· Private foundation
Lobster Cove Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k15 grants · $200k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAST | $50,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $30,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND | $15,000 |
| SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST | $15,000 |
| S POVERTY LAW CENTER | $15,000 |
| NRDC | $15,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF BOSTON | $15,000 |
| WILDERNESS SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| WELLSPRING HOUSE | $10,000 |
| WORLD WILDLIFE FUND | $10,000 |
| CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS | $10,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% 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 +53% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $145k 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
- CICAST INC2× · 2017–2018 · $95k · revenue +81%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC3× · 2022–2025 · $80k · revenue +13%- SSPOONFULS3× · 2020–2022 · $40k · revenue +53%
Funded once
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -40%
CAPE ANN MUSEUM INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +862%- FBFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIESone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +7%
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.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.
Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.
Cdp north america, inc. 's ("cdp-na") vision for the future is a thriving economy that works for people and planet in the long term. we focus investors and companies on taking urgent action to build a truly sustainable economy by measuring…
To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
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.
To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Park Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Old Friends 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 37 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 18% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 33 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 CAST INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds SPOONFULS ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds Wild Earth Allies Inc ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ON BEING PROJECT ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAPE ANN MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds SOUNDS TRUE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROCKPORT MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
- Who funds STORYCORPS INC ↗
- Who funds Old Friends Inc ↗
- Who funds HAITI PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds GLOUCESTER WRITERS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CURE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
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 Jebediah Foundation 7563-Xxxxxx00129 · Boston Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Lobster Cove 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Cape Ann Museum Inc — 38% of income from government
- Cast Inc — 15% of income from government
- Wellspring House Inc — 9% of income from government
- Rockport Music Inc — 4% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Gloucester Writers Center Inc — 1% 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.