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Lotta Dumb Animal Fund 0710600 Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$23k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2024
11
Organizations funded FY2023
9%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$4,500
Organizations funded a year
9 to 11
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$365k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 9% of the organizations Lotta Dumb Animal Fund 0710600 Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
AnimalsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving9$23k0%
FY202311$23k9%
FY202210$27k0%
FY202110$24k40%
FY20209$20kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Animals$102kRecreation & Sports$8kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($15k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lotta Dumb Animal Fund 0710600 Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMassachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $18,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNew England Anti-Vivisection Society: $16,100 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetNorth Shore Animal League America Inc: $10,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal Rescue League of Boston: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHumane Farming Association: $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThoroughbred Retirement Foundation Inc: $8,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEsplanade Association Inc: $8,300 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAnimal Rescue League of New Bedford Inc Dba Humane Society&Shelter-Southcoast: $7,300 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetHumane Farming Action Fund: $2,300 over 1y, 0.8% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA5.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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Find your warmest path to Lotta Dumb Animal Fund 0710600 Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP 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.

About Lotta Dumb Animal Fund 0710600 Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP

How much does Lotta Dumb Animal Fund 0710600 Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP give?
Lotta Dumb Animal Fund 0710600 Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP reported 9 grants totaling $23,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 11 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Lotta Dumb Animal Fund 0710600 Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Animals (88%), Recreation & Sports (7%).
Who are Lotta Dumb Animal Fund 0710600 Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ($18k), New England Anti-Vivisection Society ($16k), Animal Advocates Inc ($11k).
Does Lotta Dumb Animal Fund 0710600 Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Lotta Dumb Animal Fund 0710600 Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Lotta Dumb Animal Fund 0710600 Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Lotta Dumb Animal Fund 0710600 Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP based?
Lotta Dumb Animal Fund 0710600 Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP is based in MA.

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 14 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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