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Lkq Community Foundation

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.

$3.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
46
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$1.1M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Education$3.3MInternational$1.8MHealth$1.2MPhilanthropy$1.1MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.0MEmployment$949kHuman Services$806kEnvironment$493kOther$0
02FY2024 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $382k
  • $50k–250k17 grants · $1.4M
  • $250k+4 grants · $2.0M
$25,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC$1,055,210
CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA$342,300
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE$336,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$300,000
UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC$150,000
NO GREATER SACRIFICE FOUNDATION$150,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC$140,000
I-CAR EDUCATION FOUNDATION$125,000
CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK$100,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE INC$100,000
MAKE-A-WISH AMERICA$100,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA INC$100,000
CRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL$70,000
FOLD OF HONOR TENNESSEE CHAPTER INC$58,400
THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC$50,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Victims First Inc: $25k → 14%THE CHANGING AND SAVING LIVES FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%Community Options Foundation Inc: $10k → 11%CHANGING AND SAVING LIVES FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%American National Red Cross: $250k → 14%American National Red Cross: $250k → 14%FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $50k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $300k → 14%American National Red Cross: $100k → 14%World Food Programme: $54k → 14%Emergent Forest Finance Accelerator: $14k → 17%Brightpoint: $5k → 14%Alive Hospice Inc: $1k → 14%Childrens Home & Aid Society of Illinois: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

VT
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
KS
TN
SC
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.4M · 29 repeat orgs$2.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.

29 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
43

Total granted

$7.4M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+3%

Still filing today

86%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $590k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesInternationalHealthEnvironmentOther

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

  • CF
    CENTER FOR SCHOLARSHIP ADMINISTRATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +39% · 52% of their budget
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    4× · 2021–2024 · $900k · revenue +27%
  • IC
    I CAR EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $477k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • SU
    Skills USA
    one grant, 2023 · $298k
  • AE
    ASE EDUCATION FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $164k · revenue +30%
  • CR
    Collision Repair Education Foundati
    one grant, 2021 · $160k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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2
National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors

Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.

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3
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.

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4
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
5
National Association of Corporate Directors

We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.

Public Benefit
6
United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

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7
National Association for College Admission Counseling

Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.

Education
8
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
9
American Foreign Service Association

American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…

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10
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
11
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

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…

Health
12
National Committee for Quality Assurance

Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Myriad Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is California Automotive Wholesalers Memorial Fund. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCancer Support ServicesMilitary Veterans SupportYouth Sports ProgramsLgbtq+ Community SupportChristian Missionary Organi…Immigrant Worker SupportDomestic Violence ServicesPolicy Research and AdvocacyUnited Way AffiliatesCommunity College Foundatio…Independent K-12 SchoolsHealth Access Advocacy and …Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Environmental Conservation …Community FoundationsFood Banks and Pantries
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%7%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr16%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr16%37%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr16%29%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/79
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,486

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.

04the grantee network

72 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. 72 of the 99 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
72/72
Grantees still filing
45/72
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC — $1,435,860 · OtherSCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INCCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK — $317,702 · OtherCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORKSkills USA — $297,592 · OtherSkills USAASE EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $163,806 · OtherCollision Repair Education Foundati — $159,720 · OtherI CAR EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $477,214 · OtherI CAR EDUCATION FOUNDATIONFeeding America — $306,960 · OtherFeeding America+43 more — $1,530,330 · Other+43 moreCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $1,118,679 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES AID FOUNDATIO…THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC — $636,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATIO…ONE TREE PLANTED INC — $156,683 · PhilanthropyONE TREE PLANTED INCGLOBAL CHARITABLE FUND — $155,548 · PhilanthropyGLOBAL CHARITABLE FUNDMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION — $79,469 · Philanthropy+7 more — $223,260 · Philanthropy+7 moreCENTER FOR SCHOLARSHIP ADMINISTRATION — $1,063,286 · EducationCENTER FOR SCH…BREAKTHROUGH — $100,000 · EducationBREAKTHROUGHFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION — $88,402 · EducationFOLDS OF HONOR…FOLDS OF HONOR - TENNESSEE CHAPTER — $58,400 · EducationTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · Education+9 more — $113,540 · Education+9 moreAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $900,000 · Human ServicesAmerican N…FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC — $104,023 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF…CHANGING AND SAVING LIVES FOUNDATION INC % HJERPE & TENNISON CPAs — $50,000 · Human Services+5 more — $60,480 · Human Services+5 moreInternational Rescue Committee INC — $200,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $177,333 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $81,648 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $76,182 · InternationalNOVA UKRAINE — $68,489 · International+2 more — $33,920 · InternationalUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC — $499,800 · Public BenefitNo Greater Sacrifice Foundation — $200,000 · Public BenefitAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $498,360 · HealthNAMI National — $25,000 · Health+3 more — $15,000 · Health
Other$4,689,184Philanthropy$2,369,639Education$1,473,628Human Services$1,114,503International$737,572Public Benefit$699,800Health$538,360

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $1,118,679 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR SCHOLARSHIP ADMINISTRATION — $1,063,286 over 2y, 52% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $900,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC — $636,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC — $499,800 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $498,360 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetI CAR EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $477,214 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK — $317,702 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFeeding America — $306,960 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNo Greater Sacrifice Foundation — $200,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $177,333 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetASE EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $163,806 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetONE TREE PLANTED INC — $156,683 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGLOBAL CHARITABLE FUND — $155,548 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTENNESSEE ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL — $150,000 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetFriends of Mill Ridge Park — $125,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC — $104,023 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH — $100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION — $88,402 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $81,648 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION — $79,469 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $77,464 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $76,182 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNOVA UKRAINE — $68,489 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION — $64,182 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR - TENNESSEE CHAPTER — $58,400 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHANGING AND SAVING LIVES FOUNDATION INC % HJERPE & TENNISON CPAs — $50,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetTECHFORCE FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetIndependence Foundation Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetEDWARDSVILLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters Of America — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOUNCIL OF KOREAN AMERICANS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetThurgood Marshall College Fund — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI National — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNational Alliance On Mental Illness — $25,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetTHE MALALA FUND — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVictims First Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHISPANIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE — $23,760 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TOM COUGHLIN JAY FUND FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budget911 DAY — $19,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budget
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.

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.

Hca Healthcare Founda…The Community Foundat…The Frist FoundationMemorial Foundation I…The Allstate Foundati…The Chicago Community…Raymond James Charita…Mightycause Charitabl…National Philanthropi…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Charities Aid Foundat…Morgan Stanley Global…
Hca Healthcare FoundationTN16.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Frist Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · The Allstate Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Lkq Community 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of America — 21% of income from government
  • Heart of Florida United Way Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Lkq Community Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Lkq Community 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 99 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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The unnamed billions
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines