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Lion's Pride Foundation at a glance

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Lion's Pride Foundation

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.

$175k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Religion$415kArts & Culture$351kHealth$114kHousing & Shelter$100kEducation$95kEnvironment$38kPhilanthropy$36kRecreation & Sports$19kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $65k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$20,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE CHURCH OF BETHESDA-BY-THE-SEA$100,000
THE SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS$25,000
ALL OF SAN ANTONIO FOUNDATION$20,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC$20,000
THE BOYS' CLUB OF NEW YORK$5,000
MALTZ JUPITER THEATER$5,000
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 (FY21–22, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NARA FOUNDATION GROUP: $5k → 10%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $10k → 14%BRAVER ANGELS: $10k → 17%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

VT
MN
WI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MD
DC
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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 100% of Lion's Pride Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 16% of the giving stays in MA; by stated purpose, 0%.

Lion's Pride Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$871k · 12 repeat orgs$379k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
23

Total granted

$871k
$339k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+28%

Still filing today

58%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsHealthOther
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

  • TS
    The Society of the Four Arts Inc
    6× · 2019–2024 · $235k · revenue +989%
  • MJ
    MALTZ JUPITER THEATRE INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $20k · revenue +2%
  • FF
    FREEDOM FOR ALL INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $15k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE STONE TRUST CORPORATION
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -21%
  • MC
    MCCANCE CENTER FOR BRAIN HEALTH
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • TB
    THE BILGRAV SCHOOL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +134%
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
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
2
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
3
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
4
Berggruen Institute
Education
5
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
6
Bard College

Bard college seeks to provide a challenging academic program and a supportive environment that fosters a collaborative interchange of ideas in the classroom as well as ambition to achieve excellence.

Education
7
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc

Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…

Arts & Culture
8
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
9
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
10
The Paley Center for Media

Description of organization mission: the paley center for media is the premier institution dedicated to advancing the understanding of media-it's artistic value, social impact and historical importance-for the public and media…

Arts & Culture
11
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
12
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central Park Conservancy Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Stone Trust Corporation. 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

22 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. 22 of the 37 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
16/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHURCH OF BETHESDA BY THE SEA INC: $405,000 · OtherCHURCH OF BETHESDA BY THE SEA INCTHE STONE TRUST CORPORATION: $100,000 · OtherTHE STONE TRUST CORPORATIONMCCANCE CENTER FOR BRAIN HEALTH: $50,000 · OtherMCCANCE CENTER FOR BRAIN HEALTHYALE COLLEGE ALUMNI FUND: $32,500 · OtherNY RESTORATION PROJECT: $26,500 · Other+14 more: $129,120 · Other+14 moreThe Society of the Four Arts Inc: $235,000 · Arts & CultureThe Society of the Four Arts In…ARDEA ARTS INC: $80,000 · Arts & CultureARDEA ARTS INCMALTZ JUPITER THEATRE INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureMALTZ JUPITER THEATRE INC+2 more: $10,972 · Arts & CultureTHE BILGRAV SCHOOL INC: $30,000 · EducationTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION: $16,000 · EducationTHE STONE TRUST INC: $5,000 · EducationPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $25,000 · PhilanthropyFREEDOM FOR ALL INC: $15,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $20,000 · HealthPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · HealthBraver AngelsInc: $10,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 · Human ServicesNARA FOUNDATION GROUP: $5,000 · Human ServicesCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $11,000 · Recreation & SportsJUNIOR TENNIS CHAMPIONS CENTER INC: $7,800 · Recreation & Sports
Other$743,120Arts & Culture$345,972Education$51,000Philanthropy$41,000Health$25,000Human Services$25,000Recreation & Sports$18,800

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 budgetThe Society of the Four Arts Inc: $235,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetTHE STONE TRUST CORPORATION: $100,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetARDEA ARTS INC: $80,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetTHE BILGRAV SCHOOL INC: $30,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMALTZ JUPITER THEATRE INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION: $16,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOM FOR ALL INC: $15,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARIN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBraver AngelsInc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOYS' CLUB OF NEW YORK: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR TENNIS CHAMPIONS CENTER INC: $7,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNARA FOUNDATION GROUP: $5,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTHE STONE TRUST INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLake Minnetonka Association: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBURTON & PHYLLIS HOFFMAN FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $972 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.

National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • The Bilgrav School Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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.

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 37 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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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