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The Lwh Family Foundation at a glance

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The Lwh 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.

$121k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$349kEducation$282kPhilanthropy$237kFood & Nutrition$200kPublic Benefit$174kAnimals$146kHuman Services$103kArts & Culture$92kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k16 grants · $71k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOSTON FOUNDATION$30,000
SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION$10,000
COROLLA WILDE HORSE FUND$10,000
VIRGINIA LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDU FOUNDAT$9,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NOVA$9,000
VIRGINIA PUBLIC ACCESS FOUNDATION$9,000
NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION$8,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
VIRGINIA CONSERVATION NETWORK$5,000
THE HILL SCHOOL$5,000
PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL$5,000
CENTERVILLE IMMIGRATION FORUM$3,500
FAITH ALLIANCE FOR CLIMATE SOLUTIONS$2,500
FULLBRIGHT ASSOCIATION$2,500
WASAYTCH TRAILS ALLIANCE$2,000
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 (FY17–21, $104k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%TOGETHER WE BAKE: $5k → 9%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $750 → 17%EARTH SANGHA: $10k → 6%FOOD FOR OTHERS: $10k → 6%CENTREVILLE IMMIGRATION FORUM: $11k → 6%CENTREVILLE IMMIGRATION FORUM: $10k → 6%CENTREVILLE IMMIGRATION FORUM: $10k → 6%CENTREVILLE IMMIGRATION FORUM: $5k → 6%CENTREVILLE IMMIGRATION FORUM: $3k → 6%CORNERSTONES: $10k → 6%EARTH SANGHA: $10k → 6%EARTH SANGHA: $10k → 6%EARTH SANGHA: $10k → 6%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

MT
MN
NY
MA
OH
CT
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
TN
NC
SC
DC
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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 48 repeat orgs$561k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +42% for those funded once.

48 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
87

Total granted

$1.3M
$521k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+42%

Still filing today

54%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
EnvironmentEducationAnimalsInternationalHuman ServicesFood & NutritionOther
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

  • FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $101k · revenue +86%
  • VC
    VIRGINIA CONSERVATION NETWORK
    7× · 2017–2024 · $60k · revenue +108%
  • TP
    THE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL
    7× · 2017–2024 · $48k · revenue +161%

Funded once

  • GREENPEACE FUND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +57%
  • I
    IBME
    one grant, 2018 · $20k
  • D
    DONORSCHOOSEORG
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +1%
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
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
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
Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports
4
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
5
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
6
Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments

Create a more accessible, sustainable, prosperous and livable national capital region by being a discussion forum, expert resource, issue advocate, and catalyst for action.

Public Benefit
7
University of Virginia Foundation

To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…

Education
8
Alliance for the Shenandoah Valley

Alliance for the shenandoah valley informs and engages people to protect the natural resources, cultural heritages, and rural character of our region.

Community Improvement
9
Grist Magazine Inc

Grist is an independent, non profit media organization dedicated to reporting on climate change.

Environment
10
Virginia Commonwealth University Intellectual Property Foundation

The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…

Health
11
United States Endowment for Forestry

The endowment works collaboratively with partners in the public and private sectors to advance systemic, transformative, and sustainable change for the health and vitality of the nation's working forests and forest reliant communities.

Environment
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Eastern North Carolina; the most unlike its peers is Earth Sangha. 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

76 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. 76 of the 144 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)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
76/76
Grantees still filing
59/76
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $95,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientINWARD BOUND MINDFULNESS EDUCATION (IBME): $50,000 · OtherFULBRIGHT ASSOCIATION: $49,500 · OtherVIRGINIA PUBLIC ACCESS PROJECT: $47,100 · Other+96 more: $838,411 · Other+96 moreVIRGINIA CONSERVATION NETWORK: $60,000 · EnvironmentVIRGINIA CONSERV…Virginia League of Conservation Voters Education Fund: $55,000 · EnvironmentVirginia League …THE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $48,000 · EnvironmentTHE PIEDMONT ENV…Faith Alliance for Climate Solutions: $44,000 · EnvironmentFaith Alliance f…SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $43,500 · EnvironmentSIERRA CLUB FOUN…GREENPEACE FUND INC: $20,000 · EnvironmentGREENPEACE FUND …CONSERVATION TRUST FOR NORTH CAROLINA: $10,000 · Environment+6 more: $18,250 · Environment+6 moreBoston Foundation Inc: $195,000 · PhilanthropyBoston Found…THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC: $27,500 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNIT…THE HILL SCHOOL CORPORATION OF MIDDLEBURG: $30,000 · EducationAll Ages Read Together: $22,500 · EducationDONORSCHOOSEORG: $20,000 · EducationMINDFUL SCHOOLS: $15,000 · EducationMIDDLEBURG MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $10,500 · EducationCity Wildlife Inc: $5,000 · EducationVail Symposium: $5,000 · EducationFairfax Library Foundation: $5,000 · EducationCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · EducationLIBRARY OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Education+2 more: $4,000 · EducationCentral Virginia Horse Rescue: $51,000 · AnimalsDANNY & RONS RESCUE: $35,000 · AnimalsVIRGINIA GERMAN SHEPHERD RESCUE INC: $10,000 · AnimalsCOROLLA WILD HORSE FUND INC: $10,000 · AnimalsTRI-STATE BIRD RESCUE AND RESEARCH INC: $5,000 · AnimalsAMERICAN EAGLE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Animals+2 more: $2,500 · AnimalsFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC: $101,000 · Food & NutritionMeals on Wheels of Durham Inc: $7,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $3,500 · Food & NutritionEarth Sangha: $40,000 · Human ServicesCENTREVILLE IMMIGRATION FORUM: $38,500 · Human ServicesCORNERSTONES INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesFOOD FOR OTHERS INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesTogether We Bake: $5,000 · Human Services+1 more: $750 · Human Services
Other$1,080,011Environment$298,750Philanthropy$222,500Education$127,000Animals$118,500Food & Nutrition$111,500Human Services$104,250

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 budgetBoston Foundation Inc: $195,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC: $101,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA CONSERVATION NETWORK: $60,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetVirginia League of Conservation Voters Education Fund: $55,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetCentral Virginia Horse Rescue: $51,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetTHE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $48,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetVIRGINIA PUBLIC ACCESS PROJECT: $47,100 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetFaith Alliance for Climate Solutions: $44,000 over 5y, 8.2% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $43,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEarth Sangha: $40,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetCENTREVILLE IMMIGRATION FORUM: $38,500 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetDANNY & RONS RESCUE: $35,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHERSHEY MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $35,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetVIRGINIA21: $30,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetTHE HILL SCHOOL CORPORATION OF MIDDLEBURG: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC: $27,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAll Ages Read Together: $22,500 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetGREENPEACE FUND INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOLISTIC LIFE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINDFUL SCHOOLS: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetONEVIRGINIA2021: $15,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetLOCAL FOOD HUB INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBRITEPATHS INC: $12,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMIDDLEBURG MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $10,500 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA: $10,140 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCONSERVATION TRUST FOR NORTH CAROLINA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVIRGINIA GERMAN SHEPHERD RESCUE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for a New American Security Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOROLLA WILD HORSE FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCultivate Charlottesville: $10,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRIANGLE FAMILY SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCORNERSTONES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD FOR OTHERS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK TRUST: $8,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetForeign Policy For America: $7,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF WAKE COUNTY INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPRESIDENTIAL PRECINCT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCity Wildlife Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetVail Symposium: $5,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTRI-STATE BIRD RESCUE AND RESEARCH INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $5,000 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.

  • Who funds Boston Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIA CONSERVATION NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds Virginia League of Conservation Voters Education Fund ↗
  • Who funds Central Virginia Horse Rescue ↗
  • Who funds THE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIA PUBLIC ACCESS PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds Faith Alliance for Climate Solutions ↗
  • Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Earth Sangha ↗
  • Who funds CENTREVILLE IMMIGRATION FORUM ↗
  • Who funds DANNY & RONS RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds HERSHEY MONTESSORI SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIA21 ↗
  • Who funds THE HILL SCHOOL CORPORATION OF MIDDLEBURG ↗
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC ↗
  • Who funds All Ages Read Together ↗
  • Who funds GREENPEACE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds HOLISTIC LIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds MINDFUL SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds ONEVIRGINIA2021 ↗
  • Who funds LOCAL FOOD HUB INC ↗

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.

The Community Foundat…United Way of the Nat…Dominion Energy Chari…Greater Washington Co…Charlottesville Area …Wolf Run Foundation I…Van Metre Companies F…Triangle Community Fo…Community Foundation …The Oak Hill FundPhilip L Graham Fund …Frederick Henry Princ…
The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia IncVA28.7× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · United Way of the National Capital Area · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · Wolf Run Foundation Inc · Van Metre Companies Foundation Inc · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Loudoun and Northern Fauquier Counties · The Oak Hill Fund · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Frederick Henry Prince Testamentary Trust

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Tri-State Bird Rescue and Research Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Holistic Life Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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.

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 144 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home