· Private foundation
The Lj Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $170k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOUNDERS PLEDGE | $32,850 |
| NOVA OF VIRGINIA AQUATICS | $25,000 |
| ST JUDE RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $20,000 |
| VCU MASSEY CANCER CENTER | $20,000 |
| DIRECT RELIEF | $20,000 |
| JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| AGAINST MALARIA FOUNDATION | $12,150 |
| ASK CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF JAMES RIVER PARK | $5,000 |
| ST STEPHEN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $5,000 |
| HOPE CHURCH | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 89% of your 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.
18 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- TAThe Against Malaria Foundation8× · 2017–2025 · $124k · revenue +29%
- ACASK CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $95k · revenue +311%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC2× · 2017–2018 · $40k · revenue +145%
Funded once
- CFCENTER FOR EFFECTIVE ALTRUISMone grant, 2023 · $80k
- VHVCU HEALTHone grant, 2020 · $70k
- CACLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INCone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -2%
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.
Conquer cancer funds research for every type of cancer to benefit every patient, everywhere. working in collaboration with a global network of top scientists and clinicians, and leading advocacy and research organizations, conquer cancer…
The mission of cacv is to reduce the burden of cancer for all persons living in virginia utilizing the virginia cancer plan to provide a forum for collaboration, education, and advocacy.
The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…
To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.
Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.
To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.
California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.
Virtue foundation's mission is to increase awareness, inspire action, and render assistance through initiatives on healthcare, education, and women and justice programs, as well as innovative work in research and analytics.
WEF's mission is inspiring the water community in pursuit of human and environmental well-being. WEF is a global environmental leader committed to water quality education and technical best practices. WEF connects water professionals;…
To drive collaboration among partners from every healthcare sector to power advances in science, policy and regulation that speed life-saving treatments to patients.
Leading Citizen scientists to promote stewardship of sustainable reef communities worldwide.
We are making maryland healthier by connecting residents to insurance and care, educating the community about healthier living, and advocating a more equitable health care system.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evidence Action and the most unlike its peers is Well Done Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 31 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 The Against Malaria Foundation ↗
- Who funds ASK CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND HILL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA ASSOCIATION FOR PARKS ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds EVIDENCE ACTION ↗
- Who funds NOVA OF VIRGINIA AQUATICS INC ↗
- Who funds CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAMS ↗
- Who funds Well Done Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY EAST TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
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 Community Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Lj 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% 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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