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Lovell Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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.

$136k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Animals$583kArts & Culture$375kEducation$229kEnvironment$30kFood & Nutrition$18kHuman Services$5k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $76k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$35,750
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SALT POND AREAS BIRD SANCTUARIES$60,000
FALMOUTH HISTORICAL SOCIETY$35,750
CAPE COD THEATRE PROJECT$25,000
FALMOUTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC$15,172
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%CAPE COD YMCA INC: $5k → 8%FALMOUTH ACADEMY INC: $61k → 8%FALMOUTH ACADEMY INC: $45k → 8%FALMOUTH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $36k → 8%FALMOUTH ACADEMY INC: $33k → 8%300 COMMITTEE LAND TRUST: $25k → 8%FALMOUTH ARTISTS GUILD: $25k → 8%FALMOUTH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $25k → 8%FALMOUTH ACADEMY INC: $20k → 8%FALMOUTH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $20k → 8%FALMOUTH ARTISTS GUILD: $18k → 8%FALMOUTH ARTISTS GUILD: $18k → 8%FALMOUTH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $15k → 8%FALMOUTH ACADEMY INC: $15k → 8%FALMOUTH ARTISTS GUILD: $15k → 8%FALMOUTH ACADEMY INC: $15k → 8%FALMOUTH ARTISTS GUILD: $8k → 8%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 7 repeat orgs$57k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
5

Total granted

$1.2M
$57k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+33%

Still filing today

100%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureAnimalsEducationEnvironmentOther
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

  • SP
    SALT POND AREAS BIRD SANCTUARIES INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $579k · revenue +6% · 26% of their budget
  • FA
    FALMOUTH ACADEMY INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $188k · revenue +21%
  • CC
    CAPE COD THEATRE PROJECT INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $145k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • T3
    THE 300 COMMITTEE LAND TRUST INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +70%
  • FS
    FALMOUTH SERVICE CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $18k · revenue +33%
  • QH
    QUISSETT HARBOR PRESERVATION TRUST INC
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -44%
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
Oyster Pond Environmental Trust Inc

Land conservation

Environment
2
Falmouth Education Foundation

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…

Philanthropy
3
Falmouth Housing Trust

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…

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4
Falmouth Scholarship Association Inc

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.

Education
5
Falmouth Community Television Corp

Local cable programs by and for residents.

Arts & Culture
6
Cohasset Conservation Trust Inc
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7
Falmouth Housing Corporation

Educate, stimulate, research and provide affordable housing in the town of falmouth.

Housing & Shelter
8
The Compact of Cape Cod Conservation Trusts Inc

To encourage and assist in the acquisition, preservation and management of open space on cape cod

Environment
9
Falmouth Conservation Trust Dba Falmouth Land Trust

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…

Environment
10
Falmouth Memorial Library Association

To enhance the quality of life of our community by inspiring lifelong learning, providing free and open access to information, and fostering community connections.

Education
11
Farming Falmouth Inc

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…

Food & Nutrition
12
Falmouth Heritage Renewal Inc

To educate the public and promote to the public the history and culture of falmouth, jamaica.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Falmouth Artists Guild Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 12 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SALT POND AREAS BIRD SANCTUARIES INC: $579,452 · AnimalsSALT POND AREAS BIRD SANCTUARIES INC+1 more: $4,000 · AnimalsCAPE COD THEATRE PROJECT INC: $145,000 · Arts & CultureCAPE COD THEATRE PROJECT …FALMOUTH ARTISTS GUILD INC: $84,000 · Arts & CultureFALMOUTH ARTISTS GUILD IN…THE COLLEGE LIGHT OPERA COMPANY INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHE COLLEGE LIGHT OPERA C…FALMOUTH ACADEMY INC: $188,353 · EducationFALMOUTH ACADEMY INCFALMOUTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $40,172 · EducationFALMOUTH EDUCATION F…FALMOUTH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $95,750 · OtherFALMOUTH H…FALMOUTH SERVICE CENTER INC: $18,000 · OtherFALMOUTH S…CAPE COD YMCA INC: $5,000 · OtherTHE 300 COMMITTEE LAND TRUST INC: $25,000 · EnvironmentQUISSETT HARBOR PRESERVATION TRUST INC: $5,000 · Environment
Animals$583,452Arts & Culture$279,000Education$228,525Other$118,750Environment$30,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSALT POND AREAS BIRD SANCTUARIES INC: $579,452 over 9y, 26% of budgetFALMOUTH ACADEMY INC: $188,353 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetCAPE COD THEATRE PROJECT INC: $145,000 over 8y, 16% of budgetFALMOUTH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $95,750 over 4y, 6.4% of budgetFALMOUTH ARTISTS GUILD INC: $84,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetTHE COLLEGE LIGHT OPERA COMPANY INC: $50,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFALMOUTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $40,172 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetTHE 300 COMMITTEE LAND TRUST INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFALMOUTH SERVICE CENTER INC: $18,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetQUISSETT HARBOR PRESERVATION TRUST INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF FALMOUTH DOGS A NON PROFIT CORPORATION: $4,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

Cape Cod Foundation I…Esther Simon 1952 Cha…Martha's Vineyard Ban…George H Lusk TrustCaithness FoundationStanley W Watson Foun…Hermann Foundation IncCape Cod Five Cents S…Mutual Bancorp Founda…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…
Cape Cod Foundation IncMA24.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    9get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.

    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 12 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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