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The William W & Pamela C Lane Foundation at a glance

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The William W & Pamela C Lane Foundation

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.

$165k
Granted FY2025still arriving
60
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$16k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% 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$202kHealth$147kReligion$141kEducation$140kEnvironment$91kHuman Services$66kRecreation & Sports$61kYouth Development$49kOther$0
02FY2025 · 60 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k57 grants · $129k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $36k
$1,500
Median grant
14
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHURCH OF THE HOLY COMFORTER$16,000
RIVERSIDE THEATRE INC$10,000
RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN$10,000
VERO BEACH ROWING$7,500
VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART$7,500
MCKEE BOTANICAL GARDEN$7,000
YOUTH SAILING FOUNDATION$6,000
INDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST$6,000
ERIKA'S LIGHTHOUSE$5,000
BELMONT COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION$5,000
INDIAN RIVER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$5,000
VILAR PERFORMING ARTS CENTER$5,000
YWCA EVANSTONNORTH SHORE$5,000
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY$3,500
UNITED WAY OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY$3,500
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 (FY23–25, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%MISERICORDIA FOUNDATION: $4k → 14%MISERICORDIA FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%MISERICORDIA FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%GIFFORD YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT CENTER: $4k → 12%GIFFORD YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT CENTER: $4k → 12%GIFFORD YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT CENTER: $3k → 12%THE ARC OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC: $1k → 12%THE ARC OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC: $1k → 12%THE ARC OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC: $1k → 12%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

NH
MT
IL
NY
MA
IA
OH
PA
RI
CA
CO
VA
MD
AR
NC
DC
MS
TX
FL
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 83 repeat orgs$26k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

83 repeat relationships: 54 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

83
15

Total granted

$1.0M
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
0%

Still filing today

63%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthEnvironmentAnimalsHuman ServicesOther
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

  • RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN
    7× · 2017–2025 · $70k · revenue +42%
  • YE
    YWCA EvanstonNorth Shore
    9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +49%
  • VB
    VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +916%

Funded once

  • TC
    TRINITY CHURCH - VERO BEACH
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • IR
    INDIAN RIVER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • AD
    AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCATION
    one grant, 2023 · $2k
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
Lake Forest College

Provide post-secondary education leading to a baccalaureate degree. Program service expenditures are made in conjunction with the operation of a liberal arts college spread over 107 acres with approximately 63 educational and support…

Education
2
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
Chicago Zoological Society

To inspire conservation leadership by connecting people with wildlife and nature.

Animals
5
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
6
Marine Biological Laboratory

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…

Science & Tech
7
Detroit Historical Society

The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.

Arts & Culture
8
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
9
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
10
The Richard H Driehaus Museum

The driehaus museum engages and inspires the global community through exploration and ongoing conversations in art, architecture, and design of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. its permanent collection and temporary…

Arts & Culture
11
Illinois College

Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…

Education
12
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connections for the Homeless Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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

62 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. 62 of the 104 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/62
Grantees still filing
44/62
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHURCH OF THE HOLY COMFORTER: $121,000 · OtherCHURCH OF THE HOLY COMFORTERYWCA EvanstonNorth Shore: $45,000 · OtherYWCA EvanstonNorth ShoreYOUTH SAILING FOUNDATION: $28,500 · OtherYOUTH SAILING FOUNDATIONWOMAN'S BOARD AT RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $27,500 · OtherIndian River County Habitat for Humanity Inc: $20,500 · OtherRHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN - WILLIAM W LANE ENDOWMENT SCHOLARSHIP: $20,000 · Other+57 more: $262,640 · Other+57 moreRIVERSIDE THEATRE INC: $93,400 · Arts & CultureRIVERSIDE THEATRE I…VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC: $45,000 · Arts & CultureVERO BEACH MUSEUM O…FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $14,500 · Arts & CultureFIELD MUSEUM OF NAT…VILAR PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureVILAR PERFORMING AR…EVANSTON ART CENTER: $9,500 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $11,800 · Arts & Culture+4 moreRHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN: $70,000 · EducationRHODE ISLAND S…VERO BEACH ROWING INC: $32,500 · EducationVERO BEACH ROW…HOLY FAMILY MINISTRIES: $12,000 · EducationHOLY FAMILY MI…THE MOORINGS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 · EducationTHE MOORINGS E…President and Fellows of Harvard College: $6,000 · Education+8 more: $12,600 · Education+8 moreMCKEE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $42,000 · EnvironmentMCKEE BOT…INDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST INC: $35,950 · EnvironmentINDIAN RI…CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $7,000 · EnvironmentCHICAGO H…OCEAN RESEARCH & CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC: $5,900 · EnvironmentOCEAN RES…INDIAN RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · HealthErikas Lighthouse A Beacon of Hope for Adolescent Depression: $17,500 · HealthAmerican Diabetes Association: $12,000 · HealthThe diaTribe Foundation: $10,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $7,000 · HealthTHE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP: $3,500 · HealthWHOLE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC: $2,750 · Health+2 more: $4,000 · HealthGIFFORD YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesMISERICORDIA FOUNDATION: $9,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $7,000 · Human ServicesTHE ARC OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTYINC: $3,000 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC: $23,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$525,140Arts & Culture$184,200Education$141,100Environment$90,850Health$76,750Human Services$29,000Philanthropy$24,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRIVERSIDE THEATRE INC: $93,400 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetRHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN: $70,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA EvanstonNorth Shore: $45,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetVERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC: $45,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMCKEE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $42,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetINDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST INC: $35,950 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetVERO BEACH ROWING INC: $32,500 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC: $23,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetIndian River County Habitat for Humanity Inc: $20,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetErikas Lighthouse A Beacon of Hope for Adolescent Depression: $17,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNORTHFIELD TOWNSHIP FOOD PANTRY: $17,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetFIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $14,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED AGAINST POVERTY INC: $13,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHOLY FAMILY MINISTRIES: $12,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVILAR PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe diaTribe Foundation: $10,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetGIFFORD YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEVANSTON ART CENTER: $9,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMISERICORDIA FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $8,250 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MOORINGS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetStratham Historical Society Inc: $7,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $7,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $7,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNew Hampshire Preservation Alliance: $6,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNew Hampshire Historical Society: $6,100 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTREASURE COAST FOOD BANK INC: $6,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN RESEARCH & CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC: $5,900 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBELMONT COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION: $5,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetCENTRAL ASIA INSTITUTE: $4,850 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $4,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY: $4,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetVNA Hospice of Indian River County Inc: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWRIGHT-WAY RESCUE INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMIDWEST LABRADOR RETRIEVER RESCUE: $3,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTHE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Springboard Foundation: $3,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetKenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry: $3,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARC OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTYINC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOOVED ANIMAL HUMANE SOCIETY: $3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWHOLE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC: $2,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGLEN VIEW CLUB SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetINDIAN RIVER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC: $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.

  • Who funds RIVERSIDE THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN ↗
  • Who funds YWCA EvanstonNorth Shore ↗
  • Who funds VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
  • Who funds MCKEE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
  • Who funds INDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds VERO BEACH ROWING INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds Indian River County Habitat for Humanity Inc ↗
  • Who funds INDIAN RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Erikas Lighthouse A Beacon of Hope for Adolescent Depression ↗
  • Who funds NORTHFIELD TOWNSHIP FOOD PANTRY ↗
  • Who funds FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
  • Who funds UNITED AGAINST POVERTY INC ↗
  • Who funds HOLY FAMILY MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
  • Who funds VILAR PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds The diaTribe Foundation ↗
  • Who funds GIFFORD YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds EVANSTON ART CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MISERICORDIA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MOORINGS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds Stratham Historical Society Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds New Hampshire Preservation Alliance ↗
  • Who funds New Hampshire Historical Society ↗

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.

Indian River Communit…The Chicago Community…Archie S Wingfield Jr…Olivia Delacruz Found…The Toffey Family Cha…The John's Island Fou…Baxter International …Griffith-Laserson Fam…The Rogers Family Fou…Jake Owen FoundationThe Berghorst Foundat…Quail Valley Charitie…
Indian River Community Foundation IncFL23.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Indian River Community Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Archie S Wingfield Jr Charitable Trust U/A/D 5/15/1995 · Olivia Delacruz Foundation Inc · The Toffey Family Charitable Trust · The John's Island Foundation Inc · Baxter International Foundation · Griffith-Laserson Family Foundation · The Rogers Family Foundation · Jake Owen Foundation · The Berghorst Foundation Inc · Quail Valley Charities Inc

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 William W & Pamela C Lane Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The William W & Pamela C Lane Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Treasure Coast Food Bank Inc: 2% of income from government
  • United Way of Indian River County Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Indian River Land Trust Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Buckingham Browne & Nichols School: 0% of income from government
  • Whole Family Health Center Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 104 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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