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THE NATHAN LOUNSBURY FOUNDATION INC
THE NATHAN LOUNSBURY FOUNDATION INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $44 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($44). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2017
- $57k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $44
- Net assets
- $64k
What The Nathan Lounsbury Foundation Inc does
Mission
(a) to provide funds to further the prevention of sudden infant death syndrome (sids),help families affected by sids; to increase public and community awareness and education of the corporations mission; (b) to raise funds from all available public and private sources; and (c) to possess and exercise all of the powers and privileges granted by the connecticut revised nonstock corporation act or by the certificate of incorporation of the corporation, together with any powers incidental thereto, so far as such powers and privileges are necessary or convenient to the conduct, promotion or attainment of the business or aims of the corporation, which shall in all cases be limited exclusively to charitable, educational and scientific purposes that may be pursued by an organization that is exempt from federal income tax under section 501 (c)(3) of the internal revenue code, or the corresponding section of any future federal tax code (the code). (d) the corporation as part of its charitable pu
As stated on its FY2017 Form 990.
Program
To fund and support research projects that hold promise for preventing sids: 1) research into a neurochemical abnormality in the brainstem that may be responsible for the failure of protective breathing, heart and arousal responses that are thought to be responsible for sids 2) working towards a means of identifying those infants who are at increased risk of sids, with the ultimate goal of developing a treatement that will protect them from sids.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $21 → $23.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of THE NATHAN LOUNSBURY FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of THE NATHAN LOUNSBURY FOUNDATION INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $44 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
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Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE NATHAN LOUNSBURY FOUNDATION INC?
- THE NATHAN LOUNSBURY FOUNDATION INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $44 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($44). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE NATHAN LOUNSBURY FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $44 in grants to THE NATHAN LOUNSBURY FOUNDATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE NATHAN LOUNSBURY FOUNDATION INC?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $44 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE NATHAN LOUNSBURY FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2017 (financials across 2017–2017), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing