· Public charity
Lithuanian Foundation Inc
To preserve and foster lithuanian culture and traditions in the unitedstates, lithuania and lithuanian communities worldwide.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 24 grants below total $1,156,640 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,728,983 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $572,343 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $340k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $393k
- $250k+1 grant · $402k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LITHUANIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY | $402,075 |
| LITHUANIAN EDUCATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE USA | $175,450 |
| LITHUANIAN WORLD CENTER | $97,500 |
| LITHUANIAN RESEARCH CENTER | $70,000 |
| LITHUANIAN WORLD COMMUNITY | $50,200 |
| DRAUGAS - LITHUANIAN CATHOLIC PRESS SOCIETY | $40,000 |
| BALZEKAS MUSEUM OF LITHUANIAN CULTURE | $32,000 |
| CAMP DAINAVA (MI) | $30,000 |
| LITHUANIAN WORLD YOUTH ASSOCIATION | $25,815 |
| LITHUANIAN HALL ASSOCIATION INC | $25,000 |
| LITHUANIAN SCOUTS ASSOCIATION | $24,000 |
| LITHUANIAN AMERICAN YOUTH ASSOCIATION | $23,000 |
| LITHUANIAN MUSEUM OF ART | $21,000 |
| LITHUANIAN CENTER INC | $20,850 |
| POPAJAV NFP | $20,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
34 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 2 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- LALITHUANIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY INC6× · 2019–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +21% · 38% of their budget
- LWLITHUANIAN WORLD CENTER7× · 2017–2024 · $510k · revenue +201%
- LRLITHUANIAN RESEARCH & STUDIES CENTER INC5× · 2019–2024 · $303k · revenue +138% · 37% of their budget
Funded once
- LELITHUANIAN EDUCATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE USAone grant, 2018 · $182k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $150k
- LALITHUANIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY CULTURAL COUNCILone grant, 2018 · $75k
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.
Support Latvian language and culture
Also provide books and the newspaper DRAUGAS twice weekly in Lithuanina and monthly in the English language.
Cultural and educational programs & democratization of lithuania programs. includes direct support to various lithuanian institutions in lithuania & usa. to expand knowledge of heritage & history and improve social and economic conditions.
To Promote Lithuanian Culture through taught classes
To preserve and foster lithuanian culture and traditions in the unitedstates, lithuania and lithuanian communities worldwide.
Ligzda is an organization that supports and promotes cultural, ethnic, religious, educational and artistic activities for Latvians in the Chicago area and wherever they may be. Ligzda is home to more than a dozen Latvian organizations…
Operation and maintenance of museum and library of the lithuanian catholic academy
Host a cultural song and dance festival in grand rapids michigan in july 2026.
Promote lithuanian choral song & culture
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lithuanian American Community Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Jewish Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 53 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
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 LITHUANIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds LITHUANIAN EDUCATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE USA ↗
- Who funds LITHUANIAN WORLD CENTER ↗
- Who funds LITHUANIAN RESEARCH & STUDIES CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LITHUANIAN WORLD COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds Lithuanian Catholic Youth Camp Dainava Inc ↗
- Who funds LITHUANIAN CATHOLIC PRESS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CAMP NERINGA INC ↗
- Who funds BALZEKAS MUSEUM OF LITHUANIAN CULTURE ↗
- Who funds LITHUANIAN CULTURAL CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds LITHUANIAN HALL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds LITHUANIAN SCOUTS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds LITHUANIAN CENTER ↗
- Who funds ATEITIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Lithuanian Museum of Art Inc ↗
- Who funds Lithuanian Opera Co ↗
- Who funds SOUTH BOSTON LITHUANIAN CITIZENS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LITHUANIAN CHORAL ENSEMBLE DAINAVA ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds LITHUANIAN AMERICAN CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds LITHUANIAN ALLIANCE OF AMERICA ↗
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: Kazickas Family Foundation · Ateitis Relief Fund Inc · Lithuanian Endowment Fund Ltd · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Lithuanian 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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