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The D Lane & Anwyl Bates Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$405k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192024.

International$264kHuman Services$203kEducation$134kYouth Development$110kAnimals$94kPhilanthropy$85kHealth$70kHousing & Shelter$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $340k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$25,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF STAMFORD$60,000
STAMFORD SCHOOL READINESS FOUNDATION INC (MAYOR'S YOUTH EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM)$30,000
FALMOUTH SERVICE CENTER INC$25,000
FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS OF AMERICA$25,000
PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND$25,000
AFS INTERCULTURAL PROGRAMS INC$25,000
ST JOSEPH'S PARENTING CENTER$25,000
OPERATION SECOND CHANCE$25,000
THE STAMFORD HOSPITAL$25,000
ELEPHANT AID INTERNATIONAL$25,000
ROSIE'S PLACE INC$25,000
HOPE FOR THE WARRIORS$25,000
DIGNITY GROWS$25,000
THE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC$15,000
PECONIC BAY MEDICAL CENTER$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $244k) 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.

area typical 7%DIGNITY GROWS: $50k → 11%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS OF AMERICA: $50k → 8%DIGNITY GROWS: $25k → 11%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS OF AMERICA: $25k → 8%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS OF AMERICA: $10k → 8%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS OF AMERICA: $5k → 8%ST JOSEPH'S PARENTING CENTER: $50k → 9%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS OF AMERICA: $4k → 8%ST JOSEPH'S PARENTING CENTER: $25k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NY
MA
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
GA

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$980k · 14 repeat orgs$110k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
2

Total granted

$980k
$55k

Still filing today

79%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesPhilanthropyPublic BenefitHousing & ShelterHealthInternationalOther

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

  • FS
    FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $94k · revenue +26%
  • OS
    Operation Second Chance Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $94k · revenue +182%
  • SJ
    SAINT JOSEPH PARENTING CENTER INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $75k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • TA
    THE ARMENIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH OF AMERICA INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • MC
    MARINE CORPS LEAGUE LOCK CITY DETACHMENT #910
    one grant, 2020 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Shield of Faith Missions

Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.

Religion
2
Special Forces Foundation

The special forces foundation provides immediate and ongoing support to the special forces community and their families.

Philanthropy
3
Lifeworks Services Inc

Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.

Human Services
4
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
5
Saratoga Care Inc

To serve the people of the Saratoga region by providing them access to excellence in healthcare in a supportive and caring environment.

Health
6
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
7
Saint Francis Service Dogs

Purpose is to help people with disabilities achieve their goals and have greater independence through partnership with exceptional service and facility dogs.

Human Services
8
Hero Dogs Inc

Hero Dogs improves the quality of life of our nations heroes and enhances the services of community organizations by placing assistance dogs with customized training & lifetime support.

Human Services
9
Lifestream Inc

Lifestream, inc. (the organization") provides community-based services that support individuals in attaining greater independence, promising opportunities, and lives that are meaningful and fulfilling on their own terms.

Health
10
International Social Service United States of America Branch Inc

Iss-usa mobilizes a domestic and international network of social work, legal, and other professionals to connect children, adults and families separated by borders with the services and support they need.

Human Services
11
Fsg Inc

Fsg is an international nonprofit social enterprise with a mission of accelerating the pace of social progress through philanthropic leadership. fsg achieves its mission by providing strategy consulting, program evaluation, research and…

Community Improvement
12
Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc

Dogs Inc mission is to transform lives by creating and nurturing extraordinary partnerships between people and dogs.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Food Bank of Lower Fairfield County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dignity Grows Inc. 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

13 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 20 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ELEPHANT AID INTERNATIONAL — $129,000 · OtherELEPHANT AID INTERNATIONALBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF STAMFORD INC — $110,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF STAMFORD INCSTAMFORD SCHOOL READINESS FOUNDATION INC (MAYOR'S YOUTH EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM) — $60,000 · OtherSTAMFORD SCHOOL READINESS FOUNDATION INC (MAYOR'S…THE ARMENIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH OF AMERICA INC — $50,000 · OtherTHE ARMENIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH OF AMERICA INCFALMOUTH SERVICE CENTER INC — $25,000 · OtherPECONIC BAY MEDICAL CENTER — $20,000 · OtherThe Stamford Hospital — $50,000 · OtherThe Stamford Hospital+4 more — $35,000 · Other+4 moreFREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC — $94,000 · Human ServicesFREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INCSAINT JOSEPH PARENTING CENTER INC — $75,000 · Human ServicesSAINT JOSEPH PARENTING CE…DIGNITY GROWS INC — $75,000 · Human ServicesDIGNITY GROWS INCOperation Second Chance Inc — $94,000 · Public BenefitOperation…Hope For The Warriors — $85,000 · PhilanthropyHope For …GARY SINISE FOUNDATION — $9,000 · PhilanthropyGARY SINI…PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND — $69,000 · EducationAFS INTERCULTURAL PROGRAMS INC — $60,000 · InternationalROSIE'S PLACE INC — $50,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$479,000Human Services$244,000Public Benefit$94,000Philanthropy$94,000Education$69,000International$60,000Housing & Shelter$50,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF STAMFORD INC — $110,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetFREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC — $94,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetOperation Second Chance Inc — $94,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetHope For The Warriors — $85,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSAINT JOSEPH PARENTING CENTER INC — $75,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetDIGNITY GROWS INC — $75,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND — $69,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAFS INTERCULTURAL PROGRAMS INC — $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Stamford Hospital — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFALMOUTH SERVICE CENTER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION — $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF STAMFORD INC
  • Who funds FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC
  • Who funds Operation Second Chance Inc
  • Who funds Hope For The Warriors
  • Who funds SAINT JOSEPH PARENTING CENTER INC
  • Who funds DIGNITY GROWS INC
  • Who funds PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND
  • Who funds AFS INTERCULTURAL PROGRAMS INC
  • Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC
  • Who funds The Stamford Hospital
  • Who funds FALMOUTH SERVICE CENTER INC
  • Who funds THE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC
  • Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION

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.

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC8.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 The D Lane & Anwyl Bates Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 7%
  • Saint Joseph Parenting Center Inc51% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Stamford Inc17% of income from government
  • Perkins School for the Blind7% of income from government
  • The Stamford Hospital0% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

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How do I get to The D Lane & Anwyl Bates Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The D Lane & Anwyl Bates 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 20 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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