· Private foundation
Gallery Lyons 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
93% of Gallery Lyons Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 6 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year Gallery Lyons Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $115k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k6 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| QUINNIPAC UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| PROVIDENCE COLLEGE | $35,000 |
| CANINE COMPANIONS | $10,000 |
| BOSTON HEALTH CARE | $7,500 |
| LIGHTKEEPERS | $5,000 |
| HUMANITY RISES | $2,500 |
| LET IT BE US | $2,500 |
| ST ANNE'S CHURCH | $2,000 |
| DIOCESE OF WORCESTER | $500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2018, 8 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call). Read against FY2018, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- QUQUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2024 · $191k · revenue +39%
PROVIDENCE COLLEGE2× · 2017–2018 · $75k · revenue +48%- CHCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC2× · 2020–2023 · $10k · revenue +208%
Funded once
- RLROGER L PUTNAM VOCATIONAL TECHNICAL ACADEMYone grant, 2019 · $4k
- VIVILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETYone grant, 2024 · $2k
- DPDETECTOGETHER - PREVIOUSLY 15-40 CONNECTIONone grant, 2020 · $523
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.
Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
The mission of Dana-Farber Cancer Care Network (DFCCN) is to promote and support, directly or indirectly, the interests and purposes of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI).
Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
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.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.
Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…
The mission of healthix inc. is to create an achievable, sustainable and replicable model for integrating clinical information across multiple health care organizations which supports new york state and federal strategic health information…
The foundation is set up to deliver one program - look good feel better. the mission of this nationwide program is to improve the quality of life of women, men, and teens undergoing cancer treatment by offering advice on how to cope with…
Our mission is to improve quality of life by transforming the understanding, treatment, and care of the ocular surface.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cradles to Crayons Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Baseball Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
23 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. 23 of the 48 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LET IT BE US ↗
- Who funds 365Z FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANITY RISES INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY PANTRY OF CAPE COD CORP ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds CALMER CHOICE INC ↗
- Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds HEROES IN TRANSITION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds FALMOUTH ROAD RACE INC ↗
- Who funds ALS ONE INC ↗
- Who funds GOLF FIGHTS CANCER INC ↗
- Who funds NETWORK FOR GOOD ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Verizon Foundation · Coghlin Family Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · The Giblin Family Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Global Impact · American Endowment Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
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 Gallery Lyons 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.
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Calmer Choice Inc — 14% of income from government
- Christ Child Society of Naples Inc — 3% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Baseball Inc — 1% of income from government
- Als One Inc — 1% of income from government
- Quinnipiac University — 0% of income from government
- Heroes in Transition Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
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.