· Private foundation
LLL Foundation Inc
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 $10k22 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Global Recovery Initiatives Foundation | $10,000 |
| The Field Donor Advised Fund | $10,000 |
| Organization for the Advancement of Afgan Women | $8,000 |
| New London Education Foundation | $7,500 |
| New London Homeless Hospitality Center | $6,000 |
| Safe Futures | $5,000 |
| Citymeals on Wheels | $5,000 |
| Franklin & Marshall College | $5,000 |
| Sister Cities Essex Hatti | $3,500 |
| New London Community Meal Center | $2,500 |
| Network for Good Donor Advised Fund | $1,000 |
| Internet Archive | $550 |
| New York City Center | $500 |
| Performance Space PS 122 | $500 |
| LES Ecology Center | $500 |
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, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 26% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 13 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, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- MBMIND BUILDERS CREATIVE ARTS INC6× · 2017–2023 · $175k · revenue +170%
- FCFLYING CLOUD INSTITUTE INC3× · 2017–2022 · $70k · revenue +55%
- AFAMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC3× · 2018–2020 · $64k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- SPScholarship Plus Fund for the City of NYone grant, 2023 · $30k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $25k
- FSFIGURE SKATING FOR HARLEMone grant, 2018 · $25k
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.
A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.
The metropolitan museum of art collects, studies, conserves, and presents significant works of art across all times and cultures in order to connect people to creativity, knowledge, and ideas.
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
El museo's mission is to preserve, interpret, and promote the artistic heritage of puerto ricans and all latin americans in the united states by means of exhibitions, public programs, publications, and educational activities.
The institute of contemporary art, miami (ica miami), is dedicated to promoting the work of contemporary artists, and to the exchange of art and ideas throughout the miami region and internationally. through an energetic calendar of…
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
See schedule omuseum of the moving image (momi) is the only museum in the u.s. that explores the central technology of the present moment.screens are all around us. we use them to educate, entertain, and communicate. the moving…
Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…
Committed to innovation, the solomon r. guggenheim foundation (the "foundation") collects, (continued on schedule o)
The phillips collection is the oldest museum of modern and contemporary art in the u.s. in addition to presentation of works from the permanent collection and special exhibitions, the museum maintains active educational, academic,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Access Inc and the most unlike its peers is Poster House Inc. 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 44 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
63 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. 63 of the 143 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
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 MIND BUILDERS CREATIVE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds FLYING CLOUD INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC ↗
- Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACCESS INC ↗
- Who funds FILM FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED PALESTINIAN APPEAL INC ↗
- Who funds NEW LONDON HOMELESS HOSPITALITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds GRANT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW LONDON EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Global Recovery Initiatives Foundation ↗
- Who funds WESTCHESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Safe Futures Inc ↗
- Who funds ORGANIZATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF AFGHAN WOMEN ↗
- Who funds THE NEW LONDON COMMUNITY MEAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE ↗
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 Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut Inc · Kitchings Family Foundation · Chelsea Groton Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The New York Community Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Shea Mary E Est Tr Uw · The Edward and Mary Lord 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 LLL Foundation Inc 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.
- New London Homeless Hospitality Center — 47% of income from government
- The New London Community Meal Center Inc — 44% of income from government
- New London Landmarks Inc — 30% of income from government
- Safe Futures Inc — 15% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Flying Cloud Institute Inc — 6% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Florence Griswold Museum Inc — 2% 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.