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The Losam Fund
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRENTON AREA SOUP KITCHEN | $4,000 |
| WESTMARK FUND | $3,000 |
| TABOR ACADEMY | $2,500 |
| WALNUT HILL SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| VERMONT ACADEMY | $2,000 |
| HOMEFRONT | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTHERN CENTRAL & SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY | $2,000 |
| AUCOCISCO SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $1,500 |
| WOODWELL CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTER | $1,000 |
| MAINE ACCESS IMMIGRANT NETWORK | $1,000 |
| ALFORD LAKE SCHOOL FUND | $1,000 |
| BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS BRUNSWICK | $1,000 |
| BATH YMCA | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +58% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
80 repeat relationships — 53 still active in FY2022, 27 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- TATABOR ACADEMY6× · 2017–2022 · $21k · revenue +92%
TASK Inc Trenton Area Soup Kitchen Inc6× · 2017–2022 · $20k · revenue +140%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC6× · 2017–2022 · $10k · revenue +98%
Funded once
- CFCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +455%
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD ASSOCone grant, 2018 · $4k
- IPINTL PLANNED PARENTHOODone grant, 2019 · $4k
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.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
A pre-kindergarten through grade 8 independent school committed to academic excellence and the joy of childhood, fostering intellectual curiosity, critical thinking, and the development of the whole child.
Rippowam Cisqua School creates independent thinkers, confident communicators, and engaged leaders who respect and contribute meaningfully to a diverse and increasingly complex global society.
Morristown beard school is an educational college preparatory school in grades 6 to 12 located in morristown, new jersey.
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Princeton Day School Inc and the most unlike its peers is Brown Bag Lady. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 58 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
52 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. 52 of the 106 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 TABOR ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds TASK Inc Trenton Area Soup Kitchen Inc ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Aucocisco School ↗
- Who funds Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTHERN CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds BATH AREA FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds PRINCETON FIRST AID AND RESCUE SQUAD ↗
- Who funds PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds THE WATERSHED INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds RIPPLEFFECT INC ↗
- Who funds PINELANDS PRESERVATION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds KENNEBEC ESTUARY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRINCETON NURSERY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CHOCOLATE CHURCH ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds HomeWorks Trenton ↗
- Who funds WALNUT HILL CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds GROTON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HOMEFRONT 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.
Open a dossier: Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Baldwin Foundation Trust · Curtis W McGraw Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · The Trustees of Princeton University · Tenacre Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Educational Ventures Inc · The Alfred M Senter Fund Trust · The Snyder Family Fund
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 Losam Fund 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The North Umpqua Foundation — 92% of income from government
- Pinelands Preservation Alliance — 35% of income from government
- Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc — 11% of income from government
- Homefront Inc — 9% of income from government
- HomeWorks Trenton — 6% of income from government
- Princeton Nursery School — 4% of income from government
- The Watershed Institute Inc — 3% 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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