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Lennox Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 $10k147 grants · $712k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $304k
- $50k–250k37 grants · $3.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $200,000 |
| STEAMBOAT SPRINGS WINTER SPORTS CLUB INC | $100,000 |
| MONTANA SKATEPARK ASSOCIATION | $100,000 |
| BRIDGE | $100,000 |
| ANIMAL SHELTER OF WOOD RIVER VALLEY | $100,000 |
| HIGHLAND HOSPITAL OF ROCHESTER | $100,000 |
| PROJECT ANGEL HEART | $100,000 |
| THE TREEHOUSE FOUNDATION INC | $100,000 |
| CAMP CHIPPEWA FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| WOOD RIVER LAND TRUST COMPANY | $100,000 |
| STEAMBOAT HEALTH & RECREATION ASSOCIATION | $100,000 |
| NAOMIS VILLAGE INC | $100,000 |
| BRIDGER SKI FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| THE ARC OF THE FARMINGTON VALLEY INC | $100,000 |
| MISSOULA CURLING CLUB | $100,000 |
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, $3.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 72% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 10% of Lennox Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +42% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
188 repeat relationships — 97 still active in FY2024, 91 since wound down; 68 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $901k 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
- MAMANO A MANO INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS7× · 2018–2024 · $701k · revenue +19%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $672k · revenue +37%- HIHOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC8× · 2017–2024 · $665k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- MCMID-IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION INCone grant, 2019 · $150k · revenue +1%
- NCNATURE CONSERVANCY - DALLASone grant, 2017 · $100k
- BFBASECAMP FOUNDATION KENYAone grant, 2022 · $100k
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.
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…
Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.
Alaska Whale Foundation is dedicated to marine mammal conservation through research monitoring and education.
The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is Happy Birthday Cha Cha Cha. 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% 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.
371 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. 371 of the 442 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 THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL SHELTER OF WOOD RIVER VALLEY DBA MOUNTAIN HUMANE ↗
- Who funds MANO A MANO INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds MONTANA SKATEPARK ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC ↗
- Who funds HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NAOMI'S VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEAST VENTURA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds STEAMBOAT HEALTH & RECREATION ASSOC ↗
- Who funds UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PREBLE STREET ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE SOUTH REGIONAL COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds STEAMBOAT SPRINGS WINTER SPORTS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE TACONIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE TREEHOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF THE FARMINGTON VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds DIFFvelopment ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine ↗
- Who funds WOOD RIVER LAND TRUST CO ↗
- Who funds MOFFETT FIELD HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NORTHAMPTON MONTESSORI SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Fayetteville Public Library Foundation ↗
- Who funds KENNEBEC VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE SKI TEAM INC ↗
- Who funds Hospice of Southern Maine ↗
- Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds Camp Chippewa Foundation ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR ICHTHYOSIS AND RELATED SKIN TYPES INC ↗
- Who funds THE SPARK FOUNDATION INC % MAX MAHLER ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND FORESTRY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY FOR GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BERSHIRE RESOURCES FOR INTEGRATION OF DIVERSE GROUPS & EDUCATION INC BRIDGE ↗
- Who funds Rocky Mountain Institute ↗
- Who funds Missoula Curling Club ↗
- Who funds Friends of Katahdin Woods & Waters ↗
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: The Cabin Foundation · Onion Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Horizon Foundation Inc · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation · United Way Inc · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Ro Family Foundation
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 Lennox 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- New England Forestry Foundation Inc — 88% of income from government
- The Arc of the Farmington Valley Inc — 86% of income from government
- Tapestry Health Systems Inc — 60% of income from government
- Special Olympics Connecticut Inc — 42% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- National Fallen Firefighters Foundation — 24% of income from government
- The Treehouse Foundation Inc — 23% of income from government
- The Coalition of Oregon Land Trusts — 18% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Clackamas Volunteers in Medicine — 7% of income from government
- Flying Cloud Institute Inc — 6% of income from government
- Construct Inc — 4% of income from government
- Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Clearwater Marine Aquarium Inc — 1% of income from government
- Amherst College Trustees — 0% of income from government
- Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated — 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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