· Private foundation
The Doug and Gay Lane 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $3k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $855k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEHIGH UNIVERSITY | $500,000 |
| MONTCLAIR FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IRVING MEDICAL CENTER | $150,000 |
| THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL | $100,000 |
| FRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE | $100,000 |
| RADCLIFFE CREEK SCHOOL | $80,000 |
| SPECIAL OPERATION WARRIOR FOUNDATION | $69,875 |
| PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAM SUNCOAST | $55,000 |
| ACCENT DANCE | $50,000 |
| PULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| SWIM ACROSS AMERICA | $10,250 |
| ARTS QUEST | $10,000 |
| MORAVIAN MANOR | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $151k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 83% 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.
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 +38% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $251k 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
- LULEHIGH UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +69%
- JHJUST HORIZONS ALLIANCE INC5× · 2017–2024 · $653k · revenue +7%
- PFPULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $440k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- DEDAVIS & ELKINS COLLEGEone grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +8%
- CLCAMPS LEELANAU AND KOHANone grant, 2021 · $250k
- CLCAMP LEELANAU KOHAHNA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $200k
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.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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…
Provide post-secondary education of excellence.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Operations Warrior Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Honoring Our Hometown Heroes of Denton County Inc. 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 37 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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 58 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 LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds RADCLIFFE CREEK SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE DAYTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUST HORIZONS ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds PULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DAVIS & ELKINS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds Montclair Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAMSUNCOAST INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS INC ↗
- Who funds MORAVIAN MANORS INC ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds HEART 2 HART DETROIT INC ↗
- Who funds ERWIN AND ISABELLE ZIEGELMAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Swim Across America Inc ↗
- Who funds ARTSQUEST ↗
- Who funds BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FNDTN INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Liberty Educational Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY STOREHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SANDHILLS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds RIGHT TO DREAM INC ↗
- Who funds RACQUET UP DETROIT ↗
- Who funds YMCA of Montclair NEW JERSEY ↗
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 Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Doug and Gay Lane 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.
- Montclair Foundation 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.