· Private foundation
Philip H and Christine Lodewick Foundation Inc
Its FY2022 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 86% of PHILIP H AND CHRISTINE LODEWICK FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST ANDREW'S LUTHERAN CHURCH | $17,000 |
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 (FY18–18, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
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.
8 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2022, 7 since wound down.
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 FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- RIRVNAHEALTH INC2× · 2018–2019 · $7k · revenue +197%
- ABA Better Chance in Ridgefield Inc2× · 2017–2018 · $4k · revenue +63%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF RIDGEFIELD2× · 2018–2019 · $2k · revenue +86%
Funded once
- LHLOUNSBURY HOUSEone grant, 2017 · $3k
- CWCONNECTICUT WOMENS HALL OF FAME INCone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue -51%
- AOAssociation of Religious Communities Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +308%
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 Land Conservancy of Ridgefield, Inc. ("the Land Conservancy"), founded in 1967, preserves and protects, for the general benefit of the public, Ridgefield, Connecticut's natural resources including land and water resources, the plant…
The ridgefield conservatory of dance is dedicated to the use of a well-structured syllabus for all dance techniques. an age appropriate syllabus that takes into consideration both physical and mental development ensures the best and safest…
The mission of ridgefield chamber of commerce is to promote the economic vitality of the town of ridgefield ct through member engagement, hospitality.
To provide shelter and placement of homeless dogs and cats.
Ridgefield Main Street is a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the cultural heritage of downtown Ridgefield, while advocating advocating for its future through economic development, community events, public and private…
Support civic activities in the town of ridgefield, ct
To provide preschool education for children ages 2-5.
Ridgefield library is a public library, incorporated in 1901 as a private 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and governed by a sixteen member board of directors. the library serves as a cultural and intellectual center and a community…
To expand educational opportunities and enhance academic excellence at ridgewater college by providing financial and community support. the foundation accomplishes its mission through its annual and capital fundraising campaigns, which…
To protect water quality and wildlife habitat in the seven-town Norwalk River Watershed
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rvnahealth Inc and the most unlike its peers is Association of Religious Communities Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 18 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 RVNAHEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds A Better Chance in Ridgefield Inc ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT WOMENS HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds Association of Religious Communities Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF RIDGEFIELD ↗
- Who funds MEALS-ON-WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds The Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra Inc ↗
- Who funds WOODCOCK NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RIDGEFIELD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds RIDGEFIELD GUILD OF ARTISTS ↗
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: Anne S Richardson Fund Xxxxx3004 · Synchrony Foundation · Pf & Rj Morganti Foundation · Taylor-Zemo Foundation Inc · Ridgefield Thrift Shop Inc · The Goldstone Family Foundation · Union Savings Bank Foundation Inc · The Barker Welfare Foundation · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Ge Aerospace 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 Philip H and Christine Lodewick Foundation Inc 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.
- Ridgefield Historical Society Inc — 7% of income from government
- Association of Religious Communities Inc — 6% of income from government
- The Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra Inc — 2% of income from government
- Rvnahealth Inc — 2% 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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Philip H and Christine Lodewick Foundation Inc?
Find your warmest path to Philip H and Christine Lodewick Foundation Inc 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.