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Lord Family 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.

$104k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$78kHealth$75kRecreation & Sports$67kReligion$60kFood & Nutrition$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$2k
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $96k
$13,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TUCSON TORAH CENTER$30,000
PHOENIX CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$27,500
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA FOUNDATION$25,000
NOTRE DAME PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC$13,500
THE HAPPILY EVER AFTER LEAGUE$3,500
Individual grant recipient$2,200
SCOTTSDALE FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE LODGE$1,673
NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS$265
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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%CROWNS OF COURAGE: $5k → 11%THE HAPPILY EVER AFTER LEAGUE: $4k → 11%THE HAPPILY EVER AFTER LEAGUE: $4k → 11%THE HAPPILY EVER AFTR LEAGUE: $3k → 11%THE HAPPILY EVER AFTR LEAGUE: $2k → 11%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.
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 9% of Lord Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 92% of the giving stays in AZ; by stated purpose, 83%.

Lord Family Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$150k · 6 repeat orgs$141k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
9

Total granted

$150k
$71k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+53%

Still filing today

83%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k 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
HealthRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesEducationOther
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

  • PC
    Phoenix Children's Hospital
    2× · 2022–2023 · $20k · revenue +30%
  • HE
    HAPPILY EVER AFTER LEAGUE INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $12k · revenue +26%
  • SA
    SEQUOYA ASSOC OF PARENT & TEACHERS INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $850 · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • VO
    VALLEY OF THE SUN JCC-STEVE H GALA
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • MF
    MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +53%
  • FA
    FEEDING AMERICA NATIONAL ORG
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
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
Children's Hospital & Research Center At Oakland

The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.

Health
2
Champ Cancer Hope & Awareness Month for Pediatrics

Support children with cancer and their families & help establish a network of support.

Health
3
Honorhealth

Honorhealth's mission is to improve the health and well-being of those we serve.

Health
4
Az Kidz Experience

Organization raises funds for phoenix children's hospital foundation and contributes proceeds to that foundation.

Health
5
Mckenzie Monks Foundation
Health
6
The Dons of Arizona
Education
7
Arizona Healthiest State Foundation
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8
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
9
Cancer Support Community Arizona

CSCAZ uplifts and strengthens people impacted by cancer by providing support, fostering compassionate communities, and breaking down barriers to care.

Health
10
Arizona Cancer Foundation for Children Inc

Arizona Cancer Foundation for Children provides social, emotional, and financial support to families managing the health and well-being of a loved one with pediatric cancer.

Public Benefit
11
Az Hugs
Human Services
12
Arizona Educational Foundation Inc

To celebrate excellence and cultivate opportunity in pk-12th grade arizona public education.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Arizona Inc; the most unlike its peers is Crowns of Courage. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

10 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. 10 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TUCSON TORAH CENTER: $60,000 · OtherTUCSON TORAH CENTERVALLEY OF THE SUN JCC-STEVE H GALA: $25,000 · OtherVALLEY OF THE SUN JCC-STEVE H GALANOTRE DAME PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $13,500 · OtherNOTRE DAME PREPARATORY SCHOOLFEEDING AMERICA NATIONAL ORG: $10,000 · OtherFEEDING AMERICA NATIONAL ORGIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+6 more: $14,078 · Other+6 moreAZ FOOTBALL ASSOCIATON INC: $36,750 · Recreation & SportsAZ FOOTBALL ASSOCIATON…PROJECT BASEBALL AZ: $21,740 · Recreation & SportsPROJECT BASEBALL AZPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation: $27,500 · HealthPhoenix Children's Hos…Phoenix Children's Hospital: $19,500 · HealthPhoenix Children's Hos…MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA INC: $10,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION…+1 more: $1,000 · HealthUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $25,000 · EducationUniversity…+1 more: $850 · EducationHAPPILY EVER AFTER LEAGUE INC: $11,560 · Human ServicesCROWNS OF COURAGE: $5,000 · Human Services
Other$132,578Recreation & Sports$58,490Health$58,000Education$25,850Human Services$16,560

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 budgetAZ FOOTBALL ASSOCIATON INC: $36,750 over 2y, 32% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation: $27,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT BASEBALL AZ: $21,740 over 2y, 15% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital: $19,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAPPILY EVER AFTER LEAGUE INC: $11,560 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCROWNS OF COURAGE: $5,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEQUOYA ASSOC OF PARENT & TEACHERS INC: $850 over 2y, 0.5% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Lord Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lord Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s 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 · 0–5%
    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 Lord Family Foundation Inc?

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

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