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Lavoie Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $34k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIVE AND LET LIVE FARM | $21,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,830 |
| BARNSTEAD FOOD PANTRY | $6,000 |
| END 68 HOURS OF HUNGER | $5,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| HOLY FAMILY ACADEMY | $4,000 |
| FAITH ALIVE CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP | $4,000 |
| LEDYARD FOOD PANTRY | $4,000 |
| LEDYARD CHAIN | $3,666 |
| THE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| RAVEN GAEL BLAISDELL FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| BEAR PAW REGIONAL GREENWAYS | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–23, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +35% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- LALIVE AND LET LIVE FARM INC8× · 2017–2024 · $212k · revenue +55%
- LCLEDYARD CHAIN INC6× · 2019–2024 · $22k · revenue +1%
- E6END 68 HOURS OF HUNGER5× · 2020–2024 · $18k · revenue +111%
Funded once
- FLFrancestown Land Trust Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +39%
- PCPARADE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHone grant, 2019 · $5k
- PCPACE CAREER ACADEMYone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -76%
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 save the lives of animals through rescue, rehabilitation and adoption; to promote learning, eliminate animal cruelty and be a leader in advancing the highest standards in animal welfare.
The mission of the green mountain club is to make the vermont mountains play a larger part in the life of the people by protecting and maintaining the long trail system and fostering, through education, the stewardship of vermont's hiking…
Center for wildlife's mission is to cultivate and strengthen relationships between humans, wildlife, and the environment resulting in a healthier, more sustainable community. to this end, we focus on three goals: 1. strengthen our…
Gnhcp's mission is to end the suffering of homeless cats through the practice of trap/neuter/return (tnr), and also to educate the community ethically about the importance of animal welfare. our primary goal is to provide the low-income…
To provide healthcare services.
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
The purpose of new england animal sanctuary inc. (referred to herein as the corporation) is to engage in charitable and educational activities, as well as activities for the prevention of cruelty to animals, within the meaning of section…
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…
To rescue, rehabilitate and permanently rehome stray/abused animals within the greater new haven ct area.
The mission of connecticut resource conservation & development area, inc. ("ct rc&d") is to enrich local communities by cultivating agricultural viability, conserving natural resources, and growing economies.
The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is High Hopes Therapeutic Riding Inc and the most unlike its peers is Snipitnh. 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.
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 38 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 8% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 72 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 LIVE AND LET LIVE FARM INC ↗
- Who funds LEDYARD CHAIN INC ↗
- Who funds END 68 HOURS OF HUNGER ↗
- Who funds Francestown Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds WAYPOINT ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES ↗
- Who funds BEAR-PAW REGIONAL GREENWAYS ↗
- Who funds GRAYLAG NATURE PRESERVE INC ↗
- Who funds PACE CAREER ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds GRANITE STATE INDEPENDENT LIVING ↗
- Who funds Spark Makerspace Co ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTSIDE ANIMAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds THAMES VALLEY COUNCIL FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds Garde Arts Center Inc ↗
- Who funds South East Connecticut Community Center of the Blind Inc ↗
- Who funds BECKY'S GIFT EQUINE RELIEF ↗
- Who funds NEW LONDON MARITIME SOCIETY INC ↗
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: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Chelsea Groton Foundation · The Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Edward and Mary Lord Foundation · Dime Bank Foundation Inc · Cogswell Benevolent Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Lavoie Foundation 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.
- Thames Valley Council for Community Action Inc — 83% of income from government
- Avalonia Land Conservancy Inc — 21% of income from government
- Garde Arts Center Inc — 10% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- High Hopes Therapeutic Riding Inc — 0% 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.
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