· Private foundation
Lahey 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
100% of Lahey 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 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Lahey Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $15k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Artis-Naples | $2,500 |
| HCNY Foundation | $2,500 |
| First Presbyterian Church | $2,000 |
| Chapel of the Good Shepherd Foundation | $1,500 |
| The Sherwood Oaks Fund | $1,000 |
| Hillsdale College | $1,000 |
| Advocates for Balance at Chautauqua | $1,000 |
| Harvard Club Foundation | $1,000 |
| Loyola University | $1,000 |
| Glen View Club Scholarship Fd | $700 |
| Fun Time Academy | $500 |
| Friends of Sulgrave Manor | $200 |
| Habitat for Humanity | $100 |
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 (FY20–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 56% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2023, 15 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, 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 FY2023, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AIARTIS-NAPLES INC4× · 2020–2023 · $10k · revenue +14%
- LULOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO4× · 2020–2023 · $4k · revenue +23%
- GVGLEN VIEW CLUB2× · 2021–2022 · $1k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- SPst Presbyterian of Naplesone grant, 2020 · $2k
- GVGlen View Foundationone grant, 2020 · $700
- UOUniversity of Illinoisone grant, 2020 · $500
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 university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…
To provide an excellent liberal arts education for women who will make a difference in the world.
At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Houghton university provides an academically challenging, christ-centered education in the liberal arts and sciences to students from diverse traditions and economic backgrounds and equips them to lead and labor as scholar-servants in a…
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…
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Muhlenberg aims to help students become independent thinkers who are intellectually agile, characterized by a zest for reasoned and civil debate, knowledgeable about the achievements and traditions of diverse civilizations and cultures,…
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 59 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 FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds ARTIS-NAPLES INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds THE CHAPEL OF THE GOOD SHEPARD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GLEN VIEW CLUB ↗
- Who funds THE SHERWOOD OAKS FUND ↗
- Who funds Advocates For Balance At Chautauqua Inc ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA LAKE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION ↗
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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lahey Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lahey Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Naples Botanical Garden Inc: 3% of income from government
How this is measured
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