· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| MILTON ACADEMY | $15,000 |
| BROCKTON NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CENTER | $15,000 |
| BROCKTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| YALE UNIV ATHLETIC ASSOC-YALE SAIL | $10,000 |
| FAMILY PANTRY OF CAPE COD | $10,000 |
| BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FUND | $10,000 |
| SQUASH BRIDGE | $10,000 |
| ANIMAL PROT OF SE MA | $5,000 |
| BOSTON COLLEGE | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 54% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +33% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
55 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 34 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
How this is measured
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 +216%
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%
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.
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.
How this is measured
40 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. 40 of the 78 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 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO SOUTH INC ↗
- 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 PROJECT MEXICO OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH ↗
- Who funds STREETSQUASH INC ↗
- Who funds DANA HALL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY FOR ABANDONED ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN HELLENIC INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Neponset River Watershed Association ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John & Sonia Lingos Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John & Sonia Lingos Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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