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The Susan Liautaud 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.

$230k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Education$713kInternational$249kArts & Culture$5kHealth$3kCivil Rights$500Animals$500
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STANFORD UNIVERSITY DEVLOPMENT SERVICES$100,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
YALE UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT YALE PARENTS$25,000
YALE UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT YALE PARENTS$25,000
YALE UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT YALE PARENTS$10,000
YALE UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT YALE PARENTS$5,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$5,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$5,000
COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS$2,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN KATTERING CANCER CENTER$2,000
TETON RAPTOR CENTER$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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 97% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SCHOOL YEAR ABROAD INC: $5k → 10%WUNDERGLO FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $20k → 14%MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $30k → 17%BETTER ANGELS LIAUTAUD FDN: $15k → 14%SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: $500 → 18%WOMENS GIVING INITIATIVE: $10k → 21%TETON RAPTOR CENTER: $500 → 5%PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY GIFT ACCOUNT: $2k → 5%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $20k → 14%MEDECINES SANS FRONTUERES USA INC: $10k → 17%CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT: $100k → 14%LIAUTA ALUM CLASS 1981 PHILLIPS EXETER 20 MAIL ST: $2k → 5%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $20k → 14%MEDECINES SANS FRONTUERES USA INC: $1k → 17%CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT: $50k → 14%FRENCH INSTITUTE ALLIANCE FRANAISE: $5k → 17%CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT: $50k → 14%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $5k → 17%MEMORIAL SLOAN KATTERING CANCER CENTER: $2k → 17%COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS: $2k → 17%INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE: $5k → 17%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.

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$415k · 4 repeat orgs$51k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.

4 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
9

Total granted

$415k
$42k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
-2%

Still filing today

25%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
InternationalEducationHealthCrime & LegalArts & CultureOther

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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    3× · 2022–2024 · $200k
  • YU
    YALE UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT YALE PARENTS
    3× · 2021–2024 · $110k
  • LF
    LSE FOUNDATION REF
    2× · 2021–2022 · $64k

Funded once

  • BA
    BETTER ANGELS LIAUTAUD FDN
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • FI
    FRENCH INSTITUTE - ALLIANCE FRANCAISE
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +19%

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
World Learning Inc

Creating a more sustainable, peaceful, and just world through education, development, and exchange since 1932. as both an accredited academic institution and an international ngo, world learning, inc. offers the best of theory and practice…

International
2
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
3
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
4
The Central European University

Ceu is committed to promoting the values of open society and self-reflective critical thinking. it aims at excellence in the mastery of established knowledge, courage to pursue the creation of new knowledge in the humanities, the social…

International
5
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
6
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
7
The Fund for American Studies

The fund for american studies (tfas) seeks to create a brighter, more prosperous future by preparing young people for leadership and teaching them the ideas of freedom and a free-market economy. founded in 1967, tfas organizes programs for…

8
International Crisis Group

Crisis group works to prevent and resolve deadly conflict around the world by informing and influencing the perceptions and actions of policymakers and other key conflict actors. to this end, we endeavour to talk to all sides and provide…

International
9
Lycee Francais De New York

"citizens of culture and courage"committed to bilingual french and american education of the highest standard, our mission is to prepare students of many origins to be thinkers, innovators and leaders, at home in the world. we inspire and…

Education
10
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
11
Foreign Policy Association Inc

The mission of the foreign policy association today, as it has been for over 100 years, is to serve as a catalyst for developing awareness, understanding, and informed opinion on united states foreign policy and global issues. through its…

International
12
Future Problem Solving Program International Inc

Future problem solving proudly celebrates more than 50 years of placing close to a million young people at the core of a dynamic, purposeful learning experience. each year k-12 students from around the world participate in a variety of…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Teton Raptor Center. 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

11 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. 11 of the 19 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $440,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERS…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $65,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK+1 more — $2,000 · EducationIndividual grant recipient — $200,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientYALE UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT YALE PARENTS — $110,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT YALE PARENTSLSE FOUNDATION REF — $64,169 · OtherLSE FOUNDATION REFBETTER ANGELS LIAUTAUD FDN — $15,000 · Other+5 more — $19,500 · OtherMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $41,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC — $5,000 · InternationalCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC — $2,000 · International+1 more — $1,000 · InternationalFRENCH INSTITUTE - ALLIANCE FRANCAISE — $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WUNDERGLO FOUNDATION — $1,000 · HealthSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $500 · Crime & Legal
Education$507,000Other$408,669International$49,000Arts & Culture$5,000Health$1,000Crime & Legal$500

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 budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $440,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $65,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $41,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRENCH INSTITUTE - ALLIANCE FRANCAISE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WUNDERGLO FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFRENCH AMERICAN AID FOR CHILDREN INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTETON RAPTOR CENTER — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $500 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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Susan Liautaud 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 · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Susan Liautaud Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Susan Liautaud 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 19 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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