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The Lg-Mep Family Foundation F/K/A Beryl Plaut Family Foundation

Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$50k
Granted FY2018
17
Grants FY2018
10
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What you fund
0182% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172018.

Animals$16kYouth Development$9kInternational$9kPublic Benefit$8kHealth$5kReligion$4kEducation$3kRecreation & Sports$2kOther$0
02FY2018 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$3k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OBAMA FOUNDATION$8,000
ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON$8,000
DIRECT RELIEF$7,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CO DR GENO MERLI$3,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
NEW MORNING YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES$3,000
MUSTARD SEED SCHOOL$3,000
EXPERIENCE CAMPS$2,000
SAMARITANS PURSE$2,000
DOUBLE H$2,000
STMICHAEL CHURCH$1,500
Individual grant recipient$1,500
RALLY CAP SPORTS$1,000
MARSHALL MEDICAL FOUNDATION$1,000
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 (FY17–18, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 17% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NEW MORNING YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 8%GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $500 → 11%NEW MORNING YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 8%GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $500 → 11%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

IL
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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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$38k · 9 repeat orgs$31k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
2

Total granted

$38k
$4k

Still filing today

44%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18
Human ServicesAnimalsRecreation & SportsArts & CultureInternationalEducationOther

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

  • ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON
    2× · 2017–2018 · $14k · revenue +64%
  • NM
    NEW MORNING YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES
    2× · 2017–2018 · $5k · revenue +63%
  • RS
    RALLYCAP SPORTS INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • GV
    GREEN VALLEY COMMUNITY CHURCH
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
  • OK
    ONLY KINDNESS INC
    one grant, 2017 · $2k

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
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
2
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…

Animals
3
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
4
Marty Hennessy Inspiring Children Foundation

Mission statement the mission of the foundation is to revolutionize youth development and mental health by empowering children to heal, grow, and thrive through a whole-human approach. using proprietary ten pillars of healing, growth, and…

Health
5
Aerial Recovery

Aerial recovery's mission is to save lives and stop evil. through the creation and deployment of humanitarian special operators, aerial recovery brings together selected veterans, first responders, and mission-qualified civilians who,…

6
Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence

We're freeing america from gun violence.continued on schedule oin a country where firearms outnumber people, our country's gun violence epidemic requires a multi-pronged approach - and that's what brady, the leading gun violence prevention…

Crime & Legal
7
Children's Hospital & Research Center At Oakland

The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.

Health
8
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
9
Wounded Spirits Ministries

The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…

Recreation & Sports
10
Didi Hirsch Psychiatric Service

The roots of the los angeles didi hirsch psychiatric service dba didi hirsch mental health services ("dhmhs") extend back to the 1930s, when a group of women funded psychiatric care for people whose lives were devastated by the depression.…

Health
11
El Paso Guidance Center Inc dba El Paso Child Guidance Center

Improving the health and well-being of children and families in a safe environment through mental health services, education and awareness.

12
Bigs & Littles Nyc Mentoring Inc

Bigs & littles nyc mentoring is a nonprofit community-based organization which transforms the lives of vulnerable nyc children and strengthens families through professionally guided one-to-one mentoring, life skills programming, and…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Morning Youth and Family Services and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 19 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CO DR GENO MERLI — $4,000 · OtherTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CO DR GEN…Individual grant recipient — $3,750 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGREEN VALLEY COMMUNITY CHURCH — $2,000 · OtherGREEN VALLEY COMMUNITY CHURCHDOUBLE H — $2,000 · OtherDOUBLE HST MICHAEL CHURCH — $2,000 · OtherST MICHAEL CHURCHONLY KINDNESS INC — $2,000 · OtherONLY KINDNESS INCIndividual grant recipient — $1,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFOOD ALLERGY ANAPHYLAXIS NETWORK — $1,000 · OtherMARSHALL MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $1,000 · OtherSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $2,000 · OtherSAMARITAN'S PURSERALLYCAP SPORTS INC — $1,750 · OtherRALLYCAP SPORTS INCANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON — $14,000 · AnimalsANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF…THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION — $8,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BARACK OB…DIRECT RELIEF — $7,000 · InternationalDIRECT RELI…NEW MORNING YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES — $5,000 · Human ServicesNEW MORNIN…THE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION — $1,000 · Human ServicesTHE GLADNE…MUSTARD SEED SCHOOL — $3,000 · EducationEXPERIENCE CAMPS — $2,000 · Youth Development
Other$28,000Animals$14,000Arts & Culture$8,000International$7,000Human Services$6,000Education$3,000Youth Development$2,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON — $14,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW MORNING YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMUSTARD SEED SCHOOL — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRALLYCAP SPORTS INC — $1,750 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON
  • Who funds THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds DIRECT RELIEF
  • Who funds NEW MORNING YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES
  • Who funds MUSTARD SEED SCHOOL
  • Who funds EXPERIENCE CAMPS
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE
  • Who funds RALLYCAP SPORTS INC
  • Who funds THE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION

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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA5.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Lg-Mep Family Foundation F/K/A Beryl Plaut 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Animal Rescue League of Boston0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 19 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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