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The Lodge 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.

$138k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$62k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20222025.

Human Services$423kRecreation & Sports$227kCrime & Legal$57kEducation$35kHealth$20kYouth Development$18kCommunity Improvement$5kPhilanthropy$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $62k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $62k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INTERFACE CHILDREN FAMILY SERVICES$61,550
SHERWOOD CARES$26,500
VENTURA COUNTY FAMILY JUSTICE CENTE$15,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$10,000
CARROLL SCHOOL$10,000
JAMES STOREHOUSE$6,750
Individual grant recipient$5,000
SCGA JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION$2,500
CITY OF HOPE$1,000
RESCUE MISSION VENTURA COUNTY$150
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $163k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%VISTA DEL MAR CHILD FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 14%POST ANGELES: $2k → 14%INTERFACE CHILDREN FAMILY SERVICES: $98k → 10%INTERFACE CHILDREN FAMILY SERVICES: $62k → 10%VENTURA COUNTY RESCUE MISSION: $100 → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$656k · 9 repeat orgs$140k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against -11% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
12

Total granted

$656k
$121k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
-11%

Still filing today

56%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationCrime & LegalHealthInternationalOther

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

  • Interface Children Family Services
    2× · 2024–2025 · $159k · revenue +86%
  • VIRGINIA STUDENT AID FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $140k · revenue +11%
  • TC
    THE CARROLL SCHOOL
    2× · 2023–2025 · $35k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • VA
    VIRGINIA ATHLETICS FOUNDATIONS
    one grant, 2024 · $60k
  • SC
    SHERWOOD COUNTRY CLUB CHARITABLE FO
    one grant, 2024 · $24k
  • BG
    BOYS GIRLS CLUB
    one grant, 2023 · $18k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Casa of Los Angeles

Our mission is to mobilize community volunteers to advocate for children who have experienced abuse and neglect. our vision is a los angeles where every child in the welfare system has an advocate and the opportunity to thrive.

Civil Rights
2
Communities in Schools of Los Angeles Inc

To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. we work with public school systems, establishing relationship with superintendents, principals, educators, and community partners to…

Youth Development
3
San Francisco Casa

San Francisco CASA transforms the lives of children and youth traumatized and displaced in the foster care and related systems by providing one consistent, caring volunteer advocate, trained to address each childs needs in the court and…

Civil Rights
4
International Institute of Los Angeles

Providing low-cost, diverse social services throughout los angeles county.

Human Services
5
California Children's Academy

Cca is committed to preparing young children to be global citizens who are developmentally well-rounded, emotionally literate, and environmentally conscious.

6
Voices for Children

Voices for children transforms the lives of abused children by providing them with court appointed special advocates (casas).

Civil Rights
7
California Alliance of Caregivers

California Alliance of Caregivers represents the voices of relative and non-relative caregivers to promote the well-being of children in foster care. California Alliance of Caregivers provides training information support and advocacy for…

Health
8
Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.

Health
9
Child Lane

Child lane provides care in an environment where play is valued and children are supported to reach their full potential.

Human Services
10
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Kern County

To provide specially trained volunteers to represent the best interests of children under protection of the juvenile court because of abuse or neglect.

Civil Rights
11
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
12
California Court Appointed Special Advocate Association

California casa was founded in 1987. its mission is to ensure that children and youth in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems have both a voice and the services they need to thrive. we achieve this by strengthening and empowering…

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vista Del Mar Child and Family Services and the most unlike its peers is Post Angeles. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

12 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 26 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

INTERFACE CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVI — $178,917 · OtherINTERFACE CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVISHERWOOD CARES — $70,500 · OtherSHERWOOD CARESVIRGINIA ATHLETICS FOUNDATIONS — $60,000 · OtherVIRGINIA ATHLETICS FOUNDATIONSV C FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER — $30,000 · OtherV C FAMILY JUSTICE CENTERSHERWOOD COUNTRY CLUB CHARITABLE FO — $24,000 · OtherSHERWOOD COUNTRY CLUB CHARITABLE FOVENTURA COUNTY FAMILY JUSTICE CENTE — $20,000 · OtherBOYS GIRLS CLUB — $17,500 · Other+9 more — $38,975 · Other+9 moreVIRGINIA STUDENT AID FOUNDATION INC — $140,000 · EducationVIRGINIA STUDENT AID FOU…THE CARROLL SCHOOL — $35,000 · EducationTHE CARROLL SCHOOLInterface Children Family Services — $159,100 · Human ServicesInterface Children Fami…+3 more — $4,100 · Human ServicesPLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES — $10,000 · HealthSafe Passage Youth Foundation — $5,000 · Crime & LegalCASA OF VENTURA COUNTY INC — $2,000 · Crime & LegalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $1,000 · International
Other$439,892Education$175,000Human Services$163,200Health$10,000Crime & Legal$7,000International$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetInterface Children Family Services — $159,100 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetVIRGINIA STUDENT AID FOUNDATION INC — $140,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CARROLL SCHOOL — $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JAMES STOREHOUSE INCORPORATED — $12,550 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSafe Passage Youth Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNATIONAL CHARITY LEAGUE RANCHO IRVINE CHAPTER — $2,525 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetPost Angeles — $2,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetVISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASA OF VENTURA COUNTY INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Interface Children Family Services
  • Who funds VIRGINIA STUDENT AID FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds THE CARROLL SCHOOL
  • Who funds THE JAMES STOREHOUSE INCORPORATED
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES
  • Who funds Safe Passage Youth Foundation
  • Who funds NATIONAL CHARITY LEAGUE RANCHO IRVINE CHAPTER
  • Who funds Post Angeles
  • Who funds VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES
  • Who funds CASA OF VENTURA COUNTY INC
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
  • Who funds RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE

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.

Sherwood Country Club Charitable FoundationCA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sherwood Country Club Charitable Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving 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 Lodge 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Lodge Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Lodge Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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