· Private foundation
Ruth Du Pont Lord Charitable Trust Co Pauline Lord
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 47% of RUTH DU PONT LORD CHARITABLE TRUST CO PAULINE LORD’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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE | $10,000 |
| SAVE THE SOUND | $10,000 |
| PATTAGNSETT LAKE ASSOC | $7,500 |
| CT FARMLAND TRUST | $5,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AM | $5,000 |
| CREATIVE ARTS WORKSHOP | $5,000 |
| ARCHBOLD BIOLOGICAL STATION | $1,000 |
| ROYAL PALM PLAYERS | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $1,000 |
| BOCA GRANDE HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| JOHANN FUST LIBRARY | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–20, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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
- 3350ORG3× · 2019–2022 · $30k · revenue +30%
EARTHJUSTICE2× · 2017–2018 · $20k · revenue +82%
THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND2× · 2017–2023 · $20k · revenue +109%
Funded once
- NENEW ENGLAND FORESTRY FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +225%
- CACONNECTICUT AUDUBON SOCIETY INCone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue -60%
- CPCT PUBLIC BROADCASTING NETWORKone grant, 2017 · $13k
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.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
See schedule onylcv is a non-partisan policy making and political action organization that works to make environmental protection a top priority with elected officials, decision-makers and the voters by evaluating incumbent performance and…
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…
To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
The mission of the land trust accreditation commission is to inspire excellence, promote public trust and ensure permanence in the conservation of open lands by recognizing land trust organizations that meet rigorous quality standards and…
The primary mission of the Westchester Land Trust is to conserve, maintain and enhance the natural environment and resources of Westchester County and eastern Putnam County. The Trust acquires interests in land exhibiting important natural…
The central new york land trust seeks to preserve and protect natural areas in order to provide our communities clean water, clean air, wildlife habitat, and a chance to connect with the land.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Trust for Public Land and the most unlike its peers is Lide Haiti. 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 48 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.
37 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. 37 of the 62 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 CONNECTICUT PLAYERS FOUNDATION INC D/B/A LONG WHARF THEATRE ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE SOUND ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE REPERTORY THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds 350ORG ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND FORESTRY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE ARTS WORKSHOP INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds CONCORD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Defenders of Wildlife ↗
- Who funds New Hartford Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD RECOVERY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds Safe Futures Inc ↗
- Who funds East Lyme Land Trust 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 Jane and William Curran Foundation Inc C/O Margaret Andreassi · The George and Carol Milne Foundation · Newalliance Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Ruth Du Pont Lord Charitable Trust Co Pauline Lord 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.
- New England Forestry Foundation Inc — 88% of income from government
- Fellowship Place Inc — 66% of income from government
- Save the Sound — 37% of income from government
- Avalonia Land Conservancy Inc — 21% of income from government
- Lyme Land Conservation Trust Inc — 16% of income from government
- Safe Futures Inc — 15% of income from government
- Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc — 7% of income from government
- Connecticut Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Connecticut Players Foundation Inc D/B/a Long Wharf Theatre — 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.