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Ljl 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $3k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $197k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WEST MEAD #1 VFC | $50,000 |
| CONNEAUT LAKE AQUATIC MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION | $39,000 |
| COMMON ROOTS | $25,000 |
| BETHESDA FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN | $25,000 |
| CRAWFORD COUNTY YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| FRENCH CREEK VALLEY CONSERVANCY | $20,000 |
| WEST END ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $17,500 |
| CRAWFORD COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| CRAWFORD HERITAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ST JAMES HAVEN | $10,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| MEADVILLE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BLACK ASH CEMETARY ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
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 (FY21–25, $91k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 88% 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.
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 +44% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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
- SJSt James Haven Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +125%
- CLCONNEAUT LAKE AQUATIC MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION INC4× · 2021–2025 · $59k · revenue +46%
- AAACTIVE AGING FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2023 · $40k · revenue +113%
Funded once
- EZErie Zoological Societyone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
- MAMEADVILLE AREA RECREATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -37%
- CCCRAWFORD COUNTY SCHOOL FOR ADULT EDUCATIONone grant, 2022 · $20k
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.
The objective of the franklin county historical society - kittochtinny shall be to foster increased knowledge of the history of franklin county and the cumberland valley through a museum and library, to publish papers of the corporation at…
The trust is dedicated to protecting the natural heritage of the pocono mountains region, in northeastern pennsylvaina, by conserving land and inspiring people to care for, enjoy, and explore their natural world.
Engaging the community in the preservation, education and celebration of our heritage.
To improve lives by prioritizing needs and mobilizing human and financial resources to positively impact the education, financial stability, and physical and emotional health of our neighbors.
To preserve life and promote health and safety in our community.
The Chestnut Hill Conservancy conserves, preserves, and celebrates history, architecture, and landscapes in Chestnut Hill and the lower Wissahickon watershed through inclusive and proactive community engagement, advocacy, and stewardship.
Volunteer firefighting
Conservation efforts to study and maintain brights creek in canadensis, pa.
Valley view haven d/b/a valley view retirement community, is a not-for-profit corporation as described in section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code. valley view haven's mission is to provide a continuum of quality residential and long…
Provide shelter for homeless animals and prevent animal cruelty
The clinton county healthy communities's is a not-for-profit organization that provides healthy family activities and programs to promote positive health outcomes and to provide quality oral health care services to low income residents of…
The community foundation is the leader and advocate for strategic philanthropy, partnering with donors to anchor a permanent and growing endowment making investments in the mahoning valley that improve the quality of life for all residents.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crawford Heritage Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Erie Zoological Society. 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 36 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 27 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 MEADVILLE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CRAWFORD HERITAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds St James Haven Inc ↗
- Who funds CONNEAUT LAKE AQUATIC MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ACTIVE AGING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMON ROOTS ↗
- Who funds WEST END ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO ↗
- Who funds BETHESDA FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Erie Zoological Society ↗
- Who funds CRAWFORD COUNTY YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FRENCH CREEK VALLEY CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds MEADVILLE AREA RECREATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOODLANDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEADVILLE COOPERATIVE PRESCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CRAWFORD COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds FIELDSTONE FARM THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
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: Rdl Family Foundation · Ainsworth Foundation · Erie Community Foundation · Harry Winslow Foundation · Crawford Heritage Community Foundation · Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks Lodge 219 · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Ljl Family Foundation 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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