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The Sid and Cecelia Lance Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Sid and Cecelia Lance Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$120k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$76kYouth Development$60kHealth$54kArts & Culture$52kEnvironment$20kHuman Services$16kInternational$6kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $53k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SADDLEBACK MEDICAL FOUNDATION$50,000
VERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS$20,000
PARTNERS IN ADVENTURE INC$13,000
KING STREET CENTER$10,000
STUDIO PLACE ARTS INC$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
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%WARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION: $4k → 11%WARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION: $2k → 11%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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 5% of The Sid and Cecelia Lance Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 75% of the giving stays in VT; by stated purpose, 69%.

The Sid and Cecelia Lance Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 5.5% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$180k · 6 repeat orgs$111k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against -2% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
5

Total granted

$180k
$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
-2%

Still filing today

83%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $81k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsEnvironmentInternationalOther
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

  • PI
    PARTNERS IN ADVENTURE INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $54k · revenue +64%
  • SP
    STUDIO PLACE ARTS INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $44k · revenue +18%
  • KS
    KING STREET CENTER INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $20k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • SM
    SARA M HOLBROOK COMMUNITY CENTER INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -365%
  • CL
    CHILDREN'S LITERACY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +7%
  • KM
    KINHAVEN MUSIC SCHOOL INC
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -2%
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
Idaho Base Camp Inc

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.

Environment
2
Island Readers & Writers an Initiative for Maine Children

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…

Education
3
Dunedin Fine Art Center

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 &…

Arts & Culture
4
Wonderfeet Kids Museum Inc

Wonderfeet kids museum fosters curiosity and exploration, inspires creativity and ignites the imagination of every child through the power of play.

Arts & Culture
5
Pine Cobble School Incorporated

Provide private school education for children from nursery school through grade 8

Education
6
Meeting Waters Ymca

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;…

Human Services
7
McColl Center for Art Innovation

We envision a community where contemporary artists and an engaged public enhance their creative capacity through relevant, diverse, and accessible experiences.

Arts & Culture
8
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc

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…

Environment
9
New York Hall of Science

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…

Arts & Culture
10
Boothbay Sea and Science Center

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…

Education
11
Clay Art Center Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
12
Providence Children's Museum

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…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ocean Institute; 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.
05the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
6/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SADDLEBACK MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherSADDLEBACK MEDICAL FOUNDATIONVERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORP: $40,000 · OtherVERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPSARA M HOLBROOK COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $10,000 · OtherSARA M HOLBROOK COMMUNITY CENTER INCSun City Firefighters Charities Inc: $5,000 · Other+1 more: $2,500 · OtherPARTNERS IN ADVENTURE INC: $54,000 · Recreation & SportsPARTNERS IN ADVENTURE…STUDIO PLACE ARTS INC: $44,000 · Arts & CultureSTUDIO PLACE ARTS IN…KINHAVEN MUSIC SCHOOL INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureKINHAVEN MUSIC SCHOO…FAIRBANKS MUSEUM & PLANETARIUM: $3,000 · Arts & CultureFAIRBANKS MUSEUM & P…BROWN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $16,000 · EducationBROWN PUBL…CHILDREN'S LITERACY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationCHILDREN'S…KING STREET CENTER INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesKING STRE…WARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION: $5,500 · Human ServicesWARRIOR F…VERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS INC: $20,000 · EnvironmentJUSTICE AND MERCY INTERNATIONAL: $5,500 · International
Other$107,500Recreation & Sports$54,000Arts & Culture$52,000Education$26,000Human Services$25,500Environment$20,000International$5,500

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 budgetPARTNERS IN ADVENTURE INC: $54,000 over 5y, 7.2% of budgetSTUDIO PLACE ARTS INC: $44,000 over 5y, 8.1% of budgetVERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKING STREET CENTER INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBROWN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $16,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetSARA M HOLBROOK COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S LITERACY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetJUSTICE AND MERCY INTERNATIONAL: $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION: $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKINHAVEN MUSIC SCHOOL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFAIRBANKS MUSEUM & PLANETARIUM: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOCEAN INSTITUTE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

National Life Group C…The Vermont Community…Ben & Jerry's Foundat…The Kelsey TrustGeorge W Mergens Foun…Vermont Afterschool I…National Philanthropi…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…
National Life Group Charitable Foundation IncVT19.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Sid and Cecelia Lance Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sid and Cecelia Lance Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.

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 15 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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