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Lubbe Family Foundation at a glance

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Lubbe Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$1.2M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Health$2.3MPhilanthropy$1.0MRecreation & Sports$260kEnvironment$39kArts & Culture$30kHuman Services$27kFood & Nutrition$5kAnimals$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.4M
$7,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DARTMOUTH HEALTH$1,166,666
ASCUTNEY OUTDOORS$250,000
UPPER VALLEY AQUATIC CENTER$10,000
THE FAMILY PLACE$7,000
VITAL COMMUNITIES$5,000
LUCY MACKENZIE HUMANE SOCIETY$5,000
UPPER VALLEY MUSIC CENTER$5,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$5,000
02The need
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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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Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%LISTEN: $10k → 10%WILLING HANDS: $5k → 9%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 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
Upper Valley Humane Society Inc

UVHS improves quality of life for people and pets through an innovative animal shelter and adoption center and through services that reduce suffering, support wellness, and foster compassion.

Animals
2
Upper Valley Comm Health Services Inc

UVCHS in a not for profit organization that provides medical dental behavioral heath and pharmacy services. Our goal is to make quality care available to everyone regardless of demographic or economic status. We accept all major insurances…

Health
3
Upper Valley Habitat for Humanity Inc

UVHFHs mission is to build affordable, durable,safe, healthy, economical,and energy-efficient homes; strenghthen & enrich communities; & long-term hope, prosperity, health & the lives of families & individuals in the Upper Valley of VT &…

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4
Upper Saco Valley Land Trust

The Organization works with local landowners to permanently protect natural land and waters that define its community and enrich the quality of life by purchasing, managing, negotiating and developing conservations easements in the Upper…

Food & Nutrition
5
Vermont Humanities Council

Using the humanities, we connect with people across vermont to create just, vibrant, and resilient communities, and to inspire a lifelong love of learning.

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6
Vermont Public Co

Vermont public informs, educates, and entertains through public service journalism and enlightening content rooted in vermont. our storytelling enriches lives and fosters community connection and understanding.

Arts & Culture
7
The Vermont River Conservancy Inc

Protect land along rivers, lakes and wetlands of vt; protect public access, wildlife habitat, scenic natural beauty, and ecological integrity.

Human Services
8
Alliance for Vermont Communities Inc

The mission of alliance for vermont communities, inc. is to protect working farms, forests and communities of central vermont and to promote responsible development that will sustain the rural heritage and values for present and future…

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9
Vermont Community Loan Fund

Investing in people and communities to create a just and thriving vermont

Housing & Shelter
10
Westchester Land Trust Inc

The primary mission of the Westchester Land Trust is to conserve, maintain and enhance the natural environment and resources of Westchester County and eastern Putnam County. The Trust acquires interests in land exhibiting important natural…

Environment
11
Wilton Land Conservation Trust

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

Environment
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Willing Hands Enterprises Inc; the most unlike its peers is Lucy Mackenzie Humane Society 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

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 20 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DARTMOUTH HEALTH: $2,333,332 · OtherDARTMOUTH HEALTH+12 more: $81,000 · OtherNew Hampshire Charitable Foundation: $1,000,000 · PhilanthropyNew Hampshire Charitable Found…Mt Ascutney Outdoors Inc: $250,000 · Recreation & SportsUPPER VALLEY LAND TRUST INC: $25,000 · EnvironmentLISTEN Lebanon in Service to Each Neighbor: $10,000 · Human ServicesWILLING HANDS ENTERPRISES INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $10,000 · HealthLUCY MACKENZIE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $5,000 · Animals
Other$2,414,332Philanthropy$1,000,000Recreation & Sports$250,000Environment$25,000Human Services$15,000Health$10,000Animals$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNew Hampshire Charitable Foundation: $1,000,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMt Ascutney Outdoors Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 69% of budgetUPPER VALLEY LAND TRUST INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetLISTEN Lebanon in Service to Each Neighbor: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FAMILY PLACE INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVITAL COMMUNITIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWILLING HANDS ENTERPRISES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUPPER VALLEY MUSIC CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

New Hampshire Charita…The Couch Family Foun…The Vermont Community…Flora R and Isidor M …Frank and Brinna Sand…Emily Landecker Found…ImpactassetsincAnn & Bill Brine Fami…Htc Cottee Wurster Fa…The Help for People F…Barrette Family FundThe Stannard & Doroth…
New Hampshire Charitable FoundationNH21.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · The Couch Family Foundation · The Vermont Community Foundation · Flora R and Isidor M Stettenheim Foundation Inc · Frank and Brinna Sands Foundation · Emily Landecker Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc · Ann & Bill Brine Family Foundation · Htc Cottee Wurster Family Foundation 96010000 · The Help for People Foundation · Barrette Family Fund · The Stannard & Dorothy Dunn Charitable Trust

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 17%
  • The Family Place Inc: 38% of income from government
  • Willing Hands Enterprises Inc: 17% of income from government
  • Vital Communities Inc: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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
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.
04Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Lubbe Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Lubbe Family Foundation 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.

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 20 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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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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