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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.

$68k
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$330kArts & Culture$303kEnvironment$72kHuman Services$63kHealth$51kInternational$43kYouth Development$40kFood & Nutrition$34kOther$0
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k22 grants · $48k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$550
Median grant
6
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Field Donor Advised Fund$10,000
Global Recovery Initiatives Foundation$10,000
Organization for the Advancement of Afgan Women$8,000
New London Education Foundation$7,500
New London Homeless Hospitality Center$6,000
Citymeals on Wheels$5,000
Franklin & Marshall College$5,000
Safe Futures$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
Operation International Team ENT$500
Performance Space PS 122$500
New York City Center$500
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Internet Archive: $550 → 10%MISERICORDIA FAMILY ASSOCIATION: $300 → 14%Internet Archive: $511 → 10%New London Homeless Hospitality Center: $6k → 9%MISERICORDIA FAMILY ASSOCIATION: $264 → 14%Safe Futures: $5k → 9%New London Homeless Hospitality Center: $5k → 9%Safe Futures: $3k → 9%New London Homeless Hospitality Cen: $1k → 9%Safe Futures: $1k → 9%NEW LONDON HOMELESS HOSPITALITY CEN: $500 → 9%Safe Futures: $500 → 9%NEW LONDON HOMELESS HOSPITALITY CEN: $500 → 9%NEW LONDON HOMELESS HOSPITALITY CEN: $250 → 9%Organization for the Advancement of Afgan Women: $8k → 17%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
WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
MD
SC
DC
HI
LA
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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$693k · 45 repeat orgs$287k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +26% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
82

Total granted

$693k
$258k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+26%

Still filing today

56%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesInternationalEnvironmentOther
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

  • MB
    MIND BUILDERS CREATIVE ARTS INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $175k · revenue +170%
  • FC
    FLYING CLOUD INSTITUTE INC
    3× · 2017–2022 · $70k · revenue +55%
  • AF
    AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $64k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • SP
    Scholarship Plus Fund for the City of NY
    one grant, 2023 · $30k
  • CA
    COMMUNITY ACCESS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +63%
  • FS
    FIGURE SKATING FOR HARLEM
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
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
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
2
New Museum of Contemporary Art

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.

Arts & Culture
3
Metropolitan Museum of Art

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.

Arts & Culture
4
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

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).

Arts & Culture
5
Amigos Del Museo Del Barrio Inc El Museo Del Barrio

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.

Arts & Culture
6
Institute of Contemporary Art Miami Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
7
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
8
Museum of Modern Art

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)

Arts & Culture
9
American Museum of the Moving Image

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…

Arts & Culture
10
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute

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…

Arts & Culture
11
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation

Committed to innovation, the solomon r. guggenheim foundation (the "foundation") collects, (continued on schedule o)

Arts & Culture
12
The Phillips Collection

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,…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Access Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

63 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/63
Grantees still filing
47/63
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $103,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $42,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientOne Goal: $30,000 · OtherOne GoalScholarship Plus Fund for the City of NY: $30,000 · OtherScholarship Plus Fund for the City of NYFIGURE SKATING FOR HARLEM: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · Othernational youth recovery foundation: $20,000 · OtherUW Odyssey Project: $20,000 · OtherCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $26,000 · OtherTIDES FOUNDATION: $20,701 · Other+84 more: $191,835 · Other+84 moreMIND BUILDERS CREATIVE ARTS INC: $175,175 · Arts & CultureMIND BUILDERS CREATIVE …FILM FORUM INC: $21,175 · Arts & CultureFILM FORUM INC+23 more: $11,734 · Arts & Culture+23 moreAMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC: $64,174 · EducationAMERICANS …NEW LONDON EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationNEW LONDON…Global Recovery Initiatives Foundation: $10,000 · EducationGlobal Rec…FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE: $5,000 · Education+5 more: $5,250 · Education+5 moreFLYING CLOUD INSTITUTE INC: $70,000 · Environment+1 more: $50 · EnvironmentCOMMUNITY ACCESS INC: $25,000 · HealthWESTCHESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $10,000 · HealthUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOCIATION OF NIAGARA COUNTY INC: $2,750 · Health+2 more: $900 · HealthUNITED PALESTINIAN APPEAL INC: $20,000 · InternationalGRANT FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · InternationalSISTER CITIES ESSEX HAITI INC: $3,500 · InternationalNEW LONDON HOMELESS HOSPITALITY CENTER: $13,250 · Human ServicesSafe Futures Inc: $9,500 · Human ServicesORGANIZATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF AFGHAN WOMEN: $8,000 · Human Services+2 more: $1,625 · Human Services
Other$534,536Arts & Culture$208,084Education$94,424Environment$70,050Health$38,650International$33,500Human Services$32,375

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMIND BUILDERS CREATIVE ARTS INC: $175,175 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetFLYING CLOUD INSTITUTE INC: $70,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetAMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC: $64,174 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $26,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACCESS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFILM FORUM INC: $21,175 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $20,701 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED PALESTINIAN APPEAL INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW LONDON HOMELESS HOSPITALITY CENTER: $13,250 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNEW LONDON EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetGlobal Recovery Initiatives Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetWESTCHESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRANT FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSafe Futures Inc: $9,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetORGANIZATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF AFGHAN WOMEN: $8,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetTHE NEW LONDON COMMUNITY MEAL CENTER INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $5,376 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSISTER CITIES ESSEX HAITI INC: $3,500 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOCIATION OF NIAGARA COUNTY INC: $2,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRiverside Language Program Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF YONKERS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF MATERIALS FOR THE ARTS INC: $1,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER SPRINGFIELD HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW LONDON MARITIME SOCIETY INC: $1,200 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetInternet Archive: $1,061 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEALING THE CHILDREN NEW JERSEY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $904 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION INTERNATIONAL LTD: $700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center Inc: $625 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMISERICORDIA FOUNDATION: $564 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $504 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Symphony Orchestra: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEGGY BROWNING FUND: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK CITY CENTER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRUBIN MUSEUM OF ART AKA THE SHELLEY & DONALD RUBIN CULTURAL TRUST: $440 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW GROUP INC: $280 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew London Landmarks Inc: $260 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PLAY PRODUCTION COMPANY INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION: $219 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL COALITION FOR CANCER SURVIVORSHIP: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART: $175 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP INC: $158 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR CUBAN STUDIESINC: $150 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.

  • 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 NEW LONDON EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Global Recovery Initiatives Foundation ↗
  • Who funds WESTCHESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds GRANT FOUNDATION 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 ↗

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.

The Community Foundat…Kitchings Family Foun…Chelsea Groton Founda…Dominion Energy Chari…The Goldman Sachs Cha…The New York Communit…The Pfizer Foundation…Connecticut Humanitie…The Hyde and Watson F…The Ford FoundationShea Mary E Est Tr UwThe Edward and Mary L…
The Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut IncCT21.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 LLL Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from LLL Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 143 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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