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Lm 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 · $5k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $171k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $880k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BREAKING GROUND | $225,000 |
| CENTER ON BUDGET AND POLICY PRIORITIES | $200,000 |
| VERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE | $150,000 |
| GOVERNING FOR IMPACT | $100,000 |
| JOHN JAY COLLEGE | $100,000 |
| THE DOE FUND | $55,000 |
| GUGGENHEIM | $50,000 |
| MACAULAY HONORS COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| BAIL PROJECT | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $20,000 |
| CHURCH OF SAINT JOSEPH | $16,000 |
| COVENANT HOUSE | $15,000 |
| BLACK ECONOMIC ALLIANCE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL INC | $10,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $180k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 72% 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 +37% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 9 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $316k 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
- BGBREAKING GROUND HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATION5× · 2021–2025 · $750k · revenue +37%
- TOTHE OSBORNE ASSOCIATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $455k · revenue +55%
- TATATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2023 · $165k · revenue +398%
Funded once
- FDFAIR DEMOCRACYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +85%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $50k
- NONEW ORLEANS BOOK FESTIVALone grant, 2022 · $25k
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 center for justice innovation is a non-profit organization that works to create a fair, effective, and humane justice system and build strong, thriving communities.
Jobsfirstnyc's mission is to create and advance solutions that break down barriers and transform the systems supporting young adults and their communities in the pursuit of economic opportunities.
Cases' mission is to increase public safety through innovative services that reduce crime and incarceration, improve behavioral health, promote recovery and rehabilitation, and create opportunities for success in the community. we believe…
Since 1972, under 21, d.b.a. covenant house new york (chny) has been working with one of new york city's most vulnerable populations - youth experiencing homelessness, age 16-24, and their dependent children. chny provides young people…
The opportunity network ignites the drive, curiosity, and agency of underrepresented students on their paths to and through college and into thriving careers, powered by our commitment to access and community.
Envision freedom fund works alongside impacted communities to dismantle the oppressive and interconnected criminal legal and immigration systems. with freedom as our guiding principle, we invest in innovative campaigns and programs that…
The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…
CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.
Wpti's mission is to build the capacities of people, programs, and organizations that provide job training, placement, and career guidance for individuals and to advocate for policies that promote economic opportunities for all.
Iaf's purpose is to conduct research and publicize findings concerning citizen's attitudes about economic options confronting america. iaf is devoted to fostering a robust and democratic debate about ideas that will shape our country's…
Leap empowers low and moderate income people by helping them gain access to living-wage employment opportunities and career paths. we seek to develop programs that counter prevailing market inequalities and contribute to a broader movement…
See schedule onontraditional employment for women (new) prepares, trains, and places women in careers in the skilled construction, utility, and maintenance trades, helping women achieve economic independence and a secure future.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Doe Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Democracy 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.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 42 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.
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- Who funds THE OSBORNE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds EAST HARLEM TUTORIAL PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds TATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE STUDENT ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAIR DEMOCRACY ↗
- Who funds THE BAIL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE DOE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL FUND ↗
- Who funds MACAULAY HONORS COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLACK ECONOMIC ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SASHA BRUCE YOUTHWORK INC ↗
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- Who funds AVENUES FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
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- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
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- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds THE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL INC ↗
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- Who funds THE 30 BIRDS FOUNDATION ↗
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: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Robin Hood Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Lm 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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