· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (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.
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.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k 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
- RCRiverfront Childrens Center Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $592k · revenue +70% · 26% of their budget
- MPMadonna Place Inc4× · 2020–2025 · $300k · revenue +76%
- UCUNITED COMMUNITY AND FAMILY SERVICESINC2× · 2022–2024 · $238k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- RHRELIANCE HEALTH INCone grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue +19%
- ECEASTERN CT HOUSING OPPORTUNITIESone grant, 2024 · $100k
- WCWATERFORD COUNTRY SCHOOL INCone 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.
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.
The purpose of the "Society" is to collect, preserve, and interpret Wethersfield's past for the education and enjoyment of present and future generations.
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.
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…
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…
To foster collaborations to ensure a highly educated, diverse and sustainable nursing workforce to support the healthcare needs of connecticut residents.
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…
Eastern connecticut housing opportunities, inc. is a non-profit organization organized to provide affordable housing to low-income families of southeastern connecticut.
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
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.
Museum
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…
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.
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 field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
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 2017–2025, 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.
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 Riverfront Childrens Center Inc ↗
- Who funds MITCHELL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Madonna Place Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY AND FAMILY SERVICESINC ↗
- Who funds THAMES VALLEY COUNCIL FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds AVALONIA LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds DENISON PEQUOTSEPOS NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Safe Futures Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND SCIENCE & SAILING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THREE RIVERS COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RELIANCE HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW LONDON HOMELESS HOSPITALITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds OPERATION FUEL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds OCEAN COMMUNITY YMCA ↗
- Who funds THE ARC EASTERN CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH HOPES THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC ↗
- Who funds WATERFORD COUNTRY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Society of The Founders of Norwich CT Inc ↗
- Who funds STANTON-DAVIS HOMESTAND MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds The Brian Dagle Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NORWICH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIO ↗
- Who funds ALWAYS HOME INC ↗
- Who funds Garde Arts Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THE NEW LONDON COMMUNITY MEAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Disabilities Network of Eastern Connecticut Inc ↗
- Who funds SLATER LIBRARY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NORWICH ROTARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EASTERN CT COMMUNITY GARDENS ASSOC ↗
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: 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.
- Reliance Health Inc — 100% of income from government
- Norwich Community Development Corporatio — 100% of income from government
- The Arc Eastern Connecticut Inc — 88% of income from government
- Norwich Arts Center Inc — 86% of income from government
- Thames Valley Council for Community Action Inc — 83% of income from government
- Access Agency Inc — 79% of income from government
- Artreach Inc — 54% of income from government
- Operation Fuel Incorporated — 51% of income from government
- New London Homeless Hospitality Center — 47% of income from government
- The New London Community Meal Center Inc — 44% of income from government
- Horizons Inc — 39% of income from government
- Disabilities Network of Eastern Connecticut Inc — 37% of income from government
- United Community and Family Servicesinc — 29% of income from government
- Waterford Country School Inc — 29% of income from government
- Riverfront Childrens Center Inc — 21% of income from government
- Avalonia Land Conservancy Inc — 21% of income from government
- Madonna Place Inc — 20% of income from government
- Safe Futures Inc — 15% of income from government
- Garde Arts Center Inc — 10% of income from government
- Sea Research Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
- The Denison Society Inc — 6% of income from government
- Mystic Seaport Museum Inc — 5% of income from government
- St Vincent De Paul Place Norwich Inc — 4% of income from government
- The William W Backus Hospital — 2% of income from government
- Florence Griswold Museum Inc — 2% of income from government
- Mitchell College — 2% of income from government
- Flock Theatre — 1% of income from government
- Eugene O'neill Memorial Theater Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center — 0% of income from government
- High Hopes Therapeutic Riding Inc — 0% of income from government
- Norwich Rotary Foundation Inc — 0% 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.
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