· Private foundation
The Lagomarsino 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL | $2,400 |
| COVENANT HOUSE FLORIDA INC | $2,200 |
| KIDS IN CRISIS INC | $2,200 |
| CANINES FOR SERVICE INC | $2,100 |
| MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC | $2,100 |
| LEWY BODY DEMENTIA ASSOCIATION INC | $2,100 |
| GOOD SHEPHERD MINISTRIES OF WILMINGTON INC | $2,100 |
| FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC | $2,000 |
| SHE ROCKS INC | $2,000 |
| THE PET FUND | $2,000 |
| DREAMS OF WILMINGTON INC | $1,900 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $1,900 |
| OASIS NC | $1,900 |
| GIFT OF LIFE INTERNATIONAL INC | $1,700 |
| CURE ALZHEIMER'S FUND | $1,700 |
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 (FY17–24, $71k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 88% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of The Lagomarsino 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.
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.
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 +38% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
86 repeat relationships — 48 still active in FY2024, 38 since wound down; 7 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- HAHAITI AWAKE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $22k · revenue +93%
FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC8× · 2017–2024 · $20k · revenue +86%- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE6× · 2019–2024 · $14k · revenue +151%
Funded once
- LCLower Cape Fear Hospice Foundation Incone grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue -61%
AMERICARES FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +35%- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BROWARD COUNTY INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +26%
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.
The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.
The organization's mission is to build partnerships to enhance compassionate care globally. we are dedicated to improving access to hospice and palliative care worldwide.
The mission of safe haven for cats is to use no-kill principles and education to save cats' lives through rescue, adoption, spay/neuter services and community programs.
Mission novant health exists to improve the health of our communities, one person at a time. vision we, the novant health team, will deliver the most remarkable patient experience, in every dimension, every time. values -compassion: we…
Humane Society of Charlotte mission is to champion the wellbeing of companion animals and strengthen their bond with the people who know, love, and need them.
To discover treatments and a cure for als and to serve, advocate for, and empower people affected by als to live their lives to the fullest.
To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
The mission of the Organization is to coordinate, support, and advocate for member Food Banks across the Carolinas to create lasting solutions to address hunger.
Our mission is to help families be families by creating custom home modifications for children with special healthcare needs. from sensory and therapy rooms to fully wheelchair-accessible spaces, our home transformations provide safer…
To care for individuals and families with compassion, support, and expertise as they navigate the end of life or life-changing illness.
Lifenet health, established in 1982, is a non-profit life sciences organization that provides allografts for use in most surgical disciplines; facilitates organ donation and transplantation; provides donated cells and tissues for…
Our mission is "enhancing health, life & survivorship" for those living with cancer in our community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Cancer Partners of the Carolinas Inc and the most unlike its peers is Haiti Awake Inc. 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 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
90 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. 90 of the 114 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 BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD ↗
- Who funds HAITI AWAKE INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Ministries of Wilmington Inc ↗
- Who funds Vigilant Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds LIFE LINE PREGNANCY CENTER ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds Canines for Service Inc ↗
- Who funds DREAMS OF WILMINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds HEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds KIDS IN CRISIS INC ↗
- Who funds ACCESSIBLE COASTAL CAROLINA EVENTS ↗
- Who funds NEW HANOVER HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SHE ROCKS INC ↗
- Who funds NourishNC Inc ↗
- Who funds Visiting Nurse Association of Indian River County Inc ↗
- Who funds Oasis NC ↗
- Who funds Mother Hubbard's Cupboard of Wilmington Inc ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds JESSICA JUNE CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Domestic Violence Shelter and Services Inc ↗
- Who funds Patriots Path ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds Wilmington Animal Centrix ↗
- Who funds THE PET FUND ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PALM BEACH INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE OF BROWARD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Eden Village of Wilmington ↗
- Who funds GIFT OF LIFE INTERNATIONAL 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: The Landfall Foundation Inc · New Hanover Community Endowment Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Cape Fear Memorial Foundation · United Way of the Cape Fear Area Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Daniel a and Sheila M Saklad Foundation · The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation · Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc · The Eshelman Foundation · Directed Balloun Family Foundation · The True North Foundation Co Amy Brown North
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 Lagomarsino 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.
- Kids in Crisis Inc — 49% of income from government
- Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Palm Beach Inc — 12% of income from government
- Covenant House Florida Inc — 1% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Mercy Flight Se Inc dba Angel Flight Southeast — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% 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.