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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2023 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $60,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $441,225 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $381,225 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$7,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$187k
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
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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
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.

Grants abroad, by region: $1.1M on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions, $1.1M to organizations and $8k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$1.1M · 99% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: EARTH FC CAMPAIGN · FORCE OF NATURE CIC

South Asia$8k · 1% · 1 person

Stated purpose: GENERAL SUPPORT

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. 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.
03Its 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
Foundation for Middle East Peace
Philanthropy
2
Americans for Middle East Understanding Inc
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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
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
10
Idf Memorial Foundation
Philanthropy
11
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
12
Friends of Amal-Tikva Inc

None

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Peaceworks Network Foundation; 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 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.

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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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…Peace Development Fund: $7,500 · InternationalPeace Devel…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…ALLIANCE FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE INC: $7,500 · Arts & Culture
Community Improvement$448,000International$52,500Arts & Culture$7,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetPeace Development Fund: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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
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.

Jewish Community Fede…Jewish Communal FundCircle of Service Fou…Jewish Federation of …Combined Jewish Phila…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Lq Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lq Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's 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, 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.

    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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