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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
Itemized grants FY2023
7
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$60k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$7,500
Largest grant, FY2023
$7,500
Organizations funded a year
1 to 7
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
4
Total assets, FY2023
$187k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Lq Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20237$53k100%
FY20211$448kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2023.

Community Improvement$448kInternational$60k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lq Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

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

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.

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About Lq Foundation

How much does Lq Foundation give?
Lq Foundation reported 8 itemized grants totaling $60,000, out of $441,225 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 7 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Lq Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2023, its largest causes are Community Improvement (88%), International (12%).
Who are Lq Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2023: Ted Foundation Inc ($448k), Alliance for Middle East Peace Inc ($8k), American Friends of Maoz-Seal Inc ($8k).
Does Lq Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Lq Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma, Jewish Communal Fund, Circle of Service Foundation.
Where is Lq Foundation based?
Lq Foundation is based in NY.

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 9 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $1.1M 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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