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Log Foundation Inc

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.

$111k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What it funds
0181% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$205kArts & Culture$68kCommunity Improvement$45kHealth$18kInternational$15kPhilanthropy$10kHuman Services$3kFood & Nutrition$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
$2,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$385k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$80,000
VISCAYA MUSEUM AND GARDENS$20,174
LATINO CORPORATE DIRECTORS$5,000
THE CARING PLACE$2,500
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$2,500
Massachusetts Institute of Technology$588
MovEmbEr Canada$37
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Babson College: $20k → 7%Massachusetts Institute of Technology: $588 → 8%Mayo Clinic: $2k → 9%Give India Foundation: $5k → 8%Movember: $501 → 14%United Breast Cancer Foundation: $999 → 7%Doctors Without Borders: $10k → 17%Hope for the Hungry: $1k → 14%LATINO CORPORATE DIRECTORS: $5k → 14%JDRF: $4k → 10%THE CARING PLACE: $3k → 15%Saint Jude Hospital: $3k → 17%Babson College: $20k → 7%Mayo Clinic: $500 → 9%Miami Rescue Mission: $1k → 17%VISCAYA MUSEUM AND GARDENS: $24k → 15%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $3k → 17%VISCAYA MUSEUM AND GARDENS: $20k → 15%Saint Jude Hospital: $2k → 17%Viscaya Museum and Gardens: $20k → 15%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $1k → 17%United Way: $10k → 15%St Jude Children's Research Hospital: $1k → 17%Viscaya Museum and Gardens: $4k → 15%Miami Rescue: $3k → 15%Christ Journey Church: $130k → 15%CHRIST JOURNEY: $80k → 15%Christ Journey Church: $75k → 15%CHRIST JOURNEY: $55k → 15%Christ Journey: $15k → 15%Vaquinhas: $198 → 15%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

MN
NY
MA
CA
TN
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$475k · 7 repeat orgs$43k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
10

Total granted

$475k
$36k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+2%

Still filing today

29%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationInternationalReligionOther
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

  • CJ
    Christ Journey Church
    2× · 2020–2021 · $205k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    3× · 2023–2025 · $150k
  • VM
    VISCAYA MUSEUM AND GARDENS
    4× · 2022–2025 · $68k

Funded once

  • UW
    United Way
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +13%
  • GI
    Give India Foundation
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
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
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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2
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
3
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
4
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
5
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc

Susan g. komen has an unmatched, comprehensive 360-degree approach to fighting breast cancer across all fronts and supporting millions of people in the u.s. and in countries worldwide. we advocate for policies to protect patients, drive…

Health
6
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
7
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
8
Blood Cancer United Inc

Our mission is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families.

Health
9
Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation

The lustgarten foundation is the largest private funder of pancreatic cancer research in the world. see schedule o.the lustgarten foundation is boldly leading the way through hope and innovation, turning fear into action through education…

Human Services
10
Medtech Innovator

Medtech innovator organizes and runs a global competition and virtual accelerator for medical device, digital health, and diagnostic startup companies.

Education
11
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
12
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc; the most unlike its peers is Hope for the Hungry. 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

8 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. 8 of the 21 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Christ Journey Church: $205,000 · OtherChrist Journey ChurchIndividual grant recipient: $150,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientVISCAYA MUSEUM AND GARDENS: $68,427 · OtherVISCAYA MUSEUM AND GARDENS+10 more: $34,235 · Other+10 moreBABSON COLLEGE: $40,000 · Education+1 more: $588 · EducationST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $4,500 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $4,075 · HealthUNITED BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $999 · HealthMOVEMBER FOUNDATION: $501 · HealthMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $10,000 · InternationalHOPE FOR THE HUNGRY: $1,000 · Religion
Other$457,662Education$40,588Health$10,075International$10,000Religion$1,000

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 budgetBABSON COLLEGE: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $4,075 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE FOR THE HUNGRY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $999 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $588 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOVEMBER FOUNDATION: $501 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.

  • Who funds BABSON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
  • Who funds HOPE FOR THE HUNGRY ↗
  • Who funds UNITED BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds MOVEMBER FOUNDATION ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Log Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Log Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 35%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Babson College: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

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 21 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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