· Public charity
The Lebron James Family Foundation
What began as a mission to raise graduation rates in lebron's hometown of akron, ohio, THE LEBRON JAMES FAMILY FOUNDATION's work has evolved into a movement that is redefining what family and community looks like.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION | $300,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against -15% for those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2022, 4 since wound down.
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 FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- APAKRON PUBLIC SCHOOLS8× · 2017–2024 · $3.9M
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION4× · 2018–2022 · $1.2M · revenue +30%- SVST VINCENT - ST MARY HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION4× · 2018–2021 · $400k · revenue +79%
Funded once
- TMTHE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELESone grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue -89%
- TMThe MAD Girls Incone grant, 2017 · $25k · 43% of their budget
- UNUSHER'S NEW LOOK INCone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -15%
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.
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.
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How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 11 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT - ST MARY HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST OHIO BASKETBALL ASSOC ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AKRON OHIO ↗
- Who funds The MAD Girls Inc ↗
- Who funds USHER'S NEW LOOK INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds TREEPEOPLE INC ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Lebron James Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lebron James Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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