· Private foundation
Lucia P Fulton Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $81k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $117k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTHERN LIGHT HEALTH | $42,000 |
| NORTHERN MAINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $35,000 |
| PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM | $17,500 |
| GOOD SHEPHERD FOOD BANK | $11,000 |
| CONNECTICUT FOOD BANK | $11,000 |
| PENOBSCOT MARINE MUSEUM | $9,900 |
| MAINE TREE FOUNDATION | $7,700 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER NEW HAVEN | $6,600 |
| CUSHINGWHITNEY MEDICAL LIBRARY YALE UNIVERSITY | $6,600 |
| MAINE COAST HERITAGE TRUST | $5,500 |
| ROBERT ABBE MUSEUM | $5,500 |
| THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC | $5,500 |
| HOPE AND JUSTICE PROJECT | $5,000 |
| LOAVES AND FISHES - ELLSWORTH | $5,000 |
| MAINE FOREST AND LOGGING MUSEUM INC | $3,300 |
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 (FY20–22, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of Lucia P Fulton Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in MA; read by stated purpose it is 97% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
21 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 4 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k 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
- GSGood Shepherd Food Bank6× · 2020–2025 · $69k · revenue +50%
- CFCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $66k · revenue +97%
- PMPENOBSCOT MARINE MUSEUM6× · 2020–2025 · $53k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- LSLITTLE SAPLINGS LLCone grant, 2022 · $55k
- HCHealthReach Community Health Centersgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $35k · revenue +56%
- CKCamp Kesem Nationalone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +1%
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.
Maine Historical Society, founded in 1822, is a private non-profit whose mission is to preserve and share Maine's story. Based in Portland, we work closely with communities and partners throughout the state, and serve a statewide and…
To connect people to the past, present, and future of Maine's waterways and their global reach.
The mission of the Maine Museum of Photographic Arts is to inspire, engage and educate through the exhibition, preservation and collection of photographic works. The Museums programs address contemporary, historical, cultural and…
The mission of the mount desert land & garden preserve is to conserve and share the beauty of our historic lands and gardens.
MFFM's mission is to cultivate a vibrant, sustainable, farmers' market community as a vital part of Maine's local food network. The federation works with farmers, consumers and communities to make wholesome, locally-grown food available to…
To illuminate and advance greater understanding of and support for Wabanaki Nations' heritage, living cultures, and homelands.
The purpose of the "Society" is to collect, preserve, and interpret Wethersfield's past for the education and enjoyment of present and future generations.
Secure a sustainable future for fisheries and fishing communities in Eastern Maine and beyond.
The florence griswold museum seeks to promote a greater understanding of connecticut's contribution to american art and history through public exhibitions and educational programs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bridgeport Rescue Mission Inc and the most unlike its peers is Northern Light Health Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 29 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 PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Northern Light Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds PENOBSCOT MARINE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MAINE TREE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
- Who funds HealthReach Community Health Centers ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER NEW HAVEN ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MAINE FOREST & LOGGING MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Rangeley Lakes Region Historical Society ↗
- Who funds LOAVES AND FISHES NEW HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN EVENING SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HOPE OF FAIRFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE AND JUSTICE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Camp Kesem National ↗
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: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Newalliance Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Lucia P Fulton 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.
- Operation Hope of Fairfield Inc — 15% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Peabody Essex Museum Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven — 2% of income from government
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.
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