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The Order of Colonial Lords of Manors in America
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 54% of THE ORDER OF COLONIAL LORDS OF MANORS IN AMERICA’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL SOCIETY OF COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA IN THE STATE OF NY | $3,500 |
| PRINCETON BATTLEFIELD SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| NEW YORK GENEALOGICAL & BIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| FRAUNCES TAVERN MUSEUM | $3,000 |
| MOUNT GULIAN HISTORIC SITE | $3,000 |
| NATIONAL SOCIETY COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA - CT | $2,000 |
| SMITHTOWN LIBRARY | $2,000 |
| SMITHTOWN HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| MANOR CONSERVANCY | $2,000 |
| GLEBE HOUSE MUSEUM & GERTRUDE JEKYLL GARDEN | $2,000 |
| RAYNHAM HALL MUSEUM | $1,500 |
| NEW NETHERLAND INSTITUTE | $1,500 |
| MERCHANTS & DROVERS TAVERN MUSEUM ASSOCIATION | $1,500 |
| COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 75% of your 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.
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 +15% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 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
- TMTHE MANOR CONSERVANCY INC5× · 2021–2025 · $16k · revenue +26%
- NYNEW YORK GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY5× · 2021–2025 · $13k · revenue +7%
- NENEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY5× · 2021–2025 · $13k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- NSNATIONAL SOCIETY OF COLONIAL DAMES - NYone grant, 2020 · $1k
- FOFRIENDS OF MOUNT HARMON ROADone grant, 2017 · $500
- GHGLEBE HOUSE MUSEUMone grant, 2017 · $500
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.
Housing and exhibition of long island new york north shore historical significance
Historic preservation
The mission of the Sharon Historical Society is to make all people aware of our history by linking the past with the present in order to inform them of our future. The Sharon Historical Society exists to inspire people's understanding that…
Preservation & maintenance collection
The mission of the new salem historical society is to establish a local museum to create interest in past history and to preserve it for future generations and to maintain historical buildings.
To encourage preservation, education , research, and interest in the history of Albion
The organization was formed to safeguard and share existing and future collections related to the social, cultural, and economic history of the high peaks adirondack region in and around the township of newcomb in essex county, new york.
To collect, preserve and publish historical and genealogical information pertaining to the early settlement and subsequent history of new london county, especially those towns bordering the thames river.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of New York and the most unlike its peers is Bellport-Brookhaven Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 32 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 NATIONAL SOCIETY OF COLONIAL DAMES IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds THE MANOR CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA IN THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT ↗
- Who funds PRINCETON BATTLEFIELD SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LONG ISLAND ANTIQUITIES ↗
- Who funds SMITHTOWN HISTORICAL MUSEUMS ↗
- Who funds BOWNE HOUSE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds DYCKMAN FARMHOUSE MUSEUM ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds MERCHANTS AND DROVERS TAVERN MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BELLPORT-BROOKHAVEN HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SMITHTOWN SPECIAL LIBRARY DISTRICT ↗
- Who funds New Netherland Institute ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC HOUSE TRUST OF NEW YORK CITY INC ↗
- Who funds CHAPTER II PHILADELPHIA PENNSYLVANIA THE COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds PRIORY IN THE USA OF THE MOST VENERABLE ORDER OF THE HOSP / ST JOHN OF JERUSALEM ↗
- Who funds SUFFOLK COUNTY ARCHEOLOGICAL ASSOCI ↗
- Who funds OLD MERCHANTS HOUSE OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds KENT HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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: Greater Hudson Heritage Network · Historic House Trust of New York City Inc · The William G Pomeroy Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Order of Colonial Lords of Manors in America 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.
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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