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Litzenberger Family 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.

$43k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0184% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$290kArts & Culture$72kCivil Rights$40kInternational$36kHuman Services$35kPublic Benefit$29kSocial Science$15kCommunity Improvement$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$3,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CIRCLE MATCH$10,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
THE HOMESTEAD SCHOOL$5,000
KINDRED SPIRITS$5,000
WVIA$5,000
INDEPENDENT FEATURE PROJECT$5,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
BLACK BEAR FILM FESTIVAL$1,500
PIKE OPERA INC$1,000
TRIVERSITY PRIDE CENTER$1,000
WAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$500
Individual grant recipient$500
FRIENDS OF MARIE ZIMMERMANN$500
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 (FY17–22, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%TAKE THE LEAD: $5k → 9%TAKE THE LEAD: $3k → 9%WOMEN'S ENEWS: $1k → 17%TAKE THE LEAD: $1k → 9%FOUNDATION FOR HARMONY: $1k → 9%FOUNDATION FOR HARMONY: $1k → 9%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

WA
MN
MI
NY
OR
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
NC
SC
DC
AL
TX
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$542k · 39 repeat orgs$109k to everyone else

39 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
32

Total granted

$542k
$97k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+19%

Still filing today

56%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementInternationalEnvironmentOther
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

  • CM
    Carnegie Mellon University
    4× · 2017–2020 · $200k · revenue +15%
  • TC
    THE CLEAR FUND
    2× · 2023–2024 · $30k · revenue +23%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FINANCE ASSOCIATION
    3× · 2019–2022 · $25k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • UK
    UNC KENAN-FLAGLER BUSINESS SCHOOL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • VC
    VASSAR COLLEGE
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +19%
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
Womens Foreign Policy Group Inc

Founded in 1995 wfpg works to expand the foreign policy dialogue across policital divides and generations and to support women at every stake of their careers. as champions of womens leadership we are proud of our role in expanding the…

International
2
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
3
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
4
Forum of Executive Women

Our core mission is to bring together, and leverage the influence of, professional women to expand the impact and power of women in the workplace and beyond.our vision is that women will achieve (continued on schedule o)equitable…

—
5
Women Employed

To improve the economic status of women and remove barriers to economic equity.

Employment
6
Center for International Policy Inc

The center for international policy is a woman-led, progressive, independent nonprofit center for research, education, and advocacy working to advance a more peaceful, just, and sustainable u.s. approach to foreign policy. through…

International
7
Via Art Fund Inc

Via art fund is a nonprofit organization where art patrons join forces as partners in a new model of philanthropy to support visionary initiatives in art.

Arts & Culture
8
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
9
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
10
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
11
World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh

The world affairs council of pittsburgh's mission is to convene and connect people around global issues to build a competitive, thriving, and inclusive pittsburgh.

International
12
Womens Funding Network

Our mission as a global alliance is to provide strategies, research, and resources that support the critical agency and influence of women's foundations and gender justice funders in the movement for equality, justice, and power for all.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Take the Lead Inc; the most unlike its peers is Foundation for Advancement of Research in Financial Economics-C/O Dr C Spatt. 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

41 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. 41 of the 78 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/41
Grantees still filing
21/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Carnegie Mellon University: $200,000 · OtherCarnegie Mellon UniversityPEEC: $35,090 · OtherPEECIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $25,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILLUNC KENAN-FLAGLER BUSINESS SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherUNC KENAN-FLAGLER BUSINESS SCHOOL FOUNDATIONDELAWARE VALLEY ACTION: $18,000 · Other+45 more: $136,150 · Other+45 morePike County Historical Society Inc: $20,000 · Arts & CulturePike Coun…BLACK BEAR FILM FESTIVAL INC: $9,000 · Arts & CultureBLACK BEA…NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION ASSOCIATION: $8,500 · Arts & CultureNORTHEAST…INDEPENDENT FEATURE PROJECT INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureINDEPENDE…Pike Artworks: $3,500 · Arts & CulturePike Artw…PIKE OPERA CORPORATION: $3,000 · Arts & CulturePIKE OPER…US BACKGAMMON FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureFOUNDATION FOR ADVANCEMENT OF RESEARCH IN FINANCIAL ECONOMICS-C/O DR C SPATT: $15,000 · EducationIn4All: $10,000 · EducationANTIOCH COLLEGE CORPORATION: $7,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE HOMESTEAD SCHOOL INC: $4,000 · Education+3 more: $1,522 · EducationTHE CLEAR FUND: $29,500 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CRAWFORD COUNTY INC: $2,500 · PhilanthropyTHE GREATER PIKE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,750 · Philanthropy+1 more: $500 · PhilanthropyVIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC: $17,000 · Community ImprovementMILFORD ENHANCEMENT COMMITTEE: $8,000 · Community ImprovementTHE WORKING WORLD INC: $4,500 · Community ImprovementAMERICAN FINANCE ASSOCIATION: $25,000 · Public BenefitTAKE THE LEAD INC: $8,500 · Human ServicesFoundation for Harmony Presents: $2,250 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S E-NEWS: $1,000 · Human ServicesGIVEDIRECTLY INC: $1,000 · Human Services
Other$464,240Arts & Culture$52,500Education$37,522Philanthropy$34,250Community Improvement$29,500Public Benefit$25,000Human Services$12,750

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCarnegie Mellon University: $200,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEAR FUND: $29,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FINANCE ASSOCIATION: $25,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetPike County Historical Society Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetVIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC: $17,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR ADVANCEMENT OF RESEARCH IN FINANCIAL ECONOMICS-C/O DR C SPATT: $15,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetVASSAR COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIn4All: $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBLACK BEAR FILM FESTIVAL INC: $9,000 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetNORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION ASSOCIATION: $8,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTAKE THE LEAD INC: $8,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMILFORD ENHANCEMENT COMMITTEE: $8,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetANTIOCH COLLEGE CORPORATION: $7,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDELAWARE HIGHLANDS CONSERVANCY: $6,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetINDEPENDENT FEATURE PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WORKING WORLD INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HOMESTEAD SCHOOL INC: $4,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetPike Artworks: $3,500 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetERA COALITION INC: $3,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetPIKE OPERA CORPORATION: $3,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetPortland YouthBuilders: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CRAWFORD COUNTY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBUILDING TOGETHER INC: $2,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetUS BACKGAMMON FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetFoundation for Harmony Presents: $2,250 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLan Su Chinese Garden: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GREATER PIKE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,750 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWOMEN'S E-NEWS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSHOHOLA TWP VOLUNTEER FIRE & RESCU: $1,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALPINE LEARNING GROUP EDUCATION PROGRAM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFUND FOR WOMEN'S EQUALITY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIVEDIRECTLY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Against Malaria Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLOTHES TO KIDS OF FAIRFIELD COUNTYINC: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD SUSTAINABLE LEARNING FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOOKS TO PRISONERS: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLAIR ACADEMY: $22 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.

  • Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
  • Who funds THE CLEAR FUND ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FINANCE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Pike County Historical Society Inc ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCEMENT OF RESEARCH IN FINANCIAL ECONOMICS-C/O DR C SPATT ↗
  • Who funds VASSAR COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds In4All ↗
  • Who funds BLACK BEAR FILM FESTIVAL INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds TAKE THE LEAD INC ↗
  • Who funds MILFORD ENHANCEMENT COMMITTEE ↗
  • Who funds ANTIOCH COLLEGE CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds DELAWARE HIGHLANDS CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds INDEPENDENT FEATURE PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds THE WORKING WORLD INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HOMESTEAD SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds Pike Artworks ↗
  • Who funds ERA COALITION INC ↗
  • Who funds PIKE OPERA CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Portland YouthBuilders ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CRAWFORD COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds BUILDING TOGETHER INC ↗
  • Who funds US BACKGAMMON FOUNDATION INC ↗

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.

Pocono Mountains Vaca…The Greater Pike Comm…Hickory Hill Foundati…The Harry and Jeanett…ImpactassetsincSilicon Valley Commun…The Blackbaud Giving …American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…
Pocono Mountains Vacation Bureau IncPA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pocono Mountains Vacation Bureau Inc · The Greater Pike Community Foundation · Hickory Hill Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 35%
  • Portland YouthBuilders: 35% of income from government
  • Blair Academy: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
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How do I get to Litzenberger Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Litzenberger Family Foundation 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 78 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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