Connecticut · Private foundation
The Edward and Mary Lord 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.
- $933k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 30
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $136,274
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 33
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $18M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations The Edward and Mary Lord Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 30 | $933k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $1.0M | 24% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $1.0M | 42% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $1.0M | 55% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $907k | 59% |
| FY2020 | 33 | $895k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Riverfront Childrens Center Inc | $591,554 | 6 | 26% |
| Mitchell College | $460,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Madonna Place Inc | $300,000 | 4 | 7% |
| United Community and Family Servicesinc | $237,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Thames Valley Council for Community Action Inc | $215,000 | 2 | 1% |
| St Edmunds Retreat Inc | $180,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Avalonia Land Conservancy Inc | $177,500 | 3 | 9% |
| Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center | $166,666 | 2 | 7% |
| Safe Futures Inc | $160,000 | 4 | 2% |
| St Jude Housing Corporation | $159,000 | 2 | 10% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Edward and Mary Lord Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 52 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Chelsea Groton Foundation · The Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut Inc · Dime Bank Foundation Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · Kitchings Family Foundation · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Centreville Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Eastern Ct Savings Bank Foundation Inc · R S Gernon Trust
How this is measured
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About The Edward and Mary Lord Foundation
- How much does The Edward and Mary Lord Foundation give?
- The Edward and Mary Lord Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $933,482 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 33 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Edward and Mary Lord Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (23%), Philanthropy (13%), Health (12%).
- Who are The Edward and Mary Lord Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Riverfront Childrens Center Inc ($592k), Mitchell College ($460k), Madonna Place Inc ($300k).
- Does The Edward and Mary Lord Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Edward and Mary Lord Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Edward and Mary Lord Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Chelsea Groton Foundation, The Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut Inc, Dime Bank Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Edward and Mary Lord Foundation based?
- The Edward and Mary Lord Foundation is based in CT.
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