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Lookout 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.

$2.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$387k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Environment$5.8MCrime & Legal$1.6MHealth$1.6MFood & Nutrition$1.2MYouth Development$1.1MEducation$300kCivil Rights$255kPhilanthropy$180kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $65k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.2M
$100,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$43M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JUVENILE DETENTION ALTERNATIVE INITIATIVE (JDAI)$387,200
MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC$310,000
UNITED TEEN EQUALITY CENTER$250,000
OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE LAND TRUST INC$250,000
PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE$200,000
SHELBURNE FARMS$200,000
LOON ECHO LAND TRUST$100,000
BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER$100,000
CENTER FOR AN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY$100,000
REDFORD CENTER$100,000
VERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS$100,000
UMASS MEDICAL SCHOOL$100,000
VERMONT LAND TRUST$50,000
NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY$30,000
KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE$25,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–22, $250k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 20% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SKY'S THE LIMIT FUND: $50k → 8%SKY'S THE LIMIT FUND: $50k → 8%FRANKLIN COUNTY DIAL-SELF INC: $25k → 14%SKY'S THE LIMIT FUND: $50k → 8%SKY'S THE LIMIT FUND: $50k → 8%THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $25k → 16%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

ME
VT
WA
IL
NY
MA
WY
CT
CA
MD
NC
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of Lookout Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 91% of the giving stays in MA; by stated purpose, 83%.

Lookout Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 9.3% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10M · 24 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +62% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.

24 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
18

Total granted

$10M
$824k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
+37%

Still filing today

88%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $542k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalOther
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

  • Appalachian Mountain Club
    4× · 2019–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +23%
  • NE
    NEW ENGLAND FORESTRY FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +55%
  • UI
    UTEC Inc
    4× · 2020–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • UT
    UNITED TEAN EQUALITY CENTER
    one grant, 2019 · $200k
  • TC
    THE CENTER FOR CHILD TRAUMA ASSESSMENT SERVICES AND INTERVENTIONS
    one grant, 2021 · $151k
  • FS
    Forest Society of Mainegraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +35%
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
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
2
Sudbury Valley Trustees Inc

Sudbury valley trustees, inc. ("the organization") works to protect natural areas and farmland for wildlife and people in the 36 communities that surround the sudbury, assabet, and concord rivers. the organization cares for some of the…

Environment
3
Massachusetts Outdoor Heritage Foundation Inc Attn Susan Sacco
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4
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
5
Washington Forest Law Center

Dedicated to protecting the world's natural environment on behalf of the public by serving as a public interest law firm. refer to schedule o, part iii, line 4a, for list of litigated cases or advocacy work.

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6
United States Endowment for Forestry

The endowment works collaboratively with partners in the public and private sectors to advance systemic, transformative, and sustainable change for the health and vitality of the nation's working forests and forest reliant communities.

Environment
7
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
8
Kestrel Land Trust

Kestrel land trust conserves and cares for forests, farms, and riverways in the connecticut river valley of western massachusetts while nurturing an enduring love of the land

Environment
9
Franklin Land Trust Inc

The franklin land trust works to conserve farms, forests, wildlands, and other natural resources significant to the quality of the environment, economy, and rural character of western massachusetts.

Environment
10
Land for Good Inc

Ensure the future of farming in by putting more farmers more securely on more land in new england and beyond. each year we help thousands of farmers, landowners, professionals and communities navigate the complex challenges of farmland…

Environment
11
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
12
Lakes Region Conservation Trust

The mission of the Organization is the conservation of the natural resources of the Lakes Region of New Hampshire, the preservation of wildlife habitat, the stewardship of lands that define the character of the region and its quality of…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New England Forestry Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Highstead Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 49 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
32/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Appalachian Mountain Club: $1,145,000 · EnvironmentAppalachian Mountain ClubNEW ENGLAND FORESTRY FOUNDATION INC: $1,059,999 · EnvironmentNEW ENGLAND FORESTRY FOUNDATION INCVERMONT LAND TRUST INC: $860,879 · EnvironmentVERMONT LAND TRUST INCMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $810,000 · EnvironmentMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INCSHELBURNE FARMS: $650,000 · EnvironmentSHELBURNE FARMSOPEN SPACE INSTITUTE LAND TRUST INC: $575,000 · EnvironmentOPEN SPACE INSTITUTE LAND TRUST INCVERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS INC: $350,000 · EnvironmentVERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS INCCENTER FOR AN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY INC: $222,500 · Environment+5 more: $600,000 · Environment+5 moreUMASS MEDICAL SCHOOL: $450,000 · OtherUMASS MEDICAL SCHOOLDEPARTMENT OF YOUTH SERVICES: $437,200 · OtherDEPARTMENT OF YOUTH SERVICESJUVENILE DETENTION ALTERNATIVE INITIATIVE (JDAI): $387,200 · OtherJUVENILE DETENTION ALTERNATIV…PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE: $325,000 · OtherPRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARV…UNITED TEAN EQUALITY CENTER: $200,000 · OtherUNITED TEAN EQUALITY CENTERTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $200,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYTHE CENTER FOR CHILD TRAUMA ASSESSMENT SERVICES AND INTERVENTIONS: $151,000 · OtherSMOKEY HOUSE CENTER: $150,000 · OtherSKY'S THE LIMIT FUND: $200,000 · OtherSKY'S THE LIMIT FUND+18 more: $627,500 · Other+18 moreUTEC Inc: $1,000,000 · Youth DevelopmentUTEC Inc+1 more: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentJUSTICE RESOURCE INSTITUTE INC: $594,361 · Crime & LegalBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $547,250 · HealthVERMONT FARMERS MARKET EDUCATION CENTER: $176,857 · EducationTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $75,000 · EducationEPIPHANY SCHOOL: $25,000 · EducationROXBURY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH SOCIAL IMPACT CENTER INC: $25,000 · EducationMASSACHUSETTS ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN INC: $255,000 · Civil Rights
Environment$6,273,378Other$3,127,900Youth Development$1,025,000Crime & Legal$594,361Health$547,250Education$301,857Civil Rights$255,000

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 budgetAppalachian Mountain Club: $1,145,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetNEW ENGLAND FORESTRY FOUNDATION INC: $1,059,999 over 4y, 9.8% of budgetUTEC Inc: $1,000,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetVERMONT LAND TRUST INC: $860,879 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $810,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSHELBURNE FARMS: $650,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetJUSTICE RESOURCE INSTITUTE INC: $594,361 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetOPEN SPACE INSTITUTE LAND TRUST INC: $575,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $547,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS INC: $350,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN INC: $255,000 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetCENTER FOR AN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY INC: $222,500 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetLoon Echo Land Trust Inc: $200,000 over 2y, 9.9% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSKY'S THE LIMIT FUND: $200,000 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetVERMONT FARMERS MARKET EDUCATION CENTER: $176,857 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetSMOKEY HOUSE CENTER: $150,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetForest Society of Maine: $100,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetREDFORD CENTER INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE URBAN FARMING INSTITUTE OF BOSTONINC: $75,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY INVOLVED IN SUSTAINING AGRICULTURE INC: $75,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPHILANTHROPY MASSACHUSETTS INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEPIPHANY SCHOOL: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetROCA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROXBURY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH SOCIAL IMPACT CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMERCK FOREST FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFRANKLIN COUNTY DIALSELF INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMaine Farmland Trust: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIGHSTEAD FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART OF THE UNITED STATES: $2,500 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 IncThe Vermont Community…Fidelity FoundationAlcyon FoundationLintilhac Foundation …Davis Conservation Fo…The Nature ConservancyCombined Jewish Phila…Eastern Bank Foundati…Morgan Stanley Global…Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…
Boston Foundation IncMA15.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · The Vermont Community Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Alcyon Foundation · Lintilhac Foundation Inc · Davis Conservation Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 23%
  • New England Forestry Foundation Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Roca Inc: 78% of income from government
  • Smokey House Center: 54% of income from government
  • Justice Resource Institute Inc: 48% of income from government
  • Vermont Youth Conservation Corps Inc: 47% of income from government
  • Utec Inc: 46% of income from government
  • Vermont Land Trust Inc: 42% of income from government
  • The Home for Little Wanderers Inc: 38% of income from government
  • Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture Inc: 35% of income from government
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation: 23% of income from government
  • Center for an Agricultural Economy Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Franklin County Dialself Inc: 11% of income from government
  • The Urban Farming Institute of Bostoninc: 4% of income from government
  • Shelburne Farms: 3% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
  • Appalachian Mountain Club: 1% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc: 0% of income from government
  • The Vermont Community Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely 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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Lookout Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Lookout 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 49 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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