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Lewis Pirkle Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$426k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$63k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Health$248kEducation$239kReligion$143kHuman Services$115kRecreation & Sports$100kAnimals$60kPublic Safety & Disaster$50kPhilanthropy$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $243k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $178k
$25,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$7.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BPCC FOUNDATION INC$62,500
HABILITAT$60,000
CHRISTUS FOUNDATION$55,000
PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION$40,000
FIRST RESPONDER SUPPORT TEAM$35,000
CONTINUUM NETWORK$30,000
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$25,000
DIVERS ALERT NETWORK$25,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
CHRIST FIT GYM$18,000
TADSAW INC$15,000
HAWAIIAN SAILING CANOE ASSOCIATION$15,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
OKTIBBEHA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY$10,000
POLYNESIAN VOYAGING SOCIETY$5,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $90k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 44% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%LEGACY OF ALOHA FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%FIRST RESPONDER SUPPORT TEAM: $35k → 13%YMCA OF NORTHWEST LOUISIANA: $5k → 22%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
CA
VA
TN
NC
HI
LA
MS
TX
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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$737k · 13 repeat orgs$252k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
13

Total granted

$737k
$164k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+0%
+3%

Still filing today

54%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
HealthAnimalsHuman ServicesPhilanthropyReligionRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • HI
    HABILITAT INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $65k · revenue +0%
  • DA
    DIVERS ALERT NETWORK
    3× · 2022–2024 · $55k · revenue +6%
  • PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $45k · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • LO
    LEGACY OF ALOHA FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -92%
  • FU
    FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • AR
    AMERICAN RED CROSS
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
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
Kaua'i Medical Clinic

Kaua'i medical clinic, an affliate of hawai'i pacific health, is a multi-specialty clinic dedicated to providing world-class care for adults and children across hawai'i and the pacific region in partnership with kapi'olani medical center…

Health
2
Kapi'olani Medical Specialists

Kapi'olani medical specialists (dba hawai'i pacific health medical group) is a multispecialty provider group dedicated to providing world-class care for adults and children across hawai'i and the pacific region working in partnership with…

Health
3
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
4
Mount Sinai Community Foundation

To improve the health of the community it serves by ensuring the availability of medical, surgical, and primary care physicians and advanced practice providers and high quality healthcare services.

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5
St Joseph's Hospital of Tampa Foundation Inc

St. joseph's hospitals foundation secures, manages and stewards philanthropic support to benefit the health care mission of st. joseph's hospital, st. joseph's women's hospital, st. joseph's children's hospital of tampa, st. joseph's…

Health
6
Kuakini Foundation

The mission of kuakini foundation is to improve the health status of the community by: providing comprehensive health care services and programs at reasonable cost; continuously improving the quality of health care services and programs;…

—
7
American Kennel Club Canine Health Foundation

The mission of the akc canine health foundation, inc. is to fund, advance, and communicate canine health research and science through knowledge and discovery.

Animals
8
Asante

Asante exists to provide quality healthcare services in a compassionate manner, valued by the communities we serve.

Health
9
Kapi'olani Health Foundation

The mission of kapi'olani health foundation is to create a healthier hawai'i.

Health
10
The Hospice of the Florida Suncoast Inc

Suncoast hospice's mission is to be the center to improve life for those touched by advanced illness, death, dying, grief, bereavement and other end-of-life issues.

Human Services
11
Mount Sinai Health System Inc

The mission of the mount sinai health system is to provide compassionate patient care with seamless coordination and to advance medicine through unrivaled education, research, and outreach in the many diverse communities we serve.

Human Services
12
The Methodist Hospital Foundation

Mission: this organization is part of the methodist hospital, doing business as houston methodist hospital, whose mission is: to provide high quality, cost-effective health care that delivers the best value to the people we serve in a…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ascension Seton Hays Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Continuum Network. 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

19 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. 19 of the 32 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
10/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHRISTUS FOUNDATION: $90,000 · OtherCHRISTUS FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHAWAIIAN SAILING CANOE ASSOCIATION: $45,000 · OtherHAWAIIAN SAILING CANOE ASSOCIATIONCYPRESS BAPTIST CHURCH: $42,750 · OtherCYPRESS BAPTIST CHURCHFULLY DEVOTED DEVELOPER OF CHILDREN (FDDOC): $36,500 · OtherFULLY DEVOTED DEVELOPER OF CHILDREN (FDDOC)CENTENARY COLLEGE: $30,000 · OtherCENTENARY COLLEGEFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $20,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS: $15,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY: $15,000 · OtherCHRIST FIT GYM INC: $18,000 · Other+6 more: $44,000 · Other+6 moreBOSSIER PARISH COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $172,500 · PhilanthropyBOSSIER PARISH COMMUNITY…HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · PhilanthropyHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDAT…HABILITAT INC: $65,000 · HealthHABILITAT INCPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 · HealthPARKINSON'S FOUN…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $30,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISE…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,000 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $5,000 · HealthLEGACY OF ALOHA FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesLEGACY OF…FIRST RESPONDER SUPPORT TEAM: $35,000 · Human ServicesFIRST RES…YMCA of Northwest Louisiana: $5,000 · Human ServicesYMCA of N…CONTINUUM NETWORK: $65,000 · ReligionDIVERS ALERT NETWORK: $55,000 · Recreation & SportsTADSAW INC: $15,000 · AnimalsK9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $15,000 · AnimalsWEST POINT CLAY COUNTY ANIMAL SHELT: $10,000 · AnimalsOKTIBBEHA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $10,000 · Animals
Other$406,250Philanthropy$222,500Health$150,000Human Services$90,000Religion$65,000Recreation & Sports$55,000Animals$50,000

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 budgetBOSSIER PARISH COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $172,500 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetCONTINUUM NETWORK: $65,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetHABILITAT INC: $65,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetDIVERS ALERT NETWORK: $55,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEGACY OF ALOHA FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFIRST RESPONDER SUPPORT TEAM: $35,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHRIST FIT GYM INC: $18,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTADSAW INC: $15,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetK9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWEST POINT CLAY COUNTY ANIMAL SHELT: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetPOLYNESIAN VOYAGING SOCIETY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOKTIBBEHA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetASCENSION SETON HAYS FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYMCA of Northwest Louisiana: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Paypal Charitable Giv…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Paypal Charitable Giving FundDC6.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Lewis Pirkle Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lewis Pirkle Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get 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
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Lewis Pirkle Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Lewis Pirkle Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 32 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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