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The Lsg Charitable Foundation

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.

$291k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2024
12
Organizations funded FY2023
58%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 16
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$11M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 58% of the organizations The Lsg Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 86% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $390k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving11$291k36%
FY202312$455k58%
FY202213$455k38%
FY202111$323k45%
FY202014$397k71%
FY201915$627k40%
FY201816$538k63%
FY20179$224kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.6MHealth$589kPhilanthropy$575kArts & Culture$337kReligion$331kPublic Benefit$150kHousing & Shelter$43kYouth Development$37kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
NY
MA
PA
CA
CO
VA
DC
LA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 30 grantees
All grantees of The Lsg Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum$331,00080%
The 2033 Higher Education Development Foundation$250,000171%
The McCombs School of Business Foundation$190,00012%
St Andrew's Episcopal School$140,00040%
Temple Beth Shalom$130,0002n/a
Breakthrough$125,00031%
National Civic League$125,000114%
Tri-Angel Unlimited Inc$100,00012%
Dell Children's Foundation$100,00040%
Eagles Autism Challenge Inc$100,00011%
Shalom Austin$80,00020%
Teach for America Inc$50,00130%
University of Texas$50,0001n/a
Huston-Tillotson University$45,00030%
E3 Alliance$40,20041%
Brentwood Foundation$40,00012%
Foundation Communities Inc$40,00060%
Bellwether Education Partners Inc$34,10010%
Communities in Schools of Central Texas$25,00010%
The United Way Inc$20,00010%
Audubon Nature Institute Inc$15,00020%
Tenacre Country Day School Corporation$10,00010%
Life Anew Restorative Justice$5,00012%
The Contemporary Austin Museum Inc$5,00010%
Vela$5,00011%
Austin History Center Association Inc$1,25011%
American Heart Association Inc$1,00010%
Central Synagogue$1,0001n/a
Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired$7501n/a
IDEA Public Schools$25010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Lsg Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $331,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThe 2033 Higher Education Development Foundation: $250,000 over 1y, 71% of budgetThe McCombs School of Business Foundation: $190,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSt Andrew's Episcopal School: $140,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBreakthrough: $125,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetNational Civic League: $125,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetTri-Angel Unlimited Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetDell Children's Foundation: $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEagles Autism Challenge Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetShalom Austin: $80,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $50,001 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHuston-Tillotson University: $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetE3 Alliance: $40,200 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetBrentwood Foundation: $40,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetFoundation Communities Inc: $40,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBellwether Education Partners Inc: $34,100 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCommunities in Schools of Central Texas: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe United Way Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAudubon Nature Institute Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTenacre Country Day School Corporation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLife Anew Restorative Justice: $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetThe Contemporary Austin Museum Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVela: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetAustin History Center Association Inc: $1,250 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIDEA Public Schools: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 26.

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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.

Austin Community Foundation IncTX22.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Austin Community Foundation Inc · Michael & Susan Dell Foundation · Topfer Family Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Mfi Foundation · A Glimmer of Hope Foundation Austin · Ascension Seton · St David's Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Ibm International Foundation · Greater Houston Community 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.

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About The Lsg Charitable Foundation

How much does The Lsg Charitable Foundation give?
The Lsg Charitable Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $290,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Lsg Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (41%), Health (16%), Philanthropy (15%).
Who are The Lsg Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ($331k), The 2033 Higher Education Development Foundation ($250k), The McCombs School of Business Foundation ($190k).
Does The Lsg Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 58% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Lsg Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Lsg Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Austin Community Foundation Inc, Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, Topfer Family Foundation.
Where is The Lsg Charitable Foundation based?
The Lsg Charitable Foundation is based in MA.

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 59 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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