· Private foundation
The Lisa E Craig Family Char Foundation
Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
93% of The Lisa E Craig Family Char Foundation’s FY2020 grant dollars went to Impactassetsinc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2020 names 12 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year The Lisa E Craig Family Char Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 12 organizations, $6k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION | $831 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $500 |
| EARLHAM COLLEGE | $500 |
| POLARIS | $500 |
| ALL HANDS AND HEARTS- SMART RESPONS | $500 |
| ANNIECANNONS INC | $500 |
| TRINITY UNIVERSITY | $500 |
| RAICES | $500 |
| HEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL | $500 |
| GUARDIANS OF THE RESCUE | $500 |
| LANDMARK COLLEGE | $500 |
| THE SEWING MACHINE PROJECT | $250 |
| THE COLUMBUS FOUNDATION | $100 |
| THE MYOSITIS ASSOCIATION | $50 |
| THE SCHOOL FOR CONTEMPLATIVE LIVING | $50 |
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 (FY17–20, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 20% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +80% since the first grant, against +57% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2019, 1 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call). Read against FY2019, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2020, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- HTHEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC3× · 2017–2020 · $3k · revenue +151%
ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC3× · 2017–2019 · $2k · revenue +129%- TUTrinity University3× · 2017–2019 · $2k · revenue +83%
Funded once
- STSHRINKING TIME BTWN DISASTER AND REone grant, 2017 · $1k
- TMTHE MALALA FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $767 · revenue +57%
- EGELECTRIC GIRLS INCone grant, 2018 · $525 · revenue -24%
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.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
We exist to end the abuse of animals raised for food. this mission is executed by persuading companies and institutions to adopt animal welfare policies through negotiation and pressure campaigns, and then holding them accountable to their…
Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
Our mission is to promote a world where all beings live a just life of dignity and respect. To this end, we engage in practical actions, raise funds, spread understanding and foster compassion.
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.
To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.
Nuru is a global collective that enables inclusive and sustainable prosperity by identifying communities at the stability tipping point, strengthening rural livelihoods and market systems, and fostering stabilizing connections that repair…
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,…
To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Immigration Law Center and the most unlike its peers is School for Contemplative Living. 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 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 32 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.
- Who funds IMPACTASSETSINC ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC ↗
- Who funds Trinity University ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds The Sewing Machine Project Inc ↗
- Who funds LANDMARK COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds ST TAMMANY HUMANE SOCIETY D/B/A NORTHSHORE HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GIVEDIRECTLY INC ↗
- Who funds NETWORK FOR GOOD ↗
- Who funds THE MALALA FUND ↗
- Who funds ELECTRIC GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA ↗
- Who funds The Grateful Garment Project ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds Dallas Dogrrr ↗
- Who funds Earlham College Inc ↗
- Who funds AnnieCannons Inc ↗
- Who funds POLARIS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL FOR CONTEMPLATIVE LIVING ↗
- Who funds The Myositis Association ↗
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: Shell USA Company Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Lisa E Craig Family Char 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.
- Landmark College Inc — 1% 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.