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Lufkin 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 · $6k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $260k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $658k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ICHAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $125,000 |
| DR BRIDGET MUELLER'S HEADACHE TREATMENT 7 RESEARCH FUND | $100,000 |
| NYU LANGONE HEALTH | $100,000 |
| 5 BUCKETS FOUNDATION | $82,500 |
| RUMSEY HALL SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| FRIENDS OF OAKLAND ANIMAL SERVICES | $50,000 |
| WOOD RIVER LAND TRUST CO | $50,000 |
| SUN VALLEY COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| COSTCO SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $50,000 |
| MAKE IT HOME BAY AREA | $40,000 |
| CONSERVATION NORTHWEST | $25,000 |
| WESTERN LANDOWNERS ALLIANCE | $25,000 |
| INNER-CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $25,000 |
| POINTER RESCUE ORG INC | $25,000 |
| RUDA FOUNDATION INC | $20,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $105k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 10% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +35% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 12 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, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $461k 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
THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC3× · 2022–2024 · $400k · revenue +21%- FOFRIENDS OF OAKLAND ANIMAL SERVICES9× · 2017–2025 · $338k · revenue +688%
- PSPLURALISTIC SCHOOL INC5× · 2018–2022 · $186k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $100k
INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue -31%- TSTOURO SYNAGOGUE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue +103% · 27% of their budget
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Our mission is to act to conserve threatened species and ecosystems worldwide, choosing solutions that are sustainable, based on sound science and take into account human needs.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…
Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Road Runners Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ruda 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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
49 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. 49 of the 72 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 BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF OAKLAND ANIMAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds PLURALISTIC SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION NW ↗
- Who funds RUMSEY HALL SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TOURO SYNAGOGUE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ECOTRUST ↗
- Who funds THE FIVE BUCKETS FOUR SHOVELS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Atlantic Salmon Federation (US) Inc ↗
- Who funds MAKE IT HOME - BAY AREA ↗
- Who funds WESTERN LANDOWNERS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds GREENWOODS COUNSELING & REFERRALS INC ↗
- Who funds WOOD RIVER LAND TRUST CO ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CONSERVATION PEACEBUILDING ↗
- Who funds USEA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Sun Valley Community School Inc ↗
- Who funds TUSK USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE QUEBEC-LABRADOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Middleton Place Foundation ↗
- Who funds INNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMON GOOD FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE & K9 CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds SPARK MICROGRANTS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Ruda Foundation Inc ↗
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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The Connecticut Community Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Gift Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Impactassetsinc · Jewish Communal Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Lufkin 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Ecotrust — 14% of income from government
- Greenwoods Counseling & Referrals Inc — 7% of income from government
- New England Life Flight Inc — 5% of income from government
- Pratt Nature Center Inc — 0% 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.
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