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Lyndon Paul Lorusso Charitable Foundatio

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
55
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$175k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through 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, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$1.8MHuman Services$1.2MArts & Culture$964kHousing & Shelter$505kEducation$502kFood & Nutrition$490kRecreation & Sports$155kAnimals$130kOther$0
02FY2024 · 55 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $46k
  • $10k–50k41 grants · $824k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $552k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$28M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE GENESIS FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN INC$175,000
SPAULDING REHABILITATION HOSPITAL CORPORATION$101,750
LOWER CAPE OUTREACH COUNCIL INC$75,000
FALMOUTH SERVICE CENTER INC$50,000
COMMUNITY SYSTEMS INC$50,000
CAPE ABILITIES INC$50,000
THE GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC$50,000
HEROES IN TRANSITION INC$45,000
FAMILY PANTRY OF CAPE COD CORP THE$35,000
HOUSING ASSISTANCE CORPORATION$35,000
THE SCHOLARSHIP ASSOCIATION OF FALMOUTH INC$30,000
COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF CAPE COD INC$30,000
DUFFY HEALTH CENTER INC$30,000
ELDER SERVICES OF CAPE COD AND THE ISLANDS INC$30,000
CAPE COD CHILDREN'S MUSEUM$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $918k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%TOMMY'S PLACE FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 7%COMMUNITY SYSTEMS INC: $79k → 8%DIGNITY MATTERS INC: $5k → 11%TOMMY'S PLACE FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 7%COMMUNITY SYSTEMS INC: $50k → 8%TOMMY'S PLACE FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 7%TOMMY'S PLACE FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 7%ARC OF GREATER PLYMOUTH INC: $25k → 8%COMMUNITY SYSTEMS INC: $14k → 8%CAPE ABILITIES INC: $100k → 8%CAPE ABILITIES INC: $75k → 8%CAPE ABILITIES INC: $50k → 8%CAPE ABILITIES INC: $50k → 8%CAPE HEAD INJURED PERSONS' HOUSING AND EDUCATION GROUP INC: $20k → 8%CAPE HEAD INJURED PERSONS' HOUSING AND EDUCATION GROUP INC: $15k → 8%CAPE HEAD INJURED PERSONS' HOUSING AND EDUCATION GROUP INC: $10k → 8%LOWER CAPE OUTREACH COUNCIL INC: $75k → 8%LOWER CAPE OUTREACH COUNCIL INC: $25k → 8%HOMELESS PREVENTION COUNCIL INC: $25k → 8%LOWER CAPE OUTREACH COUNCIL INC: $15k → 8%HOMELESS PREVENTION COUNCIL INC: $15k → 8%LOWER CAPE OUTREACH COUNCIL INC: $10k → 8%HOMELESS PREVENTION COUNCIL INC: $10k → 8%HOMELESS PREVENTION COUNCIL INC: $10k → 8%ELDER SERVICES OF CAPE COD AND THE ISLANDS INC: $30k → 8%ELDER SERVICES OF CAPE COD AND THE ISLANDS INC: $30k → 8%WE CAN: $25k → 8%WE CAN CORPORATION: $15k → 8%WE CAN CORPORATION: $15k → 8%CAPE COD MILITARY SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 8%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.4M · 57 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

57 repeat relationships: 46 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
28

Total granted

$4.4M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+7%

Still filing today

86%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $221k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterAnimalsPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CH
    COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF CAPE COD INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $285k · revenue +29%
  • CA
    CAPE ABILITIES INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $275k · revenue +13%
  • FS
    FALMOUTH SERVICE CENTER INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $200k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • AD
    ASSEMBLIA DE DEUS EM
    one grant, 2020 · $939k
  • CC
    Compassionate Care ALS Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -32%
  • SR
    SPAULDING REHABILITATION HOSPITAL CAPE COD
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
How this is measured

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

04Its 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
Community Action Committee of Cape Cod & Islands Inc

Provide resources and skills to individuals and families in the cape and islands to attain and retain independence and economic stability and self-sufficiency through personal growth, family stabilization, life skills and employment…

Community Improvement
2
Cape and Islands United Way Inc

The mission of the cape and islands united way inc is to increase the organized capacity for people on cape cod and the islands to care for one another and to improve the human condition of the region.

Philanthropy
3
Cape Counseling Services

To partner with individuals, families and the community to provide recovery-focused, trauma-informed, integrated primary and behavioral healthcare and to promote wellness, resiliency and hope for positive change.

—
4
Cape Cod Village Inc

Creating housing for adults on the autism spectrum

Housing & Shelter
5
Lower Cape Communications Inc

To provide public broadcasting to lower cape cod massachusetts

Arts & Culture
6
Arc of Cape Cod Inc

Promotes and protects the human rights of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and actively supports their full inclusion and participation in the community throughout their lifetimes.

—
7
Ccyp Inc

CCYP shapes the Cape by creating opportunities for our region's workforce & aspiring leaders to connect, engage, advance, and lead.

Employment
8
Cape and Islands Workforce

The organization is responsible for overseeing all publicly funded vocational education and training programs for the cape cod, martha's vineyard, and nantucket areas.

Employment
9
Helping Our Women Inc

Helping our women was formed in 1992 as a response to the lack of services available to women with cancer on outer cape cod. the organization has expanded to serve women with chronic and life threatening or disabling illness

Human Services
10
Cape Cod Community Television Corp

Provide community access cablecasting broadcasts

Arts & Culture
11
Cape Fear Clinic Inc

Cape fear clinic provides compassionate and affordable patient-centered healthcare to low income individuals and families in the cape fear region, regardless of their ability to pay.

Philanthropy
12
Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce

Promotion of tourism on cape ann including the towns of rockport, gloucester, manchester, essex, and ipswich ma.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Family Pantry of Cape Cod Corp; the most unlike its peers is Behavioral Health Innovators 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

68 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. 68 of the 94 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
68/68
Grantees still filing
48/68
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ASSEMBLIA DE DEUS EM: $939,386 · OtherASSEMBLIA DE DEUS EMTHE GENESIS FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN: $575,000 · OtherTHE GENESIS FOUNDATION FOR CHILDRENGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $325,000 · OtherGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INCFALMOUTH SERVICE CENTER INC: $200,000 · OtherFALMOUTH SERVICE CENTER INC+48 more: $1,379,680 · Other+48 moreCAPE ABILITIES INC: $275,000 · Human ServicesCAPE ABILITIES INCCOMMUNITY SYSTEMS INC: $142,500 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY SYSTEMS I…LOWER CAPE OUTREACH COUNCILINC: $125,000 · Human ServicesLOWER CAPE OUTREACH…Tommy's Place Foundation Inc: $100,000 · Human ServicesTommy's Place Found…Wings for Falmouth Families Inc: $100,000 · Human ServicesWings for Falmouth …HOMELESS PREVENTION COUNCIL INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesHOMELESS PREVENTION…ELDER SERVICES OF CAPE COD AND THE ISLANDS INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesELDER SERVICES OF C…WE CAN CORPORATION: $55,000 · Human ServicesCompassionate Care ALS Inc: $50,000 · Human ServicesCAPE HEAD INJURED PERSONS HOUSING AND EDUCATION GROUP INC: $45,000 · Human Services+3 more: $55,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF CAPE COD INC: $285,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY HEALTH …DUFFY HEALTH CENTER INC: $130,000 · HealthDUFFY HEALTH CENT…HEROES IN TRANSITION INC: $95,000 · HealthHEROES IN TRANSIT…THE SAMARITANS ON CAPE COD: $64,780 · HealthTHE SAMARITANS ON…BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INNOVATORS INC: $47,500 · HealthWELLSTRONG INC: $40,000 · HealthHEALTH IMPERATIVES INC: $35,000 · HealthSHARING KINDNESS INC: $35,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S FAMILY CAREGIVER SUPPORT CENTER INC: $35,000 · Health+7 more: $160,000 · Health+7 moreFALMOUTH SCHOLARSHIP ASSOCIATION INC: $78,000 · EducationCAPE COD CHILDREN'S PLACE INC: $53,000 · EducationFALMOUTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · EducationMASHPEE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION TRUST: $22,000 · Education+1 more: $2,500 · EducationHOUSING ASSISTANCE CORPORATION: $95,000 · Housing & ShelterBELONGING TO EACH OTHER INC: $52,000 · Housing & ShelterCHAMP HOMES INC: $42,500 · Housing & ShelterTHE FAMILY PANTRY OF CAPE COD CORP: $95,000 · Food & NutritionCAPE KID MEALS INC: $70,000 · Food & NutritionCAPE COD CHALLENGER CLUB INC: $80,000 · Recreation & SportsFALMOUTH YOUTH HOCKEY LEAGUE INC: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE GREAT BLIZZARDS OF MASSACHUSETTS SPECIAL HOCKEY INC: $5,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$3,419,066Human Services$1,067,500Health$927,280Education$190,500Housing & Shelter$189,500Food & Nutrition$165,000Recreation & Sports$105,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE GENESIS FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN: $575,000 over 3y, 24% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $325,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF CAPE COD INC: $285,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCAPE ABILITIES INC: $275,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFALMOUTH SERVICE CENTER INC: $200,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY SYSTEMS INC: $142,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetDUFFY HEALTH CENTER INC: $130,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetLOWER CAPE OUTREACH COUNCILINC: $125,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetTommy's Place Foundation Inc: $100,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetWings for Falmouth Families Inc: $100,000 over 4y, 27% of budgetTHE FAMILY PANTRY OF CAPE COD CORP: $95,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetHEROES IN TRANSITION INC: $95,000 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetHOUSING ASSISTANCE CORPORATION: $95,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCAPE COD CHALLENGER CLUB INC: $80,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetFALMOUTH SCHOLARSHIP ASSOCIATION INC: $78,000 over 4y, 8.3% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCAPE KID MEALS INC: $70,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CAPE COD INC: $65,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetTHE SAMARITANS ON CAPE COD: $64,780 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetSOUTH SHORE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOMELESS PREVENTION COUNCIL INC: $60,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetELDER SERVICES OF CAPE COD AND THE ISLANDS INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CAPE AND ISLANDS VETERANS OUTREACH CENTER INC: $58,850 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetWE CAN CORPORATION: $55,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCAPE COD CHILDREN'S PLACE INC: $53,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetBELONGING TO EACH OTHER INC: $52,000 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS MILITARY SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCompassionate Care ALS Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBEHAVIORAL HEALTH INNOVATORS INC: $47,500 over 3y, 9.6% of budgetCAPE HEAD INJURED PERSONS HOUSING AND EDUCATION GROUP INC: $45,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCAPE ORGANIZATION FOR RIGHTS OF THE DISABLED INC: $45,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCHAMP HOMES INC: $42,500 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetWELLSTRONG INC: $40,000 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetFALMOUTH VOLUNTEERS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $35,200 over 3y, 12% of budgetHEALTH IMPERATIVES INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFALMOUTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetNAMI CAPE COD INC: $35,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetSHARING KINDNESS INC: $35,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetALZHEIMER'S FAMILY CAREGIVER SUPPORT CENTER INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetAMAZING GRACE OF CAPE COD INC: $35,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetCAPE WELLNESS COLLABORATIVE INC: $30,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD FALMOUTH INC: $30,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetHOMELESS NOT HOPELESS INC: $30,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetOUTER CAPE HEALTH SERVICES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPAUSE A WHILE INC: $25,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetTHE ARC OF GREATER PLYMOUTH INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCAPE COD MILITARY SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetTEAM MAUREEN INC: $25,000 over 2y, 17% 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.

Cape Cod Foundation I…Mutual Bancorp Founda…Cape & Coast Bank Fou…Cape Cod Five Cents S…Cape Cod Healthcare I…Edward Bangs Kelley a…Cape and Islands Unit…Eastern Bank Foundati…Bilezikian Family Fou…Martha's Vineyard Ban…Palmer and Jane D Dav…Rockland Trust Charit…
Cape Cod Foundation IncMA111× affinity52 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cape Cod Foundation Inc · Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc · Cape & Coast Bank Foundation · Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust · Cape Cod Healthcare Inc & Affiliates · Edward Bangs Kelley and Elza Kelley Foundation Inc · Cape and Islands United Way Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Bilezikian Family Foundation Inc · Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Palmer and Jane D Davenport Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Lyndon Paul Lorusso Charitable Foundatio funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lyndon Paul Lorusso Charitable Foundatio. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 330%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 18%
  • The Arc of Greater Plymouth Inc: 95% of income from government
  • Community Systems Inc: 92% of income from government
  • The Samaritans On Cape Cod: 82% of income from government
  • Cape Abilities Inc: 81% of income from government
  • Health Imperatives Inc: 79% of income from government
  • Alzheimer's Family Caregiver Support Center Inc: 57% of income from government
  • Duffy Health Center Inc: 51% of income from government
  • Cape Cod Children's Place Inc: 47% of income from government
  • Latham Centers Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Child and Family Services Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • South Shore Community Action Council Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Outer Cape Health Services Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Joe Q Veteran Coffee Break Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Calmer Choice Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Housing Assistance Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Community Health Center of Cape Cod Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Children's Discovery Museum of Cape Cod Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Lower Cape Outreach Councilinc: 6% of income from government
  • Homeless Prevention Council Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Amazing Grace of Cape Cod Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Sharing Kindness Inc: 1% of income from government
  • We Can Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Heroes in Transition Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Animal Rescue League of Boston: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
33get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
7rely 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.
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Find your warmest path to Lyndon Paul Lorusso Charitable Foundatio 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 94 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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