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LFMC Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of LFMC Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year LFMC Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 7 organizations, $318k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k2 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $31k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $280k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ACLU FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA | $100,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC | $100,000 |
| ELEOS PARTNERSHIP INC | $80,000 |
| UNICORN PHILANTHROPY FOUNDATION | $15,860 |
| HIGH ATLAS FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| JOE DIMAGGIO CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| AMANDA HOPE RAINBOW ANGELS | $2,070 |
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 (FY17–19, $145k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 38% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
15 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2020, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC4× · 2017–2020 · $500k · revenue +102%- AFACLU FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA4× · 2017–2020 · $500k · revenue +56%
- TCTHE CLEAR FUND2× · 2017–2018 · $180k · revenue +815%
Funded once
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2018 · $50k
- EFEDWINS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +165%
- PCPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +29%
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.
Our vision is to reimagine everyday giving to help charities. our mission is to enable the world's leading online platforms to create opportunities for everyday charitable giving. in doing so, we ensure our programs are trustworthy,…
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
To provide immediate financial assistance to families of public safety officers and firefighters who are seriously injured or killed in the line of duty, and to provide resources to enhance their safety and welfare.
The foundation is set up to deliver one program - look good feel better. the mission of this nationwide program is to improve the quality of life of women, men, and teens undergoing cancer treatment by offering advice on how to cope with…
Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…
Partnering for healing and a healthy future through philanthropy.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
As a leading charitable foundation and healthcare advocacy organization, the pan foundation is dedicated to accelerating access to treatment for those who need it most and empowering patients on their healthcare journeys. we provide…
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
The elizabeth glaser pediatric aids foundation (egpaf) is a proven leader in the fight against pediatric hiv/aids and has reached over 33 million pregnant women with services to prevent transmission of hiv to their babies. to date, egpaf…
To make sexual and reproductive healthcare accessible to everyone
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice of the Valley and the most unlike its peers is The Dr Ajaz Rahaman & S Khan Miracle Fou. 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 28 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.
39 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. 39 of the 43 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 AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ACLU FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds THE CLEAR FUND ↗
- Who funds THE BRONX FREEDOM FUND INC ↗
- Who funds EMILY GRIFFITH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Eleos Cares Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds EDWINS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Primavera Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN COMMUNITY BAIL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds VIOLENCE POLICY CENTER ↗
- Who funds HIGH ATLAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNICORN PHILANTHROPY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds GIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD ARIZONA INC ↗
- Who funds AMANDA HOPE RAINBOW ANGELS ↗
- Who funds DIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX ↗
- Who funds Feed And Instruct The Hungry Neighborhood Center ↗
- Who funds Hospice of the Valley ↗
- Who funds Society of St Vincent De Paul St Rose of Lima Conference Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CASA BRAZIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE DR AJAZ RAHAMAN & S KHAN MIRACLE FOU ↗
- Who funds JOE DIMAGGIO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds LOVE SERVE REMEMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEAL THE PLANET TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds THE MAXFUND INC ↗
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: Arizona Community Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · American Express Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
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 LFMC 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 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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Find your warmest path to LFMC 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.