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Littler Mendelson Foundation Inc Attn Tax Manager
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 42% of LITTLER MENDELSON FOUNDATION INC ATTN TAX MANAGER’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k130 grants · $260k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $73k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICARES | $20,000 |
| THE WOMEN'S FUND OF MIAMI-DADE | $12,080 |
| WHIRLPOOL COLLECTIVE IMPACT FUND | $10,865 |
| SHEETZ FAMILY CHARITIES | $10,000 |
| CN EMPLOYEES AND PENSIONERS' COMMUNITY FUND | $10,000 |
| NIJC NFP | $10,000 |
| TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER | $7,500 |
| LEGAL AID SOCIETY | $6,000 |
| THE DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN INC | $5,700 |
| BJ'S RESTAURANT FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BLACK TIE DINNER INC | $5,000 |
| BJ'S RESTAURANT FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| LAW FIRM ANTIRACISM ALLIANCE INC | $5,000 |
| GOODWILL OF NORTH GEORGIA INC | $5,000 |
| MOMENTUM FOR HEALTH | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $278k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 61% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
279 repeat relationships — 65 still active in FY2024, 214 since wound down; 61 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, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $152k 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
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $122k · revenue +33%
- EJEQUAL JUSTICE WORKS3× · 2017–2024 · $73k · revenue +33%
- PCPANDA CARES FOUNDATION INC5× · 2018–2023 · $60k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $38k · revenue +46%
EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVEone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -63%- AAASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICEone grant, 2021 · $25k
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 meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.
To attract, recruit, advance, and retain attorneys of color in the twin cities through education and collaboration with member organizations.
The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.
The bar association of san francisco champions equal access to justice and promotes humanity, excellence, and diversity in the legal profession. we provide legal services to disadvantaged and underserved individuals in san francisco. we…
The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.
To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.
Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.
Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mo Assn of Rural Education. 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 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
679 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. 679 of the 935 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 American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE WORKS ↗
- Who funds PANDA CARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR URBAN DEBATE LEAGUES ↗
- Who funds WHIRLPOOL COLLECTIVE IMPACT FUND ↗
- Who funds BLACK TIE DINNER INC ↗
- Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds RITE AID HEALTHY FUTURES ↗
- Who funds CHAMPIONS OF THE COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Rights ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CONFLICT PREVENTION & RESOLUTION INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds BJ'S RESTAURANTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Illinois Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds MEDSTAR HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY LAW LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SUN RIVER HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Legal Aid Foundation of Colorado ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GIANTS COMMUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR LEGAL AID ↗
- Who funds THE ASSOCIATION OF BLACK WOMEN ATTORNEYS ↗
- Who funds COORDINATED ADVICE & REFERRAL PROGRAM FOR LEGAL SERVICES ↗
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: The Sidley Austin Foundation · The Morrison & Foerster Foundation · United Way Miami Inc · Perkins Coie Foundation · Equal Justice Works · The Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Foundation · Munger Tolles & Olson Foundation · California Access to Justice Commission · The Gibson Dunn & Crutcher Foundation · Jackson Lewis Foundation · California Changelawyers · Katten Muchin Rosenman 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 Littler Mendelson Foundation Inc Attn Tax Manager 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.
- His House Inc — 75% of income from government
- Womens Center of Jacksonville Inc — 37% of income from government
- Partners for Women and Justice Inc — 26% of income from government
- Medstar Health Inc — 23% of income from government
- Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
- St Andrew Legal Clinic — 2% of income from government
- Legal Services of Greater Miami Inc — 2% of income from government
- Fairfield University — 1% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Global Empowerment Mission Inc — 0% 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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