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Carmen-Lederer Family Foundation at a glance

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Carmen-Lederer Family 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.

$280k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$900kFood & Nutrition$675kEmployment$300kYouth Development$165kHealth$104kCivil Rights$50kCommunity Improvement$20kPhilanthropy$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $275k
$100,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Childrens Hospital Los Angeles$100,000
About Fresh Inc$100,000
University of Pennsylvania$75,000
Change Reaction$5,000
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 (FY20–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Change Reaction: $5k → 14%SOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM INC: $10k → 16%SOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM INC: $10k → 16%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.
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 15% of Carmen-Lederer Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 77% of the giving stays in MA; by stated purpose, 73%.

Carmen-Lederer Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 4.5% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 5 repeat orgs$379k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
7

Total granted

$1.5M
$274k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-6%
+37%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationFood & NutritionEmploymentYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • AF
    ABOUT FRESH INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $675k · revenue +407%
  • CITY YEAR INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $400k · revenue -6%
  • HD
    HACK DIVERSITY INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $300k · revenue -50%

Funded once

  • SF
    SMART FROM THE START INC
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -7%
  • CC
    Classroom Champions Incgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue +37%
  • FT
    FOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · 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.

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
Medtech Innovator

Medtech innovator organizes and runs a global competition and virtual accelerator for medical device, digital health, and diagnostic startup companies.

Education
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
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
4
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
5
Activate Global Inc

Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…

Environment
6
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
7
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
8
Just Capital Foundation Inc

Just capital's mission is to build a more just economy that works for all americans by helping companies improve how they serve all their stakeholders - workers, customers, communities, the environment, and shareholders - as defined by the…

Social Science
9
National Science and Technology Medals Foundation Inc

The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…

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10
New York Institute of Technology

New york institute of technology (nyit) offers various degree programs, including undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees, in more than 50 fields of study, including architecture and design; arts and sciences; (continued on…

Education
11
Endeavor Global Inc (F/K/a the Endeavor Initiative Inc)

Endeavor is leading the high-impact entrepreneurship movement around the world.

International
12
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Smart From the Start Inc; the most unlike its peers is Foundation to Combat Anti-Semitism Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

16 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.

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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
9/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ABOUT FRESH INC: $675,000 · Food & NutritionABOUT FRESH INCTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $300,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIV…Classroom Champions Inc: $100,000 · EducationClassroom Champions …+1 more: $5,000 · EducationCITY YEAR INC: $400,000 · OtherCITY YEAR INCFOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC: $50,000 · OtherFOUNDATION TO COMBAT AN…+2 more: $15,616 · OtherHACK DIVERSITY INC: $300,000 · EmploymentHACK DIVERSITY …SILVER LINING MENTORING INC: $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentSMART FROM THE START INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesSOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHANGE REACTION: $5,000 · Human ServicesChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $100,000 · Health+2 more: $4,000 · Health
Food & Nutrition$675,000Education$405,000Other$465,616Employment$300,000Youth Development$150,000Human Services$125,000Health$104,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetABOUT FRESH INC: $675,000 over 7y, 3.5% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $400,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $300,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHACK DIVERSITY INC: $300,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetSILVER LINING MENTORING INC: $150,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetSMART FROM THE START INC: $100,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetClassroom Champions Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetFOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetWELLINGTON MANAGEMENT FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMIT International Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEW ENGLAND BAPTIST HOSPITAL: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETH ISRAEL LAHEY HEALTH INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $616 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.

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.

Boston Foundation IncEastern Bank Foundati…Liberty Mutual Founda…Combined Jewish Phila…National Philanthropi…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Boston Foundation IncMA16.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Carmen-Lederer Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carmen-Lederer Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Silver Lining Mentoring Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Smart From the Start Inc: 7% of income from government
  • New England Baptist Hospital: 1% of income from government
  • Classroom Champions Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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 16 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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