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LAP 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.

$83k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Animals$225kHuman Services$123kHealth$120kEducation$98kEnvironment$55kInternational$20kYouth Development$15kHousing & Shelter$14kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $68k
$10,010
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Anchorage School Business Partnersh$18,000
Alaska PTA Aka FAIRVIEW ELEM PTA$15,007
FRIENDS OF BRIDPORT SCHOOL INC$15,000
Best Friends Animal Society$10,453
DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA$10,010
Maniilaq Association$7,500
Straw For Dogs$5,000
Humane Society of Utah$1,040
Pilots N Paws$1,021
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 38% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Maniilaq Association: $8k → 20%Maniilaq Association: $8k → 20%Spectrum Inc: $3k → 10%SPECTRUM YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 10%Spectrum Youth and Family: $3k → 10%SPECTRUM YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 10%Covenant House Alaska: $8k → 10%Covenant House Alaska: $6k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

AK
VT
WA
NY
CA
UT
AZ
TN
SC
DC
GA
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$585k · 24 repeat orgs$105k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +47% for the ones you funded once.

24 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
22

Total granted

$585k
$103k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+47%

Still filing today

92%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalInternationalOther

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

  • FF
    Facing Foster Care in Alaska
    4× · 2017–2021 · $65k · revenue +98%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $55k · revenue +67%
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER
    4× · 2021–2024 · $50k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • AL
    AMERICAN LEPROSY MISSIONS INC
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +22%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • DF
    Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +98%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Juneau Animal Rescue

To serve our community by promoting animal welfare and strengthening the animal-human bond. to improve the lives of pets through education and protection. to shelter stray, abandoned, and surrendered pets and find them loving homes.

Animals
2
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
3
World Vets

To improve the health & well-being of animals through veterinary aid, response, training, research & local capacity building worldwide. We provide services to companion animals, horses, street dogs, livestock and marine animals including…

Animals
4
Alpine Humane Society
Animals
5
Ark-Valley Humane Society Inc

Ark-Valley Humane Society's (AVHS) Mission is ensuring the welfare of companion animals through compassion and care. AVHS operated an open-admission animal shelter for Chaffee County, Colorado.

Animals
6
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…

Animals
7
All About Animals Rescue

All about animals rescue's mission is no more homeless pets.

Animals
8
Animal Humane Society

Animal Humane Society (AHS) established in 1878 and incorporated as a nonprofit charitable organization in 1891 works to engage the hearts, hands, and minds of the community to help animals. AHS's vision is to compassionately and…

Animals
9
Beaverhead Animal Shelter

The mission is to protect and care for homeless animals in the Dillon and Beaverhead county area.

Animals
10
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
11
Oregon Humane Society

The oregon humane society ("ohs") is a private animal welfare organization, founded in 1868 and incorporated in 1880, whose mission is to create a more humane society with the vision of a world where all animals are treated with…

Animals
12
Humane Society of Southern Arizona

To compassionately serve pets and the people who love them.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Providence Alaska Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Double H Equine Foundation & Sanct. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAnimal Rescue and ShelterEnvironmental Conservation …Equine Therapy ProgramsDomestic Violence ServicesYouth Sports ProgramsCommunity FoundationsHealth Access Advocacy and …Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr13%31%35–55yr16%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%6%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%3%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr13%26%35–55yr16%39%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/38
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,527

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.

04the grantee network

35 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. 35 of the 48 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
27/35
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC — $55,000 · AnimalsCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INCTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC — $45,030 · AnimalsTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA I…Defenders of Wildlife — $42,500 · AnimalsDefenders of WildlifeBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY — $30,906 · AnimalsBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETYSTRAW FOR DOGS — $25,000 · AnimalsSTRAW FOR DOGS+13 more — $50,674 · Animals+13 moreAlaska PTA Aka FAIRVIEW ELEM PTA — $59,007 · OtherAlaska PTA Aka FAIRVIEW ELEM PT…FRIENDS OF BRIDPORT SCHOOL INC — $25,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF BRIDPORT SCHOOL INCANCHORAGE SCHOOL BUS PARTNERSHIP — $18,258 · OtherANCHORAGE SCHOOL BUS PARTNERSHI…SMILE TRAIN INC — $10,000 · OtherBeans Cafe Inc — $10,000 · OtherAlaska Special Olympics DBA Special Olympics Alaska Inc — $10,000 · OtherDONORSCHOOSEORG — $8,921 · Other+12 more — $52,528 · Other+12 moreTHE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER — $50,000 · HealthTHE UNIVERSITY OF …ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $27,500 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S…PROVIDENCE ALASKA FOUNDATION — $27,500 · HealthPROVIDENCE ALASKA …THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · HealthFacing Foster Care in Alaska — $65,000 · Crime & LegalFacing Fos…Maniilaq Association — $15,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE ALASKA — $14,250 · Human ServicesSPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN LEPROSY MISSIONS INC — $20,000 · InternationalBig Brothers Big Sisters of Alaska — $12,500 · Youth DevelopmentTHERAPEUTIC RANCH FOR ANIMALS AND KIDS — $750 · Youth Development
Animals$249,110Other$193,714Health$110,000Crime & Legal$65,000Human Services$39,250International$20,000Youth Development$13,250

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFacing Foster Care in Alaska — $65,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC — $55,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER — $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC — $45,030 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDefenders of Wildlife — $42,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY — $30,906 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $27,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE ALASKA FOUNDATION — $27,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSTRAW FOR DOGS — $25,000 over 7y, 18% of budgetAMERICAN LEPROSY MISSIONS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANCHORAGE SCHOOL BUS PARTNERSHIP — $18,258 over 2y, 20% of budgetManiilaq Association — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE ALASKA — $14,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Alaska — $12,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBeans Cafe Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAlaska Special Olympics DBA Special Olympics Alaska Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC — $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG — $8,921 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF SEDONA INC — $7,613 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetALASKA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $7,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetANIMAL GUARDIAN NETWORK INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTundra Womens Coalition — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWILD AT HEART HORSE RESCUE — $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRETURN TO FREEDOM INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPeaceful Valley Donkey Rescue Inc — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALL SEATED IN A BARN — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF PETS INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDOUBLE H EQUINE FOUNDATION & SANCT — $2,500 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetAMERICAN WILD HORSE PRESERVATION CAMPAIGN — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWWWPILOTSNPAWSORG INC — $1,021 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHERAPEUTIC RANCH FOR ANIMALS AND KIDS — $750 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Rasmuson FoundationThe Alaska Community …The Carr Foundation I…Global Credit Union F…Rick and Cyndie Fox F…Jim and Vicki Jansen …Alaska Children's Tru…Shell USA Company Fou…McKesson Foundation I…The Pfizer Foundation…Baird Foundation IncNetwork for Good
Rasmuson FoundationAK27.2× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rasmuson Foundation · The Alaska Community Foundation · The Carr Foundation Inc · Global Credit Union Foundation · Rick and Cyndie Fox Family Foundation · Jim and Vicki Jansen Foundation · Alaska Children's Trust · Shell USA Company Foundation · McKesson Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Network for Good

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 LAP Foundation Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • The University of Vermont Medical Center — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 48 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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