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Lone Pine 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.

$10M
Granted FY2023
128
Grants FY2023
17
States reached
$550k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Education$6.4MHuman Services$5.8MHealth$1.5MYouth Development$1.2MCrime & Legal$1.2MInternational$998kSocial Science$887kEmployment$865kOther$0
02FY2023 · 128 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 128 grants below total $4,617,863 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $10,130,713 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,512,850 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k64 grants · $126k
  • $10k–50k44 grants · $606k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+9 grants · $2.8M
$10,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$59M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Year Up, Inc$550,000
The Posse Foundation$425,000
Good Shepherd Services$275,000
Family & Children's Agency$275,000
Family Centers$275,000
FaithActs$250,000
Trio New College Network, Inc.$250,000
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai$250,000
Mid-Fairfield Community Care Center$250,000
Family Centers$163,900
Year Up, Inc$131,000
Good Shepherd Services$130,000
Mid-Fairfield Community Care Center$120,800
Charities Aid Foundation America$105,263
FaithActs$100,000
02Your edge
repeat funding

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$16M · 76 repeat orgs$2.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.

76 repeat relationships — 48 still active in FY2023, 28 since wound down; 41 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

76
61

Total granted

$16M
$834k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+28%

Still filing today

86%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
EducationHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentInternationalOther

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

  • FC
    FAMILY CENTERS INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $1.9M · revenue +101%
  • GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES
    4× · 2020–2023 · $1.7M · revenue +5%
  • AF
    ACHIEVEMENT FIRST BRIDGEPORT ACADEMY INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $1.1M · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • ALL OUR KIN INC
    one grant, 2022 · $665k · revenue -33%
  • TO
    THE OPEN DOOR SHELTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $14k · revenue +51%
  • PP
    PROJECT PURPLE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +70%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

03Your field

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.

1
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
2
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
South Shore Charter School

The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…

Education
9
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
11
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lifebridge Community Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Minority Inclusion Project. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Education Equity InitiativesUnited Way AffiliatesChristian Outreach Ministri…College Foundation SupportJewish Community FederationsYouth Development CentersDomestic Violence and Sexua…Childhood Cancer SupportPublic School District Foun…Pregnancy Support CentersLocal History MuseumsGirls Stem Education Progra…Developmental Disabilities …Public Library SupportEarly Childhood Care CentersEnvironmental Advocacy and …Veteran Support ServicesAnimal Rescue and ShelterFaith-Based Homeless Servic…Community Literacy TutoringImmigrant and Latino Integr…Food Pantries and AssistanceFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community FoundationsCommunity Hospital SystemsCharter and Independent Sch…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 29 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%1%<5yr12%6%5–10yr18%22%10–20yr18%31%20–35yr14%21%35–55yr20%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%5%<5yr12%3%5–10yr18%18%10–20yr18%41%20–35yr14%10%35–55yr20%22%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.7%1/155
the rest of the field
10%
2,153/22,290

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.

03the grantee network

149 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. 149 of the 183 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
147/149
Grantees still filing
101/149
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC — $1,790,572 · EducationTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INCACHIEVEMENT FIRST BRIDGEPORT ACADEMY INC — $1,137,350 · EducationACHIEVEMENT FIRST BRIDGEPORT ACADEMY INCICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $1,000,000 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAIHUDSON LINK FOR HIGHER EDUCATION IN PRISON INC — $960,100 · EducationHUDSON LINK FOR HIGHER EDUCATION IN PRISON IN…KIPP NEW YORK INC — $942,500 · EducationKIPP NEW YORK INCYEAR UP INC — $816,200 · EducationYEAR UP INCALL OUR KIN INC — $665,000 · EducationALL OUR KIN INCTRIO NEW COLLEGE NETWORK INC — $500,000 · EducationTRIO NEW COLLEGE NETWORK INC+22 more — $317,000 · EducationFAMILY CENTERS INC — $1,914,490 · OtherFAMILY CENTERS INCDOMUS KIDS INC — $1,218,475 · OtherDOMUS KIDS INCEmpirical Resolution, Inc. ("QUILL") — $886,575 · OtherEmpirical Resolution, Inc. ("QUILL")Horizons Student Enrichment Program at New Canaan Country School — $554,400 · OtherHorizons Student Enrichment Program a…FaithActs — $410,000 · OtherFaithActsMID-FAIRFIELD CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER INC — $405,800 · OtherMID-FAIRFIELD CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER I…Horizons Student Enrichment Program at Greens Farms Academy — $373,300 · OtherHorizons Student Enrichment Program a…+96 more — $936,854 · Other+96 moreGOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES — $1,692,020 · Human ServicesGOOD SHEPHERD SERV…FAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGENCY INC — $1,374,600 · Human ServicesFAMILY & CHILDREN'…+17 more — $192,750 · Human Services+17 moreCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $884,317 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF COASTAL AND WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC — $227,500 · PhilanthropyFAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $72,500 · PhilanthropySTAMFORD PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $55,000 · Philanthropy+11 more — $82,500 · PhilanthropyHORIZONS NATIONAL STUDENT ENRICHMENT PROGRAM INC — $260,000 · Youth DevelopmentFUTURE 5 INC — $40,500 · Youth Development+5 more — $31,000 · Youth DevelopmentNEW YORK CITY OUTWARD BOUND CENTER INC DBA NYC OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOLS — $167,500 · Environment+3 more — $5,500 · EnvironmentAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $106,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $7,500 · International+3 more — $5,250 · International
Education$8,128,722Other$6,699,894Human Services$3,259,370Philanthropy$1,321,817Youth Development$331,500Environment$173,000International$118,750

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFAMILY CENTERS INC — $1,914,490 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC — $1,790,572 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES — $1,692,020 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGENCY INC — $1,374,600 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetDOMUS KIDS INC — $1,218,475 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetACHIEVEMENT FIRST BRIDGEPORT ACADEMY INC — $1,137,350 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $1,000,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHUDSON LINK FOR HIGHER EDUCATION IN PRISON INC — $960,100 over 3y, 10% of budgetKIPP NEW YORK INC — $942,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $884,317 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetYEAR UP INC — $816,200 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetALL OUR KIN INC — $665,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetTRIO NEW COLLEGE NETWORK INC — $500,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetMID-FAIRFIELD CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER INC — $405,800 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetHORIZONS NATIONAL STUDENT ENRICHMENT PROGRAM INC — $260,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF COASTAL AND WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC — $227,500 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetCATALYST CT INC — $200,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetNEW YORK CITY OUTWARD BOUND CENTER INC DBA NYC OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOLS — $167,500 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $106,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFIVE FROGS INC — $80,395 over 3y, 58% of budgetFAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $72,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budget50CAN INC — $65,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC — $61,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetYONKERS PARTNERS IN EDUCATION INC — $55,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetSTAMFORD PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $55,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetWATERSIDE SCHOOL INC — $45,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD RESCUE US INC — $42,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFUTURE 5 INC — $40,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetLIFEBRIDGE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNORWALK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $35,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ROWAN CENTER INC — $32,500 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetINSPIRICA INC — $32,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCONCORDIA COLLEGE — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSATONIC COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $27,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetGREYSTON FOUNDATION INC — $22,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC — $21,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTERS OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSCO FAMILY OF SERVICES — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetI HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION - NEW YORK — $20,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetCONNECTICUT COUNCIL FOR PHILANTHROPY — $20,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetFILLING IN THE BLANKS INC — $18,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCAREER RESOURCES INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MARITIME AQUARIUM AT NORWALK INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFoundations in Education Inc — $15,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE OPEN DOOR SHELTER INC — $13,750 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CHROMOSOME 18 REGISTRY & RESEARCH SOCIETY — $13,250 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetSTEPPING STONES MUSEUM FOR CHILDREN INC — $11,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Fairfield County's Co…The Near and Far Asso…New Canaan Community …The Scripps Family Fu…The Pitney Bowes Foun…Peoples United Commun…The Herbert & Nell Si…The Tudor Foundation …Newman's Own Foundati…William Caspar Graust…Young Mens Christian …Stamford Rotary Trust…
Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT56.5× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Near and Far Association Inc · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · The Scripps Family Fund for Education and the Arts · The Pitney Bowes Foundation · Peoples United Community Foundation · The Herbert & Nell Singer Foundation Inc · The Tudor Foundation Inc · Newman's Own Foundation · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Young Mens Christian Association of Westport/Weston Ct Inc · Stamford Rotary Trust Fund

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.

04Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Lone Pine Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Lone Pine Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 183 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $10M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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