· Private foundation
George H Lusk Trust
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE FALMOUTH SERVICE CENTER INC | $3,250 |
| CAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC | $2,750 |
| CAPE COD COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC | $2,250 |
| FALMOUTH HOUSING CORPORATION | $2,250 |
| FALMOUTH HOUSING CORPORATION | $2,250 |
| THE 300 COMMITTEE LAND TRUST INC | $2,250 |
| WOODS HOLE PUBLIC LIBRARY | $1,500 |
| FALMOUTH HIGH SCHOOL-FBO ART DEPT | $1,500 |
| COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF CAPE COD | $1,250 |
| FARMING FALMOUTH INC | $1,250 |
| WOODS HOLE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC | $1,000 |
| FALMOUTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC | $1,000 |
| FALMOUTH PUBLIC LIBRARY | $1,000 |
| FALMOUTH ARTIST'S GUILD INC | $1,000 |
| THE FALMOUTH CHORALE INC | $750 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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 +60% since the first grant, against -24% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- FHFALMOUTH HOUSING CORPORATION6× · 2020–2025 · $21k · revenue +131%
- FSFALMOUTH SERVICE CENTER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $19k · revenue +60%
- CCCape Cod Community College Educational Foundation Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- MWMASHPEE WAMPANOAG TRIBE CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICEone grant, 2022 · $1k
- LJLAWRENCE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $500
- LSLAWRENCE SCHOOL PTOone grant, 2020 · $200 · revenue -24%
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.
The mission of the falmouth historical society, through the museums on the green, is to provide educational programs, and to preserve, share and celebrate the history and culture of the cape cod town of falmouth.
Land conservation
Falmouth housing trust's mission is to enchance the community of falmouth by developing and maintaining sustainable afforable workforce housing. the organization provides this service to low-to-moderate income individuals or families…
To enhance the quality of life of our community by inspiring lifelong learning, providing free and open access to information, and fostering community connections.
Provide funding for projects, literacy, and educational programs that improve the falmouth public library and educate the community regarding the need for public libraries and their benefit to all persons.
Local cable programs by and for residents.
The falmouth education foundation, founded in 1993, enhances educational excellence and promotes innovative student development by supporting educational programs and initiatives that primarily benefit children that are residents of…
Awards scholarships for college tuition to selected students at falmouth high school who wish to pursue advanced work in literature, science, math, or the arts.
To provide public broadcasting to lower cape cod massachusetts
To encourage and assist in the acquisition, preservation and management of open space on cape cod
The franklin land trust works to conserve farms, forests, wildlands, and other natural resources significant to the quality of the environment, economy, and rural character of western massachusetts.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Falmouth Housing Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Lawrence School Pto. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 26 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 FALMOUTH HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FALMOUTH SERVICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Cape Cod Community College Educational Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FALMOUTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOODS HOLE PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds THE 300 COMMITTEE LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds WOODS HOLE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF CAPE COD INC ↗
- Who funds FARMING FALMOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FAIRWINDS INC ↗
- Who funds FALMOUTH ARTISTS GUILD INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY ↗
- Who funds RECOVERY WITHOUT WALLS INC ↗
- Who funds THE FALMOUTH CHORALE INC ↗
- Who funds BUZZARDS BAY COALITION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FALMOUTH BIKEWAYS INC ↗
- Who funds WOODS HOLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE SCHOOL PTO ↗
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: Stanley W Watson Foundation · Cape Cod Foundation Inc · Josephine and Louise Crane Foundation · Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Esther Simon 1952 Charitable Trust Xxxxx8006 · Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust · Eastern Bank Foundation · Harken Foundation · Hermann Foundation Inc · Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc · Normandie Foundation Inc · Friendship Fund Inc
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 George H Lusk Trust 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.
- Buzzards Bay Coalition — 37% of income from government
- Marine Biological Laboratory — 20% of income from government
- Community Health Center of Cape Cod Inc — 9% of income from government
- The Falmouth Chorale Inc — 2% 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.