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Park L Loughlin Charitable 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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.

Human Services$1.4MAnimals$1.3MYouth Development$650kArts & Culture$450kEnvironment$449kInternational$400kPhilanthropy$273kHealth$265kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $130k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $975k
$50,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$36M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Operation Recovery$200,000
Send-it Foundation$175,000
Adventure Risk Challenge$150,000
SPCA of Northern Nevada$100,000
Humane Society of Truckee Tahoe$75,000
Friends of Tahoe Truckee Waldorf School$75,000
Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation$50,000
Safe Embrace$50,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
Shakespeare Society of America$50,000
The Asher House$40,000
Community Foundation of Northern Nevada$40,000
The Solace Tree$25,000
Veterans Guest House$25,000
Philanthropy Roundtable$2,500
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Canine Companions for Independence: $100k → 9%Send-it Foundation: $175k → 11%Operation Recovery: $200k → 16%Operation Recovery: $200k → 16%Send-it Foundation: $100k → 11%Operation Recovery: $200k → 16%Send-it Foundation: $100k → 11%Gyros For Heroes Foundation: $200k → 16%Operation Recovery: $100k → 16%Send-it Foundation: $50k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 12% of Park L Loughlin Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Park L Loughlin Charitable Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 10% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.7M · 17 repeat orgs$971k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
23

Total granted

$4.7M
$919k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+9%

Still filing today

88%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24
AnimalsEnvironmentHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyInternationalOther

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

  • AR
    ADVENTURE RISK CHALLENGE
    4× · 2021–2024 · $600k · revenue +103%
  • SF
    SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF NORTHERN NV
    4× · 2021–2024 · $450k · revenue +11%
  • SI
    SEND IT
    4× · 2021–2024 · $425k · revenue +213% · 25% of their budget

Funded once

  • CC
    CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +9%
  • MA
    Mountain Area Preservation Foundation
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -30%
  • JP
    Joybound People and Pets FKA Tony La Russa's Animal Rescue Foundation
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +4%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The Sierra Fund

The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.

Environment
2
Truckee Trails Foundation Inc

The Truckee Trails Foundation (TTF) is working towards a system of trails and bikeways in and around Truckee, California that will connect people and places, reduce our community's dependence on automobiles, and improve our physical,…

Environment
3
Tahoe Community Foundation

The Foundation envisions a thriving community created through meaningful philanthropy, inclusive communication, and the willingness to explore possibilities together.

Education
4
Sierra Nevada Alliance

To protect and restore sierra lands, water, wildlife and rural communities. to engage and support efforts to adopt exemplary local sustainable community actions accross the sierra nevada that balance social, economic and environmental…

Environment
5
Tahoe Institute for Natural Science

To advance the natural history, conservation and ecosystem knowledge of the Tahoe region through science, education and outreach.

Environment
6
Sierra State Parks Foundation

The Sierra State Parks Foundation provides critically needed financial and professional support to the Lake Tahoe-Donner Sierra State Parks for Education, Restoration, and Cultural and Environmental Preservation in partnership with…

Recreation & Sports
7
Nevada Humane Society

To care for pets, find them homes and save lives.

Animals
8
Sequoia Riverlands Trust

We conserve the lands and waters of California's heartland.

Environment
9
Truckee River Watershed Council

The truckee river watershed council was founded to implement locally developed public-private collaborative solutions to protect and improve water quality and biological resources for the sustainable environmental and economic health of…

Environment
10
Los Padres Forestwatch Inc

Los padres forestwatch protects the los padres national forest and the carrizo plain national monument through education, advocacy, and when necessary, legal action for the benefit of our communities, climate and future generations.

Environment
11
Northern California Regional Land Trust

The purpose of the organization is to monitor, manage, and preserve conservation easements it stewards in northern california. the organization acquires conservation easements in land exhibiting important natural features to protect and…

Environment
12
Sequoia Parks Conservancy

The sequoia parks conservancy funds and enables projects and programs that protect, preserve, and provide access to the natural and cultural resources of sequoia and kings canyon national parks.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Palisades Tahoe Community Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyMilitary Veterans SupportAnimal Rescue and ShelterCommunity FoundationsDomestic Violence ServicesPolicy Research and AdvocacyVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Community FoundationsChristian Missionary Organi…Youth Sports ProgramsEnvironmental Conservation …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 28 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%0%<5yr15%15%5–10yr20%21%10–20yr17%41%20–35yr11%21%35–55yr13%3%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%24%5–10yr20%18%10–20yr17%43%20–35yr11%10%35–55yr13%5%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/37
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,941

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.

05the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 47 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
23/36
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF NORTHERN NV — $450,000 · OtherSOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO AN…Individual grant recipient — $265,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND — $200,000 · OtherGANNA WALSKA LOTUSLANDSHAKESPEARE SOCIETY OF AMERICA — $200,000 · OtherSHAKESPEARE SOCIETY OF AMERICAFriends of Tahoe Truckee Waldorf School — $150,000 · OtherFriends of Tahoe Truckee Waldorf SchoolSAFE EMBRACE — $200,000 · OtherSAFE EMBRACEBOLINAS MUSEUM — $120,000 · OtherBOLINAS MUSEUMPALISADES TAHOE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $75,000 · Other+17 more — $583,750 · Other+17 moreOPERATION RECOVERY INC — $900,000 · Human ServicesOPERATION RECOVERY INCSEND IT — $425,000 · Human ServicesSEND ITCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEP…ADVENTURE RISK CHALLENGE — $600,000 · Youth DevelopmentADVENTURE R…HUMANE SOCIETY OF TRUCKEE-TAHOE — $275,000 · AnimalsHUMANE SOC…CANINE GUARDIANS ASSISTANCE DOGS — $150,000 · AnimalsCANINE GUA…THE ASHER HOUSE — $60,000 · AnimalsTHE ASHER …Joybound People and Pets FKA Tony La Russa's Animal Rescue Foundation — $50,000 · AnimalsJoybound P…NOWZAD DOGS NFP — $25,000 · AnimalsSpirit of America Worldwide — $400,000 · InternationalFIJI DENTAL AND MEDICAL FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 · InternationalTAHOE TRUCKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $100,000 · PhilanthropySHANE MCCONKEY FOUNDATION — $55,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MONO LAKE FOUNDATION — $50,000 · PhilanthropyStifel Charitable Inc — $50,000 · PhilanthropyCommunity Foundation of Northern Nevada — $40,000 · PhilanthropyEl Dorado Community Foundation — $25,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $2,500 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION — $125,000 · EnvironmentSIERRA WATCH — $50,000 · EnvironmentTRUCKEE DONNER LAND TRUST — $50,000 · EnvironmentCLEAN UP THE CAYES dba CLEAN UP THE LAKE — $20,000 · Environment
Other$2,243,750Human Services$1,425,000Youth Development$600,000Animals$560,000International$440,000Philanthropy$322,500Environment$245,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetOPERATION RECOVERY INC — $900,000 over 4y, 33% of budgetADVENTURE RISK CHALLENGE — $600,000 over 4y, 22% of budgetSOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF NORTHERN NV — $450,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetSEND IT — $425,000 over 4y, 25% of budgetSpirit of America Worldwide — $400,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF TRUCKEE-TAHOE — $275,000 over 4y, 6.1% of budgetGANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND — $200,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetSAFE EMBRACE — $200,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetSHAKESPEARE SOCIETY OF AMERICA — $200,000 over 3y, 83% of budgetCANINE GUARDIANS ASSISTANCE DOGS — $150,000 over 2y, 62% of budgetCALIFORNIA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION — $125,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBOLINAS MUSEUM — $120,000 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetTAHOE TRUCKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPALISADES TAHOE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 2y, 50% of budgetTHE ASHER HOUSE — $60,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSHANE MCCONKEY FOUNDATION — $55,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetMountain Area Preservation Foundation — $50,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetJoybound People and Pets FKA Tony La Russa's Animal Rescue Foundation — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetACHIEVE TAHOE — $50,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSIERRA WATCH — $50,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetBREAD & ROSES PRESENTS — $50,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetUNITED STATES FOUNDATION FOR THE COMMEMORATION OF WORLD WARS — $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE MONO LAKE FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetStifel Charitable Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRUCKEE DONNER LAND TRUST — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCommunity Foundation of Northern Nevada — $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFIJI DENTAL AND MEDICAL FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 over 1y, 47% of budgetNATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION — $28,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOLACETREE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetVeterans Guest House Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetEl Dorado Community Foundation — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNOWZAD DOGS NFP — $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCLEAN UP THE CAYES dba CLEAN UP THE LAKE — $20,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetTAHOE NORDIC SEARCH & RESCUE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Tahoe Community Found…Tahoe Truckee Communi…Marin Community Found…Martis Camp Community…The Corrigan-Walla Fo…Tahoe FundJewish Community Fede…Barbara L & Richard C…Community Foundation …Teichert FoundationThe Bessemer Giving F…The San Francisco Fou…
Tahoe Community FoundationNV29.9× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tahoe Community Foundation · Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Martis Camp Community Foundation Dba Martis Camp Foundation · The Corrigan-Walla Foundation · Tahoe Fund · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Barbara L & Richard C Barrett Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern Nevada · Teichert Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The San Francisco 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 Park L Loughlin Charitable 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Park L Loughlin Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Park L Loughlin Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 47 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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