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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.

$40k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
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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 2025.

Arts & Culture$193kEnvironment$16kEducation$4kHealth$500Religion$50
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$343k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL SOCIETY OF COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA IN THE STATE OF NY$3,500
PRINCETON BATTLEFIELD SOCIETY$3,000
NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY$3,000
FRAUNCES TAVERN MUSEUM$3,000
NEW YORK GENEALOGICAL & BIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY$3,000
MOUNT GULIAN HISTORIC SITE$3,000
MANOR CONSERVANCY$2,000
GLEBE HOUSE MUSEUM & GERTRUDE JEKYLL GARDEN$2,000
NATIONAL SOCIETY COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA - CT$2,000
SMITHTOWN LIBRARY$2,000
SMITHTOWN HISTORICAL SOCIETY$2,000
RAYNHAM HALL MUSEUM$1,500
MERCHANTS & DROVERS TAVERN MUSEUM ASSOCIATION$1,500
NEW NETHERLAND INSTITUTE$1,500
LONG ISLAND MUSEUM$1,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 75% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY: $3k → 16%BELLPORT-BROOKHAVEN HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $2k → 7%MOUNT GULIAN HISTORIC SITE: $3k → 9%BOWNE HOUSE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $2k → 13%NATIONAL SOCIETY OF COLONIAL DAMES IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK: $5k → 17%BARTOW-PELL MANSION MUSEUM: $5k → 28%GLEBE HOUSE MUSEUM & GERTRUDE JEKYLL GARDEN: $2k → 9%WEBB-DEANE STEVENS MUSEUM: $4k → 11%MERCHANTS & DROVERS TAVERN MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $2k → 10%THE MANOR CONSERVANCY: $5k → 11%NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY: $3k → 16%BELLPORT-BROOKHAVEN HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $2k → 7%MOUNT GULIAN HISTORIC SITE: $3k → 9%BOWNE HOUSE HISTORIAL SOCIETY: $2k → 13%NATIONAL SOCIETY OF COLONIAL DAMES IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK: $5k → 17%BARTOW-PELL MANSION MUSEUM: $2k → 28%GLEBE HOUSE MUSEUM & GERTRUDE JEKYLL GARDEN: $2k → 9%NATIONAL SOCIETY OF COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA IN THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT: $3k → 11%MERCHANTS & DROVERS TAVERN MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $2k → 10%THE MANOR CONSERVANCY: $5k → 11%NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY: $3k → 16%MOUNT GULIAN HISTORIC SITE: $3k → 9%NATIONAL SOCIETY OF COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA IN THE STATE OF NY: $4k → 17%GLEBE HOUSE MUSEUM & GERTRUDE JEKYLL GARDEN: $2k → 9%NATIONAL SOCIETY COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA - CT: $2k → 11%MANOR CONSERVANCY: $3k → 11%NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY: $2k → 16%MOUNT GULIAN HISTORIC SITE: $2k → 9%NATIONAL SOCIETY OF COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA IN THE STATE OF NY: $4k → 17%GLEBE HOUSE MUSEUM & GERTRUDE JEKYLL GARDEN: $2k → 9%NATIONAL SOCIETY COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA - CT: $2k → 11%MANOR CONSERVANCY: $2k → 11%LONG ISLAND MUSEUM: $2k → 7%NATIONAL SOCIETY OF COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA IN THE STATE OF NY: $4k → 17%COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA: $5k → 17%COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA: $4k → 17%PRESERVATION LONG ISLAND: $5k → 7%COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA: $3k → 17%PRESERVATION LONG ISLAND: $2k → 7%PRESERVATION LONG ISLAND: $2k → 7%SMITHTOWN LIBRARY: $2k → 7%SMITHTOWN LIBRARY: $2k → 7%NEW YORK GENEALOGICAL & BIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY: $3k → 17%NEW YORK GENEALOGICAL & BIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY: $3k → 17%NEW YORK GENEALOGICAL & BIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY: $3k → 17%FRAUNCES TAVERN MUSEUM: $3k → 17%FRAUNCES TAVERN MUSEUM: $3k → 17%FRAUNCES TAVERN MUSEUM: $3k → 17%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.
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$208k · 21 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
10

Total granted

$208k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
0%

Still filing today

67%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationSocial ScienceHealthOther
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

  • TM
    THE MANOR CONSERVANCY INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $16k · revenue +26%
  • NY
    NEW YORK GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $13k · revenue +7%
  • NE
    NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $13k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • NS
    NATIONAL SOCIETY OF COLONIAL DAMES - NY
    one grant, 2020 · $1k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF MOUNT HARMON ROAD
    one grant, 2017 · $500
  • GH
    GLEBE HOUSE MUSEUM
    one grant, 2017 · $500
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
North Shore Historical Museum Inc

Housing and exhibition of long island new york north shore historical significance

Arts & Culture
2
Historical Society of Middletown & Wallkill
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3
New Bedford Preservation Society Inc

Historic preservation

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4
Sharon Historical Society-Sharon Springs New York Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
5
Historical Society of Saratoga Springs

Preservation & maintenance collection

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6
New Salem Historical Society

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.

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7
Albion Historical Society

To encourage preservation, education , research, and interest in the history of Albion

Arts & Culture
8
Newcomb Historical Museum

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.

Arts & Culture
9
Johnstown Historical Society
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10
Cuttyhunk Historical Society Inc
Arts & Culture
11
Salem Historical Society
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12
New London County Historical Societ

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of New York; 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.
04the grantee network

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
13/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA: $13,000 · OtherCOLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICAMOUNT GULIAN HISTORIC SITE: $13,000 · OtherMOUNT GULIAN HISTORIC SITENEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY: $12,500 · OtherNEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETYFRAUNCES TAVERN MUSEUM: $11,000 · OtherFRAUNCES TAVERN MUSEUMPRINCETON BATTLEFIELD SOCIETY: $11,000 · OtherPRINCETON BATTLEFIELD SOCIETYBARTOW-PELL MANSION MUSEUM: $10,500 · OtherBARTOW-PELL MANSION MUSEUMGLEBE HOUSE MUSEUM & GERTRUDE JEKYLL GARDEN: $9,500 · OtherGLEBE HOUSE MUSEUM & GERTRUDE JEKYLL GARDENBOWNE HOUSE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $8,000 · OtherBOWNE HOUSE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCLONG ISLAND MUSEUM: $7,000 · OtherLONG ISLAND MUSEUMMERCHANTS AND DROVERS TAVERN MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $7,000 · OtherMERCHANTS AND DROVERS TAVERN MUSEUM ASSOCIATIONRAYNHAM HALL MUSEUM: $5,000 · OtherSMITHTOWN SPECIAL LIBRARY DISTRICT: $4,000 · Other+8 more: $4,050 · OtherTHE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF COLONIAL DAMES IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK: $21,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF COLONIAL D…NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA IN THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT: $11,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE COLONIAL D…SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LONG ISLAND ANTIQUITIES: $9,000 · Arts & CultureSOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LO…SMITHTOWN HISTORICAL MUSEUMS: $9,000 · Arts & CultureSMITHTOWN HISTORICAL MUSEUMSDYCKMAN FARMHOUSE MUSEUM ALLIANCE: $8,000 · Arts & CultureDYCKMAN FARMHOUSE MUSEUM ALLIANCEBELLPORT-BROOKHAVEN HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $6,000 · Arts & CultureBELLPORT-BROOKHAVEN HISTORICAL SOC…+2 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MANOR CONSERVANCY INC: $16,000 · EnvironmentNEW YORK GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY: $12,500 · EducationNew Netherland Institute: $3,500 · Social SciencePRIORY IN THE USA OF THE MOST VENERABLE ORDER OF THE HOSP / ST JOHN OF JERUSALEM: $500 · Health
Other$115,550Arts & Culture$65,000Environment$16,000Education$12,500Social Science$3,500Health$500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF COLONIAL DAMES IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK: $21,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetTHE MANOR CONSERVANCY INC: $16,000 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetNEW YORK GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY: $12,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA IN THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT: $11,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPRINCETON BATTLEFIELD SOCIETY: $11,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetSOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LONG ISLAND ANTIQUITIES: $9,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSMITHTOWN HISTORICAL MUSEUMS: $9,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetBOWNE HOUSE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $8,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetDYCKMAN FARMHOUSE MUSEUM ALLIANCE: $8,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetMERCHANTS AND DROVERS TAVERN MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $7,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetBELLPORT-BROOKHAVEN HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $6,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetSMITHTOWN SPECIAL LIBRARY DISTRICT: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew Netherland Institute: $3,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPRIORY IN THE USA OF THE MOST VENERABLE ORDER OF THE HOSP / ST JOHN OF JERUSALEM: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUFFOLK COUNTY ARCHEOLOGICAL ASSOCI: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOLD MERCHANTS HOUSE OF NEW YORK INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKENT HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Greater Hudson Herita…Historic House Trust …The William G Pomeroy…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Greater Hudson Heritage NetworkNY15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Order of Colonial Lords of Manors in America funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Order of Colonial Lords of Manors in America. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%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
    4get no government money at all
    7report 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.
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    Find your warmest path to The Order of Colonial Lords of Manors in America 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 32 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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