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Lids Foundation Inc

The lids foundation provides support directly to local communities and to the charitable organizations that serve them to enable community members of all ages to live more active, healthy, and productive lives.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$175k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$933kRecreation & Sports$778kPhilanthropy$641kEducation$394kYouth Development$210kHousing & Shelter$146kEnvironment$91kHuman Services$83kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 19 grants below total $896,728, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,095,048 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $198,320 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $173k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $716k
$25,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OUR MILITARY KIDS INC$175,000
COVENANT HOUSE$116,000
EVERY KIDS SPORTS$100,000
JUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC$75,000
SEA OF TREES$75,000
WHALER NATION INC$62,992
KABOOM$62,500
GOOD SPORTS INC$50,000
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA$30,436
ASIEL FOUNDATION$25,000
OPPORTUNITY ENTERPRISES INC$20,000
ADA BOOSTER CLUB$20,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF OK CITY$16,500
SIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$15,500
LIFT INC$15,300
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $280k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LITTLE WISH FOUNDATION: $10k → 5%THE JACKSON CENTER: $10k → 9%A KID AGAIN: $8k → 15%COVENANT HOUSE: $116k → 17%LITTLE WISH FOUNDATION: $8k → 5%LITTLE WISH FOUNDATION: $128k → 16%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

NH
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
PA
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
GA
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.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 13 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
44

Total granted

$1.7M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+6%

Still filing today

77%
66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $469k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Recreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentHealthHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • OM
    OUR MILITARY KIDS INC
    4× · 2017–2024 · $460k · revenue +55%
  • EK
    Every Kid Sports
    2× · 2023–2024 · $150k · revenue +947%
  • KI
    KABOOM INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $138k · revenue +0%

Funded once

  • CR
    CAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2018 · $204k · revenue +4%
  • N1
    NINE 13 INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $150k · revenue +46%
  • AS
    AUTISM SPEAKS INC
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -46%
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
Perfect Play Athletics Foundation
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2
Complete Playground Inc

Complete playground is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing inclusive child, teen, and family development by bringing together neurodivergent and neurotypical children, teenagers, and their families in a shared environment of…

Recreation & Sports
3
Harlem Rbi Inc

Harlem rbi,inc dba dream provides youth with opportunities to play, learn, and grow. our mission is to level the field by empowering all children to recognize their potential and realize their dreams.

Philanthropy
4
Team Impact Inc

Team impact is the only u.s. nonprofit that tackles the emotional trauma and social isolation experienced by children facing serious and chronic illnesses by matching them with a college athletic team. because no child should be sidelined…

Philanthropy
5
Build Our Ballpark Inc

To improve the lives of kids by providing the opportunity to play baseball and softball which, through teamwork, strengthens character, builds pride and teaches skills for life.

Recreation & Sports
6
The Hyland Hills Junior Hockey Association

Become ambassadors of youth hockey while developing players to reach their maximum potential. have respect and love for the game while acting with integrity, fairness, and honesty.

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7
Koa Sports League Inc

Koa is committed to shaping kids' lives through sports. through the following approach, koa aims to develop each child to his or her full potential as an athlete and a person: - employing trained and dedicated professional coaches and…

Recreation & Sports
8
Young Athlete Foundation
Youth Development
9
Children's National

Children's national coordinates the overall policy and activities of the affiliated organizations. see schedule o.

Health
10
New Heights Youth Inc

To educate and empower promising underserved youth to be leaders, champions and student-athletes by developing the skills necessary for success in high school, college and life.

Youth Development
11
Mlb-Mlbpa Youth Development Foundation
Recreation & Sports
12
Girls Incorporated of Greater Indianapolis

Girls inc.'s mission is to inspire all girls to be strong, smart, and bold. in partnership with schools and community organizations, we focus on the development of the whole girl. she learns to value herself, take risks, and discover and…

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Good Sports Inc; the most unlike its peers is New Era Cap Foundation. 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

52 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 52 of the 71 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/52
Grantees still filing
31/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NINE 13 INC: $150,000 · Recreation & SportsNINE 13 INCEvery Kid Sports: $150,000 · Recreation & SportsEvery Kid SportsKABOOM INC: $137,500 · Recreation & SportsKABOOM INCWHALER NATION INC: $62,992 · Recreation & SportsWHALER NATION INCPROJECT BACKBOARD: $29,000 · Recreation & SportsPLAYSMART INC: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsWASHINGTON LITTLE CAPITALS INC: $25,000 · Recreation & Sports+7 more: $80,122 · Recreation & Sports+7 moreHOPE FOR HENRY FOUNDATION: $250,000 · HealthHOPE FOR HENRY FOUN…SIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $215,500 · HealthSIBLEY MEMORIAL HOS…AUTISM SPEAKS INC: $100,000 · HealthAUTISM SPEAKS INC+2 more: $15,000 · HealthDOUBLE Q FOUNDATION: $111,000 · OtherDOUBLE Q FOUNDATIONCity of Manchester NH-Department of Health: $72,920 · OtherCity of Manchester NH-Depart…THE ARC: $50,000 · OtherTHE ARCPROJECT FIT AMERICA: $47,455 · OtherPROJECT FIT AMERICAMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $30,436 · OtherJOINED FOR GOOD INC DBA BRACKETS FOR GOOD: $30,000 · OtherTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · OtherTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH F…SEAS OF TREES: $91,000 · OtherSEAS OF TREESFamily Promise of Greater Indianapolis Inc: $30,000 · Other+26 more: $288,989 · Other+26 moreOUR MILITARY KIDS INC: $460,000 · PhilanthropyOUR MILITARY KID…NEW ERA CAP FOUNDATION: $40,000 · PhilanthropyNEW ERA CAP FOUN…CAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC: $204,000 · EducationCAL RIPKEN …JUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC: $75,000 · EducationJUMPSTART F…Harbour School Foundation Inc: $75,000 · EducationHarbour Sch…LITTLE WISH FOUNDATION INC: $145,582 · Human ServicesLITTLE WI…COVENANT HOUSE: $116,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT …JACKSON CENTER FOR CONDUCTIVE EDUCATION: $10,000 · Human Services+1 more: $8,100 · Human ServicesGIRLS ON THE RUN INTERNATIONAL INC: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentGOOD SPORTS INC: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROPOLITAN BALTIMORE: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF OKLAHOMA COUNTY INC: $16,500 · Youth DevelopmentTEAM MARYLAND ICE HOCKEY ORGANIZATION INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentGOTR OF HAMILTON COUNTY: $7,500 · Youth Development
Recreation & Sports$659,614Health$580,500Other$851,800Philanthropy$500,000Education$354,000Human Services$279,682Youth Development$219,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOUR MILITARY KIDS INC: $460,000 over 4y, 6.5% of budgetHOPE FOR HENRY FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetSIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $215,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC: $204,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNINE 13 INC: $150,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetEvery Kid Sports: $150,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetLITTLE WISH FOUNDATION INC: $145,582 over 3y, 32% of budgetKABOOM INC: $137,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $116,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSEAS OF TREES: $91,000 over 2y, 95% of budgetJUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHarbour School Foundation Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetWHALER NATION INC: $62,992 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN INTERNATIONAL INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGOOD SPORTS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROPOLITAN BALTIMORE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPROJECT FIT AMERICA: $47,455 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetNEW ERA CAP FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $30,436 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFamily Promise of Greater Indianapolis Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetJOINED FOR GOOD INC DBA BRACKETS FOR GOOD: $30,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPROJECT BACKBOARD: $29,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLAYSMART INC: $25,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetWASHINGTON LITTLE CAPITALS INC: $25,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetASIEL FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetOPPORTUNITY ENTERPRISES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINDIANAPOLIS YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF OKLAHOMA COUNTY INC: $16,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIFT INC: $15,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJOSH GIBSON FOUNDATION: $12,540 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetCAMP RAMAH IN NEW ENGLAND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMISHAWAKA PARKS & RECREATION FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetTEAM MARYLAND ICE HOCKEY ORGANIZATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJACKSON CENTER FOR CONDUCTIVE EDUCATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSt Albans School Endowment Fund: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA KID AGAIN INC: $8,100 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHAPPY HOLLOW CAMP INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGOTR OF HAMILTON COUNTY: $7,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK: $6,124 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMILLION MEAL MOVEMENT INC: $5,200 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE TATUM PARKER PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetVETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS POST 3838: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPATHWAYS OF HOPE: $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.

Central Indiana Commu…Lilly Endowment IncMore Than a Phone IncNational Basketball P…Dick's Sporting Goods…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Enterprise Holdings F…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Charities Aid Foundat…The Bank of America C…Morgan Stanley Global…Natl Christian Charit…
Central Indiana Community Foundation IncIN18× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · More Than a Phone Inc · National Basketball Players Association Foundation · Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc: 12% of income from government
  • The Boys and Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Baltimore: 2% of income from government
  • The Baseball Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
10report 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.
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How do I get to Lids Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Lids Foundation Inc 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 71 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 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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