better through successful adoptions advancing their welfare and creating human…

Animals
8
Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka Paws

A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.

Animals
9
Washington Humane Society

The washington humane society protects animals, supports families, and advocates for positive change to create a world where all animals can thrive. we enrich the humanity of our communities by promoting compassion and encouraging people…

Animals
10
Border Horse Slaughter Rescue

Prevent cruelty to animals.

Animals
11
Working Dogs of Nevada Rescue

Our mission is to save, rehabilitate and rehome animals which may otherwise be euthanized at shelters due to their behavioural issues.

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12
El Dorado County Humane Society

Care for shelter animals, provide public with free spay/neuter services, educational outreach.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Redwood Coast Humane Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr14%19%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr16%33%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr16%0%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%3%<5yr14%11%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%31%20–35yr13%39%35–55yr16%0%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/23
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,542

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.

04the grantee network

21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 33 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
4/21
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Howard Jarvis Taxpayer Association — $6,000 · OtherHoward Jarvis Taxpayer AssociationIndividual grant recipient — $3,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTill We Find a Cure — $2,500 · OtherTill We Find a CureBlessed Sacrament Mission Church — $2,500 · OtherBlessed Sacrament Mission ChurchCarson Valley Kerak Shrine Club — $1,500 · OtherTahoeDouglas Elks Lodge #2670 — $1,500 · OtherSacred Heart Parish — $1,500 · OtherGuitars for Vets — $1,500 · OtherDouglas County Animal Shelter — $1,500 · OtherKIDS FISHING DERBY — $1,500 · OtherCARSON VALLEY LIONS CLUB INC — $1,500 · OtherSt Gall Catholic Church — $1,500 · OtherYOUNG LIFE — $2,500 · OtherYOUNG LIFEMain Street Gardnerville — $1,500 · OtherBetween Horses and Humans — $1,500 · Other+1 more — $600 · OtherJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $8,000 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL WATCH INCLeadership Institute — $6,000 · Public BenefitLeadership InstituteTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $6,000 · Public BenefitTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATIONRedwood Coast Humane Society — $2,500 · AnimalsRedwood Coast Hu…Lilys Legacy Senior Dog Sanctuary — $2,500 · AnimalsLilys Legacy Sen…Mendocino Coast Humane Society — $2,500 · AnimalsMendocino Coast …Douglas Animal Welfare Group — $1,500 · AnimalsDouglas Animal W…THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY — $1,500 · AnimalsTHE WILD ANIMAL …PINE NUT WILD HORSE ADVOCATES — $1,500 · AnimalsPINE NUT WILD HO…CHICKS & CHUCKS INC — $2,500 · HealthTEAL WE FIND A CURE INC — $2,500 · HealthKIDS AND HORSES INC — $1,500 · HealthNEVADA FIREARMS COALITION — $5,000 · Recreation & SportsPacific Legal Foundation — $3,000 · Crime & LegalCITIZENS BEHIND THE BADGE — $1,000 · Crime & LegalGREEN BERET FOUNDATION — $2,500 · Human ServicesCIRCLE TAIL INC — $1,500 · Human Services
Other$32,600Public Benefit$20,000Animals$12,000Health$6,500Recreation & Sports$5,000Crime & Legal$4,000Human Services$4,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Institute — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHoward Jarvis Taxpayer Association — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEVADA FIREARMS COALITION — $5,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetPacific Legal Foundation — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRedwood Coast Humane Society — $2,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetGREEN BERET FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLilys Legacy Senior Dog Sanctuary — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHICKS & CHUCKS INC — $2,500 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTEAL WE FIND A CURE INC — $2,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetYOUNG LIFE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMendocino Coast Humane Society — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDouglas Animal Welfare Group — $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMain Street Gardnerville — $1,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBetween Horses and Humans — $1,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS AND HORSES INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPINE NUT WILD HORSE ADVOCATES — $1,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCIRCLE TAIL INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCITIZENS BEHIND THE BADGE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO3.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 organization Lennert Erickson 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.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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: 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 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 33 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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