· Private foundation
Northern Lights Foundation 009502-005
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SKOWHEGAN SCHOOL OF PAINTING | $25,000 |
| SALISBURY VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE SERVICE | $10,000 |
| TESSA LEE LIBBY TREATMENT CENTER | $10,000 |
| ARMAND HAMMER UNITED WORLD | $10,000 |
| SAFE HARBOR ALANO CLUB | $10,000 |
| MOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| HEALTHY ACADIA | $5,000 |
| SPCA OF HANCOCK COUNTY | $5,000 |
| JOHNS ISLAND FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| JOHNS ISLAND COMMUNITY SERVICE | $5,000 |
| FLYING DEER NATURE CENTER INC | $4,500 |
| FISHERS ISLAND FIRE DEPARTMENT | $3,000 |
| MOUNT DESERT LAND AND GARDEN | $3,000 |
| HOUSATONIC CHILD CARE CENTER | $2,500 |
| FOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
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 (FY24–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
28 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 9 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, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- TPThe Point Community Development Corporation4× · 2020–2023 · $45k · revenue +105%
- GFGRANT FOUNDATION INC3× · 2020–2023 · $30k · revenue +269%
- TBTHE BOYS' CLUB OF NEW YORK4× · 2020–2023 · $13k · revenue +153%
Funded once
THE ARMAND HAMMER UNITED WORLD COLLEGE OF THE AMERgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +56%- GFGRANT FOUNDATION HOPITAL ALBERTone grant, 2022 · $10k
- SISCAN-HARBOR INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +60%
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.
The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
The mission of the new canaan land trust is to foster a connection between the new canaan community and its natural resources through the conservation and sustainable stewardship of our open space.
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The new canaan museum & historical society is a cultural institution that focuses on preservation, modernism, education and community. through exhibits, programs, library services and events, we celebrate history and explore its role in…
The nantucket historical association preserves and interprets the history of nantucket through its programs, collections, and properties, in order to promote the island's significance and foster an appreciation of it among all audiences.
The organization provides childcare services to children age 12 weeks to 12 years through infant/toddler, pre-k, before and after school, and summer camp programs.
Aipc works to preserve and improve the environment, economy and quality of life on aquidneck island to ensure that the island remains a great place to live, work, play and thrive.
Founded in 1881 the Staten Island Museum engages visitors with interdisciplinary exhibitions, public programs, and educational activities for all ages. It is the mission of the Staten Island Museum to spark curiosity and generate…
The Stamford Museum & Nature Center is a vital cultural and educational resource for the community, and a focal point for family activity and interaction. (continued on Schedule O)We seek to inspire creativity, foster self-discovery,…
The Museum's mission is to encourage and promote the appreciation of fine art to people in its surrounding communities and beyond. The Museum is dedicated to fostering a deeper understanding of the arts, with particular emphasis on the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys and Girls Harbor Inc and the most unlike its peers is Safe Harbor Alano Club. 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 44 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) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 6% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 51 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 The Point Community Development Corporation ↗
- Who funds GRANT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS' CLUB OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds SALISBURY VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE SERV ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY ACADIA ↗
- Who funds THE ARMAND HAMMER UNITED WORLD COLLEGE OF THE AMER ↗
- Who funds JANUS SUPPORTIVE LIVING SVCS INC ↗
- Who funds Mount Desert Land and Garden Preserve ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR ALANO CLUB ↗
- Who funds Acadia Family Center ↗
- Who funds BRONXARTSPACE ↗
- Who funds THE NEW CANAAN LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds FOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE JOHN'S ISLAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
- Who funds SCAN-HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds ATELIER DE LA NATURE ↗
- Who funds CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds FLYING DEER NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds GROTON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TOWN PLAYERS OF NEW CANAAN INC ↗
- Who funds VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds FISHERS ISLAND FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds MUSIC THEATRE OF CT INC ↗
- Who funds MCKEE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSATONIC CHILD CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FLOAT HOPE OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY 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: The Morris Family Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · The Fairfield Foundation · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Half Moon Foundation · The Seelert Foundation Inc · Hobbs Family Charitable Trust · Florence V Burden Foundation · Alexander Family Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc
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 Northern Lights Foundation 009502-005 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.
- Town Players of New Canaan Inc — 2% of income from government
- United Way of Indian River County Inc — 1% of income from government
- Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated — 0% 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.