· Private foundation
The Lichtenberger Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $328k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $370k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NUVANCE HEALTH | $110,000 |
| UNITED WAY FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| TYKES TEENS INC | $100,000 |
| PARC | $60,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $49,000 |
| PROJECT LIFT | $45,000 |
| HELPING PEOPLE SUCCEED | $41,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION MARTIN | $25,000 |
| HARBOUR RIDGE FAMILY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF MARTIN ST LUCIE | $25,000 |
| COUNCIL ON AGING | $20,000 |
| JUPITER MEDICAL CENTER | $15,000 |
| OLD SALT FISHING FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| PARENT TO PARENT OF TREASURE COAST | $15,000 |
| LOXAHATCHEE EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $13,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $335k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 76% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
50 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- PLPROJECT LIFT INC4× · 2020–2024 · $270k · revenue +134%
- PIPARC INC4× · 2021–2024 · $145k · revenue +70%
- HHHPS Helping People Succeed Inc3× · 2020–2024 · $126k · revenue +62%
Funded once
- UAUniversity at Buffalo Foundation Incone grant, 2021 · $120k · revenue +14%
- FOFOUNDATION OF NUVANCE HEALTHone grant, 2023 · $100k
- THTHE HOPE CENTER FOR AUTISM INCone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +14%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The mission of santafe healthcare, inc. is to serve as the not-for-profit system parent for its family of not-for-profit, mission-driven, affiliate organizations. see schedule o for continuation of the organization's mission. santafe…
To improve, maintain and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
To serve as the sole member of the various health care and supporting organizations that comprise st. mary's healthcare system for children
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
See schedule o for a complete description of the organization's mission
To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Green Beret Foundation and the most unlike its peers is National Geographic Society. 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.
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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
56 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. 56 of the 101 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
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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.
Open a dossier: The Lichtenberger Foundation · The Community Foundation - Martin / St Lucie Inc · United Way of Martin County Inc · Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · Hobe Sound Community Chest Inc · United Way of Palm Beach County Inc · Gordana Uscumlic Foundation · Susan R and John W Sullivan Foundation · W and H Thomas Charitable Trust · The Fine Foundation · Church of the Good Shepherd · Tijeras 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 Lichtenberger Foundation Inc 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Safespace Inc — 25% of income from government
- The Children's Home Society of Florida — 6% of income from government
- Hope Rural School Inc — 6% of income from government
- United Way of Martin County Inc — 4% of income from government
- Treasure Coast Food Bank Inc — 2% of income from government
- Jupiter Medical Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Parc Inc — 2% of income from government
- Florida Oceanographic Society Inc — 0% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Lighthouse Artcenter Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Hope Center for Autism Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.
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