· Private foundation
Larson 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $134k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $180k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ON THE RISE | $70,000 |
| FULL FRAME INITIATIVE (CCF) | $60,000 |
| EDVESTORS | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $34,000 |
| LEA | $25,000 |
| MGH FUND | $15,000 |
| DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| LOON ECHO LAND TRUST | $15,000 |
| GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| FULL PLATES FULL POTENTIAL | $10,000 |
| USC ASSOCIATES | $10,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD TRUST FINANCIAL PARTNERS | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| JULIE'S FAMILY LEARNING PROGRAM | $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.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $600k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 94% 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
- OTON THE RISE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $595k · revenue +138%
- VPVICTORY PROGRAMS INC7× · 2017–2023 · $370k · revenue +185%
- TFTHE FAMILY CENTER INC4× · 2017–2020 · $200k · revenue +148%
Funded once
- CHChildren's Hospital Corporationgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +91%
- BRBOSTON RESILIENCY FUNDone grant, 2020 · $5k
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +21%
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.
Necp believes that social change happens when those most impacted by issues of systemic injustice, organize at the block level to address issues within their neighborhoods. through their involvement at a community level, residents engage…
Neighborhealth's mission is to promote and sustain healthy communities, families, and individuals by providing accessible, person-centered, and compassionate, high-quality health care services to all who live and work in our service area,…
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
As Greater Boston's community foundation, the Boston Foundation devotes its resources to expanding opportunities, improving lives and strengthening communities. See Schedule OThe Foundation fulfills this mission in three principal ways:…
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
To advance an economically just region where prosperity is shared across race and ethnicity.
End hunger together.
Conservation law foundation, inc. (clf) protects new england's environment for the benefit of all people and future generations. we use the law, science, and markets to create solutions that preserve and restore our natural resources,…
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
PHILABUNDANCE WAS FOUNDED IN 1984 WITH THE SIMPLE BELIEF THAT NO ONE SHOULD GO HUNGRY WHILE HEALTHY FOOD GOES TO WASTE. OUR MISSION IS TO DRIVE HUNGER FROM OUR COMMUNITIES TODAY AND TO END HUNGER FOR GOOD. We have a commitment to always…
Family promise north shore boston's mission is to prevent and end family homelessness. we promote access to economic opportunity and housing stability through a holistic, family-centered, community-based response.
The brookline center for community mental health provides groundbreaking mental health services rooted in meaningful innovation and compassionate care. in response to today's mental health landscape and the ongoing mental health crisis,…
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 24 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 FULL FRAME INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds ON THE RISE INC ↗
- Who funds EDVESTORS INC ↗
- Who funds VICTORY PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD TRUST FINANCIAL PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds FULL PLATES FULL POTENTIAL ↗
- Who funds DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Loon Echo Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds Julies Family Learning Program Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
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 · Boston Foundation Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Larson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Larson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Victory Programs Inc: 49% of income from government
- On the Rise Inc: 39% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
- The Family Center Inc: 3% of income from government
- Edvestors Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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