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James Boylan and Lisa Boylan 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.

$2k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$660
Largest
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$380kHealth$54kYouth Development$11kPhilanthropy$10kInternational$3kEducation$3kPublic Safety & Disaster$1kCommunity Improvement$500Other$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
3
States reached
$88k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TUNNEL TO TOWERS$660
KIDS FOR KIDS$520
LEHIGH UNIVERSITY$500
Individual grant recipient$265
PEOPLE CARE CENTER$200
02The need
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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 (FY21–21, $105) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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.

area typical 11%COVENANT HOUSE: $105 → 17%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.
03Its 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
Lewis & Clark College

Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…

Education
2
Georgian Court University

Georgian court university (gcu), provides a comprehensive liberal arts education and is open to students of all faiths, delivers a curriculum that promotes scholarship, service, and personal development.

Education
3
University of Saint Joseph

The university provides a rigorous liberal arts and professional education for a diverse student population. (see schedule o for the organization's mission.)

Education
4
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
5
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
6
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
7
John Carroll University

As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…

Education
8
Phillips Exeter Academy

Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…

Education
9
Elizabethtown College

Provide a transformative educational experience that cultivates strengths of its students.

Education
10
St Catherine University

We educate women to lead and influence. we educate at all degree levels through valuing and integrating the liberal arts and professional education within the catholic intellectual tradition, see schedule oemphasizing scholarly inquiry and…

Education
11
Masters School

The masters school celebrates active participation, deep understanding, and meaningful connection. a community of diverse individuals, we gather to learn, to strive, to dare, to do - to be a power for good in the world.

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12
Hillsdale College

Hillsdale college is a private liberal arts college with approximately 1,500 students. founded in 1844, the college remains, in the words of its articles of association, "grateful to god for the inestimable blessings resulting from the…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lehigh University; the most unlike its peers is Vision Atlanta Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 21 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Notre Dame du Lac: $370,200 · EducationUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac+2 more: $2,920 · EducationMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING: $50,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN KE…MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherMAKE A WISH FOUND…Individual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant …HOPE FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $3,375 · Other+8 more: $4,485 · Other+8 moreCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC: $10,500 · Youth DevelopmentHARLEM LACROSSE AND LEADERSHIP CORPORATION: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsLIFE SCIENCE CARES INC: $2,500 · HealthSebastianStrong Foundation Inc: $260 · HealthVision Atlanta Inc: $110 · Crime & LegalCOVENANT HOUSE: $105 · Human Services
Education$373,120Other$72,860Youth Development$10,500Recreation & Sports$10,000Health$2,760Crime & Legal$110Human Services$105

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 budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $370,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC: $10,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHARLEM LACROSSE AND LEADERSHIP CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIFE SCIENCE CARES INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $2,420 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSebastianStrong Foundation Inc: $260 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVision Atlanta Inc: $110 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $105 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.

  • Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
  • Who funds CAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HARLEM LACROSSE AND LEADERSHIP CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds LIFE SCIENCE CARES INC ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SebastianStrong Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Vision Atlanta Inc ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization James Boylan and Lisa Boylan Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James Boylan and Lisa Boylan Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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.
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How do I get to James Boylan and Lisa Boylan Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to James Boylan and Lisa Boylan Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 21 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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