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The Landon Family Foundation at a glance

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The Landon Family 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.

$142k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$60k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Philanthropy$189kArts & Culture$165kEnvironment$145kAnimals$25k
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
$10,683
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Lake Placid Center for the Arts$60,000
The Wild Center$50,000
Adirondack Foundation$10,683
Vermont Community Foundation$8,334
Vermont Community Foundation$8,334
Adirondack Center for Loon Conservation$5,000
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 (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 86% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Grassland Bird Trust: $5k → 11%Lake Placid Center for the Arts: $60k → 13%Adirondack Foundation: $17k → 16%National Public Radio (NPR): $13k → 14%Community Foundation for Palm Beach & Marin Counties Inc: $17k → 11%Innovia Foundation: $15k → 12%Vermont Community Foundation: $17k → 9%The Shelburne Museum: $25k → 10%Lake Placid Center for the Arts: $50k → 13%Adirondack Foundation: $15k → 16%Community Foundation for Palm Beach & Marin Counties Inc: $15k → 11%Vermont Community Foundation: $15k → 9%Vermont Public Radio (VPR): $13k → 10%Lake Placid Center for the Arts: $30k → 13%Adirondack Foundation: $14k → 16%Vermont Community Foundation: $14k → 9%Adirondack Foundation: $11k → 16%Vermont Community Foundation: $14k → 9%Adirondack Foundation: $10k → 16%Vermont Community Foundation: $8k → 9%Adirondack Center for Loon Conservation: $5k → 16%Vermont Community Foundation: $8k → 9%Adirondack Center for Loon Conservation: $5k → 16%Adirondack Center for Loon Conservation: $5k → 16%Adirondack Center for Loon Conservation: $5k → 16%The Wild Center: $50k → 16%The Wild Center: $50k → 16%The Wild Center: $10k → 16%The Wild Center: $10k → 16%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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$280k · 3 repeat orgs$55k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
4

Total granted

$280k
$55k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+114%
+195%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureAnimalsEnvironmentOther
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

  • TL
    THE LAKE PLACID ASSOCIATION FOR MUSIC DRAMA AND ART INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $140k · revenue +687%
  • NH
    NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF THE ADIRONDACKS
    4× · 2020–2024 · $120k · revenue +93%
  • AC
    ADIRONDACK CENTER FOR LOON CONSERVATION
    4× · 2020–2024 · $20k · revenue +114%

Funded once

  • SM
    SHELBURNE MUSEUM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +67%
  • VP
    Vermont Public Radio
    one grant, 2021 · $13k
  • NP
    National Public Radio
    one grant, 2021 · $13k
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
The Adirondack Council Inc

The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…

Environment
2
Adirondack Land Trust Inc

To forever conserve the forests, farmlands, waters and wild places that advance the quality of life of our communities and the ecological integrity of the adirondacks.

Environment
3
Climate Conservation Dba Center for Large Landscape Conservation

We bring science, policy, and proven solutions directly to communities working to restore the integrity and natural connectivity of the landscapes in which they live. (see schedule o)

Environment
4
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
5
Adk Foundation
Philanthropy
6
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia

The mission is "to understand the natural world and inspire everyone to care for it." the academy implements its mission through understanding the diversity of life; developing and applying science to protect the environment; and informing…

Science & Tech
7
The Quebec-Labrador Foundation Inc

The program mission of the quebec-labrador foundation u.s. is defined by a regional component (new england and eastern canada), and an international component, which ties our regional model to a global conservation network. qlf's program…

Philanthropy
8
National Audubon Society Inc

We work towards a future where birds thrive across the americas because audubon is a powerful, diverse, and ever-growing force for conservation. (continued on schedule o).

Environment
9
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
10
Hudson River Foundation for Science and Environmental Research Inc

The mission of the hudson river foundation is to inspire and inform action through science and engaging people to enhance the hudson river, estuary, and watershed (see schedule o).

Environment
11
Wilderness Conservation Foundation
Environment
12
Glacier National Park Conservancy

The glacier national park conservancy works to preserve and protect glacier national park for future generations.

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Adirondack Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Innovia Foundation. 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

9 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. 9 of the 11 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
9/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE LAKE PLACID ASSOCIATION FOR MUSIC DRAMA AND ART INC: $140,000 · Arts & CultureTHE LAKE PLACID ASSOCIATION FOR MUSIC DRAMA AND ART INCNATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF THE ADIRONDACKS: $120,000 · Arts & CultureNATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF THE ADIRONDACKSSHELBURNE MUSEUM INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureSHELBURNE MUSEUM INCTHE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $75,668 · PhilanthropyTHE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONADIRONDACK FOUNDATION: $66,183 · PhilanthropyADIRONDACK FOUNDATIONCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR PALM BEACH AND MARTIN COUNTIES INC: $32,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR PALM BEACH AND …Innovia Foundation: $15,000 · PhilanthropyInnovia FoundationVermont Public Radio (VPR): $12,500 · OtherNational Public Radio (NPR): $12,500 · OtherADIRONDACK CENTER FOR LOON CONSERVATION: $20,000 · AnimalsGRASSLAND BIRD TRUST INC: $5,000 · Environment
Arts & Culture$285,000Philanthropy$188,851Other$25,000Animals$20,000Environment$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE LAKE PLACID ASSOCIATION FOR MUSIC DRAMA AND ART INC: $140,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetNATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF THE ADIRONDACKS: $120,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetTHE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $75,668 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetADIRONDACK FOUNDATION: $66,183 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR PALM BEACH AND MARTIN COUNTIES INC: $32,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSHELBURNE MUSEUM INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetADIRONDACK CENTER FOR LOON CONSERVATION: $20,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetInnovia Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGRASSLAND BIRD TRUST INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Landon Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Landon Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Shelburne Museum Inc: 9% of income from government
  • The Vermont Community Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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
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 Landon Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Landon Family Foundation 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 11 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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