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The Lotus US Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$197k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$867kInternational$601kArts & Culture$346kPhilanthropy$120kPublic Safety & Disaster$100kHuman Services$98kEducation$88kYouth Development$40kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $80k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$50,000
DAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION$50,000
VETSAID INC$25,000
WATERAID AMERICA$25,000
CLARE MATRIX$10,000
FELICITY HOUSE$10,000
MUSICARES FOUNDATION$10,000
THE PEGGY ALBRECHT FRIENDLY HOUSE$5,000
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION$5,000
CLEAN SLATE INC$5,000
WESPARK CANCER SUPPORT CENTER$1,000
BUCK'S ROCK CAMP INC$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $3k → 17%ALEXANDRIA HOUSE: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
NJ
CT
CA
CO
TN
DC
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 17 repeat orgs$468k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
20

Total granted

$1.7M
$458k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+31%

Still filing today

53%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • WA
    WATERAID AMERICA INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $365k · revenue +63%
  • MF
    MUSICARES FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $293k · revenue +152%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $175k · revenue +98%

Funded once

  • SU
    SIMMSMANN UCLA CENTRE FOR INTEGRATIVE ONCOLOGY
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
  • NC
    NATIONAL COMPASSION FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
  • UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +47%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
2
California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy

To harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…

Health
3
Usc Arcadia Hospital Foundation

Mission statement the mission of usc arcadia hospital foundation educates and inspires the community to generously support quality medical care at usc arcadia hospital.

Health
4
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…

—
5
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
6
Interval House

The mission of the organization is to ensure safety and stability for people who are battered, abused, homeless or at risk; to create public awareness about the epidemic of violence; and to mobilize the community to prevent violence and…

Human Services
7
Los Angeles Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Spcala is dedicated to the prevention of cruelty to animals through education, law enforcement, intervention and advocacy.

Animals
8
The Anti-Recidivism Coalition

The anti-recidivism coalition (arc) works to end mass incarceration in california. to ensure our communities are safe, healthy, and whole, arc empowers formerly and currently incarcerated people to thrive by providing a support network,…

Crime & Legal
9
Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric Aids Foundation

The elizabeth glaser pediatric aids foundation (egpaf) is a proven leader in the fight against pediatric hiv/aids and has reached over 33 million pregnant women with services to prevent transmission of hiv to their babies. to date, egpaf…

Health
10
Tarzana Treatment Centers Inc

Tarzana treatment centers' (ttc) mission is to provide high quality, integrated health care that improves the quality of life and health of patients regardless of financial resources, and contributes to a reduction in the total cost of…

Health
11
Usc Care Medical Group Inc

To promote health by engaging in the practice of medicine for patients of hospitals affiliated with the university of southern california keck school of medicine and elsewhere. to provide medical care to the sick and injured who may come…

Health
12
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is God's Love We Deliver Inc; the most unlike its peers is Santa Cruz Island Foundation. 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

25 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. 25 of the 40 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
16/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION: $275,000 · OtherDAVID LYNCH FOUNDATIONST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $101,000 · OtherST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITALSIMMSMANN UCLA CENTRE FOR INTEGRATIVE ONCOLOGY: $100,000 · OtherSIMMSMANN UCLA CENTRE FOR INTEGRATIVE ONCOLOG…NATIONAL COMPASSION FUND: $100,000 · OtherNATIONAL COMPASSION FUNDVETSAID INC: $95,000 · OtherVETSAID INCIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherTHE PEGGY ALBRECHT FRIENDLY HOUSE: $40,000 · OtherFACING ADDICTION: $35,000 · Other+15 more: $146,637 · Other+15 moreWATERAID AMERICA INC: $365,181 · InternationalWATERAID AMERICA INCMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $175,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA…UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $50,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICE…+1 more: $1,000 · InternationalMUSICARES FOUNDATION INC: $293,181 · Arts & CultureMUSICARES FOUNDA…HOUSE OF UKRAINE: $20,000 · Arts & CultureHOUSE OF UKRAINEOMNIPEACE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureOMNIPEACE FOUNDA…BUCK'S ROCK CAMP INC: $12,500 · Arts & CultureDAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION FOR CONSCIOUSNESS -BASED EDUCATION AND WORLD PEACE: $180,181 · PhilanthropyDAVID LYNCH FO…TIDES FOUNDATION: $115,181 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATI…+1 more: $5,000 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION: $52,500 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATION: $35,000 · EducationCLAREMATRIX: $32,000 · HealthFelicity House: $10,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $5,000 · HealthGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $25,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$942,637International$591,181Arts & Culture$345,681Philanthropy$300,362Education$87,500Health$47,000Food & Nutrition$25,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWATERAID AMERICA INC: $365,181 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetMUSICARES FOUNDATION INC: $293,181 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetDAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION FOR CONSCIOUSNESS -BASED EDUCATION AND WORLD PEACE: $180,181 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $175,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $115,181 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION: $52,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCLAREMATRIX: $32,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKIDS IN THE SPOTLIGHT INC: $25,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSANTA CRUZ ISLAND FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetHOUSE OF UKRAINE: $20,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetOMNIPEACE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetCLEANSLATE-LA: $17,500 over 4y, 9.6% of budgetBUCK'S ROCK CAMP INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFelicity House: $10,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetTHE ELIZABETH TAYLOR AIDS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetA Purposeful Rescue Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CARTER CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

California Community …The Joseph Fidler Wal…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
California Community FoundationCA16.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Joseph Fidler Walsh & Majorie Walsh Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Lotus US Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lotus US Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%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 · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Lotus US Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Lotus US Foundation Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 40 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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