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The Lavin Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Lavin 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.

$335k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.1MHealth$597kHuman Services$235kFood & Nutrition$225kHousing & Shelter$96kArts & Culture$73kInternational$60kPhilanthropy$33kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $247k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOSTON COLLEGE$75,000
SIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$40,000
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY$25,000
FRESHFARM$20,000
ABORTION FUND OF MARYLAND$20,000
WETA$20,000
CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK$20,000
ST ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL$12,000
CALVARY WOMEN'S SERVICE$10,000
BRAIN & BEHAVIOR FOUNDATION$10,000
ASYLUMWORKS$10,000
ST PAUL'S THE APOSTLE SCHOOL$10,000
FRIENDSHIP PLACE$10,000
MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE$10,000
SISTER STELLA FOUNDATION$10,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $92k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%SOUTH FORK BAKERY FOR THE SPECIAL NEEDS CORP: $1k → 7%NORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICE: $10k → 6%SAFESPACE: $930 → 10%NORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICE: $10k → 6%NORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICE: $10k → 6%NORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICE: $10k → 6%PEOPLE'S PLACE: $5k → 10%NORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICE: $5k → 6%MANIFEST WORKS: $10k → 14%REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL: $10k → 14%NARAL PRO-CHOICE OF AMERICA: $10k → 14%NARAL PRO-CHOICE OF AMERICA: $10k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NY
MA
PA
CA
VA
MD
DE
NC
DC
FL
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 32 repeat orgs$356k to everyone else

32 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
33

Total granted

$2.3M
$316k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+39%

Still filing today

66%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $500k · revenue +70%
  • SM
    SIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    8× · 2018–2025 · $225k · revenue +151%
  • GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2017–2025 · $175k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • RC
    RUESCH CENTER GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $75k
  • CT
    CARON TREATMENT CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • TF
    THE FUND FOR JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINE
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
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
University of Maryland Facultyphysicians Inc

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland, school of medicine, administrative support services are provided to the physician practices of the university of maryland, including but not limited to information technology,…

Health
2
University of Maryland Physicians Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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3
University of Maryland Family Medicine Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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4
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
5
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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6
University of Maryland Pediatric Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
7
University of Maryland Surgical Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
8
University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Education
9
University of Maryland Oncology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
10
University of Maryland Dermatologists Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
11
University of Maryland Obstetrical Andgynecological Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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12
University of Maryland Neurology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Bettie Jane Cancer 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

39 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. 39 of the 67 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/39
Grantees still filing
27/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY RUESCH CENTER: $200,000 · OtherGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY RUESCH CENTERTHE RUESCH CENTER: $175,000 · OtherTHE RUESCH CENTERMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $100,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTERCARON: $80,000 · OtherCARONRUESCH CENTER GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $75,000 · OtherRUESCH CENTER GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING: $60,000 · OtherBRAIN & BEHAVIOR FOUNDATION: $40,000 · Other+33 more: $400,500 · Other+33 moreTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $500,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGEGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $175,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $60,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Middlebu…+3 more: $50,000 · Education+3 moreSIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $225,000 · HealthSIBLEY MEM…ABORTION FUND OF MARYLAND INC: $20,000 · HealthABORTION F…+3 more: $4,550 · HealthCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $115,000 · Food & NutritionFRESHFARM MARKETS: $85,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $5,000 · Food & NutritionNORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICES INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL: $30,000 · Human ServicesDC ABORTION FUND: $20,000 · Human ServicesMANIFESTWORKS: $10,000 · Human ServicesPEOPLE'S PLACE II INC: $5,000 · Human Services+2 more: $1,930 · Human ServicesSITAR ARTS CENTER: $40,000 · Arts & CultureGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureHALCYON FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,500 · Arts & CultureAsylumWorks: $60,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,000 · International
Other$1,130,500Education$785,000Health$249,550Food & Nutrition$205,000Human Services$111,930Arts & Culture$71,500International$65,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $500,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $225,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $175,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $115,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFRESHFARM MARKETS: $85,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $60,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAsylumWorks: $60,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetNORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICES INC: $45,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSITAR ARTS CENTER: $40,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetFriendship Place: $35,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCALVARY WOMEN'S SERVICES INC: $30,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetN STREET VILLAGE INC: $30,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL INC: $23,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDC ABORTION FUND: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHALCYON FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetWILDWOOD SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMANIFESTWORKS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPEOPLE'S PLACE II INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FORWARD INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBABY2BABY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION SEAS THE DAY INC: $4,500 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetMIRACLES FOR KIDS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEAL THE BAY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBEEBE MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDELAWARE BREAST CANCER COALITION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHarbour Ridge Family Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetROUND HOUSE THEATRE INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH FORK BAKERY FOR THE SPECIAL NEEDS CORP: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSAFESPACE INC: $930 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BETTIE JANE CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $550 over 2y, 0.3% 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.

  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds SIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds FRESHFARM MARKETS ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
  • Who funds AsylumWorks ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds SITAR ARTS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Friendship Place ↗
  • Who funds REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL ↗
  • Who funds CALVARY WOMEN'S SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds N STREET VILLAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ST ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds DC ABORTION FUND ↗
  • Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds ABORTION FUND OF MARYLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE RURAL SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds HALCYON FOUNDATION ↗

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.

The Morris and Gwendo…Greater Washington Co…Philip L Graham Fund …Clark-Winchcole Found…The Morningstar Phila…William S Abell Found…Max & Victoria Dreyfu…The Bank of America C…Silicon Valley Commun…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…
The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz FoundationDC19.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · The Morningstar Philanthropic Foundation D/B/A the Morningstar Foundation · William S Abell Foundation Inc · Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • People's Place Ii Inc: 51% of income from government
  • Safespace Inc: 25% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Hope Rural School Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Round House Theatre Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
  • Beebe Medical Foundation: 2% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.
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Find your warmest path to The Lavin 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 67 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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