· Private foundation
Lounsbury Family 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WILDWOOD FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| THINGS OF MY VERY OWN | $6,000 |
| MAKE A WISH NORTHEASTERN NY | $5,000 |
| REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST NY | $4,000 |
| ALBANY INNER CITY PALS - VI COMMUNITY CENTER | $4,000 |
| JAKE'S HELP FROM HEAVEN | $4,000 |
| SICM FOOD BANK | $3,000 |
| CENTER FOR DISABILITY SERVICES | $3,000 |
| MARVIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| CAPITAL CITY RESCUE MISSION | $3,000 |
| CAIRO FOOD PANTRY | $3,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF THE CAPITAL REGION | $3,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $3,000 |
| TOYS FOR TOTS | $3,000 |
| ST JUDE RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $2,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
49 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 2 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- TATHE ALTERNATIVE LIVING GROUP INC5× · 2017–2021 · $29k · revenue +53%
- CFCENTER FOR DISABILITY SERVICESINC8× · 2017–2025 · $20k · revenue +26%
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE ALBANY INC8× · 2018–2025 · $16k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- NUNORTHEAST USA VIETNAM VETERANS MEMORIAL FUND INCone grant, 2022 · $2k
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF CAPITAL REGIONone grant, 2017 · $2k
- CPCRAZY PAWS DOG RESCUEone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue -99%
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.
A small rescue group operating in the new york area that only rescues dogs from high kill shelters and southern rescues. this means a majority of dogs admitted there are euthanized due to lack of space. we very rarely take in owner…
Services provided by the organization include: care and shelter of animals, animal spay, neuter and adoption services; euthanasia of sick animals and education.
Animal protection by providing shelter, care and medical attention for stray, abused and unwanted animals.
To foster the humane care of animals through a fully staffed medical clinic, animal shelter and public education programs, as well as an adoption program to place animals with qualified new owners.
The Organization's mission is to rescue dogs from high-kill animal shelters and place them in loving forever homes. All dogs rescued are given necessary medical care prior to adoption, including required vaccinations. Dogs are placed in…
To provide services to homeless animals
Provide shelter, medical care and nurturing for animals facing life-threatening situations and ultimately find them forever-loving homes.
The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
The humane society of yates county exists to promote the welfare of companion and domestic animals through educational programs and initiatives that reduce pet overpopulation, enrich adoptions, and encourage responsible pet ownership.
. Run an animal shelter for stray animals. Educate the public on neutering of pets and run an adoption program.
Animal care centers of nyc's (acc) mission is to end animal homelessness in nyc.
None
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Wildwood Foundation and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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 34 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 67 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 THE WILDWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ALTERNATIVE LIVING GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DISABILITY SERVICESINC ↗
- Who funds THINGS OF MY VERY OWN INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE ALBANY INC ↗
- Who funds SHIH TZU RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA-GREENE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL PROTECTIVE FOUNDATION OF SCHENECTADY INC ↗
- Who funds JAKE'S HELP FROM HEAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds SOLACE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds GREENVILLE RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds MOHAWK & HUDSON RIVER HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PEPPERTREE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds LIVING RESOURCES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA-GREENE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATSKILL AREA HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE INC DBA HELIOS CARE ↗
- Who funds ALBANY AUTISM SOCIETY 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 Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc · Bank of Greene County Charitable Foundation · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · United Way of the Greater Capital Region · Review Foundation · Capital District Physicians' Health Plan Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · Sunmark Charitable Community Foundation · Kelly Family Cuidiu Foundation · Neil Jane William Estelle Golub Family Foundation Inc
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 Lounsbury Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.