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Lane & Elizabeth C Dwinell Fdn at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
CARTER COMMUNITY BUILDING ASSOCIATION$20,000
WILLING HANDS ENTERPRISES INC$20,000
NEW HAMPSHIRE CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC$15,000
WOMEN'S INFORMATION SERVICES$15,000
UPPER VALLEY AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION$15,000
WEST CENTRAL SERVICES$15,000
COVER HOME REPAIR INC$12,500
DISMAS OF VERMONT$10,000
UPPER VALLEY MUSIC CENTER$10,000
WAYPOINT$10,000
LEBANON OPERA HOUSE$10,000
THE FAMILY PLACE - PARENT CHILD CENTER$10,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND$10,000
UPPER VALLEY HAVEN$10,000
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:

Its 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 its 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%LISTEN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $15k → 10%WOMEN'S INFORMATION SERVICES: $15k → 10%WILLING HANDS ENTERPRISES INC: $15k → 10%WILLING HANDS ENTERPRISES INC: $15k → 10%SPECIAL NEEDS SUPPORT CENTER: $15k → 10%WOMEN'S INFORMATION SERVICES: $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%WILLING HANDS ENTERPRISES INC: $15k → 10%WILLING HANDS ENTERPRISES INC: $15k → 10%SPARK COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 10%SPECIAL NEEDS SUPPORT CTR - UPPER VALLEY: $10k → 10%SPECIAL NEEDS SUPPORT CENTER: $10k → 10%SPARK COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 10%WOMEN'S INFORMATION SERVICES: $10k → 10%WOMENS INFORMATION SERVICES: $10k → 10%WOMENS INFORMATION SERVICES: $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
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +13% for those 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
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

  • 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%
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Good Beginnings Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

43 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/43
Grantees still filing
29/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · HealthUpper Valley Hostel Inc: $10,000 · HealthMASCOMA COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE 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…CLAREMONT OPERA HOUSE INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCLAREMONT OP…CITY CENTER BALLET INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCITY CENTER …REVELS NORTH INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureOPERA NORTH: $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 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 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 budgetTWIN PINES HOUSING TRUST: $55,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetGood Neighbor Health Clinic Inc: $55,000 over 3y, 2.3% 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 budgetSPARK COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $20,000 over 2y, 9.5% of budgetGOOD BEGINNINGS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetDismas of Vermont Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetVISIONS FOR CREATIVE HOUSING SOLUTIONS: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% 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 budgetCLAREMONT OPERA HOUSE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF THE GREEN AND WHITE MTNS: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUpper Valley Hostel Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetWindsor County Mentors Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetDartmouth Health Home Care Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY CENTER BALLET INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetUpper Valley Habitat for Humanity Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetMASCOMA COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNew Hampshire Association for the Blind D/B/A Future in Sight: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 budgetOPERA NORTH: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSecond Growth Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetKEENE HOUSING KIDS COLLABORATIVE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Lane & Elizabeth C Dwinell Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lane & Elizabeth C Dwinell Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%4%8%15%funder's 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
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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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 57 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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