· Private foundation
Fannie M Lienhard Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k40 grants · $108k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE NONHUMAN RIGHTS PROJECT | $20,000 |
| Oxfam America Inc | $15,000 |
| CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| TRIPLE H RANCH INC | $10,000 |
| Upper Valley Haven Inc | $10,000 |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America | $9,000 |
| Good Neighbor Health Clinic Inc | $8,000 |
| TWIN PINES HOUSING TRUST | $6,000 |
| Kids Empowered by Your Support Inc | $5,000 |
| Island Autism Group Inc | $5,000 |
| Rhode Island School of Design | $5,000 |
| Upper Valley Habitat for Humanity | $5,000 |
| Listen Community Services | $4,000 |
| Pace University | $4,000 |
| Operation Smile Inc | $3,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 51% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
67 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- NRNonhuman Rights Project Inc5× · 2020–2025 · $76k · revenue +30%
- KEKids Empowered by Your Support Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $75k · revenue +41%
- UVUPPER VALLEY HAVEN9× · 2017–2025 · $62k · revenue +107%
Funded once
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +102%
NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INCone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -54%- SHSAVING HARBIN DOGS INCone grant, 2021 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
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…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
Our mission is to act to conserve threatened species and ecosystems worldwide, choosing solutions that are sustainable, based on sound science and take into account human needs.
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
See schedule onylcv is a non-partisan policy making and political action organization that works to make environmental protection a top priority with elected officials, decision-makers and the voters by evaluating incumbent performance and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee and the most unlike its peers is Ric OBarrys Dolphin Project. 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.
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 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
94 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 94 of the 112 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Nonhuman Rights Project Inc ↗
- Who funds Kids Empowered by Your Support Inc ↗
- Who funds UPPER VALLEY HAVEN ↗
- Who funds Good Neighbor Health Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds PACE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds TWIN PINES HOUSING TRUST ↗
- Who funds Upper Valley Habitat for Humanity Inc ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS SPACE INC ↗
- Who funds THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO FIELD CAMPAIGN INC ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS OF LEGAL SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds LISTEN Lebanon in Service to Each Neighbor ↗
- Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAND AUTISM GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds TRIPLE H RANCH ↗
- Who funds Ric OBarrys Dolphin Project ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE ORGANIC INTEGRATED LIVELIHOODS C/O MELANIE STEVENSON ↗
- Who funds FRESH AIR FUND ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds Vermont Childrens Trust Foundation ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds KING STREET CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SASSAFRAS EARTH EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds INCLUSIVE ARTS VERMONT INC ↗
- Who funds Sandy Paws Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds Wellesley College ↗
- Who funds UPPER VALLEY MUSIC CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KOZEFO ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF MUSTANGS AND BURROS ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE ANIMAL SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Couch Family Foundation · Lane & Elizabeth C Dwinell Fdn · Mascoma Bank Foundation · The Vermont Community Foundation · Hypertherm Hope Foundation Inc · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Mt Roeschmore Foundation · Emily Landecker Foundation Inc · Claremont Savings Bank Foundation · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Barrette Family Fund
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 Fannie M Lienhard 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Twin Pines Housing Trust — 100% of income from government
- Committee On Temporary Shelter Inc — 52% of income from government
- King Street Center Inc — 43% of income from government
- Upper Valley Haven — 38% of income from government
- Nourish Bridgeport Inc — 19% of income from government
- Vermont Childrens Trust Foundation — 8% of income from government
- Triangle Community Center Inc — 5% of income from government
- Northern Stage Company — 5% of income from government
- Sassafras Earth Education Inc — 3% of income from government
- Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation — 2% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
- Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
- Amherst College Trustees — 0% of income from government
- Inclusive Arts Vermont Inc — 0% of income from government
- Kinhaven Music School Inc — 0% of income from government
- Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
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.