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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.

$49k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$234kArts & Culture$173kEducation$67kPublic Benefit$54kFood & Nutrition$32kScience & Tech$31kHealth$26kAnimals$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$155k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAVE THE SOUND$10,000
BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE$10,000
PATTAGNSETT LAKE ASSOC$7,500
CREATIVE ARTS WORKSHOP$5,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AM$5,000
CT FARMLAND TRUST$5,000
BOCA GRANDE HISTORICAL SOCIETY$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
ROYAL PALM PLAYERS$1,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$1,000
ARCHBOLD BIOLOGICAL STATION$1,000
JOHANN FUST LIBRARY$1,000
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SAFE FUTURES: $3k → 9%SAFE FUTURES: $2k → 9%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

NY
MA
OH
CT
CA
MO
VA
MD
DE
NC
DC
AL
GA
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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$470k · 21 repeat orgs$235k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +10% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
33

Total granted

$470k
$208k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+10%

Still filing today

62%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentArts & CultureEducationInternationalFood & NutritionCivil RightsOther
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

  • 3
    350ORG
    3× · 2019–2022 · $30k · revenue +7%
  • CA
    CREATIVE ARTS WORKSHOP INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $20k · revenue +1%
  • EARTHJUSTICE
    2× · 2017–2018 · $20k · revenue +82%

Funded once

  • NE
    NEW ENGLAND FORESTRY FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +225%
  • CA
    CONNECTICUT AUDUBON SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue -60%
  • CP
    CT PUBLIC BROADCASTING NETWORK
    one grant, 2017 · $13k
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
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
2
Wildlands Trust Inc

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…

Environment
3
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
4
New York League of Conservation Voters

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…

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5
Land Conservancy of Ridgefield Inc

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…

Environment
6
The Land Trust for Tennessee Inc

To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.

Environment
7
Land Conservancy of West Michigan

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…

Environment
8
The Adirondack Council Inc

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…

Environment
9
Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment
10
Land Trust Accreditation Commission

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…

Environment
11
Westchester Land Trust Inc

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…

Environment
12
The Central New York Land Trust Inc

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.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Trust for Public Land; 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.
04the grantee network

37 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. 37 of the 62 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/37
Grantees still filing
24/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY INTERNATIO: $54,000 · OtherCORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY INTERNATIOBRIDGE REPERTORY THEATER INC: $30,000 · OtherBRIDGE REPERTORY THEATER INCIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCITY SEED: $22,000 · OtherCITY SEEDWINTERTHUR GARDEN LANDSCAPE SOCIETY: $17,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $16,000 · OtherLEAP: $15,000 · OtherPLOUGHSHARES FUND: $13,000 · OtherCT PUBLIC BROADCASTING NETWORK: $12,500 · Other+26 more: $157,500 · Other+26 moreSAVE THE SOUND: $35,000 · EnvironmentSAVE THE SOUND350ORG: $30,000 · Environment350ORGEARTHJUSTICE: $20,000 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICETHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $20,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAN…NEW ENGLAND FORESTRY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · EnvironmentNEW ENGLAND FORESTRY FOU…CONNECTICUT AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $15,000 · EnvironmentCONNECTICUT AUDUBON SOCI…+4 more: $11,000 · Environment+4 moreTHE CONNECTICUT PLAYERS FOUNDATION INC D/B/A LONG WHARF THEATRE: $71,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CONNECTICU…CREATIVE ARTS WORKSHOP INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureCREATIVE ARTS …+3 more: $2,500 · Arts & CultureCONCORD ACADEMY: $14,500 · EducationWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $10,000 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $7,050 · EducationOHIO CAMPUS COMPACT: $4,000 · EducationLIDE HAITI: $2,000 · EducationAMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST: $13,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD RECOVERY NETWORK INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionConnecticut Farmland Trust Inc: $5,000 · Food & NutritionTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $15,000 · InternationalCenter for Arms Control and: $5,000 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $2,500 · InternationalPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $15,000 · Health
Other$362,500Environment$151,000Arts & Culture$93,500Education$37,550Food & Nutrition$28,000International$22,500Health$15,000

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 budgetTHE CONNECTICUT PLAYERS FOUNDATION INC D/B/A LONG WHARF THEATRE: $71,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSAVE THE SOUND: $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budget350ORG: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCREATIVE ARTS WORKSHOP INC: $20,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND FORESTRY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $15,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONCORD ACADEMY: $14,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST: $13,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER: $11,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD RECOVERY NETWORK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetDefenders of Wildlife: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew Hartford Land Trust Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $7,050 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFELLOWSHIP PLACE INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Arms Control and: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOBB SHERIFF'S FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAVALONIA LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSafe Futures Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetConnecticut Farmland Trust Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOHIO CAMPUS COMPACT: $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLCHESTER LAND TRUST INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIDE HAITI: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOCA GRANDE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetROYAL PALM PLAYERS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMAS MUSICAL THEATRE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

The Jane and William …The George and Carol …Newalliance Foundatio…Ibm International Fou…Aetna Foundation IncThe Pfizer Foundation…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…
The Jane and William Curran Foundation Inc C/O Margaret AndreassiFL15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Ruth Du Pont Lord Charitable Trust Co Pauline Lord funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ruth Du Pont Lord Charitable Trust Co Pauline Lord. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 16%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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.

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 62 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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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