· Private foundation
Lenovo Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $5k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $201k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $660k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE RESOURCE FOUNDATION (LATIMPACTO) | $100,000 |
| UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE | $100,000 |
| LABORATORIA | $100,000 |
| THE LINKS | $75,000 |
| GIRLS WHO CODE | $75,000 |
| UNITED WAY | $60,230 |
| WORLD EDUCATION & DEVELOPMENT FUND (EDUCANDO MX) | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| ASSOCIACAO WORLDFUND BRASIL (STEM BRASIL AKA EDUCANDO) | $50,000 |
| DRESS FOR SUCCESS OF THE TRIANGLE | $35,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $33,000 |
| KRAMDEN | $30,000 |
| ILLINOIS SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE | $30,000 |
| ASTRONAUT SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| NUTRE A UN NINO AC | $12,800 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $703k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 21% of Lenovo Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +13% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $395k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches2× · 2021–2022 · $300k · revenue +27%
- TLTHE LINKS INC2× · 2021–2025 · $125k · revenue +118%
- ISILLINOIS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE4× · 2021–2025 · $105k · revenue +51%
Funded once
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFone grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue +1%- ARAMERICAN RED CROSSone grant, 2023 · $150k
- WEWORLD EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT FUNDone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -4%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…
Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
As an organization, the institute of food technologists is focusing its work in four main areas, or "roles and goals." each is wide-reaching and helps to advance our mission.steward for the profession and its community - provide learning,…
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The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Astronaut Scholarship Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Project Syncere. 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.
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 29 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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
37 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. 37 of the 62 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds LABORATORIA INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds GIVE2ASIA ↗
- Who funds GIRLS WHO CODE INC ↗
- Who funds ASTRONAUT SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE LINKS INC ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds WORLD EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds KRAMDEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS TRIANGLE NC ↗
- Who funds MARBLES KIDS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds WAKE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SYNCERE ↗
- Who funds UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GOAL Academy ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SUNSHINE INC ↗
- Who funds ADIRONDACK FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Credit Suisse Americas Foundation · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · AT&T Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Baxter International Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · WK Kellogg Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Jpmorgan Chase 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 Lenovo 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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