· Private foundation
Lightbridge Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OPERATION AIRDROP INC | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| EAST TENNESSEE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| HOPE FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,965 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,700 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
10 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 83 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $134k 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
- STSPREAD THE JOY INC2× · 2022–2023 · $54k · revenue -63%
- IGIndividual grant recipient3× · 2019–2023 · $11k
- OFOM FOUNDATION INC6× · 2019–2024 · $9k · revenue -19%
Funded once
- VFVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue ×45
- RSROBB SCHOOL MEMORIAL FUNDone grant, 2022 · $5k
Feeding Americagraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +40%
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.
To provide food, clothing, household goods and other services to people in need who live in montclair, nj and other neighboring communities in essex county
The organizaton operates daily and weekly food pantries in bridgewater, bound brook, somerville, manville, north plainfield and the va in lyons(all in somerest county, new jersey). the organization meets emergency food needs on a daily…
To provide food and assistance to people in need in northern hunterdon county nj. the organization is entirely dependent on donations and is staffed by volunteers. the thrift shop provides low cost items to their clients and the community…
Improve the lives of our friends and neighbors in need by providing nutritious food and essential personal care items. We treat every individual with respect, privacy and dignity on their journey to becoming independent of our services. We…
To provide supplemental food to those in need in the Lambertville, NJ and New Hope, PA area.
The Chester Mendham Food Pantry provides local families in need with supplemental food and supplies. We have helped over 75 families.
Provide hunger relief to individuals and families who are unable to afford food and receive inadequate government financial assistance
We serve as a champion for addressing the root causes of hunger, delivering neighbor-centric solutions, and fostering collaborative partnerships across all sectors of society for New Jersey.
Feeding the hungry and providing food assistance to needy families.
To distribute grocery items, pet food, hygiene products and/or any products a typical household would require to any persons in need in sussex county, nj and surrounding areas.
The food bank of south jersey exists to provide an immediate solution to the urgent problem of hunger by providing food to people in need, teaching them to eat nutritiously, and helping them to find sustainable ways to improve their lives.
Freehold ems provides emergency medical services to the residents and visitors of freehold boro and freehold township. their volunteer membership responds to 9-1-1 calls all year round providing basic energency life support and ambulance…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Interfaith Food Pantry Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rainbow Room of Rockwall County. 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 25 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
50 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. 50 of the 391 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 SPREAD THE JOY INC ↗
- Who funds OM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Vin Gopal Civic Association ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EAST TENNESSEE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds OPERATION AIRDROP INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOPE FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds GUARDIANS FOR NEW FUTURES 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: Columbia Bank Foundation · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc · Investors Foundation Inc · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · American Express Foundation · Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Gap Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · McKesson Foundation Inc
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 Lightbridge Foundation Inc 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.
- Guardians for New Futures Inc — 11% of income from government
- Lunch Break Inc — 4% of income from government
- Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Delran Emergency Squad — 1% 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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