· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRENTON AREA SOUP KITCHEN | $4,000 |
| WESTMARK FUND | $3,000 |
| TABOR ACADEMY | $2,500 |
| HOMEFRONT | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTHERN CENTRAL & SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY | $2,000 |
| VERMONT ACADEMY | $2,000 |
| WALNUT HILL SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| AUCOCISCO SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $1,500 |
| PRINCETON FIRST AID AND RESCUE SQUAD | $1,000 |
| YALE ALUMNI FUND | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS ACADEMY | $1,000 |
| BATH YMCA | $1,000 |
| BROWN BAG LADY | $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.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against +2% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD ASSOC OF MERCER AREAone grant, 2017 · $4k
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.
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
How this is measured
52 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. 52 of the 106 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 TABOR ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds TASK Inc Trenton Area Soup Kitchen Inc ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Aucocisco School ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTHERN CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds PRINCETON FIRST AID AND RESCUE SQUAD ↗
- Who funds BATH AREA FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PINELANDS PRESERVATION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds RIPPLEFFECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE WATERSHED INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds CHOCOLATE CHURCH ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds PRINCETON NURSERY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VERMONT ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds HomeWorks Trenton ↗
- Who funds KENNEBEC ESTUARY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds WALNUT HILL CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds HOMEFRONT INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds GROTON SCHOOL ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Losam Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Losam Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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