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Lydia B Stokes 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $315k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $393k
- $250k+2 grants · $703k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WESTERN LANDOWNERS ALLIANCE | $370,000 |
| HEALTH CARE WITHOUT HARM | $333,333 |
| FORAGE INC | $138,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $114,894 |
| REBUILDING TOGETHER NORTH CENTRAL FLORIDA | $73,780 |
| FIBERSHED | $66,000 |
| CISA | $41,584 |
| NEW MEXICO FARMERS MARKETING ASSOCIATION | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $27,000 |
| GROW FOOD NORTHAMPTON | $25,000 |
| NATIONAL YOUNG FARMERS COALITION | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| CULTURAL ARTS COALITION | $23,000 |
| GREATER DUVAL NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION | $21,600 |
| FARM TO TABLE INC | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $63k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- WLWESTERN LANDOWNERS ALLIANCE9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +385%
- FIForage Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $805k · revenue +382% · 54% of their budget
- RTRebuilding Together North Central F9× · 2017–2025 · $191k · revenue +810%
Funded once
- HCHAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEESone grant, 2017 · $60k · revenue -21%
Realize Impactgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue ×127 · 29% of their budget- SFSOLIDAGO FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -64%
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.
NOFA-NH actively promotes organic, regenerative, ecologically sound farming, gardening, eating, and land care practices for healthy communities. NOFA-NH helps people build local, just, and sustainable food systems.
The northeast organic farming association of vermont promotes organic practices to build an ecomnomically viable, ecologically sound and socially just vermont agricultural system that benefits all living things.
Food alliance works at the juncture of science, business and values to define and promote sustainability in agriculture and the food industry, and to ensure safe and fair working conditions, humane treatment of animals, and careful…
Our mission is to educate, organize and advocate for food and farming systems to become economically prosperous, ecologically sound and socially equitable.
EFIs mission is to transform the produce industry and the lives of farmworkers by facilitating collaboration among workers, agricultural employers, retail buyers and consumer advocates.
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
The mission of the Organic Farmers Association is to provide a strong and unified national voice for domestic certified organic producers so that organic agriculture will become the basis of a viable United States food and agricultural…
Development in Gardening is improving the nutrition and livelihoods of some of the world's most uniquely marginalized people by teaching them to plant regenerative gardens that grow health, wealth, and a sense of belonging.
New Roots Institute is a nonprofit empowering the next generation with knowledge and training to end factory farming.
A Greener World empowers sustainable solutions in agriculture, promoting and supporting real-life farming models to the public and offering farmers and ranchers practical guidance, resources and support on achieving truly sustainable…
Growing a local food system where the health of people and planet come first
Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Farm to Table Inc and the most unlike its peers is Holistic Manangement International. 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.
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 24 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
54 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. 54 of the 67 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 WESTERN LANDOWNERS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Forage Inc ↗
- Who funds HEALTH CARE WITHOUT HARM ↗
- Who funds Rebuilding Together North Central F ↗
- Who funds QUIVIRA COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW MEXICO FARMERS MARKETING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Cultural Arts Coalition Inc ↗
- Who funds Greater Duval Neighborhood Association Corp ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC ↗
- Who funds FIBERSHED ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL YOUNG FARMERS COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds POSITIVE FUTURES NETWORK DBA YES MEDIA ↗
- Who funds STERLING COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GROW FOOD NORTHAMPTON INC ↗
- Who funds KNOX INC ↗
- Who funds GAINING GROUND INC ↗
- Who funds HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds Realize Impact ↗
- Who funds HOLISTIC MANANGEMENT INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds FARM TO TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds American Sustainable Business Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds HAWTHORNE VALLEY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOLIDAGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY INVOLVED IN SUSTAINING AGRICULTURE INC ↗
- Who funds FORGE CITY WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds SHARING OUR ROOTS ↗
- Who funds VERMONT WILDERNESS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SELF-EVIDENT EDUCATION INC ↗
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: Rsf Social Finance Inc · Community Foundation for San Benito County · Patagoniaorg · Tides Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Clif Family Foundation · The John Merck Fund · Tomkat Ranch Educational Foundation · Novo Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Farm Aid Inc · Thornburg 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 Lydia B Stokes 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.
- Local Enterprise Assistance Fund — 100% of income from government
- Connecticut River Watershed Council Inc — 40% of income from government
- Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture Inc — 35% of income from government
- Grow Food Northampton Inc — 25% of income from government
- Self-Evident Education Inc — 13% of income from government
- Sterling College — 10% of income from government
- Commonwealth Kitchen Inc — 9% of income from government
- Gaining Ground Inc — 5% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- Upper Valley Trails Alliance — 3% of income from government
- Knox Inc — 2% of income from government
- Forge City Works Inc — 1% of income from government
- Berkshire Agricultural Ventures Inc — 1% 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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