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The Richard C and Melanie F Lundquist 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.

$13k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2024
19
Organizations funded FY2023
37%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$6,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 19
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$19k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 37% of the organizations The Richard C and Melanie F Lundquist Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
EnvironmentAnimalsHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
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 arriving9$13k33%
FY202319$18k37%
FY20229$12k33%
FY202118$17k39%
FY202019$15kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$41kAnimals$9kEducation$6kPhilanthropy$3kEnvironment$3kArts & Culture$2kCommunity Improvement$2kYouth Development$2kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 20 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($20k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Richard C and Melanie F Lundquist Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Everychild Foundation: $30,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetUnited Friends of the Children: $7,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLos Angeles Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $4,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPalos Verdes Estates Foundation: $1,750 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetVets Whole in One Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSt Joseph Center: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPet Orphans of Southern California: $1,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHeidi Duckler Dance: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFulfillment Fund: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Coalition for Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia State Parks Foundation: $890 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPalos Verdes Police Officers Association: $650 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNational Park Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlack Women for Wellness: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDel Monte Forest Conservancy: $350 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWaldorf School of Saratoga Springs: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Mono Lake Foundation: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Geographic Society: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDel Monte Forest Property Owners: $250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPalos Verdes Hills Cooperative Nursery School: $25 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 20.

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.

Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN8.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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.

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How do I get to The Richard C and Melanie F Lundquist Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Richard C and Melanie F Lundquist 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.

About The Richard C and Melanie F Lundquist Family Foundation

How much does The Richard C and Melanie F Lundquist Family Foundation give?
The Richard C and Melanie F Lundquist Family Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $12,850 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 19 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does The Richard C and Melanie F Lundquist Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (54%), Animals (12%), Education (8%).
Who are The Richard C and Melanie F Lundquist Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: The Everychild Foundation ($30k), United Friends of the Children ($7k), Los Angeles Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ($5k).
Does The Richard C and Melanie F Lundquist Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Richard C and Melanie F Lundquist Family 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 Richard C and Melanie F Lundquist Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is The Richard C and Melanie F Lundquist Family Foundation based?
The Richard C and Melanie F Lundquist Family Foundation is based in CA.

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 39 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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