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· Private foundation
LOTTA FUND FOR AIDING DISCHARGED
This foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications.
$49k
Granted FY2024
8
Grants
8
Communities
$6k
Largest
01What you fund
0167% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.
Human Services$83kCrime & Legal$64kHealth$23kOther$82k
03FY2024 · 8 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$6,300
Median grant
8
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
- CRIMINAL JUSTICE MINISTRY$6,300
- PRODIGAL MINISTRIES$6,300
- DC CENTRAL KITCHEN$6,300
- FORTUNE SOCIETY$6,300
- THE FIRST 72$6,300
- CENTER ON JUVENILE & CRIMINAL JUSTICE$6,300
- HOWARD AREA COMMUNITY CENTER$5,800
- MASS SOCIETY FOR AIDING DISCHARGED PRISONERS$5,800
02The need
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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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $83k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 11%. 63% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$248k · 10 repeat orgs$4k to everyone else
10 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
10
1
Total granted
$248k
$4k
Still filing today
80%
0%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesCrime & LegalHealthOther
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
- TFTHE FIRST 725× · 2020–2024 · $31k · revenue +401%
- CJCRIMINAL JUSTICE MINISTRY5× · 2020–2024 · $31k · revenue +17%
- PMPRODIGAL MINISTRIES5× · 2020–2024 · $31k · revenue +171%
Funded once
- PIPARTAKER'S INCone grant, 2022 · $4k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
New York City Criminal Justice Agency
Serve the criminal justice agencies and enable the pre-trial process.
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2
Second Chance Center Inc
To help formerly incarcerated people transition to lives of success and fulfillment.
Human Services
3
Justice Policy Institute
The Justice Policy Institute is dedicated to reducing the use of incarceration and involvement in the justice system by promoting fair and effective policies.
Crime & Legal
4
Attic Correctional Services Inc
A community-based agency that provides contractual and/or private pay human services to individuals who are or who are likely to become involved in the criminal justice system.
Crime & Legal
5
Court Community Service
The mission of Court Community Service is to design and manage an efficient system of quality alternative sentencing options responsive to the needs of the courts and the community.
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6
Center for Justice and Human Dignity
Our mission is safely expanding alternatives to incarceration while improving conditions for incarcerated people and correctional staff. We also work to improve reentry policies, practices, and outcomes.
Crime & Legal
7
Released
Released offers navigation and empowerment to the incarcerated, the newly released members of our society, and to their families.
Crime & Legal
8
Center for Alternative Sentencing and
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.
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9
Council On Criminal Justice Inc
The council on criminal justice works to advance understanding of the criminal justice policy choices facing the nation and builds consensus for solutions that enhance safety and justice for all. Independent and nonpartisan, we are an…
Crime & Legal
10
Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalit
The mission of the Organization is to reduce the overuse of the criminal legal system and advance community health and safety.
Crime & Legal
11
Justice Innovation Inc
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.we plan, implement, and operate new programs that address urgent issues…
Crime & Legal
12
Center for Creative Justice
Probation oversight
Crime & Legal
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Correctional Association of New York and the most unlike its peers is Howard Area Community Center. 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
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Human Services$82,900Other$82,300Crime & Legal$64,000Health$22,900
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.
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.
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCA7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 organisation LOTTA FUND FOR AIDING DISCHARGED 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: PRODIGAL MINISTRIES.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~1 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.7× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 611275040 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on PRODIGAL MINISTRIES, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 1% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to Lotta Fund for Aiding Discharged?
Find your warmest path to Lotta Fund for Aiding Discharged through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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By state
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