How much does The L & a Foundation give?

The L & a Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $27,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 15 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does The L & a Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (19%), Environment (18%), Crime & Legal (18%).

Who are The L & a Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Recreational Aviation Foundation ($21k), Institute for Justice ($20k), Boise Rescue Mission ($11k).

Does The L & a Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The L & a Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The L & a Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rsf Social Finance Inc, Impactassetsinc, American Endowment Foundation.

Where is The L & a Foundation based?

The L & a Foundation is based in ID.

The L & a Foundation

The L & a Foundation at a glance

· 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.

$27k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$5k

Largest

01What it funds

0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$27kEnvironment$25kCrime & Legal$25kHuman Services$15kPhilanthropy$8kPublic Benefit$8kCivil Rights$7kFood & Nutrition$6kOther$0

02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,500

Median grant

States reached

$472k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
RECREATIONAL AVIATION FOUNDATION	$4,500
INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE	$4,500
WILDERNESS YOUTH PROJECT	$2,500
BOISE RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES	$2,000
SAVORY INSTITUTE	$1,500
MOVEMENT VOTER FUND THE PRESIDIO	$1,500
PILGRIM COVE FOUNDATION	$1,500
BOISE FIRST CONGRETIONAL CHURCH	$1,500
LAND TRUST OF THE TREASURE VALLEY	$1,500
THE GOOD FARM FUND	$1,500
WEAVING EARTH INC	$1,500
SEA LEAGUE CO WILDERNESS YOUTH LEAGUE	$1,000
IDAHO HUMANE SOCIETY	$1,000
IDAHO AVIATION FOUNDATION	$1,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$114k · 16 repeat orgs$24k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$114k

$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%

+54%

Still filing today

50%

71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Civil RightsEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesAnimalsScience & TechOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

RA
RECREATIONAL AVIATION FOUNDATION
5× · 2020–2024 · $21k · revenue +17%
IF
INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE
5× · 2020–2024 · $20k · revenue +57%
LT
LAND TRUST OF THE TREASURE VALLEY
5× · 2020–2024 · $8k · revenue +22%

Funded once

MC
Mendocino Co Resource Conservation
one grant, 2022 · $9k
EP
EAST POINT PEACE ACADEMY
one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -96%
CF
Canticle Farm
one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -41%

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.

04Its field

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.

Rescape California

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…

Environment

Resource Renewal Institute

The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.

Environment

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International

Institute for Climate and Peace

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.

Environment

A Just World

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.

Animals

Idaho Forest Restoration Partnership

Environment

Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

Center for Sustainable Economy

Promoting economic sustainability

Environment

The Breakthrough Institute

The Breakthrough Institute is a research center that identifies and promotes technological solutions to environmental and human development challenges.

Environment

Idaho Conservation League Inc

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.

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Grist Magazine Inc

Grist is an independent, non profit media organization dedicated to reporting on climate change.

Environment

10000 Years Institute

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…

Unclassified

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Resist Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 26 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

15/15

Grantees still filing

10/15

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$64,700Civil Rights$26,000Human Services$21,000Environment$10,300Youth Development$7,500Animals$5,000Crime & Legal$4,500

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.

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.

Rsf Social Finance IncCA17.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The L & a Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The L & a Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home