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Lane & Elizabeth C Dwinell Fdn

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$232k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Human Services$325kHealth$270kHousing & Shelter$156kArts & Culture$143kFood & Nutrition$110kEducation$55kRecreation & Sports$50kYouth Development$48kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $203k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$5.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LISTEN LEBANON IN COMMUNITY SERVICE$20,000
WILLING HANDS ENTERPRISES INC$20,000
CARTER COMMUNITY BUILDING ASSOCIATION$20,000
NEW HAMPSHIRE CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC$15,000
UPPER VALLEY AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION$15,000
WEST CENTRAL SERVICES$15,000
WOMEN'S INFORMATION SERVICES$15,000
COVER HOME REPAIR INC$12,500
UPPER VALLEY MUSIC CENTER$10,000
WAYPOINT$10,000
LEBANON OPERA HOUSE$10,000
THE FAMILY PLACE - PARENT CHILD CENTER$10,000
UPPER VALLEY HAVEN$10,000
DISMAS OF VERMONT$10,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $317k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%NEW HAMPSHIRE CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $15k → 7%NEW HAMPSHIRE CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $5k → 7%NEW HAMPSHIRE CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $5k → 7%WAYPOINT: $10k → 7%NEW HAMPSHIRE CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $5k → 7%WEBSTER HOUSE: $2k → 7%WILLING HANDS ENTERPRISES INC: $20k → 10%WILLING HANDS ENTERPRISES INC: $15k → 10%WILLING HANDS ENTERPRISES INC: $15k → 10%WOMEN'S INFORMATION SERVICES: $15k → 10%WOMEN'S INFORMATION SERVICES: $15k → 10%WILLING HANDS ENTERPRISES INC: $15k → 10%WILLING HANDS ENTERPRISES INC: $15k → 10%LISTEN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $15k → 10%SPECIAL NEEDS SUPPORT CENTER: $15k → 10%WILLING HANDS ENTERPRISES INC: $15k → 10%SPECIAL NEEDS SUPPORT CENTER: $15k → 10%SPECIAL NEEDS SUPPORT CENTER: $15k → 10%LISTEN LEBANON IN SERVICE: $15k → 10%WOMENS INFORMATION SERVICES: $10k → 10%SPECIAL NEEDS SUPPORT CENTER: $10k → 10%SPARK COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 10%WOMEN'S INFORMATION SERVICES: $10k → 10%WOMENS INFORMATION SERVICES: $10k → 10%SPARK COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 10%SPECIAL NEEDS SUPPORT CTR - UPPER VALLEY: $10k → 10%WOMEN'S INFORMATION SERVICES: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$886k · 25 repeat orgs$375k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

25 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
23

Total granted

$886k
$278k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+13%

Still filing today

92%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $97k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterEducationOther

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

  • WH
    WILLING HANDS ENTERPRISES INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $95k · revenue +48%
  • WC
    WEST CENTRAL SERVICES INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $75k · revenue +1%
  • WI
    WOMEN'S INFORMATION SERVICE (WISE) OF THE UPPER VALLEY INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $65k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • CC
    CARTER COMMUNITY BLDG ASSN
    one grant, 2020 · $35k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $30k
  • LP
    LEBANON PUBLIC LIBRARIES FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -60%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Upper Valley Comm Health Services Inc

UVCHS in a not for profit organization that provides medical dental behavioral heath and pharmacy services. Our goal is to make quality care available to everyone regardless of demographic or economic status. We accept all major insurances…

Health
2
Northeast Kingdom Development Corporation

Fostering, encouraging and assisting the physical location of business enterprises within the States of Vermont and New Hampshire, and having its principal purpose be industrial and economic development of one or more political…

Employment
3
Bank of New Hampshire Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Granite Vna Inc

The Mission of Granite VNA, Inc. is we enhance dignity and independence for people delivering quality health care and promoting wellness in homes and communities through all stages of life.

Health
5
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
6
Southern New Hampshire Health System Inc

Southern New Hampshire Health is dedicated to providing exceptional care that improves the health and well-being of individuals and communities we serve.

Health
7
Northeast Kingdom Council on Aging Inc

We support people age 60 and older persons with disabilities in their efforts to remain active healthy, financially secure, and in control of their own lives. The Agency connects people and the services they they need to live independently…

Human Services
8
Habitat for Humanity of the Kearsarge Sunapee Area Inc

To witness to and implement the Gospel of Jesus Christ in the towns of Andover, Bradford, Danbury, New London, Springfield, Sunapee, Sutton, Newbury, Wilmot and Newport located in the State of NH by working with economically disadvantaged…

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9
Merrimack Valley Day Care Service

Daycare services

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10
Mountain Village Charter School

Mountain Village is a public Nature-based, Montessori school, engaging students in experiences that integrate natural environments with the Montessori curriculum, igniting achievement in academic, social-emotional and physical development.

Education
11
Southwestern Vermont Council on Aging Inc

The Southwestern Vermont Council on Aging exists to be a community force in creating and sustaining opportunities for elders and caregivers in our region to help assure that elders are able to maintain maximum independence and quality of…

Human Services
12
Merrimack Valley Housing Partnership Inc

To promote responsible and sustainable home ownership opportunities for low and moderate income earners by producing comprehensive training and counseling, as well as promoting the use of special mortgage products and down payment…

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Good Beginnings Inc and the most unlike its peers is City Center Ballet Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyLabor Unions and Fraternal …Youth Sports ProgramsRegional Healthcare SystemsDisability Services & Suppo…Member Social ClubsVulnerable Population Suppo…Youth Development Organizat…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 39 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%5%<5yr12%2%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr20%23%20–35yr14%37%35–55yr17%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%2%<5yr12%2%5–10yr19%8%10–20yr20%33%20–35yr14%44%35–55yr17%11%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/43
the rest of the field
9%
325/3,775

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.

04the grantee network

43 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. 43 of the 57 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/43
Grantees still filing
28/43
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WILLING HANDS ENTERPRISES INC — $95,000 · Human ServicesWILLING HANDS ENTERPRISES IN…WOMEN'S INFORMATION SERVICE (WISE) OF THE UPPER VALLEY INC — $65,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S INFORMATION SERVICE …SPECIAL NEEDS SUPPORT CENTER OF THE UPPER VALLEY — $65,000 · Human ServicesSPECIAL NEEDS SUPPORT CENTER…LISTEN Lebanon in Service to Each Neighbor — $30,000 · Human ServicesLISTEN Lebanon in Service to…New Hampshire Catholic Charities — $30,000 · Human ServicesNew Hampshire Catholic Chari…SPARK COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesSPARK COMMUNITY CENTER INC+2 more — $12,000 · Human ServicesTWIN PINES HOUSING TRUST — $55,000 · OtherTWIN PINES HOUSING TRUSTCARTER COMMUNITY BLDG ASSN — $35,000 · OtherCARTER COMMUNITY BLDG ASSNIndividual grant recipient — $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPLANNED PARENTHOOD - VERMONT — $25,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD - VERMONTLISTEN LEBANON IN COMMUNITY SERVICE — $20,000 · OtherGRAFTON COUNTY SENIOR CENTER — $20,000 · OtherUPPER VALLEY HAVEN — $17,500 · OtherVNA & HOSPICE FOR VT & NH — $15,000 · OtherVISITING NURSING & HOSPICE VTNH — $15,000 · OtherDismas of Vermont Inc — $20,000 · OtherGOOD BEGINNINGS INC — $20,000 · OtherUpper Valley Agricultural Association Inc — $15,000 · Other+14 more — $108,000 · Other+14 moreWEST CENTRAL SERVICES INC — $75,000 · HealthWEST CENTRAL SERV…Good Neighbor Health Clinic Inc — $55,000 · HealthGood Neighbor Hea…DAVID'S HOUSE INC — $30,000 · HealthDAVID'S HOUSE INCPlanned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc — $10,000 · HealthMASCOMA COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE INC — $10,000 · HealthUpper Valley Hostel Inc — $10,000 · HealthCommunity Gallery Inc — $50,000 · Arts & CultureCommunity Ga…UPPER VALLEY MUSIC CENTER INC — $38,000 · Arts & CultureUPPER VALLEY…LEBANON OPERA HOUSE IMPROVEMENT CORP — $25,000 · Arts & CultureLEBANON OPER…CITY CENTER BALLET INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureCITY CENTER …CLAREMONT OPERA HOUSE INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureCLAREMONT OP…OPERA NORTH — $5,000 · Arts & CultureREVELS NORTH INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureCOVER HOME REPAIR INC — $62,500 · Housing & ShelterVISIONS FOR CREATIVE HOUSING SOLUTIONS — $20,000 · Housing & ShelterHarbor Homes Inc — $5,000 · Housing & ShelterFINDING OUR STRIDE — $22,500 · Recreation & SportsCARTER COMMUNITY BUILDING ASSOCIATION — $20,000 · Recreation & SportsBRISTOL RECREATION ADVISORY COUNCIL — $15,000 · Recreation & SportsUPPER VALLEY SNOW SPORTS FOUNDATION — $15,000 · Recreation & SportsLEBANON PUBLIC LIBRARIES FOUNDATION — $25,000 · EducationLEDYARD CHARTER SCHOOL — $25,000 · EducationCHILDREN'S LITERACY FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Education
Human Services$317,000Other$395,500Health$190,000Arts & Culture$143,000Housing & Shelter$87,500Recreation & Sports$72,500Education$55,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWILLING HANDS ENTERPRISES INC — $95,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetWEST CENTRAL SERVICES INC — $75,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN'S INFORMATION SERVICE (WISE) OF THE UPPER VALLEY INC — $65,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetSPECIAL NEEDS SUPPORT CENTER OF THE UPPER VALLEY — $65,000 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetCOVER HOME REPAIR INC — $62,500 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetGood Neighbor Health Clinic Inc — $55,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetTWIN PINES HOUSING TRUST — $55,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCommunity Gallery Inc — $50,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetUPPER VALLEY MUSIC CENTER INC — $38,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetDAVID'S HOUSE INC — $30,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetLISTEN Lebanon in Service to Each Neighbor — $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNew Hampshire Catholic Charities — $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLEBANON PUBLIC LIBRARIES FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetLEDYARD CHARTER SCHOOL — $25,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetLEBANON OPERA HOUSE IMPROVEMENT CORP — $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFINDING OUR STRIDE — $22,500 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetVISIONS FOR CREATIVE HOUSING SOLUTIONS — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDismas of Vermont Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGOOD BEGINNINGS INC — $20,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetSPARK COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $20,000 over 2y, 9.5% of budgetUPPER VALLEY HAVEN — $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBRISTOL RECREATION ADVISORY COUNCIL — $15,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetUpper Valley Agricultural Association Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetUPPER VALLEY SNOW SPORTS FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWindsor County Mentors Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetMASCOMA COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUpper Valley Hostel Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetCITY CENTER BALLET INC — $10,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetCLAREMONT OPERA HOUSE INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetDartmouth Health Home Care Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUpper Valley Habitat for Humanity Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF THE GREEN AND WHITE MTNS — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNew Hampshire Association for the Blind D/B/A Future in Sight — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSecond Growth Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetOPERA NORTH — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHarbor Homes Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S LITERACY FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetREVELS NORTH INC — $5,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetKEENE HOUSING KIDS COLLABORATIVE — $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
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.

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.

The Couch Family Foun…New Hampshire Charita…Mascoma Bank Foundati…Hypertherm Hope Found…Claremont Savings Ban…Granite United WayEmily Landecker Found…Cogswell Benevolent T…The Vermont Community…Agnes M Lindsay TrustMary Hitchcock Memori…Mt Roeschmore Foundat…
The Couch Family FoundationNH67.9× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Couch Family Foundation · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Mascoma Bank Foundation · Hypertherm Hope Foundation Inc · Claremont Savings Bank Foundation · Granite United Way · Emily Landecker Foundation Inc · Cogswell Benevolent Trust · The Vermont Community Foundation · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital · Mt Roeschmore 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 Lane & Elizabeth C Dwinell Fdn 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 38%
  • Twin Pines Housing Trust — 100% of income from government
  • Dismas of Vermont Inc — 39% of income from government
  • Upper Valley Haven — 38% of income from government
  • Willing Hands Enterprises Inc — 17% of income from government
  • Cover Home Repair Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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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How do I get to Lane & Elizabeth C Dwinell Fdn?

Find your warmest path to Lane & Elizabeth C Dwinell Fdn 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 57 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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