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Hollis Declan Leverett Mem Fd

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.

$37k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Environment$223kAnimals$119k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $31k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$906k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$11,000
MOUNT GRACE LAND CONSERVATION TRUST$10,000
NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY$10,000
NUTTALL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB$3,000
NEW ENGLAND BOTANICAL CLUB$3,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%FALMOUTH CONSERVATION TRUST: $4k → 8%MASSACHUSETTS AUDOBON SOCIETY: $15k → 8%MT GRACE LAND CONSERVATION TRUST: $15k → 11%NEW ENGLAND BOTANICAL CLUB: $3k → 14%NATURE CONSERVANCY OF MASS: $15k → 16%NATIONAL AUDOBON SOCIETY: $18k → 16%CONNECTICUT AUDOBON SOCIETY: $10k → 9%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY IN RHODE ISLAND: $14k → 14%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $11k → 7%VERMONT LAND TRUST: $13k → 9%FALMOUTH CONSERVATION TRUST: $3k → 8%MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY: $15k → 8%MT GRACE LAND CONSERVATION TRUST: $13k → 11%NEW ENGLAND BOTANICAL CLUB: $3k → 14%NATURE CONSERVANCY OF MASS: $15k → 16%NATIONAL AUDOBON SOCIETY: $15k → 16%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY IN RHODE ISLAND: $11k → 14%MASSACHUSETTS AUDOBON SOCIETY: $13k → 8%MOUNT GRACE LAND CONSERVATION TRUST: $10k → 11%NEW ENGLAND BOTANICAL CLUB: $3k → 14%NATIONAL AUDOBON SOCIETY: $15k → 16%NUTTALL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB: $3k → 8%MT GRACE LAND CONSERVATION TRUST: $8k → 11%NEW ENGLAND BOTANICAL CLUB: $3k → 14%NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY: $12k → 16%NUTTALL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB: $3k → 8%NEW ENGLAND BOTANICAL CLUB: $3k → 14%NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY: $10k → 16%NUTTALL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB: $3k → 8%NEW ENGLAND BOTANICAL CLUB: $3k → 14%NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY: $10k → 16%NUTTALL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB: $3k → 8%NEW ENGLAND BOTANICAL CLUB: $3k → 14%NATIONAL AUDOBON SOCIETY: $8k → 16%NUTTALL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB: $3k → 8%NUTTALL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB: $3k → 8%NUTTALL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB: $3k → 8%SUDBURY VALLEY TRUSTEES: $15k → 8%SUDBURY VALLEY TRUSTEES: $14k → 8%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.
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$308k · 9 repeat orgs$23k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
2

Total granted

$308k
$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+107%

Still filing today

67%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentAnimalsOther
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

  • NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $88k · revenue +40%
  • MG
    MOUNT GRACE LAND CONSERVATION TRUST
    4× · 2020–2025 · $46k · revenue +52%
  • MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC
    3× · 2019–2023 · $43k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • VERMONT LAND TRUST INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $13k · revenue +32%
  • CA
    CONNECTICUT AUDUBON SOCIETY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +107%
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
Maine Audubon Society

Maine Audubon works to conserve Maine's wildlife and habitat by engaging people of all ages in education, conservation, and action. We are helping the people of Maine become the nation's most informed and effective stewards of wildlife and…

Environment
2
New Jersey Audubon Society

The new jersey audubon society is a privately supported, not-for-profit, statewide membership organization. (see schedule o for details).

Environment
3
The Quebec-Labrador Foundation Inc

The program mission of the quebec-labrador foundation u.s. is defined by a regional component (new england and eastern canada), and an international component, which ties our regional model to a global conservation network. qlf's program…

Philanthropy
4
Massachusetts Outdoor Heritage Foundation Inc Attn Susan Sacco
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5
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
6
New Jersey Conservation Foundation

Recognizing that a healthy environment is critical to the well-being and survival of all living things, new jersey conservation foundation is devoted to preserving land and protecting natural resources throughout new jersey's (continued on…

Environment
7
Great Salt Lake Audubon

Great salt lake audubon, a chapter of the national audubon society, was founded in 1912 and is the oldest conservation organization in utah. this volunteer organization strives to meet its mission through volunteer opportunities, seminars,…

Environment
8
Buffalo Audubon Society Inc

Buffalo audubon society leads and inspires western new yorkers to connect with and protect the natural world through bird-focused activities, advocacy and habitat restoration.

Environment
9
Nature Collective

Nature collective's mission is to drive a passion for nature for all. we think inclusively and diversely when serving those devoid of nature those who remember nature and want to connect back to it and those who have an affinity with…

Environment
10
Washington Forest Law Center

Dedicated to protecting the world's natural environment on behalf of the public by serving as a public interest law firm. refer to schedule o, part iii, line 4a, for list of litigated cases or advocacy work.

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11
Kestrel Land Trust

Kestrel land trust conserves and cares for forests, farms, and riverways in the connecticut river valley of western massachusetts while nurturing an enduring love of the land

Environment
12
Wetlands Foundation
Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sudbury Valley Trustees Inc; the most unlike its peers is New England Botanical Club Inc. 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

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 12 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $87,500 · EnvironmentNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INCMOUNT GRACE LAND CONSERVATION TRUST: $45,500 · EnvironmentMOUNT GRACE LAND CONSERVATION TRUSTMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $42,500 · EnvironmentMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INCSUDBURY VALLEY TRUSTEES INC: $28,500 · EnvironmentSUDBURY VALLEY TRUSTEES INCNEW ENGLAND BOTANICAL CLUB INC: $21,000 · EnvironmentNEW ENGLAND BOTANICAL CLUB INCVERMONT LAND TRUST INC: $12,500 · EnvironmentCONNECTICUT AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentNATURE CONSERVANCY OF MASS: $30,000 · OtherNATURE CONSERVANCY OF MA…THE NATURE CONSERVANCY IN RHODE ISLAND: $24,500 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY I…THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $11,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYFALMOUTH CONSERVATION TRUST: $7,000 · OtherFALMOUTH CONSERVATION TR…NUTTALL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB INC: $21,000 · Animals
Environment$247,500Other$72,500Animals$21,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $87,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT GRACE LAND CONSERVATION TRUST: $45,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $42,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSUDBURY VALLEY TRUSTEES INC: $28,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNUTTALL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB INC: $21,000 over 7y, 21% of budgetNEW ENGLAND BOTANICAL CLUB INC: $21,000 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetVERMONT LAND TRUST INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Hollis Declan Leverett Mem Fd funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hollis Declan Leverett Mem Fd. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 17%
  • Vermont Land Trust Inc: 45% of income from government
  • Connecticut Audubon Society Inc: 17% of income from government
  • Sudbury Valley Trustees Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get 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 · 0–60%
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.
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How do I get to Hollis Declan Leverett Mem Fd?

Find your warmest path to Hollis Declan Leverett Mem Fd 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 12 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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