· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $170k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOUNDERS PLEDGE | $32,850 |
| NOVA OF VIRGINIA AQUATICS | $25,000 |
| DIRECT RELIEF | $20,000 |
| VCU MASSEY CANCER CENTER | $20,000 |
| ST JUDE RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 89% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- IRINTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAMSgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +26%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 31 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 INTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAMS ↗
- Who funds CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds Well Done Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY EAST TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Lj Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lj Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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