· Public charity
Low Income Investment Fund
See schedule oour mission and vision: everyone should benefit from living in a community of opportunity, equity and well-being.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 53 grants below total $12,085,857 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $14,164,523 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,078,666 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $353k
- $50k–250k30 grants · $3.7M
- $250k+9 grants · $8.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FELTON INSTITUTE | $3,000,000 |
| FRANDELJA ENRICHMENT CENTER INC | $1,700,000 |
| MY CONNECT COMMUNITY | $750,000 |
| CANOPY SOUTH | $608,273 |
| SE RALEIGH PROMISE INC | $490,472 |
| GROWING TOGETHER | $458,273 |
| NORTHSIDE DEVELOPMENT GROUP | $423,866 |
| BANANA FANA PRESCHOOL | $300,000 |
| GUIDRY'S EARLY EDUCATION CENTER | $286,307 |
| ONE FIFTY PARKER AVENUE SCHOOL | $217,425 |
| MARINER MONTESSORI LLC | $200,000 |
| LARCA ENTERPRISE - THE WIGGLE ROOM CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $200,000 |
| BRINDA ENTERPRISES LLC - STAR MONTESSORI SCHOOL & DAYCARE | $200,000 |
| GROWING TOGETHER PRESCHOOL AND DAYCARE LLC | $200,000 |
| MOLO HOT LLC | $150,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $34.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
203 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 189 since wound down; 39 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.5M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- WYWU YEE CHILDREN'S SERVICES8× · 2018–2025 · $9.0M · revenue +208%
- FIFelton Institute5× · 2021–2025 · $7.9M · revenue +87%
- MNMission Neighborhood Centers Inc6× · 2017–2024 · $5.5M · revenue +217%
Funded once
- SOSouth of Market Child Care Incone grant, 2019 · $1.3M · revenue +4%
- GSGROWTH SPURTS CHILD LEARNING CENTER LLCone grant, 2023 · $1.2M
- MCMission Child Care Consortium Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $800k · revenue +145%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
By advocating for quality early care and education, empowering families with information and financial support, and building the capabilities of educators, Children's Council of San Francisco ensures that every child in San Francisco has…
Kiddie Kampus is a cooperative, play-based preschool located in Alameda for children ages 2 years 9 months to 5 years old. We work together to create a nurturing, engaging preschool environment that prepares our children for kindergarten…
In 2001, Joyful Learning Educational Development Center (Joyful Learning EDC) was founded with a clear vision to provide accessible, high-quality childcare that meets the diverse needs of every child.
The LCDC is dedicated to providing safe, secure, stimulating and age-appropriate developmental activites to low-income and working families with children between the ages of two and five.
We provide quality early childhood education and day care for children ages one to five years. We strive to promote each childs intellectual, emotional, social, and physical development in preparation for kindergarten.
Provide full time child care service for ages six months through five years of age, and after school child care services for children up to twelve years old.
The Children's Center is committed to helping children of all backgrounds grow into enthusiastic, kind and confident learners by providing a broad curriculum designed to enhance their social, physical and cognitive development. The…
The Children's Garden Early Learning Center is designed to meet the early care and educational needs for children ages 6 weeks through their 8th birthday. Serving up to 70 children on a full or part time basis through Early Head Start,…
Denton City County Day School provides quality, affordable childcareto families in Denton County. Our mission is to provide qualitypre-kindergarten education and loving care to children ages 2 through 5 years. Our vision is that all DCCDS…
The center is a non-profit organization providing quality early education and care for infants, toddlers and preschool age children for the caltech and pasadena communities. caring, nurturing educators staff this outstanding program. the…
The mission of Trinity CDC is to provide quality, affordable care and education to young children and their families within our economically and ethnically diverse neighborhood. We strive to provide stability and support to the children in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Connections Centers and the most unlike its peers is Saessak Preschool. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
222 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. 222 of the 1,078 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 WU YEE CHILDREN'S SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Felton Institute ↗
- Who funds Mission Neighborhood Centers Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds Kai Ming Inc ↗
- Who funds Mount St Joseph-St Elizabeth ↗
- Who funds CROSS CULTURAL FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds C5 Childrens School ↗
- Who funds THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Chicago Community Trust ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FranDelJA Enrichment Center ↗
- Who funds Good Samaritan Family Resource Center of San Francisco ↗
- Who funds THE DENVER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Friends of St Francis Childcare Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Easter Seals Serving DC MD VA Inc ↗
- Who funds Telegraph Hill Neighborhood Association ↗
- Who funds UNITED PLANNING ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY LOAN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds South of Market Child Care Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CONNECTIONS CENTERS ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE MID SOUTH ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GATARI CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds HAPPY KIDS LEANING CENTER ↗
- Who funds First Rock Baptist Church Child Development Center ↗
- Who funds BARBARA CHAMBERS CHILDREN CENTER ↗
- Who funds St Albans Early Childhood Center Inc ↗
- Who funds My Connect Community ↗
- Who funds Mission Child Care Consortium Inc ↗
- Who funds Oakland Community Land Trust ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: Mimi and Peter Haas Fund · United Planning Organization · Ashbury Childrens Foundation · Washington Area Community Investment Fund Inc · Briya Public Charter School · The Morris Stulsaft Foundation · The Reinvestment Fund Inc · Bothin Foundation · Jewish Federation Council of Greater La · Mission Economic Development Agency · Purpose Built Communities Foundationinc · Los Angeles Universal Preschool
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 Low Income Investment Fund 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.
- Board of Child Care of the United Methodist Church Inc — 100% of income from government
- Easter Seals Serving Dc Md Va Inc — 29% of income from government
- Enterprise Community Partners Inc — 22% of income from government
- Enterprise Community Loan Fund Inc — 18% of income from government
- Growing Together Inc — 9% of income from government
- Preservation of Affordable Housing Inc — 3% of income from government
- All Our Kin Inc — 1% 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.