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Liswhit Foundation - Rbc Trust Account at a glance

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Liswhit Foundation - Rbc Trust Account

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$409k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$545kEducation$503kHealth$209kHuman Services$65kReligion$65kRecreation & Sports$62kCivil Rights$40kFood & Nutrition$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $180k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $212k
$15,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LESLEY ELLIS SCHOOL$100,000
WOODSTOCK RECREATION CENTER$57,000
WOODSTOCK HISTORY CENTER$55,000
SHADY HILL SCHOOL$25,000
FIGHTERS 4 LIFE$20,000
PENNSYLVANIA PHILHARMONIC$20,000
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF AUBURN$15,000
COVENANT HOUSE OF CALIFORNIA$15,000
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT$15,000
THOMPSON SENIOR CENTER$15,000
VERMONT FOODBANK$15,000
SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN$10,000
MCLEAN HOSPITAL$10,000
KILHAM BEAR CENTER$10,000
EDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT FOR ROMANIAN$10,000
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 (FY24–25, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COVENANT HOUSE OF CALIFORNIA: $15k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $15k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE OF CALIFORNIA: $10k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $10k → 17%THOMPSON SENIOR CENTER: $15k → 9%THOMPSON SENIOR CENTER: $10k → 9%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
NY
MA
WY
PA
CT
CA
VA
DC
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 18 repeat orgs$352k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
14

Total granted

$1.3M
$285k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+3%

Still filing today

56%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthAnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • SM
    Snapdragon Montessori
    2× · 2020–2021 · $40k · revenue +4%
  • PP
    PENNSYLVANIA PHILHARMONIC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $30k · revenue +33%
  • WA
    WOODSTOCK AREA COUNCIL ON AGING
    2× · 2024–2025 · $25k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • TH
    THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WOODSTOCK
    one grant, 2023 · $110k · revenue -78%
  • A
    ACTBLUE
    one grant, 2020 · $40k
  • CT
    CHANGE THE WORLD KIDS INC
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -9%
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
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
2
The Waldorf School Inc

The waldorf school of lexington nurtures each child's curiosity, ingenuity, and love of learning so that they can meet the future with wonder, confidence, and resilience.

Education
3
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
4
The Woodstock Foundation Inc

The woodstock foundation, inc. promotes conservation, sustainable land use, and heritage as values that are essential to culture, community and the human spirit.

Education
5
Woodstock Land Conservancy Inc

Acquire land and easements to preserve and enhance the open lands, forests, water resources, scenic areas and historical sights of the Woodstock, NY area. Steward protected lands and offer educational programs and events regarding nature…

Environment
6
Wildlands Trust Inc

The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…

Environment
7
The Walden Woods Project

Preserve land in ecologically important areas.

Arts & Culture
8
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
9
Vermont Woodlands Association

Vermont woodlands association's (vwa) mission is to educate and advocate for the practices of productive stewardship, use, and enjoyment of vermont's woodlands. we achieve this mission by delivering educational programs and technical…

Environment
10
Vermont Public Co

Vermont public informs, educates, and entertains through public service journalism and enlightening content rooted in vermont. our storytelling enriches lives and fosters community connection and understanding.

Arts & Culture
11
Wamc

Wamc is chartered by the new york state board of regents to "furnish, prepare and present non-profit and non-commercial educational, instructional and cultural radio programs and also non-profit and non-commercial programs (wamc's mission…

Arts & Culture
12
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Woodstock History Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Pennsylvania Philharmonic. 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 38 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/24
Grantees still filing
12/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LESLEY ELLIS SCHOOL: $370,000 · OtherLESLEY ELLIS SCHOOLWOODSTOCK HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $265,000 · OtherWOODSTOCK HISTORICAL SOCIETYTHE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WOODSTOCK: $110,000 · OtherTHE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WOODSTOCKFIGHTERS 4 LIFE: $90,000 · OtherFIGHTERS 4 LIFEMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $60,000 · Other+20 more: $338,864 · Other+20 moreWoodstock History Center Inc: $110,000 · Arts & CultureWoodstock …PENNSYLVANIA PHILHARMONIC: $30,000 · Arts & CulturePENNSYLVAN…Woodstock Community Trust Inc: $10,000 · Arts & CultureWoodstock …COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $25,000 · Human ServicesWOODSTOCK AREA COUNCIL ON AGING: $25,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesWoodstock Recreation Center Inc: $57,000 · Recreation & SportsSHADY HILL SCHOOL: $45,000 · EducationOXFORD ACADEMY INC: $6,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationVERMONT FOODBANK: $25,000 · Food & NutritionTHE KILHAM BEAR CENTER INC: $20,000 · AnimalsNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $2,000 · Animals
Other$1,233,864Arts & Culture$150,000Human Services$75,000Recreation & Sports$57,000Education$52,000Food & Nutrition$25,000Animals$22,000

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 budgetTHE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WOODSTOCK: $110,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetWoodstock History Center Inc: $110,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetWoodstock Recreation Center Inc: $57,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetSHADY HILL SCHOOL: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSnapdragon Montessori: $40,000 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA PHILHARMONIC: $30,000 over 2y, 9.9% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWOODSTOCK AREA COUNCIL ON AGING: $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVERMONT FOODBANK: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHANGE THE WORLD KIDS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetTHE KILHAM BEAR CENTER INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIA Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetWoodstock Community Trust Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetOXFORD ACADEMY INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAYMAKERS FOR HOPE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEPILEPSY FOUNDATION NEW ENGLAND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL OF WESTON INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LITERACY PROJECT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Boston Foundation IncFiduciary Charitable …The Vermont Community…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Boston Foundation IncMA13.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Fiduciary Charitable Foundation Dba Fiduciary Trust Charitable · The Vermont Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Liswhit Foundation - Rbc Trust Account funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Liswhit Foundation - Rbc Trust Account. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Vermont Foodbank: 13% of income from government
  • Epilepsy Foundation New England: 11% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.

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 38 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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