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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 FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$136k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Human Services$1.3MPhilanthropy$745kHealth$709kEducation$695kArts & Culture$599kEnvironment$539kHousing & Shelter$423kCommunity Improvement$288kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $391k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $506k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF EASTERN CT$136,274
OCEAN COMMUNITY YMCA$100,000
SAFE FUTURES INC$80,000
MADONNA PLACE INC$75,000
THE ARC EASTERN CONNECTICUT INC$60,820
AVALONIA LAND CONSERVANCY INC$54,000
ST EDMUND'S RETREAT INC$45,000
NEW ENGLAND SCIENCE & SAILING FOUNDATION$42,000
OPERATION FUEL INC$30,000
THREE RIVERS COLLEGE FOUNDATION$30,000
THE RIVERFRONT CHILDREN'S CENTER$30,000
HIGH HOPES THERAPEUTIC RIDING$30,000
STANTON-DAVIS HOMESTEAD MUSEUM INC$25,000
SOCIETY OF THE FOUNDERS OF NORWICH$20,488
MITCHELL COLLEGE$20,000
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 (FY20–25, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ESTUARY COUNCIL OF SENIORS INC: $8k → 7%OCEAN COMMUNITY YMCA: $100k → 7%MADONNA PLACE INC: $75k → 9%MADONNA PLACE INC: $75k → 9%MADONNA PLACE INC: $75k → 9%MADONNA PLACE INC: $75k → 9%THE RIVERFRONT CHILDREN'S CENTER: $469k → 9%THE RIVERFRONT CHILDREN'S CENTER: $30k → 9%THE RIVERFRONT CHILDREN'S CENTER: $30k → 9%THE RIVERFRONT CHILDREN'S CENTER: $28k → 9%THE RIVERFRONT CHILDREN'S CENTER: $20k → 9%THE RIVERFRONT CHILDREN'S CENTER: $15k → 9%NEW LONDON HOMELESS HOSPITALITY CENTER INC: $100k → 9%SAFE FUTURES INC: $80k → 9%SAFE FUTURES INC: $30k → 9%SAFE FUTURES INC: $25k → 9%SAFE FUTURES INC: $25k → 9%NEW LONDON HOMELESS HOSPITALITY CENTER INC: $20k → 9%PREGNANCY SUPPORT CENTER INC: $4k → 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.

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.9M · 36 repeat orgs$922k to everyone else

36 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
36

Total granted

$4.9M
$797k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+34%

Still filing today

78%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentOther

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

  • RC
    Riverfront Childrens Center Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $592k · revenue +70% · 26% of their budget
  • MP
    Madonna Place Inc
    4× · 2020–2025 · $300k · revenue +76%
  • UC
    UNITED COMMUNITY AND FAMILY SERVICESINC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $238k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • RH
    RELIANCE HEALTH INC
    one grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue +19%
  • EC
    EASTERN CT HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • WC
    WATERFORD COUNTRY SCHOOL INC
    one grant, 2020 · $60k · revenue -18%

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
Wethersfield Historical Society

The purpose of the "Society" is to collect, preserve, and interpret Wethersfield's past for the education and enjoyment of present and future generations.

Arts & Culture
2
Chamber of Commerce of Eastern Connecticut Inc

The Chamber of Commerce of Eastern Connecticut, Inc. is a collaborative of business and community leaders dedicated to securing and enhancing the economic vitality of eastern Connecticut.

3
Connecticut Aeronautical Historical Association Inc

The new england air museum's mission is to preserve and present the story of aviation and aerospace, with an emphasis on new england's role, and the genius and inspiration that made it possible. the museum also seeks to inspire young…

Arts & Culture
4
Connecticut Housing Coalition Inc

The connecticut housing coalition works to expand housing opportunity and to increase the quantity and quality of affordable housing available to people with low and moderate incomes in connecticut through advocacy, education and…

5
The Connecticut Center for Nursing Workforce Inc

To foster collaborations to ensure a highly educated, diverse and sustainable nursing workforce to support the healthcare needs of connecticut residents.

Health
6
New Haven Preservation Trust Incorporated

Primary purpose is to save and preserve buildings in New Haven, Connecticut through ongoing involvement with the city, Yale University and its neighborhoods, including educational activities such as walking tours of downtown New Haven and…

7
Eastern Connecticut Housing Opportunities Inc

Eastern connecticut housing opportunities, inc. is a non-profit organization organized to provide affordable housing to low-income families of southeastern connecticut.

Housing & Shelter
8
Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc

Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements

Food & Nutrition
9
Connecticut Humane Society

The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.

Animals
10
Litchfield Historical Society

Museum

11
Manchester Historical Society Inc

The manchester historical society educates the public about the history of manchester, connecticut; collects, preserves, interprets, and exhibits information and artifacts about the town and its diverse population, and advocates for the…

Arts & Culture
12
Connecticut League of History Organizations

The Connecticut League of History Organizations, DBA the Connecticut League of Museums, unifies and strengthens our state's museums and cultural resources to expand their life capacity and community impact. We are the premier destination…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Community and Family Servicesinc and the most unlike its peers is Hygienic Art 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyLocal History & Heritage Or…Disability & Senior ServicesVolunteer Emergency ServicesCommunity Cultural & Civic …Labor Union LocalsCommunity Theater & DanceCommunity Health and Wellne…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 39 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%0%<5yr11%5%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr19%25%20–35yr13%29%35–55yr20%32%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%0%<5yr11%0%5–10yr19%3%10–20yr19%15%20–35yr13%31%35–55yr20%50%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/63
the rest of the field
10%
158/1,612

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.

04the grantee network

54 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. 54 of the 76 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/54
Grantees still filing
40/54
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF EASTERN CT — $735,435 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF EASTERN CTUNITED COMMUNITY AND FAMILY SERVICESINC — $237,500 · OtherUNITED COMMUNITY AND FAMILY SERVICESINCST EDMUNDS RETREAT INC — $180,000 · OtherST EDMUNDS RETREAT INCST JUDE HOUSING CORPORATION — $159,000 · OtherST JUDE HOUSING CORPORATIONTHREE RIVERS COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $150,000 · OtherTHREE RIVERS COLLEGE FOUNDATIONROSE CITY SENIOR CENTER — $150,000 · OtherROSE CITY SENIOR CENTEREASTERN CT HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES — $100,000 · OtherTHE ARC EASTERN CONNECTICUT INC — $99,147 · OtherNEW ENGLAND SCIENCE & SAILING FOUNDATION INC — $159,000 · OtherNEW ENGLAND SCIENCE & SAILING FOUNDATION INCOPERATION FUEL INCORPORATED — $110,000 · Other+32 more — $655,474 · Other+32 moreRiverfront Childrens Center Inc — $591,554 · Human ServicesRiverfront Childrens Cent…Madonna Place Inc — $300,000 · Human ServicesMadonna Place IncSafe Futures Inc — $160,000 · Human ServicesSafe Futures IncNEW LONDON HOMELESS HOSPITALITY CENTER — $120,000 · Human ServicesNEW LONDON HOMELESS HOSPI…OCEAN COMMUNITY YMCA — $100,000 · Human ServicesOCEAN COMMUNITY YMCA+2 more — $12,034 · Human ServicesMITCHELL COLLEGE — $460,000 · EducationMITCHELL CO…WATERFORD COUNTRY SCHOOL INC — $60,000 · EducationWATERFORD C…SLATER LIBRARY CORPORATION — $25,000 · EducationEASTERN CT COMMUNITY GARDENS ASSOC — $23,889 · EducationFRACTURED ATLAS INC — $145,000 · Arts & CultureMYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC — $55,000 · Arts & CultureSTANTON-DAVIS HOMESTAND MUSEUM INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureGarde Arts Center Inc — $35,000 · Arts & CultureMystic Museum of Art Inc — $13,000 · Arts & Culture+10 more — $62,940 · Arts & CultureAVALONIA LAND CONSERVANCY INC — $177,500 · EnvironmentDENISON PEQUOTSEPOS NATURE CENTER — $166,666 · EnvironmentTHAMES VALLEY COUNCIL FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC — $215,000 · Community ImprovementNORWICH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIO — $40,000 · Community ImprovementNORWICH ROTARY FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · Community ImprovementRELIANCE HEALTH INC — $150,000 · HealthThe Brian Dagle Foundation Inc — $45,000 · HealthThe William W Backus Hospital — $20,000 · Health
Other$2,735,556Human Services$1,283,588Education$568,889Arts & Culture$360,940Environment$344,166Community Improvement$280,000Health$215,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetRiverfront Childrens Center Inc — $591,554 over 6y, 26% of budgetMITCHELL COLLEGE — $460,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetMadonna Place Inc — $300,000 over 4y, 6.8% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITY AND FAMILY SERVICESINC — $237,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHAMES VALLEY COUNCIL FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC — $215,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetAVALONIA LAND CONSERVANCY INC — $177,500 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetDENISON PEQUOTSEPOS NATURE CENTER — $166,666 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetSafe Futures Inc — $160,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetST JUDE HOUSING CORPORATION — $159,000 over 2y, 10.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND SCIENCE & SAILING FOUNDATION INC — $159,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetTHREE RIVERS COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetRELIANCE HEALTH INC — $150,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC — $145,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW LONDON HOMELESS HOSPITALITY CENTER — $120,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetOPERATION FUEL INCORPORATED — $110,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetOCEAN COMMUNITY YMCA — $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE ARC EASTERN CONNECTICUT INC — $99,147 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHIGH HOPES THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC — $80,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetWATERFORD COUNTRY SCHOOL INC — $60,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC — $55,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSociety of The Founders of Norwich CT Inc — $50,488 over 2y, 29% of budgetSTANTON-DAVIS HOMESTAND MUSEUM INC — $50,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetThe Brian Dagle Foundation Inc — $45,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetNORWICH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIO — $40,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetALWAYS HOME INC — $37,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetGarde Arts Center Inc — $35,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE NEW LONDON COMMUNITY MEAL CENTER INC — $35,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetDisabilities Network of Eastern Connecticut Inc — $30,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetSLATER LIBRARY CORPORATION — $25,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetNORWICH ROTARY FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 5y, 8.0% of budgetEASTERN CT COMMUNITY GARDENS ASSOC — $23,889 over 3y, 13% of budgetSEA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $23,815 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARTREACH INC — $21,500 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetHYGIENIC ART INC — $20,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetThe William W Backus Hospital — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MAURICE C LA GRUA CENTER — $20,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetMystic Museum of Art Inc — $13,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetEUGENE O'NEILL MEMORIAL THEATER CENTER INC — $12,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHORIZONS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetST VINCENT DE PAUL PLACE NORWICH INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE DENISON SOCIETY INC — $8,700 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetChildren's Museum of Southeastern Connecticut Inc — $8,240 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetFLOCK THEATRE — $8,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetESTUARY COUNCIL OF SENIORS INC — $7,834 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFLORENCE GRISWOLD MUSEUM INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ANTIQUARIAN & LANDMARKS SOCIETY INC — $6,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNORWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $6,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetACCESS AGENCY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 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.

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.

Chelsea Groton FoundationCT86.3× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Edward and Mary Lord 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 · 90%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 21%
  • Reliance Health Inc100% of income from government
  • Norwich Community Development Corporatio100% of income from government
  • The Arc Eastern Connecticut Inc88% of income from government
  • Norwich Arts Center Inc86% of income from government
  • Thames Valley Council for Community Action Inc83% of income from government
  • Access Agency Inc79% of income from government
  • Artreach Inc54% of income from government
  • Operation Fuel Incorporated51% of income from government
  • New London Homeless Hospitality Center47% of income from government
  • The New London Community Meal Center Inc44% of income from government
  • Horizons Inc39% of income from government
  • Disabilities Network of Eastern Connecticut Inc37% of income from government
  • United Community and Family Servicesinc29% of income from government
  • Waterford Country School Inc29% of income from government
  • Riverfront Childrens Center Inc21% of income from government
  • Avalonia Land Conservancy Inc21% of income from government
  • Madonna Place Inc20% of income from government
  • Safe Futures Inc15% of income from government
  • Garde Arts Center Inc10% of income from government
  • Sea Research Foundation Inc8% of income from government
  • The Denison Society Inc6% of income from government
  • Mystic Seaport Museum Inc5% of income from government
  • St Vincent De Paul Place Norwich Inc4% of income from government
  • The William W Backus Hospital2% of income from government
  • Florence Griswold Museum Inc2% of income from government
  • Mitchell College2% of income from government
  • Flock Theatre1% of income from government
  • Eugene O'neill Memorial Theater Center Inc1% of income from government
  • Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center0% of income from government
  • High Hopes Therapeutic Riding Inc0% of income from government
  • Norwich Rotary Foundation Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
8rely 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 Edward and Mary Lord Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Edward and Mary Lord 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 76 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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