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Lithuanian Foundation Inc

To preserve and foster lithuanian culture and traditions in the unitedstates, lithuania and lithuanian communities worldwide.

$1.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$402k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$3.0MEducation$1.3MPhilanthropy$962kYouth Development$638kRecreation & Sports$346kHuman Services$103kScience & Tech$80kCommunity Improvement$65kOther$0
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 24 grants below total $1,156,640, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,728,983 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $572,343 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 $10k3 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $340k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $393k
  • $250k+1 grant · $402k
$23,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$59M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN LITHUANIAN PRESS & RADIO ASSN VILTIS INC: $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
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
VA
MD
GA
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.9M · 34 repeat orgs$656k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
17

Total granted

$5.9M
$635k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+500%

Still filing today

59%
12%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
Arts & CultureReligionPhilanthropySocial ScienceRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • LA
    LITHUANIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +21% · 38% of their budget
  • LW
    LITHUANIAN WORLD CENTER
    7× · 2017–2024 · $510k · revenue +201%
  • LR
    LITHUANIAN RESEARCH & STUDIES CENTER INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $303k · revenue +138% · 37% of their budget

Funded once

  • LE
    LITHUANIAN EDUCATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE USA
    one grant, 2018 · $182k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $150k
  • LA
    LITHUANIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY CULTURAL COUNCIL
    one grant, 2018 · $75k
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
Lithuanian Melodies Inc
Arts & Culture
2
Northern California Latvian Assn

Support Latvian language and culture

Arts & Culture
3
Draugas Foundation

Also provide books and the newspaper DRAUGAS twice weekly in Lithuanina and monthly in the English language.

Religion
4
Lithuanian Cultural School of Chicago

To Promote Lithuanian Culture through taught classes

Arts & Culture
5
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
6
Remembering Litvaks Inc
Arts & Culture
7
Ligzda Latvian Center

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…

Human Services
8
Lithuanian National Foundation Inc

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.

International
9
Exultate Choir Inc

Promote lithuanian choral song & culture

Arts & Culture
10
Xvi Latvian Song and Dance Festival Inc

Host a cultural song and dance festival in grand rapids michigan in july 2026.

Arts & Culture
11
Lithuanian Foundation Inc

To preserve and foster lithuanian culture and traditions in the unitedstates, lithuania and lithuanian communities worldwide.

Arts & Culture
12
Lithuanian Catholic Academy of Sciences Inc

Operation and maintenance of museum and library of the lithuanian catholic academy

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lithuanian American Community Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 53 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.

11
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
17/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LITHUANIAN WORLD CENTER: $510,314 · OtherLITHUANIAN WORLD CENTERLithuanian Catholic Youth Camp Dainava Inc: $200,000 · OtherLithuanian Catholic Youth Camp Dainava I…LITHUANIAN EDUCATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE USA: $181,700 · OtherLITHUANIAN EDUCATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE US…Individual grant recipient: $150,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLAC NATIONAL EXEC COMMITTEE: $146,500 · OtherLAC NATIONAL EXEC COMMITTEELITHUANIAN AMERICAN YOUTH ASSOCIATION: $137,000 · OtherLITHUANIAN AMERICAN YOUTH ASSOCIATIONLITHUANIAN CULTURAL CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA: $103,120 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $80,000 · Other+29 more: $843,652 · Other+29 moreLITHUANIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY INC: $1,831,759 · PhilanthropyLITHUANIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY I…LITHUANIAN EDUCATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE USA: $930,270 · Arts & CultureLITHUANIAN EDUCATIONAL COU…LITHUANIAN WORLD COMMUNITY: $255,885 · Arts & CultureLITHUANIAN WORLD COMMUNITYBALZEKAS MUSEUM OF LITHUANIAN CULTURE: $106,000 · Arts & CultureBALZEKAS MUSEUM OF LITHUAN…LITHUANIAN SCOUTS ASSOCIATION INC: $98,500 · Arts & CultureLITHUANIAN SCOUTS ASSOCIAT…+5 more: $130,750 · Arts & Culture+5 moreLITHUANIAN CATHOLIC PRESS SOCIETY: $175,000 · ReligionCAMP NERINGA INC: $175,000 · Religion+1 more: $7,500 · ReligionLITHUANIAN RESEARCH & STUDIES CENTER INC: $303,000 · Social ScienceLITHUANIAN HALL ASSOCIATION INC: $100,000 · Recreation & SportsLITHUANIAN CENTER: $96,350 · Community Improvement
Other$2,352,286Philanthropy$1,831,759Arts & Culture$1,521,405Religion$357,500Social Science$303,000Recreation & Sports$100,000Community Improvement$96,350

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLITHUANIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY INC: $1,831,759 over 6y, 38% of budgetLITHUANIAN EDUCATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE USA: $930,270 over 5y, 35% of budgetLITHUANIAN WORLD CENTER: $510,314 over 7y, 7.9% of budgetLITHUANIAN RESEARCH & STUDIES CENTER INC: $303,000 over 5y, 37% of budgetLITHUANIAN WORLD COMMUNITY: $255,885 over 6y, 84% of budgetLithuanian Catholic Youth Camp Dainava Inc: $200,000 over 6y, 14% of budgetLITHUANIAN CATHOLIC PRESS SOCIETY: $175,000 over 5y, 7.8% of budgetCAMP NERINGA INC: $175,000 over 8y, 6.6% of budgetBALZEKAS MUSEUM OF LITHUANIAN CULTURE: $106,000 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetLITHUANIAN CULTURAL CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA: $103,120 over 6y, 46% of budgetLITHUANIAN HALL ASSOCIATION INC: $100,000 over 6y, 20% of budgetLITHUANIAN SCOUTS ASSOCIATION INC: $98,500 over 5y, 8.7% of budgetLITHUANIAN CENTER: $96,350 over 5y, 14% of budgetATEITIS FOUNDATION: $73,500 over 5y, 44% of budgetLithuanian Museum of Art Inc: $57,500 over 6y, 16% of budgetLithuanian Opera Co: $42,500 over 3y, 76% of budgetSOUTH BOSTON LITHUANIAN CITIZENS ASSOCIATION: $30,000 over 2y, 45% of budgetLITHUANIAN CHORAL ENSEMBLE DAINAVA: $29,750 over 4y, 76% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLITHUANIAN AMERICAN CLUB INC: $22,500 over 2y, 13% of budgetLITHUANIAN ALLIANCE OF AMERICA: $20,000 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetCHILD'S GATE TO LEARNING: $11,100 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetLithuanian Days: $11,000 over 1y, 56% of budgetLITHUANIAN CATHOLIC FEDERATION ATETIS INCORPORATED: $7,500 over 1y, 26% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Kazickas Family Found…Ateitis Relief Fund I…Lithuanian Endowment …Network for GoodDonor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Kazickas Family FoundationNY17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Lithuanian Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lithuanian Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get 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, 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Lithuanian Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Lithuanian 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 53 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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