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Lft Family Foundation

$85k
Granted FY2021
32
Grants FY2021
31
Organizations funded FY2021
48%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Median grant, FY2021
$1,500
Largest grant, FY2021
$17,104
Organizations funded a year
14 to 31
FY2018 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
13

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 48% of the organizations Lft Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21
ReligionHealthEducationCrime & LegalInternationalHousing & ShelterOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202131$84k48%
FY202029$80k38%
FY201931$91k71%
FY201814$19kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2021.

Religion$115kHuman Services$85kYouth Development$18kHealth$16kHousing & Shelter$15kEducation$12kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kInternational$3kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
MN
IL
IN
CA
CO
MO
KS
AR
TN
NC
HI
OK
AL
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Faithbuilders Inc$64,178417%
Newspring Church$35,0004n/a
Pass It on - Outdoor Mentors Inc$17,77544%
Children of Promise Inc$15,14040%
Student Mobilization Inc$6,1303n/a
St Teresas Catholic Church$3,2442n/a
Christ for All Nations$2,00020%
Focus on the Family$1,7752n/a
Wycliffe Associates Inc$1,5002n/a
Marriage Today$1,20010%
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All grantees of Lft Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Faithbuilders Inc$64,178417%
Newspring Church$35,0004n/a
Pass It on - Outdoor Mentors Inc$17,77544%
Children of Promise Inc$15,14040%
Student Mobilization Inc$6,1303n/a
St Teresas Catholic Church$3,2442n/a
Christ for All Nations$2,00020%
Focus on the Family$1,7752n/a
Wycliffe Associates Inc$1,5002n/a
Marriage Today$1,20010%
Voice of the Martyrs Inc$1,1002n/a
Mission Aviation Fellowship$1,0001n/a
The A21 Campaign Inc$1,00010%
Stories Foundation$1,00011%
Hug It Forward Inc$1,00011%
Mercy Ships International$50010%
Radiant Church$5001n/a
Way 4ward Inc$5001n/a
Sedgwick Meeting House Inc$2501n/a
Red Rocks Church$2001n/a
Proverbs 31 Ministry Inc$20010%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$10010%
Equip and Empower Ministries Inc$10010%
Oklahoma Baptist University$10010%
Teachbeyond Inc$1001n/a
Club Parkinsons Inc$10010%
Wikimedia Foundation Inc$7810%

Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($118k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lft Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFaithbuilders Inc: $64,178 over 4y, 17% of budgetPass It on - Outdoor Mentors Inc: $17,775 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetChildren of Promise Inc: $15,140 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetChrist for All Nations: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMarriage Today: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe A21 Campaign Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStories Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHug It Forward Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMercy Ships International: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProverbs 31 Ministry Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEquip and Empower Ministries Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOklahoma Baptist University: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetClub Parkinsons Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWikimedia Foundation Inc: $78 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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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.

Servant FoundationKS15× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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.

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How do I get to Lft Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Lft Family 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.

About Lft Family Foundation

How much does Lft Family Foundation give?
Lft Family Foundation reported 32 grants totaling $84,703 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 31 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2021.
What does Lft Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2021, its largest causes are Religion (42%), Human Services (31%), Youth Development (6%).
Who are Lft Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2021: Faithbuilders Inc ($64k), Newspring Church ($35k), Pass It on - Outdoor Mentors Inc ($18k).
Does Lft Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 48% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Lft Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Servant Foundation, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund.
Where is Lft Family Foundation based?
Lft Family Foundation is based in KS.

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 63 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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