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Lemay Family Goodworks at a glance

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Lemay Family Goodworks

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.

$963k
Granted FY2025still arriving
33
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$513k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2023.

Public Benefit$500kRecreation & Sports$58kHousing & Shelter$16kHuman Services$15kPublic Safety & Disaster$13kReligion$10kHealth$8kEducation$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k23 grants · $88k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $184k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $179k
  • $250k+1 grant · $513k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$660k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GATHER$512,834
SWIM WITH A MISSION$128,645
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NH$50,000
CROSS ROADS HOUSE$38,197
THE CHASE HOME$37,800
REDS GOOD VIBES$32,520
BOSTON MEDFLIGHT$25,000
SERT (SEACOAST EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAM)$20,000
SWIM ACROSS AMERICA$20,000
SPEEDWAY CHILDREN'S CHARITIES$10,000
I GOT BRIDGED$7,500
SEACOAST SCIENCE CENTER$6,600
FOOTPRINTS FOOD PANTRY$5,490
Individual grant recipient$5,150
NANTUCKET BOYS & GIRLS CLUB$5,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $606k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $3k → 8%GATHER: $513k → 5%THE CHASE HOME: $38k → 5%REDS GOOD VIBES: $33k → 5%THE CHASE HOME: $15k → 5%SEACOAST COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $5k → 5%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.

7%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$111k · 3 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
10

Total granted

$111k
$598k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
0%

Still filing today

67%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $885k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’25
Human ServicesHealthPublic BenefitPhilanthropyArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • CR
    Cross Roads House Inc
    2× · 2023–2025 · $54k · revenue +19%
  • TC
    The Chase Home
    2× · 2023–2025 · $53k · revenue +26%
  • TH
    THE HOMELAND HEROS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2025 · $4k

Funded once

  • PB
    PATROL BASE ABBATE
    one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue -25% · 39% of their budget
  • P4
    PORTSMOUTH 400
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • SE
    SEACOAST EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAM
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
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
New Hampshire Children's Health Foundation
Health
2
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
3
Health Strategies of New Hampshire Inc
Health
4
Bank of New Hampshire Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
5
New England Circle D/B/a Global Citizens Circle
Civil Rights
6
Portsmouth General Hospital Foundation
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7
New England Animal Health Inc
Science & Tech
8
Southern New Hampshire Rescue Mission

We exist to share the hope of the Gospel of Jesus Christ as well as provide shelter, food, and clothing to the poor and needy in obedience to Him.

Religion
9
Workforce Housing Coalition of the Greater Seacoas

To be a catalyst for the development of affordable housing options for the diverse workforce in the greater seacoast region of nh & me.

Housing & Shelter
10
Ocean State Cancer Crushers
—
11
Lakes Region Search and Rescue Inc
Public Safety & Disaster
12
New Hampshire Breast Cancer Coalition

The mission of the new hampshire breast cancer coalition is to advocate for and provide assistance to new hampshire residents with breast cancer

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Step Up Parents; the most unlike its peers is 603 United. 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

24 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. 24 of the 43 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
8/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Gather: $512,834 · Human ServicesGatherThe Chase Home: $52,800 · Human ServicesThe Chase HomeREDS GOOD VIBES INC: $32,520 · Human Services+3 more: $12,500 · Human ServicesPATROL BASE ABBATE: $500,000 · Public BenefitPATROL BASE ABBATE+3 more: $9,000 · Public BenefitSWIM WITH A MISSION: $128,645 · OtherSWIM WITH A MISSIONBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NH: $50,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS…PORTSMOUTH 400: $50,000 · OtherPORTSMOUTH 400SERT (SEACOAST EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAM): $20,000 · OtherSERT (SEACOAST EMERGENCY…+20 more: $98,945 · Other+20 moreCross Roads House Inc: $53,797 · Housing & ShelterNEW ENGLAND LIFE FLIGHT INC: $25,000 · HealthI GOT BRIDGED: $7,500 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $5,000 · HealthMY BREAST CANCER SUPPORT: $3,500 · HealthCONNORS CLIMB FOUNDATION: $2,500 · HealthMAGNOLIA HOUSE NH: $2,500 · HealthSwim Across America Inc: $20,000 · PhilanthropySEACOAST SCIENCE CENTER INC: $6,600 · Arts & Culture
Human Services$610,654Public Benefit$509,000Other$347,590Housing & Shelter$53,797Health$46,000Philanthropy$20,000Arts & Culture$6,600

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 budgetGather: $512,834 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetPATROL BASE ABBATE: $500,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetCross Roads House Inc: $53,797 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetThe Chase Home: $52,800 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetNEW ENGLAND LIFE FLIGHT INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSwim Across America Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetI GOT BRIDGED: $7,500 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetSTEP UP PARENTS: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMonarch School of New England Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSeacoast Community School: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNANTUCKET BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVET'S REST STOP INC: $5,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetMY BREAST CANCER SUPPORT: $3,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHUMBLE GRUNT WORK INC: $2,500 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIVE2SERVE: $2,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetWE RIDE SO THEY FLY: $1,500 over 1y, 1.7% 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.

Gs Donor Advised Phil…Amazonsmile Foundation
Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY13.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Lemay Family Goodworks funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lemay Family Goodworks. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Lemay Family Goodworks?

    Find your warmest path to Lemay Family Goodworks 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 43 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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