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Philip & Linda Lesourd Lader Foundation at a glance

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Philip & Linda Lesourd Lader 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.

$702k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$362k
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, FY2017 to 2023.

Philanthropy$1.6MReligion$52kEducation$26kArts & Culture$21kEnvironment$7kHealth$4kEmployment$2kScience & Tech$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $3k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $325k
  • $250k+1 grant · $362k
$81,178
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM-LADER CHARITABLE FUND$362,426
VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM-LADER CHARITABLE FUND$148,902
VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM-LADER CHARITABLE FUND$94,802
VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM-LADER CHARITABLE FUND$81,178
VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM-LADER CHARITABLE FUND$12,000
PEMBROKE COLLEGE FUND$2,500
VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM-LADER CHARITABLE FUND$10
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HARVARD LAW SCHOOL: $5k → 8%VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM-LADER CHARITABLE FUND: $362k → 16%EMMA WILLARD SCHOOL: $5k → 11%COALITION FOR QUEENS: $2k → 13%PEMBROKE COLLEGE FUND: $3k → 13%USS GABRIELLE GIFFORDS COMMISSIONING FOUNDATION: $5k → 16%THE NEW YORK AVENUE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $30k → 14%LOST TREE CHAPEL: $5k → 11%CAMPUS CRUSADE: $500 → 13%THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION (FL): $1k → 13%YALE DIVINITY SCHOOL: $1k → 12%LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $500 → 12%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 11%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $2k → 14%BRAIN CHEMISTRY LABS: $1k → 8%ENDOWMENT FOR COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP: $500 → 6%ELLSWORTH COMMUNITY MUSIC INSTITUTE: $250 → 11%MAINE PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $200 → 13%VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM-LADER CHARITABLE FUND: $310k → 16%EMMA WILLARD SCHOOL: $2k → 11%THE NEW YORK AVENUE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $1k → 14%JUPTER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%CAMPUS CRUSADE: $500 → 13%COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC: $3k → 11%VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM-LADER CHARITABLE FUND: $300k → 16%SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $1k → 14%LOST TREE CHAPEL: $3k → 11%FRIENDS OF ACADIA: $2k → 11%VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM-LADER CHARITABLE FUND: $200k → 16%GARDENS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $5k → 11%FRIENDS OF ACADIA: $2k → 11%VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM-LADER CHARITABLE FUND: $179k → 16%GARDENS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $5k → 11%FRIENDS OF ACADIA: $2k → 11%VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM-LADER CHARITABLE FUND: $177k → 16%COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC: $2k → 11%VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM-LADER CHARITABLE FUND: $149k → 16%ISLAND HOUSING TRUST: $250 → 11%VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM-LADER CHARITABLE FUND: $138k → 16%NORTHEAST HARBOR LIBRARY: $1k → 11%VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM-LADER CHARITABLE FUND: $137k → 16%NORTHEAST HARBOR LIBRARY: $1k → 11%VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM-LADER CHARITABLE FUND: $105k → 16%MOUNT DESERT LAND AND GARDEN PRESERVE: $500 → 11%VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM-LADER CHARITABLE FUND: $95k → 16%VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM-LADER CHARITABLE FUND: $81k → 16%VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM-LADER CHARITABLE FUND: $15k → 16%VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM-LADER CHARITABLE FUND: $12k → 16%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NY
MA
OH
CT
RI
UT
VA
TN
NC
SC
DC
TX
FL
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 13 repeat orgs$37k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +88% since the first grant, against +52% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
17

Total granted

$2.3M
$34k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+88%
+52%

Still filing today

46%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentReligionHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther
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

  • Sundance Institute
    3× · 2017–2019 · $14k · revenue +1%
  • EW
    EMMA WILLARD SCHOOL
    2× · 2017–2018 · $7k · revenue +88%
  • FO
    Friends of Acadia
    3× · 2017–2019 · $6k · revenue +98%

Funded once

  • GP
    GARDENS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • HL
    HARVARD LAW SCHOOL
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • UG
    USS GABRIELLE GIFFORDS COMMISSIONING FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
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
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
2
University of New Haven

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…

Education
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
Westminster College

The mission of westminster college is to help students develop competencies, commitments, and characteristics which have distinguished human beings at their best. see continuation on schedule o.the liberal arts tradition is the foundation…

Education
5
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
6
Dean College

Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…

Education
7
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
8
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Mitchell College

Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.

Education
12
Emmanuel College

Emmanuel college is a coed, residential catholic liberal arts and sciences college with 2,112 undergraduate and graduate students.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pursuit Transformation Company Inc; the most unlike its peers is Smithsonian Institution. 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

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 32 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
15/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM-LADER CHARITABLE FUND: $2,260,101 · OtherVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM-LADER CHARITABLE FUND+16 more: $75,500 · OtherSundance Institute: $14,380 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $1,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $1,050 · Arts & CultureEMMA WILLARD SCHOOL: $7,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · EducationPURSUIT TRANSFORMATION COMPANY INC: $2,000 · Education+1 more: $100 · EducationFriends of Acadia: $6,000 · Environment+1 more: $100 · EnvironmentBROWN UNIVERSITY: $2,000 · Community ImprovementJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc: $1,000 · PhilanthropyENDOWMENT FOR COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP: $500 · ReligionISLAND HOUSING TRUST: $250 · Housing & Shelter
Other$2,335,601Arts & Culture$16,430Education$14,100Environment$6,100Community Improvement$2,000Philanthropy$1,000Religion$500Housing & Shelter$250

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSundance Institute: $14,380 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEMMA WILLARD SCHOOL: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Acadia: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPURSUIT TRANSFORMATION COMPANY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENDOWMENT FOR COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMount Desert Land and Garden Preserve: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Public Broadcasting Corporation: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetISLAND HOUSING TRUST: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Charleston Parks Conservancy: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds Sundance Institute ↗
  • Who funds EMMA WILLARD SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Friends of Acadia ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC ↗
  • Who funds PURSUIT TRANSFORMATION COMPANY INC ↗
  • Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
  • Who funds ENDOWMENT FOR COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds Mount Desert Land and Garden Preserve ↗
  • Who funds Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC ↗
  • Who funds ISLAND HOUSING TRUST ↗
  • Who funds ELLSWORTH COMMUNITY MUSIC INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds The Charleston Parks Conservancy ↗
  • Who funds OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗

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.

Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA11.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Philip & Linda Lesourd Lader Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Philip & Linda Lesourd Lader Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • South Florida Pbs Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Philip & Linda Lesourd Lader Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Philip & Linda Lesourd Lader 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 32 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home