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The Lincoln Ellsworth 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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $75k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $169k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $33,000 |
| THE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER | $26,000 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF VETERINANRY MEDICINE | $25,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY OF GREATER NEW YORK | $25,000 |
| WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY | $18,000 |
| SECOND CHANCE RESCUE NYC | $12,000 |
| ONE LARCHMONT INC | $10,000 |
| PANTHER RIDGE CONSERVATION CENTER | $10,000 |
| DARTMOUTH COLLEGE LIBRARY | $10,000 |
| BYRD POLAR RESEARCH CENTER | $7,500 |
| WNET | $7,500 |
| A HOUSE ON BEEKMAN | $7,500 |
| FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| NEW CANAAN MOUNTED TROUP INC | $5,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 25%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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 +30% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 8 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- TATHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER7× · 2019–2025 · $225k · revenue +30%
- AMAmerican Museum of Natural History6× · 2020–2025 · $219k · revenue +25%
- WCWildlife Conservation Society7× · 2019–2025 · $141k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $42k
- HCHOBART COLLEGEone grant, 2021 · $15k
- DIDIGNITY INCone grant, 2024 · $5k
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.
Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…
The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…
The mission is "to understand the natural world and inspire everyone to care for it." the academy implements its mission through understanding the diversity of life; developing and applying science to protect the environment; and informing…
We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…
Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…
Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…
We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.
To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wnet and the most unlike its peers is The Bagby Foundation for the Musical Arts 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 33 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 46 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 THE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
- Who funds ONE LARCHMONT INC ↗
- Who funds BARKY PINES ANIMAL RESCUE & SANCTUARY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ENDEAVOR THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds WNET ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NEW CANAAN MOUNTED TROOP INC ↗
- Who funds Flint Park Conservancy ↗
- Who funds HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES ↗
- Who funds THE BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds BIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds PANTHER RIDGE CONSERVATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NEW CANAAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ENDEAVOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds A HOUSE ON BEEKMAN INC ↗
- Who funds DIGNITY INC ↗
- Who funds CARING FOR THE HOMELESS OF PEEKSKILL INC ↗
- Who funds GARDEN HOUSE SCHOOL OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds GETTYSBURG COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds LENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Lincoln Ellsworth 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.
- Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc — 0% of income from government
- New Canaan Mounted Troop 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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