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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.

$318k
Granted FY2020
7
Grants FY2020
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

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

19
’17
15
’18
14
’19
7
’20
1
’21
0
’23

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Civil Rights$1.0MInternational$465kPhilanthropy$268kCrime & Legal$200kHuman Services$170kHealth$163kEducation$102kFood & Nutrition$80kOther$0
02FY2020 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k2 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $31k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $280k
$15,860
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%FAITH NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $20k → 10%DR AJAZ RAHAMAN & SHAMENA KHAN MIRACLE FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%EDWINS FOUNDATION: $50k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $50k → 11%HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY: $20k → 11%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

NY
IA
OH
CT
CA
CO
MD
AZ
DC
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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 15 repeat orgs$697k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
24

Total granted

$1.7M
$612k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+103%

Still filing today

87%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21
HealthHuman ServicesCivil RightsPhilanthropyEducationArts & CultureOther
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

  • AF
    ACLU FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA
    4× · 2017–2020 · $500k · revenue +56%
  • AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $500k · revenue +102%
  • TC
    THE CLEAR FUND
    2× · 2017–2018 · $180k · revenue +815%

Funded once

  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +98%
  • PC
    Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +29%
  • BC
    BROOKLYN COMMUNITY BAIL FUND INC
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -48%
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
Paypal Charitable Giving Fund

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,…

Philanthropy
2
Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
3
100 Club of 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.

—
4
Personal Care Products Council Foundation Inc

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…

Health
5
America's Health Insurance Plans Inc

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…

Membership Benefit
6
Good Samaritan Foundation

Partnering for healing and a healthy future through philanthropy.

—
7
Npr Foundation

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…

—
8
Patient Access Network Foundation

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…

—
9
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
10
Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric Aids Foundation

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…

Health
11
Arizona Family Health Partnership

To make sexual and reproductive healthcare accessible to everyone

—
12
Moral Compass Federation Inc

Moral compass federation facilitates collaboration among multiple veteran-led nonprofit organizations, individuals, and businesses who came together during the fall of kabul, afghanistan to evacuate and resettle afghan allies who were in…

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice of the Valley; 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.
04the grantee network

39 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. 39 of the 43 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/39
Grantees still filing
36/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ACLU FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA: $500,000 · Civil RightsACLU FOUNDATION OF ARIZONAAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION IN…+1 more: $25,000 · Civil RightsMORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC: $222,404 · PhilanthropyMORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL…THE CLEAR FUND: $180,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CLEAR FUNDEleos Cares Foundation Inc: $80,000 · PhilanthropyEleos Cares Foundatio…+2 more: $15,000 · PhilanthropyPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation: $50,000 · HealthPhoenix C…PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $50,000 · HealthPARTNERS …UNICORN PHILANTHROPY FOUNDATION: $35,860 · HealthUNICORN P…PLANNED PARENTHOOD ARIZONA INC: $25,000 · HealthPLANNED P…PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $25,000 · HealthPLANNED P…AMANDA HOPE RAINBOW ANGELS: $22,070 · HealthAMANDA HO…+1 more: $5,000 · HealthSYRIAN COMMUNITY NETWORK INC: $70,000 · OtherSYRIAN COMMUNITY NETWO…THE SALVATION ARMY: $50,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYSociety of St Vincent De Paul St Rose of Lima Conference Inc: $20,000 · OtherBROOKLYN COMMUNITY BAIL FUND INC: $50,000 · OtherBROOKLYN COMMUNITY BAI…VIOLENCE POLICY CENTER: $50,000 · OtherVIOLENCE POLICY CENTERMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $50,000 · OtherMEDECINS SANS FRONTIER…Save The Children Federation Inc: $30,000 · OtherSave The Children Fede…ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $60,000 · OtherST MARY'S FOOD BANK AL…The Primavera Foundation Inc: $50,000 · OtherThe Primavera Foundati…HIGH ATLAS FOUNDATION: $47,711 · OtherHIGH ATLAS FOUNDATIONDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX: $20,000 · Other+7 more: $17,500 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesEDWINS FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Human ServicesFeed And Instruct The Hungry Neighborhood Center: $20,000 · Human ServicesHospice of the Valley: $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE DR AJAZ RAHAMAN & S KHAN MIRACLE FOU: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE BRONX FREEDOM FUND INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $4,000 · Arts & CultureEMILY GRIFFITH FOUNDATION: $90,000 · EducationINTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF ARIZONA: $11,700 · Education+1 more: $500 · Education
Civil Rights$1,025,000Philanthropy$497,404Health$212,930Other$515,211Human Services$145,000Arts & Culture$104,000Education$102,200

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 budgetACLU FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA: $500,000 over 4y, 9.2% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC: $222,404 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEAR FUND: $180,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BRONX FREEDOM FUND INC: $100,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetEMILY GRIFFITH FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBROOKLYN COMMUNITY BAIL FUND INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetThe Primavera Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEDWINS FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetHIGH ATLAS FOUNDATION: $47,711 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetUNICORN PHILANTHROPY FOUNDATION: $35,860 over 2y, 12% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD ARIZONA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMANDA HOPE RAINBOW ANGELS: $22,070 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetFeed And Instruct The Hungry Neighborhood Center: $20,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetHospice of the Valley: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF ARIZONA: $11,700 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCASA BRAZIL INC: $5,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetJOE DIMAGGIO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOVE SERVE REMEMBER FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHEAL THE PLANET TOGETHER INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE MAXFUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Arizona Community Fou…AbbVie FoundationAmerican Express Foun…The Blackbaud Giving …American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…Morgan Stanley Global…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Vanguard Charitable E…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…National Philanthropi…
Arizona Community FoundationAZ16× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 LFMC Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from LFMC Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to LFMC Foundation?

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.

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 43 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
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51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home