· Private foundation
The L & a 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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 42% of THE L & A FOUNDATION’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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RECREATIONAL AVIATION FOUNDATION | $4,500 |
| INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE | $4,500 |
| WILDERNESS YOUTH PROJECT | $2,500 |
| BOISE RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES | $2,000 |
| PILGRIM COVE FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| BOISE FIRST CONGRETIONAL CHURCH | $1,500 |
| MOVEMENT VOTER FUND THE PRESIDIO | $1,500 |
| SAVORY INSTITUTE | $1,500 |
| WEAVING EARTH INC | $1,500 |
| LAND TRUST OF THE TREASURE VALLEY | $1,500 |
| THE GOOD FARM FUND | $1,500 |
| SEA LEAGUE CO WILDERNESS YOUTH LEAGUE | $1,000 |
| IDAHO HUMANE SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| IDAHO AVIATION FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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.
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.
16 repeat relationships — 12 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- RARECREATIONAL AVIATION FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $21k · revenue +17%
- IFINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE5× · 2020–2024 · $20k · revenue +57%
- LTLAND TRUST OF THE TREASURE VALLEY5× · 2020–2024 · $8k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- MCMendocino Co Resource Conservationone grant, 2022 · $9k
- EPEAST POINT PEACE ACADEMYone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -96%
- CFCanticle Farmone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -41%
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.
ReScape addresses climate change by providing a regenerative, nature-based whole systems foundation for landscaping education, workforce development and policy.Foundational to our work is a whole systems watershed framework that…
The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
The mission of the institute for climate and peace is to advance effective and inclusive processes to build peaceful and climate-conscious futures for the most vulnerable.
Our mission is to promote a world where all beings live a just life of dignity and respect. To this end, we engage in practical actions, raise funds, spread understanding and foster compassion.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Promoting economic sustainability
The Breakthrough Institute is a research center that identifies and promotes technological solutions to environmental and human development challenges.
Icl's mission is to create a conservation community and pragmatic, enduring solutions that protect and restore the air you breathe, the water you drink, and the land and wildlife you love.
Grist is an independent, non profit media organization dedicated to reporting on climate change.
10,000 Years Institute evaluates the ecological effects of human activities on natural environments, and promotes the maintenance and restoration of ecological integrity through the integration of reliable scientific information, sound…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Resist Inc and the most unlike its peers is Canticle Farm. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 26 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 RECREATIONAL AVIATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds LAND TRUST OF THE TREASURE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds ELECTRONIC PRIVACY INFORMATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds Idaho Humane Society Inc ↗
- Who funds WEAVING EARTH INC ↗
- Who funds EAST POINT PEACE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BOISE CITY IDAHO ↗
- Who funds Canticle Farm ↗
- Who funds SAVORY INSTITUTEORG INC ↗
- Who funds Wilderness Youth Project Inc ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CARBON CYCLE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds RESIST INC ↗
- Who funds RESOURCE GENERATION 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: Rsf Social Finance Inc · Impactassetsinc · American Endowment Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 The L & a 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.
- Resist 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.