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The Lenart Art Education Foundation at a glance

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The Lenart Art Education Foundation

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.

$176k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$20k
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.

Arts & Culture$412kEducation$221kYouth Development$82kHealth$81kInternational$68kScience & Tech$59kAnimals$36kReligion$27kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $148k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOUTHERN OREGON UNIVERSITY YOUTH PROGRAMS$20,000
A WINDOW BETWEEN WORLDS$20,000
OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL$20,000
THE CHILDERNS MUSEUM$20,000
LACMA$17,500
TALENT MAKER CITY$15,000
OREGON WILDLIFE FOUNDATION$15,000
ASHLAND ART CENTER$10,000
ASHLAND ART WORKS$10,000
ALLIANCE FOUNDATION$7,500
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL$5,000
SODA MOUNTAIN WILDERNESS COUNCIL$5,000
NO KID HUNGRY$5,000
REED FOUNDATION FOR AUTISM$2,500
CONCERN FOUNDATION$2,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HUMOROLOGY INC: $1k → 10%VISTA DEL MAR: $1k → 14%WAYFINDER FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 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

WI
NY
MA
OR
NJ
CA
DC
AL
GA
TX
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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$703k · 39 repeat orgs$351k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

39 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
46

Total granted

$703k
$245k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+13%

Still filing today

64%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k 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
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsOther
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

  • AW
    A WINDOW BETWEEN WORLDS
    5× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +21%
  • HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES
    3× · 2019–2022 · $58k · revenue +160%
  • CC
    CALIFORNIA CREATIVE LEARNING ACADEMY
    4× · 2017–2020 · $50k · revenue +72%

Funded once

  • IM
    INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +8%
  • ASANTE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -46%
  • HT
    HOLLY THEATRE
    one grant, 2024 · $20k
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.

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Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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2
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…

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3
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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5
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
6
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
7
Los Angeles Conservancy

The los angeles conservancy is a nonprofit membership organization that works through education and advocacy to recognize, preserve, and revitalize the historic architectural and cultural resources of los angeles county.

Arts & Culture
8
Arts for La

Arts for la leads communities, artists and organizations to advocate for an equitable, healthy, and creative los angeles region through the arts.

Arts & Culture
9
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
10
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
11
Los Angeles Opera Company

To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…

Arts & Culture
12
California College of the Arts

California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Creative Learning Academy; the most unlike its peers is Wayfinder Family Services. 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

58 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. 58 of the 95 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/58
Grantees still filing
38/58
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SCIENCE WORKS: $50,000 · OtherSCIENCE WORKSWILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLE: $31,300 · OtherWILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLESanta Monica Education Foundation: $30,000 · OtherSanta Monica Education FoundationLACMA: $22,500 · OtherSOUTHERN OREGON UNIVERSITY YOUTH PROGRAMS: $20,000 · OtherHOLLY THEATRE: $20,000 · OtherTHE CHILDERNS MUSEUM: $20,000 · OtherOREGON WILDLIFE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Other+46 more: $217,950 · Other+46 moreA WINDOW BETWEEN WORLDS: $80,000 · Arts & CultureA WINDOW BETWEEN WORLDSTALENT MAKER CITY: $65,000 · Arts & CultureTALENT MAKER CITYSKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER: $30,000 · Arts & CultureSKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTERINNER-CITY ARTS: $25,000 · Arts & CultureINNER-CITY ARTSOREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureOREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL AS…LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION: $11,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF LATIN AMERICAN ART: $10,000 · Arts & CultureASHLAND ART WORKS: $10,000 · Arts & CultureFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE JOHN G SHEDD INSTITUTE FOR THE ARTS: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA CREATIVE LEARNING ACADEMY: $50,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA CREA…ART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN: $20,000 · EducationART CENTER COLL…PALISADES CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL: $19,000 · EducationPALISADES CHART…PALISADES HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUB: $16,000 · EducationPALISADES HIGH …THE MIRMAN SCHOOL FOR GIFTED CHILDREN: $15,500 · EducationTHE MIRMAN SCHO…PALISADES ENRICHMENT PROGRAMS: $12,000 · EducationPALISADES ENRIC…UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $5,000 · EducationTHE FAMILY NURTURING CENTER ROGUE VALLEY CHILDREN'S RELIEF NURSERY: $5,000 · Education+2 more: $6,000 · EducationINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $25,000 · InternationalAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC: $12,500 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $8,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF ELNET: $5,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $3,500 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $2,500 · InternationalAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $2,500 · International+2 more: $2,000 · InternationalHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $57,500 · Youth Development+1 more: $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentASANTE FOUNDATION: $25,000 · HealthREED FOUNDATION FOR AUTISM INC: $12,500 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES: $10,000 · HealthARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthAlliance Foundation: $17,500 · PhilanthropyCONCERN FOUNDATION: $7,000 · Philanthropy
Other$426,750Arts & Culture$281,000Education$148,500International$61,000Youth Development$58,500Health$55,500Philanthropy$24,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetA WINDOW BETWEEN WORLDS: $80,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetTALENT MAKER CITY: $65,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $57,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA CREATIVE LEARNING ACADEMY: $50,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSanta Monica Education Foundation: $30,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINNER-CITY ARTS: $25,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetASANTE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPALISADES CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL: $19,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAlliance Foundation: $17,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetPALISADES HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUB: $16,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetTHE MIRMAN SCHOOL FOR GIFTED CHILDREN: $15,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetREED FOUNDATION FOR AUTISM INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPALISADES ENRICHMENT PROGRAMS: $12,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF LATIN AMERICAN ART: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASHLAND ART WORKS: $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JOHN G SHEDD INSTITUTE FOR THE ARTS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONCERN FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLA GOAL: $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWayfinder Family Services: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF ELNET: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMILKEN COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSODA MOUNTAIN WILDERNESS COUNCIL: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASHLAND PARKS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE BUCKLEY SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FAMILY NURTURING CENTER ROGUE VALLEY CHILDREN'S RELIEF NURSERY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOREGON CENTER FOR CREATIVE LEARNING DBA KID TIME: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION: $4,950 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRANSCENDENCE THEATRE COMPANY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOTIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Harry & Yvonne Lenart…The Ahmanson Foundati…The Oregon Community …The J Paul Getty TrustCalifornia Community …The Carpenter Foundat…Carrico Family Founda…The Rose Hills Founda…The Ralph M Parsons F…Quinn Hill FoundationJoe & Frances Naumes …Elbridge Stuart Found…
Harry & Yvonne Lenart Charitable FoundationCA32.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Harry & Yvonne Lenart Charitable Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · The J Paul Getty Trust · California Community Foundation · The Carpenter Foundation · Carrico Family Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Quinn Hill Foundation · Joe & Frances Naumes Family Foundation · Elbridge Stuart Foundation Dba Stuart Foundation

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 Lenart Art Education Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lenart Art Education Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 38%
  • Oregon Center for Creative Learning Dba Kid Time: 42% of income from government
  • The Family Nurturing Center Rogue Valley Children's Relief Nursery: 38% of income from government
  • Oregon Wildlife Heritage Foundation: 16% of income from government
  • Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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 Lenart Art Education Foundation 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 95 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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