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Livingston Foundation Inc

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$4k
Granted FY2022
5
Grants FY2022
4
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Philanthropy$929kEducation$60kArts & Culture$52kFood & Nutrition$38kHuman Services$31kHealth$29kCivil Rights$20kInternational$16kOther$0
02FY2022 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$618
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LIVWELL DONOR ADVISED FUND$1,854
LIVINGSTON BRANT FUND$618
LOUIS AND MARI LIVINGSTON FUND$618
LIVINGSTON FOUNDATION$618
LIVINGSTON & BOWERMASTER CHARITABLE FUND$618
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 (FY17–21, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 41% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%THE FAMILY PLACE: $500 → 14%COVENANT HOUSE: $500 → 13%WOMENS INFORMATION SERVICE: $500 → 20%HEARTS YOU HOLD: $500 → 10%THE FAMILY PLACE: $250 → 14%HEARTS YOU HOLD: $500 → 10%JOIN: $500 → 12%JOIN: $500 → 12%YOUTH CARE: $1k → 9%YOUTH CARE: $1k → 9%YOUTH CARE: $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

VT
NH
WA
MT
MI
NY
MA
OR
WY
OH
CT
RI
CA
MO
VA
DC
HI
AL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 68 repeat orgs$37k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

68 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2022, 63 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

68
44

Total granted

$1.2M
$37k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+31%

Still filing today

57%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
EducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • NEW ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $26k · revenue +48%
  • OREGON FOOD BANK
    5× · 2017–2021 · $15k · revenue +70%
  • OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING
    5× · 2017–2021 · $11k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • CC
    Caramoor Center for Music
    one grant, 2021 · $3k
  • AC
    ALDER CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL OUTDOOR SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • MO
    MEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
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
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
2
United States Naval Institute

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.

—
3
Npr Foundation

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…

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4
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
5
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
6
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
7
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
8
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
9
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
10
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
11
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
12
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neighborhood Coalition for Shelter Inc; the most unlike its peers is Pomona College. 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

63 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. 63 of the 116 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/63
Grantees still filing
54/63
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LIVWELL DONOR ADVISED FUND: $374,913 · OtherLIVWELL DONOR ADVISED FUNDLIVINGSTON FOUNDATION: $130,138 · OtherLIVINGSTON FOUNDATIONLIVINGSTON BRANT FUND: $129,840 · OtherLIVINGSTON BRANT FUNDLOUIS AND MARI LIVINGSTON FUND: $129,840 · OtherLOUIS AND MARI LIVINGSTON FUNDLIVINGSTON & BOWERMASTER CHARITABLE FUND: $128,671 · OtherLIVINGSTON & BOWERMASTER CHARITABLE FUND+80 more: $238,800 · Other+80 moreCaramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc: $18,000 · Arts & CultureOREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $11,000 · Arts & CultureNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 · Arts & CultureHAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII: $1,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $500 · Arts & CultureSOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS: $12,000 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $2,500 · PhilanthropySEATTLE FOUNDATION: $1,000 · PhilanthropyFORCE BLUE INC: $1,000 · PhilanthropyMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $6,000 · Food & NutritionVERMONT FOODBANK: $5,000 · Food & NutritionMARIN AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST: $4,000 · Food & NutritionMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $5,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $5,000 · InternationalMercy Corps: $3,000 · InternationalHIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC: $500 · InternationalPOMONA COLLEGE: $2,500 · EducationCENTER FOR COURAGE & RENEWAL: $2,000 · EducationETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL: $2,000 · EducationCornell University: $2,000 · EducationUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $1,000 · EducationTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $1,000 · EducationThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $1,000 · EducationKINGSLEY TRUST ASSOCIATION: $500 · EducationENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $3,500 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $3,000 · EnvironmentNORTH SALEM OPEN LAND FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL: $500 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICE: $500 · EnvironmentCHARCOAL PROJECT INC: $500 · EnvironmentPEOPLE AND CARNIVORES INC: $500 · Environment
Other$1,132,202Arts & Culture$32,500Philanthropy$16,500Food & Nutrition$15,000International$13,500Education$12,000Environment$11,500

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 budgetNEW ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN INC: $25,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCaramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc: $18,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOREGON FOOD BANK: $14,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS: $12,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $11,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVermont Public Radio: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJBI INTERNATIONAL INC: $5,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVERMONT FOODBANK: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECT: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMARIN AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGETTING OUT AND STAYING OUT INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $3,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBALLARD FOOD BANK: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Corps: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH SALEM OPEN LAND FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetYOUTHCARE: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPhinney Neighborhood Association: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPOMONA COLLEGE: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DOE FUND INC: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNTAIN HOUSE INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMaris Place: $2,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCENTER FOR COURAGE & RENEWAL: $2,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GREENWOOD SCHOOL INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD COALITION FOR SHELTER INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE PORTLAND MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUTSIDE IN: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEARTS YOU HOLD INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetJOIN: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA KIWANIS FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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 NEW ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds Caramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc ↗
  • Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING ↗
  • Who funds MAUI FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Vermont Public Radio ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds JBI INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
  • Who funds VERMONT FOODBANK ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds MARIN AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds GETTING OUT AND STAYING OUT INC ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
  • Who funds BALLARD FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds Mercy Corps ↗

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.

The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY12.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Livingston Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Livingston Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • Outside in: 33% of income from government
  • Oregon Food Bank: 21% of income from government
  • Vermont Foodbank: 13% of income from government
  • Providence Portland Medical Foundation: 5% of income from government
  • Join: 4% of income from government
  • Covenant House Florida Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Oregon Public Broadcasting: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
19report 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 Livingston Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Livingston 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 116 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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