· Private foundation
Lde Foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Ben's Lighthouse | $4,000 |
| Southbury Food Bank | $3,500 |
| DMAX Foundation | $3,500 |
| Wellmore Behavioral Health | $1,500 |
| Safe Haven of Greater Waterbury Inc | $1,500 |
| Community Kitchen of Torrington | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FHFRIENDLY HANDS FOOD BANK INC7× · 2017–2023 · $14k · revenue +835%
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc6× · 2017–2022 · $11k · revenue +33%
- NSNATIONAL SOCIETY TO PREVENT BLINDNESS3× · 2020–2022 · $4k · revenue +283%
Funded once
- NMNational MS Societyone grant, 2023 · $4k
- DWDylan's Wings of Changeone grant, 2023 · $4k
- ARAmerican Red Cross CT Regional Chapterone grant, 2017 · $3k
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.
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.
Visions is a 98-year-old nonprofit vision rehabilitation and social service organization that trains low income people of all ages experiencing blindness and severe vision loss to lead independent and active lives at work, in their homes…
The mission of women's center & shelter of greater pittsburgh is to strengthen our ability to meet the individual and evolving needs of those affected by domestic violence by investing in the growth of our people, deepening community…
Our mission is to help hospitals, nonprofits and government improve the health and well being of communities.
The mission of women against abuse is to provide quality, compassionate, and nonjudgmental services in a manner that fosters self-respect and independence in persons experiencing intimate partner violence and to lead the struggle to end…
The mission of berkshire medical center is to advance health and wellness for everyone in our community in a welcoming, inclusive, and personalized environment.
To provide healthcare services.
Guided by her remarkable legacy of its co-founder, helen keller, helen keller intl partners with communities that are striving to overcome longstanding cycles of poverty. by delivering the essential building blocks of good health, sound…
Website: www.towerhealth.org/locations/reading-hospital the mission of reading hospital is to provide compassionate, accessible, high-quality, cost-effective healthcare to the community; to promote health; to education healthcare…
Utah partners for health provides compassionate, comprehensive, quality care to empower underserved individuals, families, and communities in a patient-centered medical home.
A safe place is the leading advocate for eliminating domestic violence & human trafficking in northern illinois.
The women's resource center empowers survivors by providing trauma-informed services with equity and compassion while working collaboratively with the community to eliminate the root causes of interpersonal abuse.
Improve the health of the communities we serve.
How this is measured
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 22 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds FRIENDLY HANDS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds BENS LIGHTHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds DMAX FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTHEAST INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SOCIETY TO PREVENT BLINDNESS ↗
- Who funds WELLMORE INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE HAVEN OF GREATER WTBY INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY EYES ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY KITCHEN OF TORRINGTON INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Thomaston Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lde Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lde Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wellmore Inc: 65% of income from government
How this is measured
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