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Linda Vista Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$161k
Granted FY2023
14
Grants FY2023
9
States reached
$53k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212023.

International$246kCommunity Improvement$115kEducation$112kHealth$54kHuman Services$37kEnvironment$15kRecreation & Sports$15kCivil Rights$5kOther$0
02FY2023 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k7 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $53k
$10,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$3.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$53,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
FRIENDS OF SUENOS$15,000
MAIA$15,000
FAITH IN PRACTICE$10,000
AMEXTRA$10,000
COOPERATIVE FOR EDUCATION$10,000
Individual grant recipient$7,500
Individual grant recipient$6,530
ASJ$5,000
XELA AID$5,000
NATUN GUATEMALA$4,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE$2,000
02The need
03

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 US giving — 90% of grant dollars ($542k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 10% that went abroad ($63k) is mapped below.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CREMOS NORTE: $5k → 7%EDUCATION PLUS NICARAGUA: $10k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
OH
PA
CA
CO
DE
SC
TX
FL

Beyond the US — 10% of all-years giving ($63k)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Mexico$63k · 2 grants

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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 5% of Linda Vista Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Linda Vista Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 10% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$261k · 9 repeat orgs$314k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +0% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
14

Total granted

$261k
$212k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+0%

Still filing today

67%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $102k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
InternationalEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentReligionOther

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

  • CF
    COOPERATIVE FOR EDUCATION
    2× · 2021–2023 · $35k · revenue +14%
  • M
    MAIA
    3× · 2021–2023 · $34k · revenue +109%
  • FI
    FAITH IN PRACTICE
    2× · 2022–2023 · $30k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • AD
    AMIGOS DE SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $58k · revenue +61%
  • UM
    URBAN MOSAIC INC
    one grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue -59%
  • PH
    POTTERS HOUSE
    one grant, 2021 · $25k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Project Village Guatemala Foundation
Health
2
Mission Partners Guatemala

In response to christ's call to share with our sisters and brothers, mission partners guatamala exists to support poverty relief, healthcare, educational and ministry efforts in guatemala.

International
3
Global Partners Running Waters Inc

Water supply systems in Central America

Community Improvement
4
Fundamaya

To strengthen the social, educational, and economic well-being of Mayan Indigenous communities in Guatemala through programs that promote learning, health, and community empowerment.

Education
5
Guatemala Village Health

Guatemala Village Health's mission is to improve health in rural Maya communities in Guatemala by working alongside village leaders and in collaboration with the Ministry of Health by facilitating the delivery of sustainable medical care,…

International
6
Miracles in Action Inc

Miracles in action empowers guatemalans living in extreme poverty to help themselves through sustainable projects that improve education, nutrition, and quality of life.

International
7
Nueva Generacion

Nueva Generacin supports low-income families in Guatemala through scholarships education and family support

8
Un Mundo

Comprehensive development organization designed to promote dignity, community and self-sufficiency while facilitating access to health care, education and livable wages in marginalized Honduran communities.

International
9
Healthy Ninos Honduras Inc

Healthy Ninos Honduras works for the health and wholeness of Honduran people, focusing on nutrition, wellness, hygiene, and education.

Food & Nutrition
10
Luz Para El Futuro

Breaking the cycle of poverty in Guatemala through education of impoverished children through education.

International
11
Natik Esperanza

Natiks mission is to partner with grassroots organizations that confront the educational, health, and economic disparities of marginalized communities in Guatemala and Mexico. All of mission goals contribute to the elimination of extreme…

International
12
Peoples Consultants

The mission of the Peoples Consultants is to provide material and intellectual support to communities organizations and individuals from developing countries to enable them to satisfy and protect their basic human rights such as good…

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Common Hope and the most unlike its peers is Integrity International. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

14 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 32 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AMEXTRANEW HOPE LUTHERAN CHURCH — $65,000 · OtherAMEXTRANEW HOPE LUTHERAN CHURCHIndividual grant recipient — $53,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPOTTERS HOUSE — $25,000 · OtherPOTTERS HOUSESAN MARCOS CHRISTIAN CAMP — $15,000 · OtherSAN MARCOS CHRISTIAN CAMPCREA — $15,000 · OtherCREAIndividual grant recipient — $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNATUN GUATEMALA — $14,000 · OtherNATUN GUATEMALAIndividual grant recipient — $10,365 · OtherAMEXTRA — $10,000 · Other+9 more — $37,630 · Other+9 moreMAIA — $33,500 · InternationalMAIAURBAN MOSAIC INC — $30,000 · InternationalURBAN MOSAIC INCXela AID Partnerships for Self Reliance — $30,000 · InternationalXela AID Partnerships for Self …FAITH IN PRACTICE — $30,000 · InternationalFAITH IN PRACTICEEL PORVENIR — $15,000 · InternationalEL PORVENIRHEALING WATERS INTERNATIONAL INC — $15,000 · InternationalHEALING WATERS INTERNATIONAL IN…COMMON HOPE — $15,000 · InternationalCOMMON HOPEAMIGOS DE SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION — $57,500 · EducationAMIGOS DE SANTA C…COOPERATIVE FOR EDUCATION — $35,000 · EducationCOOPERATIVE FOR E…OMPRAKASH INC — $30,000 · PhilanthropyFriends of Suenos — $23,700 · Youth DevelopmentEducation Plus Nicaragua Inc — $10,084 · Human ServicesCreamos Norte — $5,000 · Human ServicesINTEGRITY INTERNATIONAL — $15,000 · Religion
Other$259,995International$168,500Education$92,500Philanthropy$30,000Youth Development$23,700Human Services$15,084Religion$15,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAMIGOS DE SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION — $57,500 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR EDUCATION — $35,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMAIA — $33,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetURBAN MOSAIC INC — $30,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetOMPRAKASH INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetXela AID Partnerships for Self Reliance — $30,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetFAITH IN PRACTICE — $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFriends of Suenos — $23,700 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetEL PORVENIR — $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetINTEGRITY INTERNATIONAL — $15,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetHEALING WATERS INTERNATIONAL INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMON HOPE — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEducation Plus Nicaragua Inc — $10,084 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCreamos Norte — $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budget
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 AMIGOS DE SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION
  • Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR EDUCATION
  • Who funds MAIA
  • Who funds URBAN MOSAIC INC
  • Who funds OMPRAKASH INC
  • Who funds Xela AID Partnerships for Self Reliance
  • Who funds FAITH IN PRACTICE
  • Who funds Friends of Suenos
  • Who funds EL PORVENIR
  • Who funds INTEGRITY INTERNATIONAL
  • Who funds HEALING WATERS INTERNATIONAL INC
  • Who funds COMMON HOPE
  • Who funds Education Plus Nicaragua Inc
  • Who funds Creamos Norte

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.

The Ward Foundation IncLA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ward Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Linda Vista 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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