· Public charity
Lookout Foundation
The LOOKOUT FOUNDATION invests in communities outside of our own doors where we can see the results.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 2 grants below total $138,420 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $174,230 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $35,810 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2022
- $10k–50k1 grant · $38k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SECURE DIVERSITY INC | $100,000 |
| AMERICA'S CHARITIS | $38,420 |
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 (FY20–20, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Grants abroad, by region — $20k on the FY2022 return
Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: GRANT
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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 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…
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
Upturn advances equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of technology.
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…
Techbridge breaks the cycle of generational poverty through the innovative use of technology to transform nonprofit and community impact. techbridge's work is focused on four pillars: hunger relief, homeless support, social justice and…
We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
100 fold plans on consulting and educating individuals and businesses on wise stewardship and faithful giving. this activity will be conducted remotely as well as in person dependent upon necessity.
The organization is dedicated to advancing information technology industry growth through its educational programs, market research, networking events, professional certifications, and public policy advocacy.
Our mission is to create a fair and inclusive economy where underserved people have quality financial choices and opportunities to improve their economic well-being. we find and help build innovative companies with the potential to reach…
See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…
Democratizing societal and economic well-being through digital equity for everyone, increased diversity in the tech sector, innovative education, and technology for the public good
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rights Action Lab Inc and the most unlike its peers is Next Gen Cyber Talent Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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.
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 SECURE DIVERSITY INC (FORMERLY #BRAINBABE INC) ↗
- Who funds AMERICA'S CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds NEXT GEN CYBER TALENT INC ↗
- Who funds RIGHTS ACTION LAB INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds GLIDE MEMORIAL CHURCH ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT TF ↗
- Who funds MK LEVEL PLAYING FIELD INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds TUTORING PLUS OF CAMBRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR OTHERS INC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC WILL INC ↗
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: American Online Giving Foundation 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 Lookout 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
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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