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The Lb Research and Education Foundation C/O Peter Marks

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$420k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0175% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Philanthropy$2.3MEducation$2.1MHealth$775kArts & Culture$545kHuman Services$325kCommunity Improvement$85kCrime & Legal$80kInternational$80kHousing & Shelter$75kOther$2.3M
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k18 grants · $435k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $370k
  • $250k+2 grants · $720k
$25,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$32M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION$420,000
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$300,000
HARMONY PROJECT OF LOS ANGELES$100,000
BLALOCK FOUNDATION$60,000
CATALYST FOR CHANGE$60,000
THE LIME FOUNDATION$50,000
YOUTH MENTORING CONNECTION$50,000
OASIS - A HAVEN FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN$50,000
CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES$40,000
Individual grant recipient$40,000
HACK THE HOOD$35,000
UNCOMMON GOOD$35,000
EMPOWERED NETWORK$25,000
BAY AREA VIDEO COALITION$25,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NC$25,000
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 (FY21–24, $325k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%EMPOWERED NETWORK: $25k → 9%SEEDS OF LITERACY: $35k → 17%OASIS - A HAVEN FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $50k → 12%NEVADA INSTITUTE OF FORENSIC NURSING: $20k → 9%YMCA OF GREATER SEATTLE: $10k → 9%OASIS - A HAVEN FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $25k → 12%OASIS - A HAVEN FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $10k → 12%DOCTORS OF THE WORLD: $20k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE OF CALIFORNIA: $25k → 14%AVALON CARVER COMMUNITY CENTER: $35k → 14%UNCOMMON GOOD: $35k → 14%UNCOMMON GOOD: $35k → 14%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

WA
MT
NY
MA
OR
NV
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
NE
VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.6M · 25 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

25 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
26

Total granted

$7.6M
$728k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
+12%

Still filing today

80%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $295k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +23%
  • OS
    OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +3%
  • YM
    YOUTH MENTORING CONNECTION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $325k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue 0%
  • JB
    JUSTIN BLALOCK FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $100k
  • GS
    GAYLORD SPECIALTY HEALTHCARE HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2022 · $35k

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
Stem Advantage

Talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not. STEM Advantage mentors, prepares, and inspires first-generation, low-income, and underserved college students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). We level…

Youth Development
2
Enterprise for Youth

Enterprise for youth empowers under-resourced san francisco youths to reach their potential through transformative paid internship experiences supported by a community of employers, caring adults, and peers.

Youth Development
3
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
4
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
5
California Institute of Integral Studies

Ciis is an institution of higher education that encourages an interdisciplinary approach to learning. over 1,700 students are enrolled in masters, doctoral, bachelor of arts completion programs, and certifications. ours is a mosaic of…

Education
6
AI4ALL

Ai4all's mission is to ensure that the next generation of ai leaders reflects humanity. ai4all is transforming the pipeline of ai practitioners who will shape ai for the benefit of humanity.

Youth Development
7
The Anti-Recidivism Coalition

The anti-recidivism coalition (arc) works to end mass incarceration in california. to ensure our communities are safe, healthy, and whole, arc empowers formerly and currently incarcerated people to thrive by providing a support network,…

Crime & Legal
8
The Urban Assembly Inc

To advance students' economic and social mobility by improving public education.

International
9
10000 Degrees

10,000 degrees is a leading college success nonprofit in the san francisco bay area. we help students from low-income backgrounds gain access to and complete higher education to positively impact their communities and the world.…

Education
10
Occidental College

See schedule othe mission of occidental college is to provide a gifted and diverse group of students with a total educational experience of the highest quality - one that prepares them for leadership in an increasingly complex,…

Education
11
Palo Alto University Inc

Advancing human understanding through education, research, and practice in behavioral science

Education
12
Achievekids

Achievekids schools provide individualized and multi-disciplinary programs that deliver special education, mental health, and family support services for students ages 5 to 22 who have complex and often severe developmental, emotional, and…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Opportunity House and the most unlike its peers is Each Moment Were Alive 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyDevelopmental Disabilities …Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Military Veterans SupportElementary Literacy TutoringHealth Access Advocacy and …Environmental Conservation …Immigrant Worker SupportWomen & Girls Leadership De…Youth Development ServicesCancer Support ServicesLocal History MuseumsCommunity Arts CentersCommunity Foundations
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 26 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%5%<5yr12%9%5–10yr21%25%10–20yr14%27%20–35yr16%16%35–55yr20%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%1%<5yr12%3%5–10yr21%8%10–20yr14%13%20–35yr16%62%35–55yr20%13%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/48
the rest of the field
11%
8,037/74,258

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

48 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. 48 of the 64 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/48
Grantees still filing
25/48
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION — $2,100,000 · PhilanthropyTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI …NICHOLAS CENTER LTD — $90,000 · Philanthropy+3 more — $90,000 · PhilanthropyUNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI — $780,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATIOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY — $450,000 · OtherOHIO STATE UNIVERSITYHARMONY PROJECT OF LOS ANGELES — $300,000 · OtherHARMONY PROJECT OF LOS ANGELESHARMONY PROJECT LOS ANGELES — $225,000 · OtherHARMONY PROJECT LOS ANGELESJUSTIN BLALOCK FOUNDATION — $100,000 · Other+22 more — $655,500 · Other+22 moreOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $1,500,000 · EducationOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUND…YOUTH MENTORING CONNECTION — $325,000 · EducationYOUTH MENTORING CONNECTIONUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $100,000 · EducationBENJAMIN FRANKLIN CUMMINGS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — $70,000 · Education+5 more — $100,000 · EducationBlalock Foundation — $395,000 · HealthBlalock Fo…FACE FORWARD INC DBA FACE FORWARD INTERNATIONAL — $250,000 · HealthFACE FORWA…CATALYST FOR CHANGE — $60,000 · HealthCATALYST F…AIRPORT MARINA COUNSELING SERVICE — $45,000 · HealthAIRPORT MA…+2 more — $25,000 · HealthHobart Shakespeareans — $155,000 · Arts & CultureMendocino Arts Center Inc — $150,000 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — $110,000 · Arts & CultureHack the Hood Inc — $60,000 · Arts & CultureThe Bay Area Video Coalition Incorporated — $40,000 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA INDIAN MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER — $25,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $5,000 · Arts & CultureOASIS - A HAVEN FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC — $85,000 · Human ServicesUNCOMMON GOOD — $70,000 · Human ServicesAVALON-CARVER COMMUNITY CENTER — $35,000 · Human ServicesSEEDS OF LITERACY — $35,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA — $25,000 · Human ServicesEMPOWER HER NETWORK INC DBA EMPOWERED NETWORK — $25,000 · Human ServicesDOCTORS OF THE WORLD USA INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesNEVADA INSTITUTE OF FORENSIC NURSING — $20,000 · Human Services+1 more — $10,000 · Human ServicesLime Foundation — $85,000 · Community Improvement
Philanthropy$2,280,000Other$2,510,500Education$2,095,000Health$775,000Arts & Culture$545,000Human Services$325,000Community Improvement$85,000

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 budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION — $2,100,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $1,500,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBlalock Foundation — $395,000 over 5y, 32% of budgetYOUTH MENTORING CONNECTION — $325,000 over 5y, 8.1% of budgetFACE FORWARD INC DBA FACE FORWARD INTERNATIONAL — $250,000 over 4y, 33% of budgetHobart Shakespeareans — $155,000 over 4y, 46% of budgetMendocino Arts Center Inc — $150,000 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — $110,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNICHOLAS CENTER LTD — $90,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetLime Foundation — $85,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetOASIS - A HAVEN FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC — $85,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCHAINLESS CHANGE INC — $80,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetOPPORTUNITY HOUSE — $75,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUNCOMMON GOOD — $70,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBENJAMIN FRANKLIN CUMMINGS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — $70,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAHA FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetHack the Hood Inc — $60,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCATALYST FOR CHANGE — $60,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetAIRPORT MARINA COUNSELING SERVICE — $45,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetThe Bay Area Video Coalition Incorporated — $40,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCENTRAL OREGON VETERANS RANCH — $37,500 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetAVALON-CARVER COMMUNITY CENTER — $35,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWASHINGTON ALLIANCE FOR BETTER SCHOOLS — $35,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSEEDS OF LITERACY — $35,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE LITTLE COMPANY OF MARY FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEMPOWER HER NETWORK INC DBA EMPOWERED NETWORK — $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSouth Carolina Aquarium — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUPSPRING — $25,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetCALIFORNIA INDIAN MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMALONE COMMUNITY CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetALLIANCE FOR A HEALTHIER GENERATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SAN MARCOS PROMISE — $25,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetOPHELIA'S PLACE — $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetDOCTORS OF THE WORLD USA INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIRLS FIRST — $20,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetLEADERSHIP ENTERPRISE FOR A DIVERSE AMERICA — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNEVADA INSTITUTE OF FORENSIC NURSING — $20,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetPlaza Comunitaria Sinaloa — $20,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetHIAS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNUEVA VIDA INC — $15,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetEACH MOMENT WERE ALIVE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871) — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVERSABILITY RESOURCES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Kaiser Foundation Hos…California Community …Silicon Valley Commun…The Ahmanson Foundati…Umpqua Bank Charitabl…East Bay Community Fo…The San Francisco Fou…Boston Foundation IncCharities Aid Foundat…The Pfizer Foundation…The Blackbaud Giving …National Philanthropi…
Kaiser Foundation HospitalsCA16.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · California Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Umpqua Bank Charitable Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Lb Research and Education Foundation C/O Peter Marks 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 42%
  • Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
  • Empower Her Network Inc Dba Empowered Network — 47% of income from government
  • Central Oregon Veterans Ranch — 45% of income from government
  • Aha Foundation Inc — 42% of income from government
  • Ophelia's Place — 22% of income from government
  • Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology — 5% of income from government
  • Chainless Change Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
18report 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

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 64 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
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