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· Private foundation

Lsj Charitable Corporation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$37k
Granted FY2022
4
Grants FY2022
3
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2022.

Arts & Culture$54kSocial Science$9kEducation$6kEnvironment$6kFood & Nutrition$6kPhilanthropy$4kHuman Services$3kYouth Development$2kOther$0
02FY2022 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k3 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$470k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOULSVILLE FOUNDATION$30,000
THE ASPEN INSTITUTE$5,000
GIVE LOCAL CT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$1,570
LITCHFIELD MONTESSORI SCHOOL$500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–21, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 40% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CAN'D AID: $1k → 12%SUSAN B ANTHONY PROJECT: $1k → 9%SUSAN B ANTHONY PROJECT: $500 → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
MT
NY
MA
CT
CO
TN
DC

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$74k · 10 repeat orgs$18k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +92% since the first grant, against +74% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2022, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
17

Total granted

$74k
$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+92%
+74%

Still filing today

70%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentHealthSocial ScienceOther

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

  • SF
    SOULSVILLE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2019–2022 · $40k · revenue +22%
  • THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC
    2× · 2019–2022 · $9k · revenue +192%
  • LM
    Litchfield Montessori School Inc
    2× · 2019–2022 · $6k · revenue +78%

Funded once

  • HF
    HORNS FOR KIDS INC
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -10%
  • AF
    ARAS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $2k
  • FC
    FLYING CLOUD INSTITUTE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +25%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Land Conservancy of Ridgefield Inc

The Land Conservancy of Ridgefield, Inc. ("the Land Conservancy"), founded in 1967, preserves and protects, for the general benefit of the public, Ridgefield, Connecticut's natural resources including land and water resources, the plant…

Environment
2
Winchester Historical Society
—
3
Fine Arts Radio Inc

Fine Arts Radio, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to supporting classical and classic music in Connecticut and New York

—
4
Redding Land Trust Inc

The primary mission of Redding Land Trust is to preserve the natural resources of the Town of Redding, CT and to promote the scientific and educational study of local and natural resources, and to acquire, by gift or purchase, land or…

Environment
5
Wilton Land Conservation Trust

Protecting, enhancing and conserving open spaces encompassing meadows, woodlands, wetlands, and waterways in the town of wilton ct.

Environment
6
Northeast Kingdom Development Corporation

Fostering, encouraging and assisting the physical location of business enterprises within the States of Vermont and New Hampshire, and having its principal purpose be industrial and economic development of one or more political…

Employment
7
New England Center for Investigative Reporting Inc
—
8
Southern Vermont Arts Center Inc Po Box 617

As one of New Englands leading visual and performing arts institutions, SVAC's mission is to promote and nurture the arts.

Arts & Culture
9
East Lyme Library Foundation Inc
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10
Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc

Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements

Food & Nutrition
11
New Hartford Land Trust Inc

Land Trust - To preserve, steward, and protect open space in New Hartford, CT in perpetuity.

—
12
Fitchburg Art Museum

The mission of the fitchburg art museum is to inspire creativity and learning, and to contribute to the well-being of our diverse communities in fitchburg, north central massachusetts, and new england. to accomplish the mission, we…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ripley Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr13%43%35–55yr16%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%8%10–20yr16%56%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr16%16%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/22
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,543

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.

04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 30 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
17/21
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SOULSVILLE FOUNDATION — $40,000 · Arts & CultureSOULSVILLE FOUNDATIONHORNS FOR KIDS INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureHORNS FOR KIDS INCCT FOOD INC — $5,500 · OtherCT FOOD INCNORTHWEST CT ASSOC FOR THE ARTS — $3,500 · OtherNORTHWEST CT ASSOC FOR THE ART…THE WARNER THEATRE CENTER FOR ARTS — $3,500 · OtherTHE WARNER THEATRE CENTER FOR …Lymes Youth Service Bureau — $2,000 · OtherLymes Youth Service BureauGIVE LOCAL CT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,570 · OtherGIVE LOCAL CT COMMUNITY FOUNDA…ARAS FOUNDATION — $1,500 · OtherARAS FOUNDATIONCSG DBA NORFOLK LIONS CLUB AMBASSAD — $1,000 · OtherTHE TRUSTEE — $1,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $1,000 · OtherChildren's Hospital Corporation — $1,000 · Other+8 more — $3,750 · Other+8 moreTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — $8,800 · Social ScienceTHE ASPEN …Litchfield Montessori School Inc — $5,577 · EducationNORFOLK LIBRARY INC — $500 · EducationGreat Mountain Forest Corporation — $2,000 · PhilanthropyNORTHWEST CONNECTICUT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $1,500 · PhilanthropyTHE CONNECTICUT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,000 · PhilanthropySUSAN B ANTHONY PROJECT INC — $1,500 · Human ServicesCan'd Aid — $1,000 · Human ServicesNORFOLK LAND TRUST INC — $1,500 · EnvironmentFLYING CLOUD INSTITUTE INC — $1,000 · Environment
Arts & Culture$45,000Other$25,320Social Science$8,800Education$6,077Philanthropy$4,500Human Services$2,500Environment$2,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSOULSVILLE FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — $8,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLitchfield Montessori School Inc — $5,577 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHORNS FOR KIDS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetGreat Mountain Forest Corporation — $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLymes Youth Service Bureau — $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSUSAN B ANTHONY PROJECT INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORFOLK LAND TRUST INC — $1,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetNORTHWEST CONNECTICUT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLYING CLOUD INSTITUTE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCan'd Aid — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CONNECTICUT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORFOLK LIBRARY INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCREATE Community Studios — $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN OF NEW YORK CITY INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOZEMAN FRIENDS OF MUSIC INC — $500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetREDHOUSE ARTS CENTER INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORFOLK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC — $500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetRIPLEY INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWINSTED HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

Akc Fund IncNorthwest Connecticut…Berkshire Taconic Com…Mullins Family Founda…The William and Mary …Northwest Community B…Chubb Charitable Foun…The Connecticut Commu…Aetna Foundation IncThe Pfizer Foundation…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…
Akc Fund IncNJ20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Akc Fund Inc · Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation Inc · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Mullins Family Foundation · The William and Mary Greve Foundation Inc · Northwest Community Bank Foundation Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The Connecticut Community Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Lsj Charitable Corporation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 23%
  • Winsted Health Center Foundation Inc — 100% of income from government
  • Norfolk Land Trust Inc — 49% of income from government
  • Lymes Youth Service Bureau — 23% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
  • Flying Cloud Institute Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Susan B Anthony Project Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

Source object · view filing

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines