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The Lois Lenski Covey Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$141k
Granted FY2024still arriving
27
Grants FY2024still arriving
15
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$678kReligion$16kHuman Services$14kYouth Development$13kArts & Culture$10kFood & Nutrition$5kPhilanthropy$4kHousing & Shelter$900Other$0
02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 27 grants below total $98,450 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $140,950 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $42,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k24 grants · $68k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
$3,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Sundog Theatre$10,000
Fresh Youth Initiatives$10,000
Start Lighthouse$10,000
ParentChild+ of Santa Clara County$7,500
Kristi Yamaguchi's Always Dream$7,500
Community Alliance for Learning$5,000
Sunshine Family Outreach Center$3,000
St Anthony Foundation$3,000
Cillicothe & Ross County Public Library$3,000
Brooklyn Public Library$3,000
Eastern Monroe Public Library$3,000
Summers County Public Library$3,000
Boyle County Public Library$3,000
Gwinnet County Public Library$3,000
Screven-Jenkins Regional Library System$3,000
02Your 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
Children's Book Project

Organization mission: the mission of the san francisco-based children's book project (the "project") is to promote literacy by providing (1) free books to children who need them for equity in literacy, learning, and life, and (2) free…

Human Services
2
J3 Foundation
Education
3
Bring Me a Book St Louis

Support childhood literacy

Youth Development
4
The Literacy Project

In each school we partner with a group of six students are taught to read in 30 lessons using a game format. the program is admimistered by a master teacher who focuses on five essential reading components: phonemic awareness, phonics,…

Community Improvement
5
Access Books Bay Area

Our mission is to level the literacy playing field for K-8 students living in poverty by providing high quality, high interest, culturally relevant books and a transformed school library space that invites students to spend time and read.

Education
6
Bring Me a Book Foundation

Bring Me A Book Foundation's mission is to strengthen the language and literacy skills of under-served children ages 1 to 8 by providing books in homes and school.

7
Rollins Reading Company
8
Reading Is Fundamental Pittsburgh

To provide children with the books, resources, motivation and opportunities to develop a life-long love of reading.

Education
9
Page Ahead Childrens Literacy Prgm

Page Ahead works to increase the reading achievement of students from low-income communities in Washington. Starting with improving book access in the home, Page Ahead provides reading interventions that support children and families.

Education
10
Reading Is Fundamental Inc

Reading is fundamental works to disrupt the alarming u.s. literacy crisis by inspiring the joy of reading in children, a critical element to driving the frequency, motivation, and engagement needed to create skilled readers. we know that…

Education
11
Fairfax Library Foundation

Fairfax Library Foundation, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charitable and educational organization committed to providing supplementary support to the Fairfax County Public Library. The Foundation, while reinforcing the need for continued and…

Education
12
Read Early and Daily Read

Empower families to foster empathy, curiosity, and self-confidence in their young children through the joy of reading together every day. Provide new, quality, mirror and window books to babies and young children.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Connections Centers and the most unlike its peers is RedLou Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 45 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)
18/19
Grantees still filing
13/19
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CONVENTION OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF DIOCESE OF MD — $13,190 · OtherCONVENTION OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF DIO…ParentChild+ of Santa Clara County — $7,500 · OtherParentChild+ of Santa Clara CountySACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICES — $5,000 · OtherSACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICESEASTERN MONROE PUBLIC LIBRARY — $3,000 · OtherCillicothe & Ross County Public Library — $3,000 · OtherScreven-Jenkins Regional Library System — $3,000 · OtherKern County Library — $3,000 · OtherCOUNTY OF VENTURA-AUDITOR — $3,000 · OtherGwinnet County Public Library — $3,000 · OtherMcCreary County Public Library — $3,000 · OtherMarkham Public Library — $3,000 · OtherBoyle County Public Library — $3,000 · OtherSummers County Public Library — $3,000 · OtherST ANTHONY FOUNDATION — $3,000 · Other+14 more — $23,300 · Other+14 moreREAD TO ME PROJECT — $15,000 · EducationREAD TO ME PROJECTSTART LIGHTHOUSE — $10,000 · EducationSTART LIGHTHOUSEJUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC — $9,000 · EducationJUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INCASPIRE EDUCATION PROJECT — $6,700 · EducationASPIRE EDUCATION PROJECTMake Way For Books — $5,000 · EducationMake Way For BooksCOMMUNITY ALLIANCE FOR LEARNING DBA WRITERCOACH CONNECTION — $5,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY ALLIANCE FOR LEARNING DBA …BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY — $3,000 · Education+3 more — $3,900 · Education+3 moreFRESH YOUTH INITIATIVES INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY CONNECTIONS CENTERS — $3,750 · Human ServicesKRISTI YAMAGUCHI'S ALWAYS DREAM — $7,500 · PhilanthropyTHE SPRINGFIELD FOUNDATION — $3,500 · PhilanthropySUNDOG THEATER INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureSUNSHINE FAMILY OUTREACH CENTER — $3,000 · Youth DevelopmentEMILY'S PLACE INC — $900 · Housing & Shelter
Other$81,990Education$57,600Human Services$13,750Philanthropy$11,000Arts & Culture$10,000Youth Development$3,000Housing & Shelter$900

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 budgetREAD TO ME PROJECT — $15,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetSTART LIGHTHOUSE — $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFRESH YOUTH INITIATIVES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSUNDOG THEATER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetJUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC — $9,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKRISTI YAMAGUCHI'S ALWAYS DREAM — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetASPIRE EDUCATION PROJECT — $6,700 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMake Way For Books — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ALLIANCE FOR LEARNING DBA WRITERCOACH CONNECTION — $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFAMILY CONNECTIONS CENTERS — $3,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEASTERN MONROE PUBLIC LIBRARY — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUNSHINE FAMILY OUTREACH CENTER — $3,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetMISSOULA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $1,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWINSTON PROUTY CENTER FOR CHILD AND FAMILY DEVELOPMENT — $1,000 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 READ TO ME PROJECT
  • Who funds START LIGHTHOUSE
  • Who funds FRESH YOUTH INITIATIVES INC
  • Who funds SUNDOG THEATER INC
  • Who funds JUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC
  • Who funds KRISTI YAMAGUCHI'S ALWAYS DREAM
  • Who funds ASPIRE EDUCATION PROJECT
  • Who funds Make Way For Books
  • Who funds SACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICES
  • Who funds COMMUNITY ALLIANCE FOR LEARNING DBA WRITERCOACH CONNECTION
  • Who funds FAMILY CONNECTIONS CENTERS
  • Who funds THE SPRINGFIELD FOUNDATION
  • Who funds EASTERN MONROE PUBLIC LIBRARY
  • Who funds BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY
  • Who funds SUNSHINE FAMILY OUTREACH CENTER
  • Who funds MISSOULA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds RedLou Inc

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.

The Stocker FoundationOH13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Stocker Foundation · Nora Roberts Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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.

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 45 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $122k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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