· Private foundation
Lovell Charitable 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–50k3 grants · $76k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SALT POND AREAS BIRD SANCTUARIES | $60,000 |
| FALMOUTH HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $35,750 |
| CAPE COD THEATRE PROJECT | $25,000 |
| FALMOUTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC | $15,172 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of your 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.
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.
7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- SPSALT POND AREAS BIRD SANCTUARIES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $579k · revenue +6% · 26% of their budget
- FAFALMOUTH ACADEMY INC6× · 2017–2024 · $188k · revenue +21%
- CCCAPE COD THEATRE PROJECT INC8× · 2018–2025 · $145k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- T3THE 300 COMMITTEE LAND TRUST INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +70%
- FSFALMOUTH SERVICE CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $18k · revenue +33%
- QHQUISSETT HARBOR PRESERVATION TRUST INCone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -44%
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.
Land conservation
The falmouth education foundation, founded in 1993, enhances educational excellence and promotes innovative student development by supporting educational programs and initiatives that primarily benefit children that are residents of…
Falmouth housing trust's mission is to enchance the community of falmouth by developing and maintaining sustainable afforable workforce housing. the organization provides this service to low-to-moderate income individuals or families…
Awards scholarships for college tuition to selected students at falmouth high school who wish to pursue advanced work in literature, science, math, or the arts.
Local cable programs by and for residents.
Educate, stimulate, research and provide affordable housing in the town of falmouth.
To encourage and assist in the acquisition, preservation and management of open space on cape cod
The mission of the Falmouth Land Trust is to preserve and care for natural and agricultural lands in perpetuity, to enhance habitat for plants and wildlife, to advance the quality of life for all in our community, and to educate the public…
To enhance the quality of life of our community by inspiring lifelong learning, providing free and open access to information, and fostering community connections.
Farming falmouth is a young, fast-growing organization that supports local agriculture and believes in bringing people closer to where and how their food is grown. with some of the best soils on cape cod, and miles of waterfront, our…
To educate the public and promote to the public the history and culture of falmouth, jamaica.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Falmouth Artists Guild Inc and the most unlike its peers is Quissett Harbor Preservation Trust Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 12 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 SALT POND AREAS BIRD SANCTUARIES INC ↗
- Who funds FALMOUTH ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE COD THEATRE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FALMOUTH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FALMOUTH ARTISTS GUILD INC ↗
- Who funds THE COLLEGE LIGHT OPERA COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds FALMOUTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE 300 COMMITTEE LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds FALMOUTH SERVICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds QUISSETT HARBOR PRESERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FALMOUTH DOGS A NON PROFIT CORPORATION ↗
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: Cape Cod Foundation Inc · Esther Simon 1952 Charitable Trust Xxxxx8006 · Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · George H Lusk Trust · Caithness Foundation · Stanley W Watson Foundation · Hermann Foundation Inc · Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust · Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable 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 Lovell Charitable 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.
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.