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Lpf Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$77k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$77k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Human Services$139kEducation$65kHealth$35kHousing & Shelter$7kPublic Safety & Disaster$6kAnimals$4kYouth Development$3kFood & Nutrition$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$77,209
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PER ATTACHED DETAIL$77,209
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 (FY19–21, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AGAPE HOUSE: $100 → 10%MISERICORDIA HOME: $1k → 14%JOURNEYS - THE ROAD HOME: $400 → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
WI
MA
WV
TN
GA
TX
FL
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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$366k · 13 repeat orgs$156k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
28

Total granted

$366k
$156k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+17%

Still filing today

31%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • MS
    MOUNT ST JOSEPH
    3× · 2019–2021 · $17k · revenue +46%
  • VH
    Viator House of Hospitality
    4× · 2018–2021 · $13k · revenue +68%
  • MF
    MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC
    3× · 2018–2021 · $3k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $125k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • SS
    SPECIAL SPACES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +64%
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
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
2
Illinois Children's Healthcare Foundation
Human Services
3
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
4
Prayers From Maria Children's Glioma Cancer Foundation

The prayers from maria foundation was established to fight a specific form of childhood brain cancer commonly referred to as "gliomas." the foundation's purpose is to find a cure for this tragic family of diseases, while also providing…

Health
5
The Shriners' Hospital for Children

Shriners children's is committed to compassionate, high-quality care that improves children's lives, in a family-centered and collaborative environment. (continued on schedule o)

Health
6
Imagine a Cure Cancer Treatment
Health
7
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

—
8
Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation of the United States Inc

Vision A world without childhood brain tumors. Mission Care. Cure. Thrive.

Health
9
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
10
National Brain Tumor Society Inc

National brain tumor society unrelentingly invests in, mobilizes, andunites our community to discover a cure, deliver effective treatments,and advocate for patients and care partners.

—
11
St Vincent Hospital of the Hospital Sisters of the Third Order of St Franci s

To continue christ's healing love through delivery of competent & compassionate healthcare in an environment sensitive to the needs of all people. the hospital is committed to providing a broad range of quality inpatient and outpatient…

Health
12
Hospital for Sick Children Foundation

Our Mission is to inspire our communities to invest in health and scientific advances to improve the health of children and their families in Canada and around the world.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Illinois Inc; the most unlike its peers is Schroeder Foundation. 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

20 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. 20 of the 41 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/20
Grantees still filing
16/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PER ATTACHED DETAIL: $246,699 · OtherPER ATTACHED DETAILIndividual grant recipient: $125,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSAINT VIATOR HIGH SCHOOL: $65,000 · OtherSAINT VIATOR HIGH SCHOOLMOUNT ST JOSEPH: $17,000 · Other+23 more: $52,880 · Other+23 moreSPECIAL SPACES INC: $2,600 · HealthNATIONAL SOCIETY TO PREVENT BLINDNESS: $2,500 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $2,500 · HealthBRAINUP INC: $1,500 · HealthIMERMAN ANGELS: $1,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $500 · HealthCaringBridge: $500 · Health+1 more: $100 · HealthGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $1,500 · Food & NutritionMISERICORDIA HOME: $1,000 · Human ServicesPADS TO HOPE DBA-JOURNEYS THE ROAD HOME: $400 · Human ServicesAGAPE HOUSE INC: $100 · Human ServicesGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS: $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentFITZGERALD FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $200 · Philanthropy
Other$506,579Health$11,200Food & Nutrition$1,500Human Services$1,500Youth Development$1,000Philanthropy$200

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 budgetMOUNT ST JOSEPH: $17,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetViator House of Hospitality: $12,510 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC: $3,058 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL SPACES INC: $2,600 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL SOCIETY TO PREVENT BLINDNESS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBTB FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRAINUP INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetIMERMAN ANGELS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMISERICORDIA HOME: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCaringBridge: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFITZGERALD FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAGAPE HOUSE INC: $100 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.

  • Who funds MOUNT ST JOSEPH ↗
  • Who funds Viator House of Hospitality ↗
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL SPACES INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL SOCIETY TO PREVENT BLINDNESS ↗
  • Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds BTB FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
  • Who funds BRAINUP INC ↗
  • Who funds IMERMAN ANGELS ↗
  • Who funds MISERICORDIA HOME ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS ↗
  • Who funds Schroeder Foundation ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds CaringBridge ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
  • Who funds PADS TO HOPE DBA-JOURNEYS THE ROAD HOME ↗
  • Who funds FITZGERALD FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
  • Who funds AGAPE HOUSE INC ↗

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.

AbbVie FoundationCharities Aid Foundat…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
AbbVie FoundationIL11.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: AbbVie Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving 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 Lpf Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lpf Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% 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 · 0–10%
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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Lpf Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Lpf Foundation 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 41 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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