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Alan D and Susan Lewis Solomont Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$115k
Granted FY2024still arriving
47
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 58% of ALAN D AND SUSAN LEWIS SOLOMONT FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k44 grants · $70k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
$1,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$153k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE$25,000
BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC$10,000
TEMPLE BETH ELOHIM$10,000
UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MUSEUM$6,800
TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FDN$5,000
NEW ISRAEL FUND$5,000
T'RUAH$5,000
UMASS LOWELL$5,000
TEMPLE BETH ELOHIM$3,650
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON$3,000
HELPING OUR WOMEN$2,500
KENNEDY PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY FOUNDATION$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
HEBREW SENIOR LIFE$2,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 15% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $10k → 8%HELPING OUR WOMEN: $3k → 8%HELPING OUR WOMEN: $3k → 8%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $1k → 8%JFS OF METROWEST: $5k → 8%YMCA OF GREATER BOSTON: $250 → 16%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $3k → 8%JCC GREATER BOSTON: $250 → 8%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $3k → 8%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $1k → 8%FRESHMAN FRESH START: $150 → 7%FRESHMAN FRESH START: $100 → 7%FRESHMAN FRESH START: $100 → 7%INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE: $250 → 16%INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE: $250 → 16%INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE: $250 → 16%ROGERSON COMMUNITIES: $250 → 16%INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE: $250 → 16%INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE: $250 → 16%JUDGE BAKER CHILDREN'S CENTER: $3k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $500 → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

ME
VT
IL
NY
MA
IA
IN
CT
RI
CA
VA
AZ
DC
MS
GA

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 57 repeat orgs$118k to everyone else

57 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
73

Total granted

$1.1M
$106k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+36%

Still filing today

58%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureInternationalEducationHuman ServicesCivil RightsHealthOther

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

  • Trustees of Tufts College
    6× · 2019–2024 · $136k · revenue +26%
  • JS
    J STREET EDUCATION FUND INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $66k · revenue +30%
  • BC
    BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $46k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +49%
  • MI
    MASS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • AC
    ATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +3%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Boston Architectural College

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

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2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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4
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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5
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
6
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
7
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc

The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.

Public Benefit
8
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
9
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
10
Massachusetts Business Roundtable Inc

The mission of the roundtable is to make massachusetts the most desirable place to live, work and do business by engaging private sector executives and public leaders to ensure access to a robust, diverse and talented workforce that…

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11
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
12
Massachusetts Competitive Partnership Inc

Macp's stated mission is to promote job stabilization and growth across the full spectrum of business, and within all geographic regions of the commonwealth through working in partnership with business and government. macp's main priority…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Catalyst Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%3%<5yr14%5%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr20%35%20–35yr14%21%35–55yr13%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%2%<5yr14%2%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr20%16%20–35yr14%10%35–55yr13%54%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%3/96
the rest of the field
11%
5,661/52,166

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

91 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. 91 of the 143 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
86/91
Grantees still filing
65/91
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UMASS LOWELL — $515,000 · OtherUMASS LOWELLTEMPLE BETH ELOHIM — $78,410 · OtherTEMPLE BETH ELOHIM+83 more — $189,645 · Other+83 moreTrustees of Tufts College — $135,825 · EducationTrustees of Tufts Co…BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC — $45,500 · EducationBERKLEE COLLEGE OF M…JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $30,000 · EducationJOHN FITZGERALD KENN…+7 more — $17,900 · Education+7 moreJ STREET — $45,000 · InternationalNEW ISRAEL FUND — $10,500 · InternationalATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC — $10,000 · InternationalT'RUAH — $5,360 · InternationalCOUNCIL OF AMERICAN AMBASSADORS — $5,250 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $5,000 · InternationalMERIDIAN INTERNATIONAL CENTER — $3,000 · International+5 more — $2,700 · InternationalJ STREET EDUCATION FUND INC — $65,800 · ReligionLEHRHAUS CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AND LEARNING INC — $2,500 · Religion+2 more — $1,250 · ReligionTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $11,800 · Arts & CultureTerezin Music Foundation Inc — $7,300 · Arts & CultureTHE FINCA VIGIA FOUNDATION INC — $4,000 · Arts & CultureSALT LICK INCUBATOR INC — $2,000 · Arts & Culture+8 more — $5,500 · Arts & CultureCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC — $17,000 · Human ServicesHELPING OUR WOMEN INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesJUDGE BAKER CHILDREN'S CENTER — $2,500 · Human ServicesINSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE INC — $1,250 · Human Services+5 more — $1,600 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS — $11,000 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $4,000 · Civil RightsJEWISH ELECTORATE INSTITUTE — $3,600 · Civil RightsKESHET INC — $2,500 · Civil RightsNEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC — $1,250 · Civil RightsMI FAMILIA VOTA — $1,250 · Civil RightsTURNOUT ACTIVISM INC — $1,000 · Civil Rights+2 more — $250 · Civil Rights
Other$783,055Education$229,225International$86,810Religion$69,550Arts & Culture$55,600Human Services$32,350Civil Rights$24,850

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTrustees of Tufts College — $135,825 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJ STREET EDUCATION FUND INC — $65,800 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC — $45,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJ STREET — $45,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetJOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC — $17,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION — $12,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHebrew Senior Life Inc — $12,600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $11,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS — $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND — $10,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALLIANCE FOR BUSINESS LEADERSHIP INC — $7,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTerezin Music Foundation Inc — $7,300 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetSparkShare Inc — $6,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetT'RUAH — $5,360 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOUNCIL OF AMERICAN AMBASSADORS — $5,250 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHELPING OUR WOMEN INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LOCAL JOURNALISM PROJECT INC — $4,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetINVERSANT INC — $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOFFMAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION — $4,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetForeign Policy For America — $4,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FINCA VIGIA FOUNDATION INC — $4,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetJEWISH ELECTORATE INSTITUTE — $3,600 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMERIDIAN INTERNATIONAL CENTER — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEBREW COLLEGE — $2,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRURO CONSERVATION TRUST — $2,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLEHRHAUS CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AND LEARNING INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBETTER MARKETS INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUDGE BAKER CHILDREN'S CENTER — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC — $2,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKESHET INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARTAKERS INC — $2,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCOLLEGE FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ABRAHAM INITIATIVES INC — $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSALT LICK INCUBATOR INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH ALLIANCE FOR LAW AND SOCIAL ACTION INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC — $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMI FAMILIA VOTA — $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE INC — $1,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Boston Foundation IncEastern Bank Foundati…Combined Jewish Phila…Cummings Foundation G…Yawkey Foundation IILiberty Mutual Founda…Highland Street Conne…Jewish Community Fede…Robert L Epstein Fami…Topol Family Foundati…Lebowitz-Aberly Famil…The Fish Family Found…
Boston Foundation IncMA45.6× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Yawkey Foundation II · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Robert L Epstein Family Foundation · Topol Family Foundation Inc · Lebowitz-Aberly Family Foundation · The Fish Family 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 Alan D and Susan Lewis Solomont 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 190%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Partakers Inc — 59% of income from government
  • Utec Inc — 46% of income from government
  • Museum of African American History Inc — 43% of income from government
  • The Finca Vigia Foundation Inc — 39% of income from government
  • College for Social Innovation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Judge Baker Children's Center — 29% of income from government
  • Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown Inc — 27% of income from government
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
  • Horizons for Homeless Children — 21% of income from government
  • Community Catalyst Inc — 15% of income from government
  • Helping Our Women Inc — 14% of income from government
  • Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action Inc — 13% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
  • New England Aquarium Corporation — 12% of income from government
  • Silent Spring Institute Inc — 12% of income from government
  • La Vida Inc — 11% of income from government
  • The Wang Center for the Performing Arts Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Rogerson Communities Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Huntington Theatre Co Inc — 4% of income from government
  • 826 Boston Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Artists for Humanity Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Lower Cape Cod Community Develop- Ment Corporation — 1% of income from government
  • Berklee College of Music Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Emerald Necklace Conservancy Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Hebrew Senior Life Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Keshet Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
19get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 143 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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