· Private foundation
John Edward Lovenheim and Barbara Pitlick Lovenheim Charitable 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k38 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $28k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MCC FOUNDATION | $17,500 |
| FRIENDS & FOUNDATION OF THE ROCHESTER PUBLIC LIBRARY | $10,525 |
| TEMPLE BETH EL | $4,924 |
| FOOD BANK OF THE SOUTHERN TIER | $3,250 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF ROCHESTER | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS - GREATER ROCHESTER CHAPTER | $3,000 |
| TOMPKINS COUNTY PUBLIC LIBARARY FOUNDATION | $2,650 |
| ROCHESTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| CAYUGA CHAMBER ORCHESTRA | $2,500 |
| WATER FOR SOUTH SUDAN | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,100 |
| OPUS ITHACA SCHOOL OF MUSIC | $2,000 |
| TOURETTES SYNDROME ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EDUCATION FUND | $2,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $115k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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.
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 +24% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 8 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- MFMCC FOUNDATION INC5× · 2021–2025 · $115k · revenue +211%
- OIOPUS ITHACA SCHOOL OF MUSIC4× · 2022–2025 · $16k · revenue +33%
- RCROCHESTER CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER INC4× · 2021–2024 · $14k · revenue +58%
Funded once
- VVariousone grant, 2020 · $54k
RALEIGH CIVIC VENTURES INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +103%- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATIONone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
To engage the community in life-long learning for all through equal access to information, technology, gathering spaces and expert staff.
To create, enhance, and promote a downtown experience that is welcoming, fun, and livable.
Rochester art center offers the opportunity for all people to understand and value the arts through innovative experiences with contemporary art. through world-class exhibitions and programs, we present a welcoming, integrated, and diverse…
To provide excellence and access in private higher education to those who seek to expand their knowledge and prepare themselves for meaningful, educated lives and for service to their communities and the world.
The troy community land bank acquires, rehabilitates and resells vacant and abandoned buildings throughout the city of troy, new york
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…
See schedule onylcvef's mission is to educate, engage and empower new yorkers to be effective advocates on behalf of the environment from clean energy and funding for parks, to solid waste and green buildings. first, we educate new yorkers…
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
Wamc is chartered by the new york state board of regents to "furnish, prepare and present non-profit and non-commercial educational, instructional and cultural radio programs and also non-profit and non-commercial programs (wamc's mission…
The mission of the lewisboro library is to provide the community with free, uncensored access to information through a variety of media and services, and offer educational, cultural, recreational, and civic engagement opportunities in a…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The goals and objectives of the corporation are as follows:(a) to operate and maintain a nonsectarian, general hospital at one or more locations for the furnishing of inpatient, ambulatory, restorative, preventative and emergency medical…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Senior Life Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Ithaca Farmers Market. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
50 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. 50 of the 84 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 MCC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Friends and Foundation of the Rochester Public Library ↗
- Who funds OPUS ITHACA SCHOOL OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds RALEIGH CIVIC VENTURES INC ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Water for South Sudan Inc ↗
- Who funds TOMPKINS COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOA EDITIONS LTD ↗
- Who funds THE PINE PARK ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds Cayuga Chamber Orchestra Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF TOMPKINS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR THE ARTS AT ITHACA INC ↗
- Who funds Kitchen Theatre Company Inc ↗
- Who funds FOODLINK INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PEGASUS EARLY MUSIC ↗
- Who funds THE WATER PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Loaves and Fishes of Tompkins County Inc ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
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: Rochester Area Community Foundation · Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of Tompkins County Inc · Rochester Area Community Foundation Depository Inc · Legacy Foundation of Tompkins County · Park Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation · Ames-Amzalak Memorial Trust · Esl Charitable Foundation · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · William & Sheila Konar Foundation
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 John Edward Lovenheim and Barbara Pitlick Lovenheim Charitable 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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