· Private foundation
Lebowitz-Aberly 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k53 grants · $156k
- $10k–50k78 grants · $1.4M
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PPFA | $225,000 |
| GLOBAL IMPACT | $175,000 |
| WAY TO RISE | $75,000 |
| HOPEWELL FUND | $60,000 |
| AMALGAMATED CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| PPLM | $50,000 |
| INDIVISIBLE CIVIC ENGAGEMENT | $50,000 |
| PANORAMA GLOBAL | $50,000 |
| VOTER FORMATION PROJECT | $50,000 |
| NDRC FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| ADVANCE DEMOCRACY | $50,000 |
| HOPEWELL FUND | $50,000 |
| STATE LEADERSHIP PROJECT | $50,000 |
| AMERICA VOTES EDUCATION FUND | $50,000 |
| HOPEWELL FUND | $40,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $105k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 50% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +31% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
124 repeat relationships — 95 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 29 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $383k 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
- GSGREENHILL SCHOOL4× · 2020–2023 · $2.0M · revenue +37%
- TRTHE ROXBURY LATIN SCHOOL5× · 2020–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +28%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC5× · 2020–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +40%
Funded once
- HFHOPEWELL FUND (ACRONYM)one grant, 2020 · $60k
- CFCENTER FOR VOTER ACCESS FUNDone grant, 2020 · $25k
- HUHARVARD UNIVERSITY - SEASone grant, 2020 · $25k
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 organization's mission is to leverage web-technologies to improve civic engagement and voter education.
The mission of voteamerica is to strengthen united states democracy by increasing voter turnout.
Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.
See schedule o.this organization seeks to build collective power to defend and advance a vibrant democracy that benefits all people.
The nonpartisan campaign legal center advances democracy through law at the federal, state and local levels, fighting for every american's rights to responsive government and a fair opportunity to participate in and affect the democratic…
The center for popular democracy (cpd) and its affiliates know that everyday people have the power to change the world. we upend business and politics as usual to forge a representative, multiracial government and society where we all…
Upturn advances equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of technology.
Providing research, education and practical information all aimed at optimizing newspapers' business operations, deepening their community engagement and enhancing the quality of their journalism.
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Organize general election presidential and vice-presidential debates
Pro publica is an independent, non-profit, pulitzer prize-winning newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. our work focuses exclusively on truly important stories. [see continuation on schedule o] we produce…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Catalyst Inc and the most unlike its peers is Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery. 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 21 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
166 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 166 of the 236 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 GREENHILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE ROXBURY LATIN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL FUND ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL REDISTRICTING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ACLU FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds Global Impact ↗
- Who funds ADVANCE DEMOCRACY INC ↗
- Who funds Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds INDIVISIBLE CIVICS ↗
- Who funds VOTER FORMATION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds TEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds WOMEN DONORS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds PANORAMA GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds STATE LEADERSHIP PROJECT ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds STATE INNOVATION EXCHANGE ↗
- Who funds WAY TO RISE ↗
- Who funds DEMOS A NETWORK FOR IDEAS AND ACTION LTD ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONGRESSIONAL PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS CENTER ↗
- Who funds OFICINA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO UNIDO INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS FREEDOM NETWORK EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds PROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds UltraViolet Education Fund ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
- Who funds RED WINE & BLUE EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds FIX THE COURT ↗
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: New Venture Fund · Hopewell Fund · The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · The Ford Foundation · Windward Fund · The Leonard & Sophie Davis Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Marin Community Foundation
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 Lebowitz-Aberly Family Foundation 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.
- Neighborhood Villages Inc — 33% of income from government
- International Institute of New England Inc — 24% of income from government
- Ellis Early Learning Inc — 20% of income from government
- Saint Francis House Inc — 18% of income from government
- Community Catalyst Inc — 15% of income from government
- Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action Inc — 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- Charles River Watershed Association Inc — 8% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- Resist Inc — 2% of income from government
- Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
- Friends of the Public Garden Inc — 1% of income from government
- Emerald Necklace Conservancy Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Arts Academy Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Amherst College Trustees — 0% of income from government
- Williams College — 0% of income from government
- Infact Dba Corporate Accountability — 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.