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Lawson Valentine 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 $10k55 grants · $208k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL | $20,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND GRASSROOTS ENVIRONMENTAL FUND | $20,000 |
| ALTERNATIVES FOR COMMUNITY & ENVIRONMENT | $20,000 |
| CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| SEVENTH GEN FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLE | $10,000 |
| THE DESCENDANTS PROJECT | $10,000 |
| EASTERN WOODLAND LACROSSE | $10,000 |
| THOUSAND CURRENTS | $10,000 |
| EVERYDAY DEMOCRACY | $8,500 |
| HARTBEAT ENSEMBLE | $7,500 |
| NEW ALTERNATIVES | $7,000 |
| HUDSONIA | $7,000 |
| SOUTH RIVER WATERSHED ALLIANCE | $7,000 |
| STATE DEMOCRACY PROJECT | $7,000 |
| HELLO (LOFA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE) | $7,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $218k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% 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.
94 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2024, 48 since wound down; 15 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k 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
THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC7× · 2017–2023 · $438k · revenue +44%- FCFOOD CHAIN WORKERS ALLIANCE7× · 2017–2023 · $178k · revenue +20%
- AFALTERNATIVES FOR COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENT INC8× · 2017–2024 · $175k · revenue +351%
Funded once
COMMUNITY INITIATIVESgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +254%- TCTIDES CENTER (CORPWATCH)one grant, 2017 · $25k
- MFMATTAPAN FOOD AND FITNESS COALITIONone grant, 2021 · $20k
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.
New Roots Institute is a nonprofit empowering the next generation with knowledge and training to end factory farming.
To empower frontline communities to lead nature-based solutions that advance climate justice, ecosystem restoration, and resilient livelihoods through connecting locally-led initiatives to funding, markets, and technical support.
Grist is an independent, non profit media organization dedicated to reporting on climate change.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
The Organization unleashes the creative potential of the law to protect people and the planet from corporate abuse.
Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
The Alliance for Collective Action convenes leaders of environmental and social movements to advance solutions for a thriving planet. We advance our mission through the Alliance Center building and community, as well as through Collective…
To protect the rainforest and advance the rights of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. We partner with Indigenous communities in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability, and the preservation of the Amazon Basin's…
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) uses data-driven advocacy and litigation to fight for forests, communities and the climate.
Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grassroots International Inc and the most unlike its peers is Indigenous Women Rising Indigeous Women Rising. 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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
145 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 145 of the 202 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD CHAIN WORKERS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds ALTERNATIVES FOR COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENT INC ↗
- Who funds GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds CITY SEED INC ↗
- Who funds NUESTRAS RAICES INC ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Avenue Project Inc ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD FOOD SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND ↗
- Who funds MIGRANT JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds TOXICS ACTION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds New Alternatives for LGBT Homeless Youth Inc ↗
- Who funds Princeton Symphony Orchestra Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND GRASSROOTS ENVIRONMENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds RISING HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds Center of Theological Inquiry ↗
- Who funds WHEELOCK MOUNTAIN FARM INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT NURSES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds D&R GREENWAY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds South River Watershed Alliance ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT CITIZEN RESEARCH GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds SOUL FIRE FARM INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN ADVOCATES USAINC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY INITIATIVES ↗
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: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · The Scherman Foundation Inc · Farm Aid Inc · New York Foundation · North Star Fund Inc · WK Kellogg Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · New York Women's Foundation Inc · Clif Family Foundation · Movement Strategy Center
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 Lawson Valentine 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.
- City Seed Inc — 87% of income from government
- Pioneer Valley Workers Center Inc — 53% of income from government
- Art Council of Greater New Haven Inc — 14% of income from government
- D&r Greenway Land Trust Inc — 9% of income from government
- Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation — 7% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Regional Environmental Council Inc — 6% of income from government
- Princeton Symphony Orchestra Inc — 4% of income from government
- Connecticut Nurses Foundation — 4% of income from government
- Arm in Arm Inc — 4% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- Resist Inc — 2% of income from government
- Nuestras Raices Inc — 0% of income from government
- Connecticut Citizen Research Group Inc — 0% of income from government
- Migrant Justice Inc — 0% of income from government
- Oregon State University Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Infact Dba Corporate Accountability — 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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