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The Lumpkin Family 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.

$4.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
209
Grants FY2024still arriving
21
States reached
$630k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Environment$4.5MEducation$3.4MPhilanthropy$3.3MFood & Nutrition$1.8MRecreation & Sports$817kCommunity Improvement$755kHealth$679kReligion$646kOther$0
02FY2024 · 209 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k112 grants · $263k
  • $10k–50k78 grants · $1.6M
  • $50k–250k17 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+2 grants · $963k
$6,000
Median grant
21
States reached
$40M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOREFRONT$630,000
MATTOON SPORTS COMPLEX INC$333,333
EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY$138,940
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHICAGO$125,000
THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY$85,000
FAITH IN PLACE$82,500
AFTER SCHOOL MATTERS$70,000
THE LAND CONNECTION$65,000
PRAIRIE RIVERS NETWORK$65,000
ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL EDUCATION FUND$60,000
SAVANNA INSTITUTE$55,000
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS URBANA-CHAMPAIGN$52,902
HEART OF ILLINOIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$52,500
HEALTHY SCHOOLS CAMPAIGN$52,500
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$50,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $329k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LYMELIGHT FOUNDATION: $500 → 7%CROSSROADS CHRISTIAN COUNSELING: $500 → 11%THINK REGENERATION NFP: $25k → 9%MERCY CHEFS: $6k → 20%INTERNET ARCHIVE: $500 → 10%CROSSROADS CHRISTIAN COUNSELING: $500 → 11%MERCY CHEFS: $1k → 20%MERCY CHEFS: $1k → 20%JOES PLACE CORPORATION: $1k → 11%JUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION: $15k → 14%JOES PLACE CORPORATION: $1k → 11%CHARITY WATER: $10k → 17%HOPE OF EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS: $500 → 18%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $500 → 10%WHY NOT CARE INC: $1k → 17%CENTER FOR DOMESTIC PEACE: $2k → 8%MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION GREATER BAY AREA: $3k → 10%CENTER FOR DOMESTIC PEACE: $2k → 8%CENTER FOR DOMESTIC PEACE: $2k → 8%CENTER FOR DOMESTIC PEACE: $1k → 8%HEARTLAND HUMAN CARE SERVICES INC: $10k → 14%MATTOON AREA FAMILY YMCA: $20k → 18%MATTOON AREA FAMILY YMCA: $20k → 18%MATTOON AREA FAMILY YMCA: $20k → 18%TRINITY UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST CHILD CARE CENTERS INC: $10k → 14%MATTOON AREA FAMILY YMCA: $20k → 18%MATTOON AREA FAMILY YMCA: $20k → 18%GADS HILL CENTER: $1k → 14%BRAVE SPACE ALLIANCE: $10k → 14%ONE FAMILY ILLINOIS: $18k → 14%SOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGES ILLINOIS: $10k → 14%HEARTLAND HUMAN CARE SERVICES: $24k → 14%HEARTLAND HUMAN CARE SERVICES: $20k → 14%HEARTLAND HUMAN CARE SERVICES: $13k → 14%HEARTLAND HUMAN CARE SERVICES: $10k → 14%REFUGEE EDUCATION AND ADVENTURE CHALLENGE: $15k → 14%REFUGEE EDUCATION AND ADVENTURE CHALLENGE: $10k → 14%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $500 → 14%NEW MOMS INC: $3k → 14%NEW MOMS INC: $3k → 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

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MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
WY
IA
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
DE
NM
KS
DC
HI
MS
AL
TX
FL
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$15M · 204 repeat orgs$2.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

204 repeat relationships: 151 still active in FY2024, 53 since wound down; 51 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

204
184

Total granted

$15M
$2.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+25%

Still filing today

91%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $679k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentEducationFood & NutritionArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthOther
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

  • F
    FOREFRONT
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +67%
  • EI
    Eastern Illinois University Foundation
    3× · 2020–2023 · $1.7M · revenue +53%
  • FI
    FAITH IN PLACE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $452k · revenue +121%

Funded once

  • MC
    MATTOON COMMUNITY UNIT SCHOOL DISTRICT #2
    one grant, 2022 · $493k
  • WH
    WESTSIDE HEALTH AUTHORITYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $160k · revenue +44%
  • THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue +26%
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.

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Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
2
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
3
Climate Foundation

To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.

Science & Tech
4
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
5
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
6
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
7
Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research

Foundation for food and agriculture research connects funders, researchers and farmers through public-private partnerships to support audacious research addressing the biggest food and agriculture challenges.

Food & Nutrition
8
Center for International Environmental Law Inc

To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…

International
9
Environment Next Inc

Environment next supports individuals, nonprofits and businesses around the world on solutions to complex climate issues. we provide leadership, outreach and communication support, grants, and investments to empower leaders and their ideas…

Environment
10
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
11
New Roots Institute

New Roots Institute is a nonprofit empowering the next generation with knowledge and training to end factory farming.

Food & Nutrition
12
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Land Connection Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Center for Responsible Science. 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

361 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 361 of the 458 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
84
Early backer (in before they grew)
355/361
Grantees still filing
247/361
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MATTOON COMMUNITY UNIT SCHOOL DISTRICT #2: $492,974 · OtherMATTOON COMMUNITY UNIT SCHOOL DISTR…EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY: $310,664 · OtherEASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITYIndividual grant recipient: $210,750 · Other+104 more: $4,455,480 · Other+104 morePRAIRIE RIVERS NETWORK: $387,250 · EnvironmentPRAIRIE RIVERS NETWOR…GRAND PRAIRIE FRIENDS: $359,529 · EnvironmentGRAND PRAIRIE FRIENDSSAVANNA INSTITUTE: $355,000 · EnvironmentSAVANNA INSTITUTEHealthy Schools Campaign: $282,500 · EnvironmentHealthy Schools Campa…ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL EDUCATION: $225,000 · EnvironmentILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTA…EVERGREEN CLIMATE INNOVATIONS: $200,000 · EnvironmentEVERGREEN CLIMATE INN…AMERICAN RIVERS INC: $170,000 · EnvironmentTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $150,000 · EnvironmentSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $135,000 · EnvironmentSEVEN GENERATIONS AHEAD: $120,000 · Environment+31 more: $880,625 · Environment+31 moreFOREFRONT: $2,417,849 · PhilanthropyFOREFRONTSOUTHEASTERN ILLINOIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $179,478 · PhilanthropySOUTHEASTERN ILLINOI…+11 more: $526,250 · Philanthropy+11 moreEastern Illinois University Foundation: $1,742,500 · EducationEastern Illinois…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $185,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRU…GARDENEERS: $180,000 · EducationGARDENEERSAFTER SCHOOL MATTERS INC: $140,000 · EducationAFTER SCHOOL MAT…OPEN MARKETS INSTITUTE: $102,000 · Education+5 more: $174,250 · Education+5 moreMATTOON SPORTS COMPLEX INC: $666,667 · Community ImprovementMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER: $130,000 · Community ImprovementTHE DELTA INSTITUTE: $110,000 · Community ImprovementRural Coalition: $100,000 · Community ImprovementNEIGHBORSPACE: $90,100 · Community ImprovementNORTH LAKE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $84,000 · Community ImprovementGarfield Park Community Council: $60,000 · Community ImprovementTRAIL RECREATION EFFINGHAM COUNTY: $50,000 · Community Improvement+2 more: $40,000 · Community ImprovementTHE LAND CONNECTION FOUNDATION INC: $252,052 · Food & NutritionILLINOIS STEWARDSHIP ALLIANCE: $199,602 · Food & NutritionSOLA GRATIA FARM: $183,000 · Food & NutritionSUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS FUNDERS: $170,000 · Food & NutritionREGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION: $140,000 · Food & NutritionAMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST: $114,991 · Food & NutritionFOOD AND ENVIRONMENT REPORTING NETWORK INC: $50,000 · Food & NutritionJUST ROOTS JUST ROOTS CHICAGO: $47,500 · Food & Nutrition+7 more: $159,500 · Food & NutritionFAITH IN PLACE: $451,695 · ReligionFit-2-Serve Inc: $94,200 · ReligionCANAL ALLIANCE: $22,500 · Religion+1 more: $15,000 · Religion
Other$5,469,868Environment$3,264,904Philanthropy$3,123,577Education$2,523,750Community Improvement$1,330,767Food & Nutrition$1,316,645Religion$583,395

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFOREFRONT: $2,417,849 over 5y, 6.9% of budgetEastern Illinois University Foundation: $1,742,500 over 3y, 18% of budgetMATTOON SPORTS COMPLEX INC: $666,667 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetFAITH IN PLACE: $451,695 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetPRAIRIE RIVERS NETWORK: $387,250 over 5y, 7.9% of budgetGRAND PRAIRIE FRIENDS: $359,529 over 4y, 32% of budgetSAVANNA INSTITUTE: $355,000 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetHealthy Schools Campaign: $282,500 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetTHE LAND CONNECTION FOUNDATION INC: $252,052 over 5y, 7.6% of budgetILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL EDUCATION: $225,000 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetEVERGREEN CLIMATE INNOVATIONS: $200,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetILLINOIS STEWARDSHIP ALLIANCE: $199,602 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $185,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOLA GRATIA FARM: $183,000 over 5y, 9.0% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $180,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGARDENEERS: $180,000 over 5y, 6.0% of budgetSOUTHEASTERN ILLINOIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $179,478 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetDOUGLAS-HART FOUNDATION: $172,550 over 4y, 16% of budgetSUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS FUNDERS: $170,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetAMERICAN RIVERS INC: $170,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $165,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMIDWEST CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING INC: $160,050 over 5y, 9.0% of budgetWESTSIDE HEALTH AUTHORITY: $159,903 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION: $140,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetCENTER FOR RURAL AFFAIRS: $140,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetAFTER SCHOOL MATTERS INC: $140,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Land Institute: $136,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $135,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER: $130,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHICAGO: $125,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSARAH BUSH LINCOLN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $121,500 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetSEVEN GENERATIONS AHEAD: $120,000 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetSTATE INNOVATION EXCHANGE: $115,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST: $114,991 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DELTA INSTITUTE: $110,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetOPENLANDS: $103,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetOPEN MARKETS INSTITUTE: $102,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetTHE CHICAGO INNOVATION FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetMATTOON AREA FAMILY YMCA CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $100,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetNational Save The Family Farm Coalition: $100,000 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetLINCOLN LOG CABIN FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 30% of budgetRural Coalition: $100,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetSTAR FARM CHICAGO: $97,000 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetOAK PARK-RIVER FOREST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $95,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetURBAN FOREST CARBON REGISTRY: $95,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetFit-2-Serve Inc: $94,200 over 5y, 25% of budgetNEIGHBORSPACE: $90,100 over 4y, 1.7% 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.

Builders Vision Found…ForefrontJohn D and Catherine …The Chicago Community…Southeastern Illinois…Walter S Mander Found…Grand Victoria Founda…United Way of Metropo…Robert R McCormick Fo…PatagoniaorgClif Family FoundationMarin Community Found…
Builders Vision FoundationIL67.6× affinity36 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Builders Vision Foundation · Forefront · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Southeastern Illinois Community Foundation · Walter S Mander Foundation · Grand Victoria Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Clif Family Foundation · Marin 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Community Action Inc: 52% of income from government
  • Sea Education Association Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Center for Ecotechnology Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Friends of Ambler Farm Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Double Edge Theatre Productions Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Wilton Historical Society Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
59report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.
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How do I get to The Lumpkin Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Lumpkin Family Foundation 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 458 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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