· Private foundation
Ltm Family 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.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $205k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCE | $200,000 |
| AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ROME | $100,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $50,000 |
| HAWK MOUNTAIN SANCTUARY | $50,000 |
| PHILABUNDANCE | $25,000 |
| MINISTRY OF AWE | $25,000 |
| FRANKLIN INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| ACHIEVABILITY | $15,000 |
| BROAD STREET LOVE | $15,000 |
| GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK | $15,000 |
| HEIGHTS OF PHILADELPHIA | $15,000 |
| CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| DISCOVERY MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| LENFEST FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ALASKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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 +73% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- TFTHE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE6× · 2019–2025 · $360k · revenue +7%
- TATHE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ROME3× · 2018–2025 · $175k · revenue +94%
Philabundance9× · 2017–2025 · $140k · revenue +101%
Funded once
- CMCarnegie Mellon Universitygraduatedone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +33%
- AOAVENUE OF THE ARTS INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue +36%
- NCNATURE CONSERVANCY-COVE MOMTAINone grant, 2020 · $75k
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.
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
The adler planetarium ('adler') is a not-for-profit cultural institution whose mission is to connect people to the universe and each other under the sky we all share. it aspires to be the world's premier center for engaging in astronomy…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.
We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…
We bring science, policy, and proven solutions directly to communities working to restore the integrity and natural connectivity of the landscapes in which they live. (see schedule o)
The mission of the alliance for sustainable energy llc (alliance) is to operate the u.s. department of energy's national renewable energy laboratory to advance the science and engineering of energy efficiency, sustainable transportation,…
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yellowstone Forever and the most unlike its peers is The Lenfest 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.
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 39 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 41 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
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 THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ROME ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
- Who funds HAWK MOUNTAIN SANCTUARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds AVENUE OF THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOW MORTALS INC ↗
- Who funds MORE THAN WORDS INC ↗
- Who funds HEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds BROAD STREET MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR LANE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FRINGEARTS ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVEABILITY ↗
- Who funds YOUTH FARM PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE LENFEST FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE FOREVER ↗
- Who funds CYCLE CONNECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds CAROUSEL SOCIETY OF THE NIAGARA FRONTIER INC ↗
- Who funds ALASKA GEOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds The Alaska Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds POLAR BEARS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds CLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Ltm Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- More Than Words Inc — 24% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Food for Lane County — 5% of income from government
- Discovery Museum Inc — 3% 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.