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The Lovett Foundation at a glance

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The Lovett Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$78k
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$28k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$143kArts & Culture$140kHousing & Shelter$74kHealth$41kYouth Development$26kEnvironment$18kHuman Services$18kFood & Nutrition$17kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k22 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $38k
$2,500
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE LITTLE THEATRE OF WINSTON-SALEM$28,000
BOOKMARKS$10,000
THE DWELLING$3,750
LEAD GIRLS OF NC$3,500
THOMAS JEFFERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL PTA$3,350
PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL ALLIANCE$3,000
HOPE OF WINSTON-SALEM$3,000
OUT AT THE MOVIES$2,990
BETHESDA CENTER FOR THE HOMELESS$2,700
CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF CENTRAL NC$2,700
DREAM CENTER OF FORSYTH COUNTY$2,500
SUMMIT SCHOOL$2,500
A BED AND A BOOK$2,500
CITY WITH DWELLINGS$2,000
AUTHORING ACTION$2,000
02The need
03

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, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 74% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HISPANIC LIASON OF CHATHAM COUNTY: $3k → 9%RAIN INC: $3k → 10%KRAMDEN INSTITUTE: $2k → 11%THE HAVEN OF TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY: $3k → 13%INTER-FAITH ALLIANCE CORPORATION: $3k → 17%LEARNING TOGETHER: $3k → 8%KRAMDEN INSTITUTE: $2k → 11%LEARNING TOGETHER INC: $3k → 8%THE INTERACTIVE RESOURCE CENTER: $2k → 16%EAST WAKE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $3k → 8%GREENEST: $4k → 15%GREENEST: $3k → 15%PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL ALLIANCE: $3k → 15%GREENEST: $3k → 15%BETHESDA CENTER FOR THE HOMELESS: $3k → 15%PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL ALLIANCE: $1k → 15%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

WA
NY
IA
IN
PA
NJ
RI
CA
KY
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VA
TN
NC
SC
OK
LA
GA
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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$421k · 33 repeat orgs$162k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

33 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
71

Total granted

$421k
$145k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+19%

Still filing today

85%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • BI
    BOOKMARKS INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $78k · revenue +8%
  • TS
    The Summit School Incorporated
    8× · 2017–2025 · $42k · revenue +32%
  • WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $40k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • PL
    PIEDMONT LAND CONSERVANCYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +146%
  • J1
    JUNE 10 INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -129%
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
Longleaf School of the Arts

Operation of a public charter school.

Education
2
Wilmington School of the Arts

Wilmington School of the Arts is a tuition-free, public charter school located in New Hanover County, North Carolina. Its mission is to inspire students to pursue excellence in academics and the arts by awakening and nuturing the creative…

Education
3
The Piedmont Arts Association

To provide experiences in the visual and performing arts

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4
Wake Preparatory Academy

Operation of a North Carolina public charter school

Education
5
Carolina Charter Academy

Operation of a public charter school.

Education
6
Partnership for Art at the Core of Education

To operate a public charter school.

Education
7
Triangle Education Organization

Operate a Public Charter School.

Education
8
The Charlotte Center for the Humanities Inc

The mission of The Charlotte Center is to help our community flourish. We accomplish our mission by bringing people together to explore community life together through the lens of the humanities and civic imagination.

Human Services
9
The Expedition School

Operation of a North Carolina public charter school.

Education
10
Wilson Preparatory Academy

Operation of a public charter school.

Education
11
Davidson Day School

Davidson Day is a Pre-K through 12th grade college preparatory school located in Davidson, North Carolina. Davidson Day School fosters academic excellence through collaboration, creativity, and character development. Our vision is to be a…

Education
12
Wilkes Playmakers Inc

Provide cultural and artistic programs for the public of Wilkes County, NC and the surrounding area

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dream Center of Forsyth County; the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. 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

70 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 70 of the 118 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/70
Grantees still filing
44/70
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOOKMARKS INC: $77,500 · EducationBOOKMARKS INCThe Summit School Incorporated: $42,000 · EducationThe Summit School IncorporatedWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $40,000 · EducationWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITYCRISTO REY RESEARCH TRIANGLE HIGH SCHOOL INC: $6,344 · Education+7 more: $21,400 · Education+7 moreDance Project Inc: $10,495 · OtherDance Project IncTHE DWELLING: $9,750 · OtherTHE DWELLINGTHOMAS JEFFERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL PTA: $9,154 · OtherMOORE MAGNET SCHOOL: $6,180 · OtherCHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA: $8,484 · Other+69 more: $127,882 · Other+69 moreTHE LITTLE THEATRE OF WINSTON-SALEM INC: $37,399 · Arts & CultureTHE LITTLE THEAT…Arts For Life: $12,000 · Arts & CultureArts For LifeOUT at the Movies: $6,030 · Arts & CultureOUT at the Movie…NORTH CAROLINA ARTS IN ACTION INC: $5,500 · Arts & CultureNORTH CAROLINA A…PARKWAY PLAYHOUSE OF BURNSVILLE: $5,500 · Arts & CulturePARKWAY PLAYHOUS…BREATHING ACCESS: $4,500 · Arts & CultureOUT OF HAND THEATER: $3,800 · Arts & CultureTRIAD PRIDE PERFORMING ARTS: $3,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $8,975 · Arts & Culture+4 moreGREENEST: $10,354 · Human ServicesGREENESTLEARNING TOGETHER INC: $6,267 · Human ServicesLEARNING …KRAMDEN INSTITUTE INC: $4,405 · Human ServicesKRAMDEN I…PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL ALLIANCE INC: $4,200 · Human ServicesPIEDMONT …The Haven of Transylvania County: $3,000 · Human ServicesThe Haven…RAIN Inc: $3,000 · Human ServicesRAIN IncINTER-FAITH ALLIANCE CORPORATION DBA CLEVELAND COUNTY RESCUE MISSION: $3,000 · Human ServicesINTER-FAI…Bethesda Center for the Homesless Inc: $2,700 · Human ServicesBethesda …HISPANIC LIAISON OF CHATHAM COUNTY: $2,596 · Human ServicesHISPANIC …EAST WAKE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Human ServicesEAST WAKE…THE INTERACTIVE RESOURCE CENTER INC: $2,321 · Human ServicesTHE OUTREACH CENTER: $2,000 · Human ServicesCITY WITH DWELLINGS COMMUNITY FIRST INITIATIVE: $27,000 · Housing & ShelterWESTERN CAROLINA RESCUE MINISTRIES INC: $12,400 · Housing & ShelterJUNE 10 INC: $4,997 · Housing & ShelterLEAD Girls of NC Inc: $16,600 · Youth DevelopmentSWINGPALS INC: $9,727 · Youth DevelopmentAuthoring Action: $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentTransplanting Traditions Community Farm: $12,339 · Food & NutritionHOPE OF WINSTON SALEM INC: $3,000 · Food & NutritionWORD OF FAITH MINISTRIES OF KENANSV: $2,571 · Food & Nutrition
Education$187,244Other$171,945Arts & Culture$86,704Human Services$46,343Housing & Shelter$44,397Youth Development$28,327Food & Nutrition$17,910

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOOKMARKS INC: $77,500 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetThe Summit School Incorporated: $42,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $40,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LITTLE THEATRE OF WINSTON-SALEM INC: $37,399 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetCITY WITH DWELLINGS COMMUNITY FIRST INITIATIVE: $27,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetLEAD Girls of NC Inc: $16,600 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetWESTERN CAROLINA RESCUE MINISTRIES INC: $12,400 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTransplanting Traditions Community Farm: $12,339 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetArts For Life: $12,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetDance Project Inc: $10,495 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetGREENEST: $10,354 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetSWINGPALS INC: $9,727 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL PTA: $9,154 over 3y, 9.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA: $8,484 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCRISTO REY RESEARCH TRIANGLE HIGH SCHOOL INC: $6,344 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLEARNING TOGETHER INC: $6,267 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOUT at the Movies: $6,030 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetChanged Choices Inc: $5,620 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHeart Math Tutoring Inc: $5,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA ARTS IN ACTION INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPARKWAY PLAYHOUSE OF BURNSVILLE: $5,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetME FINE FOUNDATION: $5,050 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPartners Aligned Toward Health: $5,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPIEDMONT LAND CONSERVANCY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUNE 10 INC: $4,997 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetKRAMDEN INSTITUTE INC: $4,405 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSPRUCE PINE MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC: $4,214 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL ALLIANCE INC: $4,200 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetOUT OF HAND THEATER: $3,800 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPIEDMONT FOREST SCHOOL: $3,500 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetIMPRINTS CARES: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALICE AYCOCK POE CENTER FOR HEALTH EDUCATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTRIAD PRIDE PERFORMING ARTS: $3,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetThe Haven of Transylvania County: $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetREFUGEE COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRAIN Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHelene Foundation: $3,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetHOPE OF WINSTON SALEM INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLiteracy Together: $3,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetINTER-FAITH ALLIANCE CORPORATION DBA CLEVELAND COUNTY RESCUE MISSION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKALEIDEUM: $2,700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBethesda Center for the Homesless Inc: $2,700 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHENDERSONVILLE THEATRE: $2,700 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetRiverLink Inc: $2,600 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHISPANIC LIAISON OF CHATHAM COUNTY: $2,596 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetWORD OF FAITH MINISTRIES OF KENANSV: $2,571 over 1y, 33% of budgetBEACON EDUCATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA BED AND A BOOK: $2,500 over 1y, 1.1% 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 Winston-Salem Fou…Reynolds American Fou…Ta John W and Anna H …The Cannon Foundation…Triangle Community Fo…North Carolina Commun…James G Hanes Memoria…Duke Energy FoundationZ Smith Reynolds Foun…The Kooken Family Fou…Carolinas Credit Unio…Foundation for the Ca…
The Winston-Salem FoundationNC48.5× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Winston-Salem Foundation · Reynolds American Foundation · Ta John W and Anna H Hanes Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · James G Hanes Memorial Fund · Duke Energy Foundation · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · The Kooken Family Foundation · Carolinas Credit Union Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    28report 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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Lovett Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Lovett 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 118 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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