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Cummings & Lockwood Foundation Inc at a glance

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Cummings & Lockwood Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$18k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$42kEducation$38kPhilanthropy$35kArts & Culture$22kFood & Nutrition$16kHealth$15kEnvironment$15kRecreation & Sports$14kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$25k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STAMFORD DOWNTOWN SPECIAL SERVICES DISTRICT$2,500
THE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC$2,000
UNITED WAY OF GREENWICH INC$1,500
BOBBY NICHOLS - FIDDLESTICKS CHARITY FOUNDATION$1,500
HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA$1,500
SHADOW WOOD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$1,500
CONNECTICUT LEGAL SERVICES$1,500
CT FOODSHARE$1,000
PACIFIC HOUSE INC$1,000
SCHOKE JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE$600
THE SHELTER$600
PALM BEACH COUNTY FOOD BANK$500
THE AMISTAD CENTER FOR ART & CULTURE$500
STEPPING STONES MUSEUM FOR CHILDREN$500
TRINITY ACADEMY OF HARTFORD$500
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 (FY17–24, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 26% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%RIVER HOUSE ADULT DAY CENTER: $250 → 9%PLACE OF HOPE: $2k → 11%PLACE OF HOPE: $1k → 11%NAPLES TAKE A SOLDIER FISHING: $250 → 10%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER: $2k → 9%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER: $500 → 9%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER: $500 → 9%YWCA GREENWICH: $4k → 9%YWCA GREENWICH: $3k → 9%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

IL
NY
MA
CT
CA
VA
OK
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 43% of Cummings & Lockwood Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 57% of the giving stays in CT; by stated purpose, 35%.

Cummings & Lockwood Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$149k · 28 repeat orgs$90k to everyone else

28 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
45

Total granted

$149k
$87k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+56%

Still filing today

82%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
EducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureHuman ServicesFood & NutritionEnvironmentOther
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

  • CL
    CONNECTICUT LEGAL SERVICES INC
    4× · 2017–2024 · $11k · revenue +23%
  • SW
    SHADOW WOOD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $10k · revenue +292%
  • BN
    BOBBY NICHOLS - FIDDLESTICKS FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $9k · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +8%
  • SC
    SHAWN CARTER SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -53%
  • PT
    PERSON TO PERSON INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +30%
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
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
The Connecticut Community Foundation

To foster an equitable and inclusive community in greater waterbury and litchfield hills by inspiring generosity, supporting organizations, and cultivating effective leaders. the foundation works to address the community's critical issues,…

Philanthropy
3
Community First Credit Union of Florida

Community first credit union of florida's mission is to provide the highest in quality financial solutions for every stage of life.

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4
Connecticut Council for Philanthropy

Ccp organizes, inspires, and equips a community of funders to learn, collaborate, and lead together for sustained impact and social change in connecticut.

Philanthropy
5
Westport Library Association Inc

The westport library was established for the purpose of maintaining a public library in the town of westport, connecticut. the library is committed to empowering the individual and strengthening the community through dynamic interaction…

Education
6
Tampa Bay Partnership Inc

The tampa bay partnership is a privately funded, ceo-driven regional advocacy organization, committed to creating a unified, competitive and prosperous tampa bay.

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7
Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc

Connecticut public broadcasting, inc. will inform, educate and inspire the people of connecticut, connecting and empowering the people of ct through outstanding journalism, storytelling, education and experiences, to make our state a more…

Arts & Culture
8
Hartford Foundation for Public Giving

The hartford foundation for public giving puts philanthropy into action to create lasting solutions that result in vibrant communities within the greater hartford region. as the region's community foundation, it is a public, grantmaking…

Philanthropy
9
Gulf Coast Jewish Family and Community Services Inc

Inspired by jewish values, we protect the vulnerable, empower individuals and strengthen families. (continued on schedule o)

—
10
Florida Community Health Centers Inc

Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.

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11
Connecticut Foodshare Inc

The mission of the connecticut foodshare is to deliver an informed and equitable response to hunger by mobilizing community partners, volunteers, and supporters.

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12
Florence Griswold Museum Inc

The florence griswold museum seeks to promote a greater understanding of connecticut's contribution to american art and history through public exhibitions and educational programs.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Rotary Club of Estero. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

61 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 61 of the 83 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/61
Grantees still filing
46/61
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STAMFORD DOWNTOWN SPECIAL SERVICES DISTRICT: $18,250 · OtherSTAMFORD DOWNTOWN SPECIAL SERVICES DISTRICTCHILD GUIDANCE CENTER OF SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT INC: $10,500 · OtherCHILD GUIDANCE CENTER OF SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT INCVARIOUS: $9,800 · OtherVARIOUSNCH HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $6,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF GREENWICH INC: $6,000 · OtherTHE GREENWICH TREE CONSERVANCY INC: $6,000 · OtherMILL RIVER COLLABORATIVE INC: $5,400 · Other+40 more: $56,265 · Other+40 moreSHADOW WOOD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $9,500 · PhilanthropySHADOW WOOD CHARITA…BOBBY NICHOLS - FIDDLESTICKS FOUNDATION INC: $8,500 · PhilanthropyBOBBY NICHOLS - FID…TIDES FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATIONPERSON TO PERSON INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyPERSON TO PERSON IN…EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF COLLIER COUNTY INC: $4,000 · PhilanthropyEDUCATION FOUNDATIO…THE IMMOKALEE FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 · PhilanthropyTHE IMMOKALEE FOUND…FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · PhilanthropyFAIRFIELD COUNTY'S …UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $2,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $1,350 · PhilanthropyTRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY: $10,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF PH…SHAWN CARTER SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $10,000 · EducationSHAWN CARTER S…SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED: $5,000 · EducationSACRED HEART U…THE FERGUSON LIBRARY: $3,000 · EducationTHE FERGUSON L…WOMEN'S BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC: $2,000 · EducationWOMEN'S BUSINE…THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 · Education+2 more: $1,000 · EducationORCHESTRA LUMOS INC: $6,500 · Arts & CultureBONITA SPRINGS CONCERT BAND INC: $3,600 · Arts & CultureWESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureTHE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM & EDUCATION CENTER OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $2,100 · Arts & CultureTHE NAPLES PLAYERS INC: $1,700 · Arts & CultureI-PARK FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureSTEPPING STONES MUSEUM FOR CHILDREN INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureCONNECTICUT LEGAL SERVICES INC: $10,500 · Crime & LegalCONNECTICUT BAR FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Crime & LegalYWCA GREENWICH CONNECTICUT INC: $6,500 · Human ServicesPLACE OF HOPE INC: $3,020 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER: $2,500 · Human Services+2 more: $500 · Human ServicesTHE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $6,000 · Food & NutritionHARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $4,500 · Food & NutritionPalm Beach County Food Bank Inc: $1,500 · Food & NutritionGLADIOLUS FOOD PANTRY INC: $500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$118,215Philanthropy$41,850Education$32,500Arts & Culture$18,400Crime & Legal$13,000Human Services$12,520Food & Nutrition$12,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCONNECTICUT LEGAL SERVICES INC: $10,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD GUIDANCE CENTER OF SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT INC: $10,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHAWN CARTER SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHADOW WOOD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $9,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetBOBBY NICHOLS - FIDDLESTICKS FOUNDATION INC: $8,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetORCHESTRA LUMOS INC: $6,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetYWCA GREENWICH CONNECTICUT INC: $6,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GREENWICH TREE CONSERVANCY INC: $6,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetTHE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREENWICH INC: $6,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMILL RIVER COLLABORATIVE INC: $5,400 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPERSON TO PERSON INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF COLLIER COUNTY INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBONITA SPRINGS CONCERT BAND INC: $3,600 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetTHE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE IMMOKALEE FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLACE OF HOPE INC: $3,020 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINSPIRICA INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FERGUSON LIBRARY: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEXECUTIVE WOMEN OF THE PALM BEACHES FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNAPLES ZOO INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER: $2,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PBC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT BAR FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM & EDUCATION CENTER OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $2,100 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWOMEN'S BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NAPLES PLAYERS INC: $1,700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIBERATION PROGRAMS INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPalm Beach County Food Bank Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF STAMFORD INC: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNAPLES HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $1,065 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GREENWICH LAND TRUST INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetI-PARK FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COLLIER COUNTY FLOR: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPPING STONES MUSEUM FOR CHILDREN INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC HOUSE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 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.

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.

Fairfield County's Co…Stamford Rotary Trust…Collier Community Fou…The Near and Far Asso…New Canaan Community …The Pitney Bowes Foun…William Caspar Graust…Peoples United Commun…The Herbert & Nell Si…Garden Homes FundPanwy Foundation IncThe Tudor Foundation …
Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT38.1× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Stamford Rotary Trust Fund · Collier Community Foundation Inc · The Near and Far Association Inc · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · The Pitney Bowes Foundation · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Peoples United Community Foundation · The Herbert & Nell Singer Foundation Inc · Garden Homes Fund · Panwy Foundation Inc · The Tudor Foundation Inc

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 Cummings & Lockwood Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cummings & Lockwood Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 200%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Mill River Collaborative Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Children in Placement Inc: 47% of income from government
  • Pacific House Inc: 46% of income from government
  • Women's Business Development Council Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Inspirica Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Connecticut Bar Foundation: 25% of income from government
  • Liberation Programs Inc: 24% of income from government
  • The Amistad Center for Art & Culture Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Connecticut Legal Services Inc: 18% of income from government
  • I-Park Foundation Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Domestic Violence Crisis Center: 10% of income from government
  • Person to Person Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Naples Botanical Garden Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Jewish Family Service of Stamford Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Westport Country Playhouse Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Orchestra Lumos Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Sacred Heart University Incorporated: 1% of income from government
  • Stepping Stones Museum for Children Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Yale New Haven Hospital: 0% of income from government
  • Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Place of Hope Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
20get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Cummings & Lockwood Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Cummings & Lockwood Foundation Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 83 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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