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THE LEBRON JAMES FAMILY FOUNDATION
With a commitment to redefining community and building stronger families, THE LEBRON JAMES FAMILY FOUNDATION invests its time, resources and passion into creating generational change for the kids and families of james' hometown in akron, ohio through a focus on education, co-curricular educational initiatives, housing, job training,…
$1.9M
Granted FY2022
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Grants
1
Communities
$300k
Largest
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 71% of THE LEBRON JAMES FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
historystoneoutreachsheeppromise students
2019
historystoneoutreachsheep
2020
historystoneoutreachsheep
2021
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2022
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2022 · 1 grant
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$300,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$26M
Total assets
Largest grants
- SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION$300,000
02The need
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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 (FY17–17, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — 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.
96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.6M · 5 repeat orgs$285k to everyone else
5 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2022, 4 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
5
6
Total granted
$6.6M
$285k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+33%
+37%
Still filing today
80%
67%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsEducationEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
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
- APAKRON PUBLIC SCHOOLS8× · 2017–2024 · $4.9M
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION4× · 2018–2022 · $1.2M · revenue +33%- SVST VINCENT ST MARY HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION4× · 2018–2021 · $400k · revenue +1008%
Funded once
- MFMAYORS FUND OF LAgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue +37%
- TMTHE MAD GIRLS INCone grant, 2017 · $25k · 43% of their budget
- UNUSHER'S NEW LOOKgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +66%
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.
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Adam Smith Institute
International
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Institute for Advanced Study - Louis
Leading center for theoretical research and discovery. see schedule o.
Science & Tech
3
The Brookings Institution
To conduct in-depth, independent research that leads to new ideas for solving problems facing society.
Social Science
4
The Scintillon Institute
The Institutes mission is to transform real world problems into industry-leading solutions by creating breakthrough technologies, training and developing the next generation of scientists, and advancing the cause of underserved science.
Science & Tech
5
Saint Martin's University
Saint martin's university is a catholic benedictine institute of higher education that empowers students to pursue a lifetime of learning and accomplishment in all arenas of human endeavor.
Education
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National Science and Technology
The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…
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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
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Westminster University
Offer undergraduate and graduate degrees in liberal arts and professional programs.
Education
9
New York University
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes.
Education
10
Robert Louis Stevenson School
Stevenson is an independent, co-educational, nondenominational pre-k to 12 (continue on sch 0)boarding & day school committed to three aims:1. to prepare students for success in school and life beyond school;2. to foster their passion for…
Education
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The Board of Trustees of the Leland
Stanford university is one of a select group of american universities that have achieved eminence in both undergraduate and graduate education and research - cont'd sch o.
Education
12
The Robertson Scholars Leadership
Philanthropy
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Usher's New Look Inc and the most unlike its peers is Smithsonian Institution. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$4,920,307Arts & Culture$1,240,000Education$400,000Philanthropy$200,000Recreation & Sports$85,000Human Services$35,000Environment$5,000
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 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT ST MARY HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAYORS FUND OF LA ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST OHIO BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE MAD GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds USHER'S NEW LOOK ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS ↗
- Who funds TREE PEOPLE ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation THE LEBRON JAMES 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: THE MAD GIRLS INC.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
high risk
2 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing.
Legal standing
medium risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 900738503 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on THE MAD GIRLS INC, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 43% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to The Lebron James Family Foundation?
Find your warmest path to The Lebron James Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines