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Lls Foundation Inc

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.

$42k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

International$135kCivil Rights$103kHealth$92kPublic Benefit$50kHuman Services$38kEducation$27kReligion$11kFood & Nutrition$9kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $2k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $40k
$40,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE JAFFA INSTITUTE$40,000
UKRANIAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICA$2,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE ELIZABETH CADY STANTON & SUSAN B ANTHONY STATUE FUND INC: $1k → 20%CENTER FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT: $5k → 14%THE FAMILY CENTER: $5k → 17%HUDSON GUILD: $1k → 17%HUDSON GUILD: $1k → 17%HUDSON GUILD: $1k → 17%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
IL
WI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
MO
VA
NC
DC
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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$278k · 17 repeat orgs$183k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +62% since the first grant, against +49% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
39

Total granted

$278k
$181k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
+49%

Still filing today

71%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalEducationCivil RightsHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureOther
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

  • THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $41k · revenue +69%
  • NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES
    3× · 2017–2019 · $35k · revenue +292%
  • SV
    Southwest Voter Registration Education Project Inc
    2× · 2019–2020 · $25k · revenue +200%

Funded once

  • NI
    NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR REPRO HEALTH
    one grant, 2021 · $30k
  • A
    AJWS
    one grant, 2021 · $30k
  • CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +65%
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
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
2
The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International
3
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
4
Institute for Women's Policy Research

Iwpr champions economic equity for all women and eliminates barriers to their full participation in society. as a leading national think tank, iwpr builds evidence to shape policies that grow women's power and influence, close inequality…

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5
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
6
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
7
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
8
International Women's Forum Inc

The mission of the international women's forum is to advance women's leadership worldwide. iwf takes direct action to achieve our mission in three important ways. connect: our convenings provide networking and cutting-edge content…

Education
9
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
10
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
11
International Crisis Group

Crisis group works to prevent and resolve deadly conflict around the world by informing and influencing the perceptions and actions of policymakers and other key conflict actors. to this end, we endeavour to talk to all sides and provide…

International
12
Washington Office On Latin America

To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Side Center for Community Life; the most unlike its peers is Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B Anthony Statue Fund Inc. 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

34 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. 34 of the 58 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
23/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES: $35,000 · OtherNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIESNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR REPRO HEALTH: $30,000 · OtherNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR REPRO HEALTHAJWS: $30,000 · OtherAJWSIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherFISTULA FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF PA CITIZENS EDUCATION FUND: $10,000 · OtherLWV OF FLORIDA EDUCATION: $10,000 · OtherCONGREGATION RODEPH SHOLOM: $9,500 · Other+27 more: $51,500 · Other+27 moreTHE INSTITUTE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN JAFFA INC: $75,000 · InternationalTHE INSTITUTE FOR THE ADVANCE…AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $40,000 · InternationalAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE…HANDS IN OUTREACH INC: $12,500 · InternationalHANDS IN OUTREACH INC+4 more: $2,500 · InternationalTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $40,500 · Civil RightsTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIV…NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH INC: $40,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR REP…Southwest Voter Registration Education Project Inc: $25,000 · Civil RightsSouthwest Voter Registrati…VOTEORG: $10,000 · Civil RightsVOTEORGCENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE: $25,000 · Community ImprovementTHE ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE: $11,000 · EducationLITERACY INC: $1,000 · EducationTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $1,000 · EducationTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC: $500 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $500 · EducationTHE FAMILY CENTER INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT: $5,000 · Human ServicesHUDSON GUILDINC: $3,000 · Human ServicesELIZABETH CADY STANTON & SUSAN B ANTHONY STATUE FUND INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesWEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentAll Star Code Inc: $1,000 · Youth Development
Other$196,000International$130,000Civil Rights$115,500Community Improvement$25,000Education$14,000Human Services$14,000Youth Development$6,000

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 budgetTHE INSTITUTE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN JAFFA INC: $75,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $40,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES: $35,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSouthwest Voter Registration Education Project Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHANDS IN OUTREACH INC: $12,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetTHE ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVOTEORG: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FAMILY CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEST SIDE COMMUNITY GARDEN: $4,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CARDIAC ALLIANCE INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHUDSON GUILDINC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUKRAINIAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSHARE SELF-HELP FOR WOMEN WITH BREAST OR OVARIAN CANCER INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAll Star Code Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetELIZABETH CADY STANTON & SUSAN B ANTHONY STATUE FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOUNTAIN HOUSE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLITERACY INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLANDMARK WEST INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELIZABETH GLASER PEDIATRIC AIDS FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC: $500 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.

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 Cha…Jewish Communal FundThe New York Communit…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Pfizer Foundation…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY14.2× affinity5 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 New York Community Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving 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 Lls Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lls Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    12report 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
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Lls Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Lls 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 58 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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