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The Lachman Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Lachman Family Foundation Inc

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.

$750k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$550k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$4.3MReligion$385kArts & Culture$265kPhilanthropy$127kInternational$71kHealth$38kHuman Services$25kCivil Rights$21kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $100k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
  • $250k+1 grant · $550k
$30,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION$550,000
THE BALTIMORE COMMUNITY KOLLEL INC$50,000
SAN DIEGO OPERA$50,000
UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK$30,000
THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA$25,000
AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE$25,000
SCRIPPS HEALTH FOUNDATION$20,000
02The need
03

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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%LAWRENCE FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $25k → 11%INTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP COUNCIL: $10k → 14%LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY: $260k → 6%DON MONTI MEMORIAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK: $30k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $550k → 10%THE COMMUNITY KOLLEL INC: $85k → 19%CONGREGATION BETH EL: $22k → 11%LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY: $160k → 6%UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK: $21k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $500k → 10%THE COMMUNITY KOLLEL INC: $85k → 19%ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO: $1k → 11%TILLES CENTER LIU: $25k → 6%UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK: $15k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $500k → 10%THE COMMUNITY KOLLEL INC: $85k → 19%UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS: $11k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $500k → 10%THE BALTIMORE COMMUNITY KOLLEL INC: $50k → 19%UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS: $10k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $500k → 10%BALTIMORE COMM COLLEGE: $50k → 19%UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS AMERICAN SECTION INC: $8k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $500k → 10%BALTIMORE COMM COLLEGE: $50k → 19%UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $20k → 11%THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA: $25k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $350k → 10%THE BALTIMORE COMMUNITY KOLLEL INC: $50k → 19%SAN DIEGO OPERA: $50k → 11%THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA: $21k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $250k → 10%BALTIMORE COMM COLLEGE: $50k → 19%SAN DIEGO OPERA: $50k → 11%THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA: $15k → 17%SAN DIEGO OPERA: $50k → 11%SAN DIEGO OPERA: $40k → 11%SAN DIEGO OPERA: $15k → 11%SAN DIEGO OPERA: $15k → 11%SAN DIEGO OPERA: $10k → 11%SAN DIEGO OPERA: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.1M · 12 repeat orgs$95k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against -22% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
6

Total granted

$5.1M
$95k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
-22%

Still filing today

67%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthReligionAnimalsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $3.6M · revenue +39%
  • LI
    LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2018–2020 · $420k · revenue +5%
  • US
    UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2020 · $95k · revenue +78%

Funded once

  • TC
    TILLES CENTER LIU
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • LF
    LAWRENCE FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +16%
  • CB
    CONGREGATION BETH EL
    one grant, 2022 · $22k
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.

1
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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2
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
3
San Diego Jewish Academy

San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.

Education
4
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
5
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
6
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
7
Jewish Federation of San Diego County

Jewish federation of san diego county is dedicated to building a vibrant, caring, connected, and enduring jewish community.

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8
American Jewish Committee

AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…

Civil Rights
9
Jewish Community Relations Council of New York

Jcrc-ny builds relationships to advance the values, interests and security of the new york jewish community and to create a more interconnected new york for all.

Civil Rights
10
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
11
University of Judaism Foundation
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12
Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Uc San Diego Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Don Monti Memorial Research Foundation Inc. 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

12 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. 12 of the 19 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $3,650,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION+1 more: $95,000 · EducationLONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY: $420,000 · OtherLONG ISLAND UNIVERSITYTHE COMMUNITY KOLLEL INC: $255,000 · OtherTHE COMMUNITY KOLLEL I…BALTIMORE COMM COLLEGE: $150,000 · OtherBALTIMORE COMM COLLEGETHE BALTIMORE COMMUNITY KOLLEL INC: $100,000 · OtherTHE BALTIMORE COMMUNIT…+6 more: $108,000 · Other+6 moreSan Diego Opera Association: $240,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $66,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $61,000 · PhilanthropyThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $61,000 · InternationalSCRIPPS HEALTH: $33,000 · HealthWORLD JEWISH CONGRESS (AMERICAN SECTION) INC: $7,500 · ReligionZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO: $6,200 · Animals
Education$3,745,000Other$1,033,000Arts & Culture$240,000Philanthropy$127,000International$61,000Health$33,000Religion$7,500Animals$6,200

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $3,650,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY: $420,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSan Diego Opera Association: $240,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $95,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $66,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $61,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $61,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSCRIPPS HEALTH: $33,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLAWRENCE FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD JEWISH CONGRESS (AMERICAN SECTION) INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO: $6,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Don Monti Memorial Research Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budget
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.

American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Endowment FoundationOH10.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Lachman Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lachman Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Lachman Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Lachman Family Foundation Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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