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Donald R & Carol P Lovett Charitable Trust at a glance

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Donald R & Carol P Lovett Charitable Trust

Its FY2017 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$72k
Granted FY2017
13
Grants FY2017
9
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2017 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2017

  • Under $10k9 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $61k
$1,500
Median grant
9
States reached
$456k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BLUE RIDGE HUMANE SOCIETY$20,000
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY$20,000
BOYS TOWN$10,500
MOLDOVA WORLD CHILDREN'S FUND$10,000
TIGER HAVEN INC$5,000
UNITED WAY OF HENDERSON COUNTY$2,000
WYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS$1,500
PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS$1,000
HICKORY NUT GORGE FOUNDATION$1,000
COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL$456
FAIRFIELD MOUNTAINS CHAPEL$300
CITIZENS UNITED FOUNDATION$100
PLYMOUTH HEALING COMMUNITIES$50
02The need
02

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BOYS TOWN: $11k → 12%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

WA
CA
UT
CO
NE
TN
NC
DC
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.
03Its 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
Humane World for Animals Inc

Humane World for Animals, Inc., formerly known as the Humane Society of the United States (The Organization), seeks to tackle the root causes of animal cruelty and suffering. CONTINUED ON SCHEDULE O

Animals
2
Yancey County Humane Society

Our mission is to shelter, rehabilitate and adopt stray and unwanted dogs and cats of Yancey County into permanent loving homes and provide compassionate, humane and educational services to improve animal welfare.

Animals
3
Animal Humane Society

Animal Humane Society (AHS) established in 1878 and incorporated as a nonprofit charitable organization in 1891 works to engage the hearts, hands, and minds of the community to help animals. AHS's vision is to compassionately and…

Animals
4
Windham County Humane Society

Windham County Humane Society is dedicated to ensuring the safety and well being of animals, as well as enhancing the relationship between individuals and pets through adoption, education, advocacy, compassion and promotion of animal…

Animals
5
Humane Society of Southern Arizona

To compassionately serve pets and the people who love them.

Animals
6
Happy Hen Animal Sanctuary
Animals
7
Humane Society of Tampa Bay Inc

The Humane Society of Tampa Bay is dedicated to ending animal homelessness and providing care and comfort for companion animals in need. Our vision is "Leading the way because every life counts". In 2025, we saved 10,631 animals.

Animals
8
Companions for Heroes

To champion public awareness of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and challenges confronting our countrys heroes and rally support for shelter animal adoption by connecting heroes and companions.

Human Services
9
Animal Humane Society Veterinary Centers Pc

Provide wellness and spay/neuter services at reduced cost for people in need.

Community Improvement
10
New River Humane Society Inc

New River Humane Society isdedicated to serving the needs of community members animals in Fayette County surrounding areas. We passionately try to contoll the pet population through spay/neuter programs, ensuring all animals are treated…

Animals
11
Animals First Rescue of the Carolinas Inc

Rescue unwanted dogs and cats from high kill shelters and other dire circumstances. Provide veterinary care shelter and love until the pet is placed into an appropriate new home.

Animals
12
Upper Valley Humane Society Inc

UVHS improves quality of life for people and pets through an innovative animal shelter and adoption center and through services that reduce suffering, support wellness, and foster compassion.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Blue Ridge Humane Society Inc; the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 13 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $20,000 · AnimalsBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETYBlue Ridge Humane Society Inc: $20,000 · AnimalsBlue Ridge Humane Society IncTIGER HAVEN INC: $5,000 · AnimalsTIGER HAVEN INCFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $10,500 · Human ServicesFather Flanagan's Boys' HomeMOLDOVA WORLD CHILDRENS FUND INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesMOLDOVA WORLD CHILDRENS FUND INCHenderson County United Way Inc: $2,000 · PhilanthropyHICKORY NUT GORGE FOUNDATION: $1,000 · PhilanthropyWYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS INC: $1,500 · OtherFairfield Mountain Chapel: $300 · OtherCitizens United Foundation: $100 · OtherPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS: $1,000 · Public BenefitCompassion International Incorporated: $456 · InternationalPLYMOUTH HEALING COMMUNITIES: $50 · Housing & Shelter
Animals$45,000Human Services$20,500Philanthropy$3,000Other$1,900Public Benefit$1,000International$456Housing & Shelter$50

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlue Ridge Humane Society Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $10,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTIGER HAVEN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHenderson County United Way Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCompassion International Incorporated: $456 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCitizens United Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLYMOUTH HEALING COMMUNITIES: $50 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.

Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA5.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Donald R & Carol P Lovett Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Donald R & Carol P Lovett Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    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 13 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 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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