· Private foundation
The Lodas Family Charitable Foundation
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
96% of The Lodas Family Charitable Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 10 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year The Lodas Family Charitable Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 8 organizations, $14k. 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GEORGE MARK CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $3,000 |
| CLIMATE EMERGENCY FUND | $2,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND | $2,000 |
| SOCIAL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS | $2,000 |
| ART INTO ACRES | $1,000 |
| CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER PORTLAND | $1,000 |
| THE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY STEWARDSHIP | $900 |
| HAWAI'I COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $250 |
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 (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 77% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +103% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2023, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, 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 FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- CFCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC6× · 2019–2024 · $11k · revenue +103%
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED6× · 2019–2024 · $10k · revenue +139%
UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $6k · revenue +161%
Funded once
- AFALLIANCE FOR HEALTHIER GENERATIONone grant, 2022 · $2k
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue -21%- UOUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $500 · revenue +28%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc and the most unlike its peers is Terma Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 24 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 FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Art into Acres ↗
- Who funds CLIMATE EMERGENCY FUND ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds TERMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR COMMUNITY STEWARDSHIP ↗
- Who funds THE WALKING CLASSROOM INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR SANTA BARBARA INC ↗
- Who funds DEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds George Mark Childrens Fund ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO FRENCH BULLDOG RESCUE INC NFP ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA CHANNELKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT NEWS ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON 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: Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Lodas Family Charitable 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.
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.