· Private foundation
Carl Lesnor 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $226k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $179k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARCHIPELAGO BOOKS | $70,000 |
| GRID BOOKS | $57,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $52,000 |
| WORCESTER ART MUSEUM | $48,000 |
| PEACE ACTION FUND OF NEW YORK STATE | $43,000 |
| THE NEW MASSES FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $32,000 |
| BOSTON ARTS ENSEMBLE | $30,000 |
| GLOBAL MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE ALLIANCE INC | $12,000 |
| RESTORATIVE COMMUNITY JUSTICE OF SOUTHERN VERMONT | $11,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| MOUNT TAMALPAIS COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| FREEDOM READS | $5,000 |
| MARLBORO SCHOOL OF MUSIC INC | $4,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ABARCHIPELAGO BOOKS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $447k · revenue +50%
- PAPEACE ACTION FUND OF NEW YORK STATE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $324k · revenue +48% · 27% of their budget
WORCESTER ART MUSEUM8× · 2017–2024 · $295k · revenue +80%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $52k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $32k
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
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.
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.
To promote artists books as art and research material and to assist artists and organizations in documenting, exhibiting, and distributing their artwork and archives.
The mission of the Bowdoin International Music Festival is to provide gifted young musicians from around the world with an opportunity to study with world-class artists, and to provide audiences with classical music performed to the…
To broaden experience, knowledge and enjoyment of every style of new music by embracing the full range of today's compositional activity and giving voice to music that might otherwise not be heard.
Words Without Borders mission is to translate, publish, and actively promote the finest contemporary world literature.
To build a structurally sound and musically vital ensemble which seeks to explore and present music of the 20th century. all schools, movements and styles from the turn of the century to the present day will be offered. it is the practical…
The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…
The boston public library fund provides financial support to the boston public library (bpl), ensuring that it remains viable, engaging, accessible, and free to all. the library fund fulfills this mission by working in partnership with…
BOMB Magazine's mission is to deliver the artist's voice. We develop, publish, and preserve artist-generated material, spotlighting artists in conversation and offering unique insight into the creative process.
Ether Sea Projects D/B/A Litmus Press publishes innovative poetry, prose, and formally experimental writing from around the world. We champion avant-garde legacies through our stewardship of foundational feminist predecessors of small…
Enhance Columbia University's education mission by acquiring and publishing outstanding original works by scholars and others that contribute to an understanding of global human concerns. Columbia University Press became part of the…
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 17 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 ARCHIPELAGO BOOKS INC ↗
- Who funds PEACE ACTION FUND OF NEW YORK STATE INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BOSTON ARTISTS ENSEMBLE INC ↗
- Who funds THE DRIFT MAGAZINE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Global Medical Knowledge Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds PRISON UNIVERSITY PROJECT INC DBA MOUNT TAMALPAIS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Marlboro School of Music Inc ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN BOOK BODEGA INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM READS INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Carl Lesnor Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carl Lesnor Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Freedom Reads Inc: 12% of income from government
- Worcester Art Museum: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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