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The Doug and Gay Lane Foundation at a glance

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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.

$1.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$3.1MHealth$878kPhilanthropy$725kReligion$653kRecreation & Sports$453kArts & Culture$394kYouth Development$190kPublic Benefit$116kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $3k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $855k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$50,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$7.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LEHIGH UNIVERSITY$500,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IRVING MEDICAL CENTER$150,000
MONTCLAIR FOUNDATION$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
PULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION$50,000
HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION$50,000
ACCENT DANCE$50,000
SWIM ACROSS AMERICA$10,250
ARTS QUEST$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
MORAVIAN MANOR$10,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $50k → 17%A SHOT FOR LIFE: $500 → 8%HEART 2 HEART DETROIT: $25k → 8%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $50k → 17%YMCA OF MONTCLAIR: $5k → 16%BRIGID ALLIANCE: $20k → 17%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

IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
WV
MD
NC
SC
TX
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.2M · 24 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +36% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
29

Total granted

$5.2M
$959k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+36%

Still filing today

67%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $251k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyArts & CultureReligionOther
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

  • LU
    LEHIGH UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +69%
  • JH
    JUST HORIZONS ALLIANCE INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $653k · revenue +7%
  • PF
    PULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $440k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • CL
    CAMPS LEELANAU AND KOHAN
    one grant, 2021 · $250k
  • DE
    DAVIS & ELKINS COLLEGE
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +8%
  • CL
    CAMP LEELANAU KOHAHNA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $200k
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
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
2
University of New Haven

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…

Education
3
Atlantic University Inc

Provide post-secondary education of excellence.

Education
4
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
Rhode Island School of Design

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…

Education
6
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
7
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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8
Delaware Valley University

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…

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9
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Sarah Lawrence College

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…

Education
11
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
12
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Operations Warrior Foundation; 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.
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 58 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/37
Grantees still filing
29/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $1,833,807 · EducationLEHIGH UNIVERSITYRADCLIFFE CREEK SCHOOL INC: $762,068 · EducationRADCLIFFE CREEK SCHOOL INCDAVIS & ELKINS COLLEGE: $250,000 · EducationDAVIS & ELKINS COLLEGETHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $150,000 · EducationSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $134,845 · Education+3 more: $8,750 · EducationIndividual grant recipient: $544,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCAMPS LEELANAU AND KOHAN: $250,000 · OtherCAMPS LEELANAU AND KOHANCAMP LEELANAU KOHAHNA FOUNDATION: $200,000 · OtherCAMP LEELANAU KOHAHNA FOUNDA…Montclair Foundation Inc: $150,000 · OtherMontclair Foundation IncFRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE: $115,500 · OtherFRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDEIndividual grant recipient: $110,250 · OtherIndividual grant recipientACCENT DANCE: $75,000 · OtherTHE PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAMSUNCOAST INC: $105,000 · OtherTHE PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAMSUN…+25 more: $274,619 · Other+25 moreTHE DAYTON FOUNDATION: $701,000 · PhilanthropyTHE DAYTON …+4 more: $70,250 · Philanthropy+4 moreJUST HORIZONS ALLIANCE INC: $653,150 · ReligionJUST HORIZ…+1 more: $11,000 · ReligionPULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $440,000 · HealthTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS INC: $100,000 · HealthMORAVIAN MANORS INC: $35,000 · Health+1 more: $5,000 · HealthGIRLS INC: $180,000 · Youth DevelopmentHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesHEART 2 HART DETROIT INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $20,000 · Human Services+2 more: $5,500 · Human Services
Education$3,139,470Other$1,824,369Philanthropy$771,250Religion$664,150Health$580,000Youth Development$180,000Human Services$150,500

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 budgetLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $1,833,807 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetRADCLIFFE CREEK SCHOOL INC: $762,068 over 7y, 7.8% of budgetTHE DAYTON FOUNDATION: $701,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetJUST HORIZONS ALLIANCE INC: $653,150 over 5y, 17% of budgetPULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $440,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetDAVIS & ELKINS COLLEGE: $250,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGIRLS INC: $180,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMontclair Foundation Inc: $150,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $134,845 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAMSUNCOAST INC: $105,000 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMORAVIAN MANORS INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $25,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetHEART 2 HART DETROIT INC: $25,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetERWIN AND ISABELLE ZIEGELMAN FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetSwim Across America Inc: $23,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetARTSQUEST: $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FNDTN INC: $21,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLiberty Educational Ministries Inc: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY STOREHOUSE INC: $10,219 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRIGHT TO DREAM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSANDHILLS SCHOOL: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYMCA of Montclair NEW JERSEY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBARRIER ISLAND PARKS SOCIETY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLEUKEMIATEXAS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetANDERSON UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKING SCHOOL INC: $3,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA SHOT FOR LIFE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $150 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…The Pfizer Foundation…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…Raymond James Charita…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC10.2× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The Doug and Gay Lane Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Doug and Gay Lane Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Montclair Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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 58 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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