· Private foundation
Lwl Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $350k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOUNG AMERICANS | $200,000 |
| ALL SAINTS CHURCH | $100,000 |
| HEALING WORD INTERNATIONAL | $50,000 |
| ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF IRVINE | $28,000 |
| MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER | $20,000 |
| ECHO | $12,000 |
| HOPE MISSION SOCIETY | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $226k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ALASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF IRVINE7× · 2017–2024 · $214k · revenue +14%
- MRMEDIA RESEARCH CENTER6× · 2017–2024 · $55k · revenue +7%
- FFFAMILIES FORWARD2× · 2018–2020 · $50k · revenue +111%
Funded once
- PCPositive Childhood Alliance North Carolinagraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +245%
- LFLYCEUM FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +504%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $20k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
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Our institutional mission is to educate and prepare students to be ethical leaders and socially responsible global citizens who incorporate the dominican values of study, reflection, community and service into their lives.
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The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
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How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 20 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THE YOUNG AMERICANS INC ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF IRVINE ↗
- Who funds ECHO Inc ↗
- Who funds MATCHING GIFT ↗
- Who funds MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FORWARD ↗
- Who funds Positive Childhood Alliance North Carolina ↗
- Who funds LYCEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE MISSION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE ↗
- Who funds MERCY HOUSE LIVING CENTERS ↗
- Who funds The Thacher School Inc ↗
- Who funds PREGNANCY SUPPORT SERVICES INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lwl Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lwl Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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