· Private foundation
The Sid and Cecelia Lance Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $53k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SADDLEBACK MEDICAL FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| VERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS | $20,000 |
| PARTNERS IN ADVENTURE INC | $13,000 |
| STUDIO PLACE ARTS INC | $10,000 |
| KING STREET CENTER | $10,000 |
| JUSTICE AND MERCY INTERNATIONAL | $5,500 |
| SUN CITY FIREFIGHTER'S CHARITIES | $5,000 |
| WARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION | $3,500 |
| BROWN PUBLIC LIBRARY | $3,200 |
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 (FY24–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of The Sid and Cecelia Lance Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 75% of the giving stays in VT; read by stated purpose it is 69% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +9% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 1 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, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $81k 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
- PIPARTNERS IN ADVENTURE INC5× · 2021–2025 · $54k · revenue +64%
- KSKING STREET CENTER INC2× · 2024–2025 · $20k · revenue +9%
- BPBROWN PUBLIC LIBRARY5× · 2021–2025 · $16k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- CLCHILDREN'S LITERACY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +7%
- SMSARA M HOLBROOK COMMUNITY CENTER INCone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -365%
- KMKINHAVEN MUSIC SCHOOL INCone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
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.
A nonprofit organization rooted in the wood river valley, idaho basecamp helps develop resilience, confidence, and connection in youth through adventure, exploration, and intentional play in the outdoors.
Island readers & writers' mission is to inspire a passion for reading and learning. we do this by bringing children's books and the authors and illustrators who created them together with children and providing professional development…
The mission at the Dunedin Fine Art Center is to enrich lives through educational experiences in the visual arts. The vision is to make the Dunedin Fine Art Center a leading visual art center providing unparalleled educational, cultural &…
Wonderfeet kids museum fosters curiosity and exploration, inspires creativity and ignites the imagination of every child through the power of play.
Provide private school education for children from nursery school through grade 8
The organization's mission is "building strong communities by inspiring all to develop healthy spirit, mind and body." we envision communities where people of all ages: embody the values of caring, honesty, reepect and responsibility;…
We envision a community where contemporary artists and an engaged public enhance their creative capacity through relevant, diverse, and accessible experiences.
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…
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…
The mission of the boothbay sea and science center is the advancement of sailing, boating and ocean sciences by minimizing economic and physical obstacles and further to develop independence, self-confidence, teamwork and volunteerism in…
Clay art center is dedicated to education, creativity, and community engagement through clay by providing an inclusive space for learning, studio practice, exhibitions, personal growth, and professional development in ceramic arts.
The mission of the providence children's museum is to inspire and celebrate learning through active play and exploration. the museum welcomes children and adults of all ages and backgrounds and from all communities although its focus is on…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ocean Institute and the most unlike its peers is Sun City Firefighters Charities Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 15 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 PARTNERS IN ADVENTURE INC ↗
- Who funds STUDIO PLACE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds KING STREET CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S LITERACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SARA M HOLBROOK COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE AND MERCY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Sun City Firefighters Charities Inc ↗
- Who funds KINHAVEN MUSIC SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRBANKS MUSEUM & PLANETARIUM ↗
- Who funds OCEAN INSTITUTE ↗
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 Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · The Vermont Community Foundation · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · The Kelsey Trust · George W Mergens Foundation · Vermont Afterschool Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment 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 Sid and Cecelia Lance Family 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.
- Vermont Youth Conservation Corps Inc — 47% of income from government
- King Street Center Inc — 43% of income from government
- Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium — 7% of income from government
- Brown Public Library — 1% of income from government
- Kinhaven Music School 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.