· Private foundation
David and Lura Lovell 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of David and Lura Lovell Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Toledo Community Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year David and Lura Lovell Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 35 organizations, $3M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 43% of THE DAVID AND LURA LOVELL’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k30 grants · $118k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+4 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEAD GUITAR | $400,000 |
| LIBERTY PARTNERSHIP COMMUNITY COUNC | $282,725 |
| LEAD GUITAR | $274,427 |
| YMCA OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA | $260,000 |
| EQUALITY NOW | $225,000 |
| SUNDANCE INSTITUTE | $150,000 |
| THE 19TH NEWS | $150,000 |
| THE PODIUM SOCIETY | $150,000 |
| THE CARTER CENTER INC | $148,000 |
| TUCSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $125,000 |
| BOYS TO MEN TUCSON | $114,032 |
| REEL MEDICINE MEDIA | $100,000 |
| THE CENTER FOR MIND-BODY MEDICINE | $100,000 |
| TRUSTEE OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| WOMEN MOVING MILLIONS | $50,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% 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 +42% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
81 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 51 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $253k 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
- GSGIRL SCOUTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA3× · 2019–2021 · $1.2M · revenue +22%
LEAD GUITAR3× · 2022–2024 · $888k · revenue +2% · 35% of their budget- LPLiberty Partnership Community Council3× · 2022–2024 · $665k · revenue +23% · 32% of their budget
Funded once
- OCOREGON COLLAB FOR INTEGRATED HEALTHone grant, 2021 · $785k
- AYArizona Youth Partnershipone grant, 2021 · $438k · revenue -3%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $360k
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.
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
Az wins is a coalition of organizations dedicated to achieving public policies that benefit working arizona families and advancing an inclusive, engaged, just and equitable state for all arizonans. in 2024 az wins substantially reduced its…
Pro-Choice Arizona centers abolition and reproductive justice values to prioritize community needs. We advance reproductive equity, pregnancy and family justice, and abortion access for all folks living in Arizona through direct service…
Our mission is to provide exceptional health care with compassion.
Working to transform the region's economy through entrepreneurship and innovation.
The american civil liberties union of arizona is the state's premier guardian of liberty working through the arizona legislature and communities statewide to defend and preserve individual rights and freedoms guaranteed to all by the…
Greater phoenix chamber of commerce (the chamber) catalyzes regional prosperity with forward-thinking public policy, intentional economic growth, and diverse, prepared talent.
To make sexual and reproductive healthcare accessible to everyone
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
To assist member firms in achieving higher professional, ethical business and economic standards, enabling member firms to provide quality consulting and engineering services for their clients and the public.
The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ywca of Southern Arizona and the most unlike its peers is The Tikvah Fund. 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 34 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
100 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. 100 of the 170 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 United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds LEAD GUITAR ↗
- Who funds TOLEDO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Sundance Institute ↗
- Who funds Liberty Partnership Community Council ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Community Services ↗
- Who funds Pima Council on Aging ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA HOSPITAL & HEALTHCARE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR MIND-BODY MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds Equality Now Inc ↗
- Who funds TUCSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Arizona Youth Partnership ↗
- Who funds ACT ONE ↗
- Who funds THE 19TH NEWS ↗
- Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTH CURRENT ↗
- Who funds TMC HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOMEN MOVING MILLIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC ↗
- Who funds Banner Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds Podium Society Inc ↗
- Who funds Coalition To Transform Advanced Car ↗
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: Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona · Arizona Community Foundation · Connie Hillman Family Foundation · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc · Marshall Foundation · The Womens Foundation for the State of Arizona · Donald Pitt Family Foundation · The Stocker Foundation · Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona · The Gordon 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 David and Lura Lovell 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.
- Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc — 46% of income from government
- Health Care for All Inc — 29% of income from government
- Metrowest Legal Services Inc — 10% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- The Center for Independent Documentary Inc — 6% of income from government
- Needham Community Council Inc — 2% 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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