· Private foundation
John & Sonia Lingos Family Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 50% of JOHN & SONIA LINGOS FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’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.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $215k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BALLET WEST-PARK CITY ACADEMY | $30,000 |
| GREEK AMERICA FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| BOSTON BALLET | $25,000 |
| HELLENIC WOMEN'S CLUB INC EOK | $20,000 |
| LENNY ZAKIM FUND | $20,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF METRO SOUTH | $15,000 |
| BROCKTON NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CENTER | $15,000 |
| MILTON ACADEMY | $15,000 |
| YALE UNIV ATHLETIC ASSOC-YALE SAIL | $10,000 |
| FAMILY PANTRY OF CAPE COD | $10,000 |
| BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FUND | $10,000 |
| BROCKTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SQUASH BRIDGE | $10,000 |
| BIRDSEY CAPE WILDLIFE CENTER | $5,000 |
| UNIV OF UTAH COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 54% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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 +33% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
56 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- HWHELLENIC WOMEN'S CLUB INC9× · 2017–2025 · $172k · revenue +11%
BOSTON BALLET INC6× · 2020–2025 · $150k · revenue +19%
EMERALD NECKLACE CONSERVANCY INC7× · 2017–2024 · $146k · revenue +157%
Funded once
- MOMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTONone grant, 2020 · $50k
- AHAMERICAN HELLENIC INSTITUTE INCone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
- BSBridgewater State University Foundationone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue -53%
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
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.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
The mission of the boston athenaeum is to engage all who seek knowledge by making accessible our library's collections and spaces, thereby inspiring reflection, discourse, creative expression, and joy.
New england museum association's mission is to connect a community engaged in learning, collaboration, and action to cultivate a better museum world.
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…
The mission of the fitchburg art museum is to inspire creativity and learning, and to contribute to the well-being of our diverse communities in fitchburg, north central massachusetts, and new england. to accomplish the mission, we…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
The boston society of architects (bsa/aia) exists to improve the quality of life for boston-area residents by championing innovation in the built environment. as a membership association, we achieve this mission in partnership with the bsa…
The new england aquarium is a catalyst for global change through public engagement and education, commitment to marine animal conservation, innovative scientific research, and effective advocacy for a vital and vibrant ocean.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Lenny Zakim Fund and the most unlike its peers is Pilar Pobil Legacy Foundation. 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 33 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 79 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 THE LENNY ZAKIM FUND ↗
- Who funds HELLENIC WOMEN'S CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds EMERALD NECKLACE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds BALLET WEST ↗
- Who funds ACCESS YOUTH ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MILTON ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds ALPHA OMEGA COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds BROCKTON NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY PANTRY OF CAPE COD CORP ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION OF THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY INC ↗
- Who funds NOBLE AND GREENOUGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE ARTS FOUNDATION OF CAPE COD ↗
- Who funds STREETSQUASH INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT MEXICO OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY FOR ABANDONED ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds DANA HALL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN HELLENIC INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Neponset River Watershed Association ↗
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: Eastern Bank Foundation · Cape Cod Foundation Inc · Fidelity Foundation · Barr Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Bilezikian Family Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Arbella Insurance Foundation · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund
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 John & Sonia Lingos Family Foundation Inc 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.
- The Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro South Inc — 13% of income from government
- Brockton Neighborhood Health Center Inc — 9% of income from government
- Neponset River Watershed Association — 8% of income from government
- The Arts Foundation of Cape Cod — 6% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Bridgewater State University Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Society for the Preservation of New Engl — 2% of income from government
- New England Wildlife Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Boston Ballet Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- Emerald Necklace Conservancy Inc — 0% of income from government
- Museum of Science — 0% of income from government
- Cape Cod Academy — 0% of income from government
- Trinity College — 0% of income from government
- Hyannis Public Library — 0% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts — 0% of income from government
- Milton Academy — 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.