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Low Income Family Enrichment Corporation at a glance

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Low Income Family Enrichment Corporation

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.

$20k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Crime & Legal$76kHealth$47kFood & Nutrition$45kYouth Development$33kHuman Services$19kPublic Safety & Disaster$13kEducation$9kCivil Rights$9kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Hospice Giving Foundation$5,010
Rancho Cielo$5,000
Salinas Police Activities League$5,000
Salinas Veterans Day Parade$5,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Hospice Giving Foundation: $5k → 12%Hospice Giving Foundation: $5k → 12%Hospice Giving Foundation: $5k → 12%Hospice Giving Foundation: $5k → 12%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$170k · 9 repeat orgs$98k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
15

Total granted

$170k
$98k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+10%

Still filing today

67%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Crime & LegalHealthEmploymentYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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

  • SP
    SALINAS POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $43k · revenue +179%
  • RC
    RANCHO CIELO INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $30k · revenue +68%
  • HG
    HOSPICE GIVING FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $20k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • FB
    FOOD BANK FOR MONTEREY COUNTY
    one grant, 2020 · $45k · revenue +8%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $18k
  • C
    CASA
    one grant, 2018 · $11k
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
Sun Street Centers

To prevent alcohol and drug addiction by offering education, prevention and recovery to individuals and families, regardless of income level.

Human Services
2
Interim Inc

Interim, inc.'s mission is to provide services and affordable housing to supporting members of our community with mental illness in building productive and satisfying lives.

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3
Meals On Wheels of the Monterey Peninsula Inc

To empower seniors, disabled adults, veterans, and other under served populations to remain independent by nourishing their bodies, minds, and spirits, and drive out hunger and isolation in our region.

Food & Nutrition
4
Family Service Agency of Santa Barbara County

The mission of family service agency is to strengthen and advocate for families and individuals of all ages and diversities, helping to create and preserve a healthy community.

Human Services
5
Health Projects Center

Health Projects Center supports people as they age to live safely at home by delivering high quality services and programs in the Monterey Bay Region.

Crime & Legal
6
Sutter Bay Medical Foundation

Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…

Health
7
Ala Costa Centers a Program for Developmentally Disabled

To provide each student or participant with the access, skills, and opportunities needed to become successful and productive members of society, and to encourage them to have some fun along the way. The Organization offers support and…

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8
Marin General Hospital

To be the destination for health and healing in the north bay.

Health
9
Marin Ventures

The mission of Marin Ventures is to serve adults with developmental disabilities by fostering independence, personal growth, and promoting the opportunity for community integration based upon individual need.Marin Ventures is an Adult…

Human Services
10
Monterey County Interfaith Alliance
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11
Central Coast Quality of Life Programs

Multiple sclerosis (ms) and parkinson's disease (pd) are neurological disorders that result in moderate to severe physical and/or mental disabilities. the purpose of central coast quality of life programs (ccqlp) is to promote and support…

Health
12
Institute On Aging

See schedule othe mission of the institute on aging is to enhance the quality of life for adults as they age by enabling them to maintain their health, well being, independence and participation in the community. ioa fulfills this mission…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope Services; the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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

14 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. 14 of the 24 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FOOD BANK FOR MONTEREY COUNTY: $45,000 · OtherFOOD BANK FOR MONTEREY COUNTYIndividual grant recipient: $17,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCommunity Alliance for Safety & Peace: $12,500 · OtherCommunity Alliance for Safety & PeaceCASA: $11,000 · OtherCASASALINAS VETERANS DAY PARADE INC: $7,500 · OtherSALINAS VETERANS DAY PARADE INCACTION COUNCIL: $5,000 · OtherAction Council of Monterey: $4,000 · Other+6 more: $7,510 · Other+6 moreSALINAS POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE INC: $42,602 · Crime & LegalSALINAS POLICE ACTIVITIES L…LEGAL SERVICES FOR SENIORS: $20,000 · Crime & LegalLEGAL SERVICES FOR SENIORSPARTNERS FOR PEACE: $2,500 · Crime & LegalAmerican Diabetes Association: $20,100 · HealthAmerican Diabe…PEACOCK ACRES: $12,500 · HealthPEACOCK ACRESASCENDIGO AUTISM SERVICES INC: $1,758 · HealthRANCHO CIELO INC: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentRANCHO CIELO…HOSPICE GIVING FOUNDATION: $20,010 · Human ServicesHOPE SERVICES: $5,000 · EmploymentGIL BASKETBALL ACADEMY: $2,500 · Recreation & SportsUNITED WAY OF MONTEREY COUNTY: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$110,010Crime & Legal$65,102Health$34,358Youth Development$30,000Human Services$20,010Employment$5,000Recreation & Sports$2,500Philanthropy$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 budgetFOOD BANK FOR MONTEREY COUNTY: $45,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSALINAS POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE INC: $42,602 over 6y, 17% of budgetRANCHO CIELO INC: $30,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $20,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE GIVING FOUNDATION: $20,010 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetLEGAL SERVICES FOR SENIORS: $20,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetPEACOCK ACRES: $12,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHOPE SERVICES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIL BASKETBALL ACADEMY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetActive Seniors Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPARTNERS FOR PEACE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetASCENDIGO AUTISM SERVICES INC: $1,758 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MONTEREY COUNTY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $1,000 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.

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Monterey Peninsula Fo…Sally Hughes Church F…Nancy Buck Ransom Fou…Silicon Valley Commun…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Monterey Peninsula FoundationCA17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Monterey Peninsula Foundation · Sally Hughes Church Foundation · Nancy Buck Ransom Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Low Income Family Enrichment Corporation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Low Income Family Enrichment Corporation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
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.
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How do I get to Low Income Family Enrichment Corporation?

Find your warmest path to Low Income Family Enrichment Corporation 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 24 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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