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Lane & Elizabeth C Dwinell Fdn

Dallas, TX · EIN 16-1543787. Reported 77 grants totalling $818,500 to 48 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$10,000median grant
$818,500granted, 2021-2024
48organizations funded
48%of grantees funded again the next year
$5,703,013assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Lane & Elizabeth C Dwinell Fdn did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $10,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $15,000; the smallest was $3,000 and the largest $30,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
1 grant
$5,000 - $10,000
23 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
50 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
3 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Good Neighbor Health ClinicWhite River Jct, VT$55,000332023
Special Needs Support CenterLebanon, NH$55,000442024
Community Gallery IncLebanon, NH$45,000332024
Willing Hands Enterprises IncLebanon, NH$45,000332024
Cover Home Repair IncWhite River Junction, VT$40,000442024
Twin Pines Housing TrustWhite River Junction, VT$35,000332024
Carter Community BuildingLebanon, NH$30,000112022
West Central Behavioral HealthLebanon, NH$30,000222023
Women's Information ServicesLebanon, NH$30,000332024
Lebanon Public Libraries FoundationLebanon, NH$25,000112021
Planned Parenthood - VermontColchester, VT$25,000332024
Upper Valley Music CenterLebanon, NH$23,000332023
Finding Our StrideNorwich, VT$20,000332024
Spark Community CenterLebanon, NH$20,000222023
Visions for Creative Housing SolutionsEnfield, NH$20,000222023
David's HouseLebanon, NH$15,000332024
Lebanon Opera HouseLebanon, NH$15,000112024
Listen Community ServicesLebanon, NH$15,000112021
Listen Lebanon in Service to Each NeighborLebanon, NH$15,000112024
Upper Valley Snow Sports FoundationEnfield, NH$15,000112022
Visiting Nursing & Hospice VtnhWhite River Junctions, VT$15,000112021
Vna & Hospice for Vt & NhWhite River Junction, VT$15,000112023
West Central Services IncLebanon, NH$15,000112024
Willing Hands Enterprises Inc Attn Gabe E ZoerheidedirLebanon, NH$15,000112021
Bristol Recreation Advisory CouncilBristol, NH$10,000112024
City Center Ballet IncLebanon, NH$10,000112023
Dismas of Vermont IncWinooski, VT$10,000112024
Girl Scouts of the Green & White MtsBedford, NH$10,000222024
Good BeginningsWest Lebanon, NH$10,000112021
Grafton County Senior CenterLebanon, NH$10,000112021
Lebanon in Service to Each NeighborLebanon, NH$10,000112023
Mascoma Community Healthcare Attn Scott a BerrydirCanaan, NH$10,000112023
New Hampshire Catholic Charities IncManchester, NH$10,000222024
Planned ParenthoodColchester, VT$10,000112021
Twin Pines Housing Trust Attn Andrew B WinterdirWhite River Junction, VT$10,000112021
Upper Valley Hostel IncHanover, NH$10,000112024
Womens Information ServicesLebanon, NH$10,000112021
Upper Valley HavenWhite River Junction, VT$7,500112023
Childrens Literacy Fdn Attn Mr Duncan McdougallWaterbury Center, VT$5,000112023
Claremont Opera HouseClaremont, NH$5,000112024
Davids HouseLebanon, NH$5,000112021
Harbor Homes IncNashua, NH$5,000112024
Lebanon in Svc to Each Neighbor Attn Kyle FisherdirLebanon, NH$5,000112022
Nh Catholic CharityManchester, NH$5,000112021
Revels North IncHanover, NH$5,000112021
Tlc Family ResourcesClaremont, NH$5,000112024
Windsor County Mentors IncWindsor, VT$5,000112024
Keene Housing Kids CollaborativeKeene, NH$3,000112024

16 of 48 (33%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 48%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 46 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Health Care
11 grants
Arts & Culture
10 grants
Human Services
7 grants
Housing & Shelter
7 grants
Recreation & Sports
6 grants
Crime & Legal
2 grants
Youth Development
1 grant
Education
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202119$223,000$10,000
202215$160,000$10,000
202321$207,500$10,000
202422$228,000$10,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 69% of this one's giving went to organizations in New Hampshire. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

New Hampshire
$566K
Vermont
$252K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

New Hampshire Charitable Foundation20 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund19 shared recipientsClaremont Savings Bank Foundation16 shared recipientsMascoma Bank Foundation14 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program10 shared recipientsThe Vermont Community Foundation10 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $10,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in New Hampshire.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Lane & Elizabeth C Dwinell Fdn's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 653067, Dallas, TX, 75265. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 16-1543787 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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