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Lucy E Holcombe 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.

$291k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$180k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 FY2017–2025.

Environment$566kAnimals$465kReligion$268kArts & Culture$260kEducation$210kHuman Services$175kFood & Nutrition$110kCommunity Improvement$110kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $28k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $263k
$83,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Granby Land Trust$180,000
Individual grant recipient$83,000
Sugar Hill Imprvmnt Assoc$15,000
All Saints Food Bank$12,500
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 (FY20–24, $125k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Waypoint: $25k → 7%Women's Resource Center: $50k → 7%Federal Hill House Assoc: $50k → 14%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.

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.

31%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$763k · 7 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +117% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
37

Total granted

$763k
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+117%
+12%

Still filing today

57%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $208k 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
AnimalsEnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • OC
    ORLEANS CONSERVATION TRUST
    2× · 2017–2019 · $155k · revenue +184%
  • WC
    WILD CAREINC
    2× · 2017–2019 · $110k · revenue +117%
  • HP
    HARTFORD PROMISE INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $100k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • SP
    SCRUFFY PAWS ANIMAL RESCUE
    one grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue -5% · 40% of their budget
  • FO
    Friends of the Cape Cod National Seashore Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0% · 44% of their budget
  • WH
    WARREN HERITAGE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $85k · revenue -65% · 78% of their budget

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
Harpswell Heritage Land Trust

Land Conservation, Trails and Public Access, Education

Environment
2
Massachusetts Outdoor Heritage Foundation Inc Attn Susan Sacco
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3
Walpole Historical Society

The preservation and interpretation of the history of the Town of Walpole

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4
Cohasset Conservation Trust Inc
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5
Piscataquog Land Conservancy

The Piscataquog Land Conservancy is a nonprofit land conservation organization founded in 1970. Its purpose is to conserve the natural and scenic environment of the Piscataquog, Souhegan and Nashua River watershed communities of southern…

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6
Westwood Land Trust Inc

To promote the protection and stewardship of open space and natural resources in the Town of Westwood.

Environment
7
Nashoba Conservation Trust

Acquire, preserve and maintain natural resources and wildlife habitat areas (land conservation).

Environment
8
Nahant Preservation Trust Inc

The Nahant Preservation Trust ("NPT") is an all-volunteer, not-for-profit charitable corporation whose mission is to preserve our open spaces, historically significant properties, and our conservation lands for public and community benefit.

Community Improvement
9
Hilltown Land Trust Inc

Hilltown land trust conserves and stewards land through strong relationships to ensure clean water, wildlife habitat, climate resilience, recreational opportunities, and healthy farmland for the benefit of all.

Environment
10
Cuttyhunk Historical Society Inc
Arts & Culture
11
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
12
Harwich Conservation Trust

Preservation and conservation of open space in harwich, massachusetts

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Amos House and the most unlike its peers is Arlington Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAnimal Rescue and AdoptionChristian Youth CampsDomestic Violence Crisis Se…Independent K-8 SchoolsCommunity Arts OrganizationsUrban Agriculture & Food Ac…Wildlife Rehabilitation Cen…Land Conservation Organizat…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%7%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%25%10–20yr16%11%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr16%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%4%<5yr14%13%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr16%14%20–35yr13%26%35–55yr16%23%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% 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%0/30
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,535

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

28 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. 28 of the 47 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/28
Grantees still filing
17/28
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $183,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFriends of the Cape Cod National Seashore Inc — $100,000 · OtherFriends of the Cape Cod National Seashore IncAll Saints Episcopal Church — $75,000 · OtherAll Saints Episcopal ChurchAHEAD — $69,500 · OtherAHEADFarm Fresh RI Hope's Harvest — $65,065 · OtherFarm Fresh RI Hope's HarvestGrafton Cnty Sen Citizens Council — $50,000 · OtherSUGAR HILL HISTORICAL MUSEUM — $50,000 · OtherFranconia Are Heritage Council — $50,000 · OtherFirst Church of Christ — $50,000 · OtherAudubon Society of RI — $45,000 · OtherAMOS HOUSE — $38,000 · OtherCOPPER CANNON CORPORATION — $60,000 · OtherCOPPER CANNON CORPORATION+16 more — $261,500 · Other+16 moreGranby Land Trust Inc — $180,000 · EnvironmentGranby Land Trust In…ORLEANS CONSERVATION TRUST — $155,000 · EnvironmentORLEANS CONSERVATION…WALTHAM LAND TR INC — $55,600 · EnvironmentWALTHAM LAND TR INCAMMONOOSUC CONSERVATION TRUST — $50,000 · EnvironmentAMMONOOSUC CONSERVAT…SCRUFFY PAWS ANIMAL RESCUE — $150,000 · AnimalsSCRUFFY PAWS ANIMAL…WILD CAREINC — $110,400 · AnimalsWILD CAREINCTHE KILHAM BEAR CENTER INC — $60,000 · AnimalsTHE KILHAM BEAR CEN…Congress of the Birds — $50,000 · AnimalsCongress of the Bir…SECOND CHANCE ANIMAL RESCUE INC — $50,000 · AnimalsSECOND CHANCE ANIMA…HARTFORD PROMISE INC — $100,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY — $40,000 · EducationSHIPLEY SCHOOL — $25,000 · EducationHAVERHILL HERITAGE INC — $70,000 · Community ImprovementHOPE & MAIN — $50,000 · Community ImprovementWILLING WORKERS SOCIETY — $20,000 · Community ImprovementWOMENS RESOURCE CENTER OF NEWPORT AND BRISTOL COUNTIES — $50,000 · Human ServicesFEDERAL HILL HOUSE ASSOCIATION INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesWAYPOINT — $25,000 · Human ServicesWARREN HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $85,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,097,065Environment$440,600Animals$420,400Education$165,000Community Improvement$140,000Human Services$125,000Arts & Culture$85,000

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 budgetORLEANS CONSERVATION TRUST — $155,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetSCRUFFY PAWS ANIMAL RESCUE — $150,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetWILD CAREINC — $110,400 over 2y, 13% of budgetHARTFORD PROMISE INC — $100,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetFriends of the Cape Cod National Seashore Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 44% of budgetWARREN HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $85,000 over 1y, 78% of budgetHAVERHILL HERITAGE INC — $70,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetTHE KILHAM BEAR CENTER INC — $60,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetCOPPER CANNON CORPORATION — $60,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetWOMENS RESOURCE CENTER OF NEWPORT AND BRISTOL COUNTIES — $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetHOPE & MAIN — $50,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetFEDERAL HILL HOUSE ASSOCIATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCongress of the Birds — $50,000 over 1y, 10.0% of budgetSUGAR HILL HISTORICAL MUSEUM — $50,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetSECOND CHANCE ANIMAL RESCUE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetTRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY — $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMOS HOUSE — $38,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSECRET SOCK SOCIETY — $25,000 over 1y, 83% of budgetWAYPOINT — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH COUNTRY HOME HEALTH & HOSPICE AGENCY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSHIPLEY SCHOOL — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLUCY'S HEARTH — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

New Hampshire Charita…The Rhode Island Comm…Amica Companies Found…Edith Crocker Charita…United Way of Rhode I…Ibm International Fou…Eversource Energy Fou…Citizens Charitable F…Paypal Charitable Giv…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …
New Hampshire Charitable FoundationNH22× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Edith Crocker Charitable Trust · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Lucy E Holcombe 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 51%
  • Arlington Historical Society — 51% of income from government
  • Orleans Conservation Trust — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
3report 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.

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How do I get to Lucy E Holcombe Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Lucy E Holcombe Charitable 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 47 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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