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Lq Foundation

Through grant-making and pro-bono leadership training, we develop strong community leaders around the globe who are committed to: (1) supporting collaborative action to address climate change, (2) alleviating poverty and creating social mobility for socially and economically disadvantaged communities, (3) promoting sustainable solutions…

$441k
Granted FY2023
8
Grants FY2023
4
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212023.

Community Improvement$448kInternational$60k
02FY2023 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 8 grants below total $60,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $441,225 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $381,225 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.

$7,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$206k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAOZ (AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAOZ SEAL INC)$7,500
TAGHYEER (PEACE DEVELOPMENT FUND)$7,500
ANERA (AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID)$7,500
HAND IN HAND$7,500
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL (AFNATAL)$7,500
GIVAT HAVIVA (FRIENDS OF GIVAT HAVIVA INC)$7,500
ZIMAM (PEACEWORKS FOUNDATION)$7,500
ALLIANCE FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE(ALLMEP)$7,500
02The need
03

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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MAOZ (AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAOZ SEAL INC): $8k → 10%GIVAT HAVIVA (FRIENDS OF GIVAT HAVIVA INC): $8k → 17%ANERA (AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID): $8k → 14%TED FOUNDATION INC: $448k → 17%ALLIANCE FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE(ALLMEP): $8k → 14%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL (AFNATAL): $8k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Grants abroad, by region — $963k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$887k · 92% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: EARTH FC CAMPAIGN

East Asia and the Pacific$76k · 8% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: RIGHT TO PEE CAMPAIGN

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.

03Your 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
Foundation for Middle East Peace
Philanthropy
2
Americans for Middle East Understanding Inc
3
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
4
American Friends of Tzir Hemed
Philanthropy
5
Physicians for Palestine
Health
6
The Afghan Jewish Foundation Inc
7
Americans for the Israeli Third Wayinc

to address the deep social, economic, ethical, religious and ideological rifts that exist within Israeli society.

International
8
American-Middle East Press Association Inc

Providing balanced and correct press coverage on the Middle East conflict by providing trips to the Middle East to the press corps and also having them meet with Military and Political experts from the region

International
9
Idf Memorial Foundation
Philanthropy
10
American Friends of the Peres Institute for Peace Inc

Provide support to the peres center for peace, a non-profit organization in the state of israel which seeks to promote peace in the middle east.

International
11
Abraham & Florence Mendel Foundation
12
Impact Forum Foundation

The Impact Forum is an exclusive network of philanthropists. We are connecting philanthropists that support each others initiatives and collaborate to empower and meet with exceptional non-profit organizations to fight antisemitism,…

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Peaceworks Network Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Ted Foundation Inc. 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

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TED FOUNDATION INC — $448,000 · Community ImprovementTED FOUNDATION INCAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAOZ-SEAL INC — $7,500 · InternationalAMERICAN FR…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL INC — $7,500 · InternationalAMERICAN FR…THE PEACEWORKS NETWORK FOUNDATION — $7,500 · InternationalTHE PEACEWO…AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID — $7,500 · InternationalAMERICAN NE…FRIENDS OF GIVAT HAVIVA — $7,500 · InternationalFRIENDS OF …HAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA — $7,500 · InternationalHAND IN HAN…Peace Development Fund — $7,500 · InternationalPeace Devel…ALLIANCE FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE INC — $7,500 · Arts & Culture
Community Improvement$448,000International$52,500Arts & Culture$7,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTED FOUNDATION INC — $448,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetALLIANCE FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAOZ-SEAL INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PEACEWORKS NETWORK FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF GIVAT HAVIVA — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPeace Development Fund — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & SonomaCA15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Jewish Communal Fund · Circle of Service Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 organization Lq Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 9 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $971k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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