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The Philip J & Carol J Lyons 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.

$128k
Granted FY2024still arriving
36
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0190% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$185kInternational$68kHuman Services$47kHealth$33kEducation$30kFood & Nutrition$28kEnvironment$26kHousing & Shelter$21kOther$0
02FY2024 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k32 grants · $88k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
$2,500
Median grant
11
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE SUNNYSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION OF FLAGSTAFF INC$10,000
US UKRAINE FOUNDATION$10,000
TUCSON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$10,000
FLAGSTAFF SHELTER SERVICES$10,000
EDUCATION ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION$7,500
SCHOLARSHIPS A-Z$5,000
PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND$4,000
WOMEN FOR AFGHAN WOMEN$3,000
RURAL ACTION$3,000
ATHENS CONSERVANCY$3,000
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND$2,500
EXTREME KIDS & CREW$2,500
ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN OF NY$2,500
SAKHI FOR SOUTH ASIAN SURVIVORS$2,500
KINGS AGAINST VIOLENCE INITIATIVE INC$2,500
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

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Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR FAMILY SUPPORT: $2k → 12%PAJAMA PROGRAM: $3k → 17%PAJAMA PROGRAM: $1k → 17%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $2k → 17%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $1k → 17%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $1k → 17%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM: $3k → 14%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM: $2k → 14%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM: $750 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

MN
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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$321k · 49 repeat orgs$236k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

49 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
55

Total granted

$321k
$159k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+19%

Still filing today

71%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k 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
InternationalHealthEducationCrime & LegalEnvironmentHousing & ShelterOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY
    4× · 2020–2023 · $15k · revenue +17%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $15k · revenue +39%
  • ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED
    5× · 2020–2024 · $9k · revenue +121%

Funded once

  • VU
    VARIOUS UNSOLICITATED CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS (DETAIL AVAILABLE)
    one grant, 2017 · $55k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -2%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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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
2
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
3
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
4
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
5
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
6
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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7
American Flood Coalition Inc

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

Environment
8
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International
9
American Foreign Service Association

American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…

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10
The Fund for Peace Inc

Building bridges across diverse sectors, and developing innovative technologies and tools for policy makers. a leader in the conflict assessment and early warning field, the fund for peace focuses on the problems of weak and failing…

International
11
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Immigration Law Center and the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Conservation Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAffordable Housing Developm…Environmental Conservation …Christian Missionary Organi…Community FoundationsImmigrant Worker SupportSenior Support ServicesAnimal Rescue and ShelterVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Cancer Support ServicesFood Banks and PantriesHealth Access Advocacy and …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr13%39%35–55yr16%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%8%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr13%44%35–55yr16%22%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/83
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,482

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

82 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 82 of the 124 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
82/82
Grantees still filing
54/82
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VARIOUS UNSOLICITED CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS (DETAIL AVAILABLE) — $119,293 · OtherVARIOUS UNSOLICITED CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS (DETAIL AVAILABLE)VARIOUS UNSOLICITATED CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS (DETAIL AVAILABLE) — $55,000 · OtherVARIOUS UNSOLICITATED CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS (DETAIL AVAILABLE)Individual grant recipient — $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $15,000 · OtherGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $15,000 · Other+75 more — $168,000 · Other+75 moreMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $14,500 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS …International Rescue Committee INC — $10,000 · InternationalInternational …U S-UKRAINE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · InternationalU S-UKRAINE FO…NEW ISRAEL FUND — $5,600 · InternationalNEW ISRAEL FUN…ALIGHT — $5,500 · InternationalALIGHTAMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID — $5,000 · InternationalAMERICAN NEAR …WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $4,500 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL …PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND — $4,000 · InternationalPALESTINE CHIL…Women for Afghan Women Inc — $4,000 · InternationalWomen for Afgh…SAKHI FOR SOUTH ASIAN SURVIVORS INC — $2,500 · International+5 more — $5,500 · International+5 moreFLAGSTAFF SHELTER SERVICES INC — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS — $5,500 · Housing & ShelterHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC — $5,000 · Housing & ShelterDEBORAH'S PLACE — $3,250 · Housing & ShelterSHELTER ASSOCIATION OF WASHTENAW COUNTY — $2,500 · Housing & ShelterBanner Health — $7,500 · HealthThe Fistula Foundation — $5,500 · HealthSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND — $3,000 · HealthMAYO CLINIC — $2,500 · HealthHEARING HEALTH FOUNDATION — $2,000 · HealthCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC — $1,000 · HealthFREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION — $1,000 · HealthCancer Care Inc — $1,000 · HealthEDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION — $7,500 · EducationSCHOLARSHIPSA Z — $5,000 · EducationBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY — $3,500 · EducationHISPANIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $2,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $2,000 · EducationUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $1,000 · EducationFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION — $1,000 · EducationENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $8,500 · EnvironmentTREES WATER AND PEOPLE — $4,250 · EnvironmentATHENS CONSERVANCY — $4,000 · EnvironmentCENTER FOR CLIMATE AND ENERGY SOLUTIONS INC — $2,500 · EnvironmentOCEAN CONSERVANCY — $1,000 · EnvironmentSUNNYSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION — $10,000 · Community ImprovementRURAL ACTION INC — $5,500 · Community ImprovementKEEP GROWING DETROIT — $2,500 · Community ImprovementTHE CORPORATION FOR OHIO APPALACHIAN DEVELOPMENT — $2,000 · Community Improvement
Other$387,293International$71,100Housing & Shelter$26,250Health$23,500Education$22,000Environment$20,250Community Improvement$20,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $15,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $14,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLAGSTAFF SHELTER SERVICES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetU S-UKRAINE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTucson Symphony Society — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSUNNYSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $8,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBanner Health — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND — $5,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS — $5,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetALIGHT — $5,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Fistula Foundation — $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRURAL ACTION INC — $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOLARSHIPSA Z — $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPARENTCHILD INC — $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTUCSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC DBA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM TUCSON — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC — $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID — $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC — $4,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Bird Conservancy — $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVIOLENCE POLICY CENTER — $4,250 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTREES WATER AND PEOPLE — $4,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWomen for Afghan Women Inc — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetATHENS CONSERVANCY — $4,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC — $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD GATHERERS — $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAdvocates for Children of New York — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBEYOND BEDTIME INC — $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST — $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFLORENCE IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS PROJECT INC — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDEBORAH'S PLACE — $3,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY STUDY INSTITUTE — $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR THE GREAT LAKES — $2,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKings Against Violence Initiative Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetExtreme Kids and Crew Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSHELTER ASSOCIATION OF WASHTENAW COUNTY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR CLIMATE AND ENERGY SOLUTIONS INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAKHI FOR SOUTH ASIAN SURVIVORS INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKEEP GROWING DETROIT — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEARING HEALTH FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL ON AGING INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Foundation …American Express Foun…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Ford FoundationThe Kay Family Founda…Athens County Foundat…Bernard and Anne Spit…The Hs Lopez Family F…The Diane and Bruce H…Arizona Community Fou…Network for GoodCharles Stewart Mott …
Community Foundation for Southern ArizonaAZ17.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · American Express Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The Kay Family Foundation Inc · Athens County Foundation · Bernard and Anne Spitzer Charitable Trust · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · Arizona Community Foundation · Network for Good · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Philip J & Carol J Lyons Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    19report 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

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Philip J & Carol J Lyons Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Philip J & Carol J Lyons 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 124 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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