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The Strong-Lachemann 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.

$67k
Granted FY2024still arriving
40
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$10k
Largest
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 FY20172024.

Recreation & Sports$166kHealth$128kHuman Services$56kEducation$33kPublic Benefit$26kPublic Safety & Disaster$17kYouth Development$14kFood & Nutrition$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k39 grants · $57k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$1,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$791k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Stanford Water Polo Foundation$10,000
USA Baseball$5,000
Society for the Blind$5,000
Friends of Cal Golf$5,000
Riverside Baseball Association$4,500
Individual grant recipient$4,000
Camp Kesem$3,000
Wounded Warrior Project$3,000
Shriners Hospitals for Children$2,500
Veterans Golf Program$2,500
Prader-Willi Syndrome Association$2,000
Sacramento Food Bank$2,000
Central Coast Basketball$2,000
Restore the Roar$1,700
Arroyo Grande High School$1,500
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%American Red Cross: $5k → 14%Wounded Warrior Project: $6k → 14%American Red Cross: $2k → 14%Wounded Warrior Project: $3k → 14%American Red Cross: $2k → 14%Wounded Warrior Project: $3k → 14%Wounded Warrior Project: $3k → 14%Wounded Warrior Project: $3k → 14%Wounded Warrior Project: $3k → 14%Wounded Warrior Project: $3k → 14%Camp Kesem: $4k → 14%Camp Kesem: $3k → 14%Camp Kesem: $560 → 14%Sacramento Childrens Home: $3k → 12%Battlefields to Ballfields: $8k → 12%Battlefields to Ballfields: $5k → 12%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

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CA
CO
VA
TN
NC
DC
LA
GA
TX
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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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$456k · 54 repeat orgs$66k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +72% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

54 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
32

Total granted

$456k
$61k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+72%
+23%

Still filing today

48%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
HealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsArts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • SF
    SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +99%
  • WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $24k · revenue +70%
  • RT
    RESTORE THE ROAR
    7× · 2017–2024 · $20k · revenue +144%

Funded once

  • HOPE INTERNATIONALgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $7k · revenue +46%
  • HI
    Hope Intnl Univ Baseball
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $5k

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.

1
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
2
United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee

Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.

Recreation & Sports
3
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
4
National Collegiate Athletic Association

Provide a world-class athletics and academic experience for student-athletes that fosters lifelong well-being.

Recreation & Sports
5
United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

6
Aacsb International - the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business

Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.

Education
7
Usa Softball Inc

Usa softball, inc. (usas) is the national governing body of softball in the united states. we develop, administer and promote the sport of softball to provide the opportunities for participation and the best possible experience for those…

Recreation & Sports
8
Sutter Health

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
9
The Scripps Research Institute

The scripps research institute ("tsri") performs high impact basic biomedical research, improves the human condition by fostering translation of its discoveries into useful products and engages in the highest quality graduate scientific…

Health
10
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.

Education
11
Southern California Public Radio

The mission of southern california public radio is to strengthen the civic and cultural bonds that unite southern california's diverse communities by providing the highest quality news and information across multiple platforms. we are a…

Arts & Culture
12
University of California San Francisco Foundation

Organization's mission ====================== the university of california, san francisco(ucsf) is among the world's leading universities dedicated to advancing health worldwide through biomedical research, graduate-level education in the…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is League to Save Lake Tahoe. 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 backsteadyDog Rescue and AdoptionSocial Change AdvocacyVulnerable Population Suppo…Family Philanthropic Founda…Performing Arts CentersFaith-Based Community Suppo…Land and Wildlife Conservat…Community Service ClubsYouth Sports LeaguesVeterans Support Organizati…
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 41 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%3%<5yr15%3%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr17%26%20–35yr11%18%35–55yr13%37%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%2%<5yr15%3%5–10yr20%24%10–20yr17%21%20–35yr11%14%35–55yr13%36%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/40
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,938

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

38 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 38 of the 92 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/38
Grantees still filing
31/38
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Stanford Water Polo Foundation — $80,000 · OtherStanford Water Polo FoundationIndividual grant recipient — $13,500 · OtherArroyo Grande High School — $13,250 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $12,000 · OtherPRADER-WILLI SYNDROME ASSOCIATION (USA) — $12,000 · OtherUNITED STATES BASEBALL FEDERATION INC — $10,000 · Other+63 more — $158,166 · Other+63 moreSOCIETY FOR THE BLIND INC — $40,000 · HealthSOCIETY FOR THE BLI…SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $16,500 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS …17 STRONG — $14,000 · Health17 STRONGST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $10,250 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S …PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC — $6,750 · HealthPARKINSON'S FOUNDAT…+2 more — $1,750 · HealthWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $24,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARR…BATTLEFIELDS TO BALLFIELDS — $13,000 · Human ServicesBATTLEFIELDS…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $9,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Nat…Camp Kesem National — $7,310 · Human ServicesCamp Kesem N…SACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME — $2,500 · Human ServicesVETERANS GOLF PROGRAM — $17,500 · Public BenefitWreaths Across America — $8,000 · Public BenefitSACRAMENTO AREA YOUTH GOLF — $10,100 · Recreation & SportsAlaska Goldpanner Baseball Inc — $5,100 · Recreation & SportsRIVERSIDE BASEBALL ASSOCIATION — $5,100 · Recreation & SportsFairytale Town Inc — $1,700 · Recreation & SportsRESTORE THE ROAR — $19,600 · EducationBIOLA UNIVERSITY INC — $1,200 · EducationTHE ENDOWMENT FUND OF THE PHI KAPPA PSI FRATERNITY — $1,100 · EducationLEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE — $8,000 · ReligionOLYMPIC CLUB FOUNDATION — $1,000 · Religion
Other$298,916Health$89,250Human Services$55,810Public Benefit$25,500Recreation & Sports$22,000Education$21,900Religion$9,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSOCIETY FOR THE BLIND INC — $40,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $24,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRESTORE THE ROAR — $19,600 over 7y, 8.3% of budgetVETERANS GOLF PROGRAM — $17,500 over 7y, 4.7% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $16,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budget17 STRONG — $14,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetBATTLEFIELDS TO BALLFIELDS — $13,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetPRADER-WILLI SYNDROME ASSOCIATION (USA) — $12,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $10,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSACRAMENTO AREA YOUTH GOLF — $10,100 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED STATES BASEBALL FEDERATION INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE — $8,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWreaths Across America — $8,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICES — $8,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCamp Kesem National — $7,310 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC — $6,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE INTERNATIONAL — $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlaska Goldpanner Baseball Inc — $5,100 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetRIVERSIDE BASEBALL ASSOCIATION — $5,100 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetLABRADOR RESCUERS — $3,700 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWEAVE INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENTERPRISE FOR YOUTH — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSACRAMENTO BARONS ATHLETIC ORGANIZATION — $2,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetYOUNG LIFE — $1,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFairytale Town Inc — $1,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD LITERACY CENTER — $1,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIOLA UNIVERSITY INC — $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ENDOWMENT FUND OF THE PHI KAPPA PSI FRATERNITY — $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOLYMPIC CLUB FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKVIE INC — $850 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSACRAMENTO CHILDRENS MUSEUM — $850 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCROCKER ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL PUBLIC RADIO FDBA KXPR/KXJZ INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF SACRAMENTO — $100 over 1y, 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.

  • Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND INC
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
  • Who funds RESTORE THE ROAR
  • Who funds VETERANS GOLF PROGRAM
  • Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN
  • Who funds 17 STRONG
  • Who funds BATTLEFIELDS TO BALLFIELDS
  • Who funds PRADER-WILLI SYNDROME ASSOCIATION (USA)
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
  • Who funds SACRAMENTO AREA YOUTH GOLF
  • Who funds UNITED STATES BASEBALL FEDERATION INC
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
  • Who funds LEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE
  • Who funds Wreaths Across America
  • Who funds SACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICES
  • Who funds Camp Kesem National
  • Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds HOPE INTERNATIONAL
  • Who funds Alaska Goldpanner Baseball Inc
  • Who funds RIVERSIDE BASEBALL ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds LABRADOR RESCUERS

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.

Pfund Family FoundationCA22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pfund Family Foundation · Teichert Foundation · Sacramento Region Community Foundation · The Lasher Foundation Inc · Ed and Betty Manoyan Foundation · Taylor-Meyer Family Foundation · Kelly Foundation · Setzer Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Point West Rotary Club Foundation · Sutter Valley Hospitals · Deacon Charitable 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 Strong-Lachemann 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
202122232425
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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

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How do I get to The Strong-Lachemann Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Strong-Lachemann 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 92 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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