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The Lanter 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k37 grants · $698k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC | $75,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $65,000 |
| THRIVE AZ | $60,000 |
| A MILLION STARS INC - COLLEGE BOUND | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS JETS BASKETBALL CLUB (SWIL) | $40,000 |
| MITCHELL SWABACK CHARITIES - HARVEST COMPASSION CENTER | $35,000 |
| INTENTIONAL SPORTS | $31,500 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE VALLEY | $30,000 |
| BOX UNITED - FIGHT LIKE A GIRL | $30,000 |
| FUTURE FOR KIDS | $30,000 |
| LYDIA'S HOUSE INC | $25,000 |
| ELEVATE ST LOUIS | $25,000 |
| NEW CITY FELLOWSHIP | $25,000 |
| OUR LITTLE HAVEN | $25,000 |
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, $281k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
25 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 23 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, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $443k 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
- AMA MILLION STARS INC DBA COLLEGE BOUND2× · 2023–2024 · $130k · revenue +20%
- IFInvest for Kids Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $125k · revenue +39%
- FOFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES2× · 2023–2024 · $90k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION - BASKETBALL CAPITAL PROJECTS FUNDone grant, 2022 · $250k
- PAPARENTS AS TEACHERS NATIONAL CENTER INCone grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue -18%
- PGPHOENIX GOSPEL MISSIONone grant, 2023 · $35k · revenue +3%
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.
A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.
Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite and empower the promise of youth. we nurture children, strengthen communities and believe that inherent in every child is the ability to succeed and thrive in life.
Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…
Friends of the children - chicago has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors - 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in…
Thrive chicago's mission is to prepare chicago's youth for a vibrant future by aligning efforts and outcomes from cradle to career.
Big brothers big sisters of utah's vision is that all children achieve success in life. our mission is to create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
With love and respect, we partner with opportunity youth to build the skillsets and mindsets that lead to lifelong learning, livelihood, and leadership. youthbuild strives to create a world where all young people are seen for their…
Child Link provides foster care, family counseling, and therapy services to Chicago area adolescents who are at risk of homelessness. Child Link also refers adolescents to other agencies that are able to provide additional resources and…
The mission of the organization is to strengthen youth and families through high quality prevention, support, and transition services.
Springboard collaborative combines targeted student instruction with parent training in an incentivized system that closes the literacy gap, by transferring the summer from a barrier into a springboard for financially disadvantaged…
Children's advocates for change was organized to improve the lives of children in illinois by bringing about significant changes public policies and programs for children through research, policy analysis and advocacy, public education and…
Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth. the organization's vision is that all youth achieve their full potential.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Helping Hands for Single Moms and the most unlike its peers is 100 Thousand Foundation. 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 31 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 62 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 A MILLION STARS INC DBA COLLEGE BOUND ↗
- Who funds Invest for Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds FUTURE FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds THRIVE AZ FOSTER CARE PREVENTION REUNIFICATION AND AGED OUT ↗
- Who funds Lydia's House Inc ↗
- Who funds OUR LITTLE HAVEN ↗
- Who funds PARENTS AS TEACHERS NATIONAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS IN THE MIDDLE INC ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION ↗
- Who funds Womens Sports Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE BLOC ↗
- Who funds Intentional Sports ↗
- Who funds Youth Guidance ↗
- Who funds Stray Rescue of St Louis ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds University of Arizona Foundation ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF KIDS WITH CANCER ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE PHOENIX ↗
- Who funds BEAT THE STREETS CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY4KIDS ↗
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: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · St Louis Community Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Arizona Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Enterprise Bank & Trust Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Tw Lewis Foundation · Brown Dana Charitable Trust · St Louis Philanthropic Organization
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 Lanter Family 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.
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.
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